Friday, January 04, 2008
Iraq, the Youth Vote, Women and Iowa
The conventional wisdom among the inside the beltway pundits is that Iraq is no longer a leading issue for American voters.
This conventional wisdom is demonstrably untrue. First, some December polls (scroll down) show that it was the most important issue for 25% of likely voters, with other issues trailing substantially.
In part it derives from conceptual confusion. In some polls, Iraq is no longer the single issue for voters that outweighs all others in importance. But it is still one of three major issues that come at the top of voter concern, sometimes tied with health care or education or the economy. That it is tied with health care does not mean it isn't important to voters. It means it is just as important to them as the health of themselves and their loved ones, which is to say, it is very important. ...(more
The Iowa Caucus attendance numbers tell as important a story as who won. Democratic Caucus goers, half of them first timers, out numbered Republicans two to one. This is one more bit of evidence that we are moving into a progressive era and that conservatism is defunct. Republicans insiders see the handwriting on the wall:
'NYT' Sunday Preview: David Frum Is 'Terrified' GOP Is Heading for 'Defeat'
By E&P Staff Published: January 04, 2008 1:50 PM ET
NEW YORK David Frum, the conservative writer and former Bush White House speechwriter -- currently working for Rudy Giuliani -- tells The New York Times Magazine this coming Sunday, "What I am terrified of is that the Republican Party is heading into a period of political defeat....I am terrified that we can lose the election in 2008. We can lose in 2012, and it will take us half a dozen years to do the rethinking we need to you."
He also tells Deborah Solomon, "What I am saying is that there is exhaustion, intellectual exhaustion on the part of Republicans and conservatives." ...(more)
The signs of Republican/conservative desperation and disarray are all around. Not only are rank and file Republicans disillusioned, the Republican Party is in terrible financial straits. It's so bad, the NRCC is recruiting candidates rich enough to self-finance their own campaigns. Yes friends, Republicans/conservatives are intellectually exhausted and morally bankrupt...
UPDATE: A local indication of how bad things are for Republicans:
Roulstone ends bid for Congress
The Everett Herald reports that Doug Roulstone (R) has ended his campaign against WA-02 Congressman Rick Larsen (D).
3 comments:
Hah! Right from the horse's mouth: the Republicans are exhausted by their own administration's idiocy. I would be exhausted too, if I had to keep making all these jumps through different flaming hoops. I mean, look at the list of all their scandals: there are like 45 or 50 unresolved scandals. It is exhausting just keeping track of all the wrongdoing they have perpetrated.
Death to the elephantine GOP monster!
"The signs of Republican/conservative desperation and disarray are all around."
That sentence just made my day!
I can't wait until all the old Koh-rea and "Great War" flag-wavers all kick it. I mean, here they are always talking about fighting off facism and the nazi's, and then they turn aroud and support bush and the neo-facism. They were all in the Navy or Air Force, too, and proud of it. I just want to scream at them: "you hypocrites!"
Notice that the decline in GOP support strongly coincides with the rising death rates of the "greatest generation".
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