On the Parties

I don't have a lot of time, since I am cooking for a large banquet Friday and have a lot to do.

However, I was thinking about the two major parties and I was asking myself what it was that made people so ga ga over Obama. After all, he does not really offer much substance in terms of policy, he is not a very good looking man (and he tends to the same homeliness that Jack Kennedy suffered from, perhaps there is something to this O'Bama business after all). He offers a "visionary" stare and little else. And yet this man beat the establishment Democrat.

Well, this is the Achilles heel of the Democrat Party: they don't really like themselves as much as Republicans like themselves.

You see, for most young Democrats, voting for Obama was voting against the Democrat establishment.

While, on the other side of things, Republicans tended to vote for McCain, in spite of the fact that he was considered at odds with many planks of the Party Agenda.

When it comes down to it, the Republicans would have preferred a solid, establishment Republican, someone with a direct lineage to Ron Reagan, not a maverick of any sort. The problem is, not a one of those was running. You had Crypto-Democrat Juliani, the Libertarian Cowboy Doctor, a half-hearted campaign by Fred Thompson (who probably would have swept if he had really wanted to win), the pro-life Jimmy Carter, and a few other non-contenders who were clearly out of their league, except for one: a notorious flip-flopper governor of Taxachussetts who belongs to a whacky cult. Sure he claimed to be a solid Republican, but when it comes down to it, who really trusts a Mormon, especially one who has radically reversed his own "deeply felt" beliefs, usually around the time when he was playing to a different constituency?

So, the Republicans are really the stronger party when it comes to their base. The Democrats sure don't like the Republicans, but they are not so fond of the Democrats either (and who can blame them?). So they vote for the maverick, continuing the Perpetual Revolution. But if you are all about Perpetual Revolution, eventually you end up Green or Socialist or Rock and Hemp or whatever, and all of this drains life from what should be their organizing party.

How will this play in the election?

Good question. McCain must woo disaffected Democrats, but they seem more inclined to vote for Fidel Castro these days. If the Republicans are serious about winning, they will donate heavily to the Greens. But they won't, because that could backfire. So, they are going to sit out this one, let Osama inherit a mess and dig himself deeper into it and build a Congressional slate for the midterm election, then onward to groom a viable candidate for 2012.

Bush has been a terrible president. A wretched disgrace to Western Civilization. The very portrait of what is wrong with the Protestant establishment, the culmination of grave errors and evils that started with Martin Luther, John Calvin and Henry VIII.

And it is all downhill from here.

The problems Bush created are not going to go away. Indeed a few will just start to manifest themselves. And President Osama will make people long for the warm fuzzy days of competent leaders like Nixon and Carter.

My prediction? If we don't break into Civil War before then, 2012 will usher in a twenty year period of a complete GOP lock on power in both the legislative and executive branches.

And then where do we go? Will Europe have recovered her fortitude and culture? Can we retreat to the Cradle, Nursery, Elementary School, Gymnasium and University of Western Civilization, or will it still resemble the Hospice of Western Civilization?

I offer one solid solution:

The Catholic Phalange of the West and its leader.

Keilholtz for Duce!
Believe!
Obey!
Fight!

Posted by erik at August 5, 2008 9:53 AM