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♦ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2008
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GOP seems poised for complete housecleaning
I’ve seen this happen
once or twice: a com
plete meltdown of the
Republican Party. It starts as
an uphill year looking tough
er by the day. It ends like a
load of bricks falling on the
OOP’s head. >
There’s one word that
describes the reason for the
rubble that likely will be on
the Republicans’ heads come
Nov. 4 - arrogance.
The fish rots from the head.
And I’m not talking about
the well-intentioned John
McCain, this year’s winner
of the “Bob Dole Sacrificial
Lamb” award. (Dole was
allowed by his major party
mates to go quietly into that
good night in the 1996 presi
dential election against Bill
Clinton.)
Instead I mean George W.
Bush, and more importantly,
those who served his admin
istration by cajoling, mislead
ing and betraying him. They
transformed him into what
came to look like a cocky
buffoon. 'l'hey encouraged a
good man to self-destruct.
Now Bush has been aban
doned by these hacks. He’s
left to confront a major mon
etary crisis and the remnants
of a war. They built him up
Woodwork has splintered view
The woodwork had
been there all the
time, yet I never
really noticed it until the
political phantoms began
popping out of it.
Their method of attack
was to, emerge suddenly,
rattle off their allegations,
then step back into the wall
so as to face no rebuttal nor
LETTER 1
From page 4A
and if’n “Miss Charlotte” be
catchin’ yo’ seif litterin’ over
dar’ on dat street wid her
camera, we gonna ‘spose yo’
fat ham!
All things considered, if’n
LETTER 2
From page 4A
I am thankful that George
W. Bush didn’t get up enough
support in Congress to priva
tize our Social Security, or
we really would be up the
creek without a paddle. Who
would you want managing
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Matt
Towary
Morris
News
Service
and let the world tear him
apart as his own hubris
blinded him to the facts of
the situation.
Left behind is an amateur
ish House of Representatives,
whose silly minority confer
ence appears not only out of
sync with their presidential
candidate, but with reality.
Get a grip, guys: You may
get reelected because no one
had the sense to take you on,
but you are as out-of-step as
the Democrats you fought so
hard to replace just 14 years
ago.
Then there’s the Senate.
It would be hard to find a
collection of folks more
suited for silk slippers and
ermine robes. Yes, senators
were often prima donnas in
my Senate staff years of the
1980 s. (Fortunately, my boss
wasn’t one of them.) And
Moore or less
Glynn
Moore
Columnist,
Morris News
Service
you be willin’ to meet up wid
us on dat General Courtney
Hodges Boulevard at Gaines
Street at 3 p.m. on Friday
and can convince us that
you won’t be litterin' no mo’,
we be buying yo’self four or
three quality beers, not dat
“rot-gut" stuff you be done
lef’ unda dat tree on Gaines
your Social Security - AIG?
It is nice to know that some
one - Barack Obama - is
looking out for the interests of
senior citizens.
How will this loss of tax rev
enue be made up? I am old
enough to remember that a
really fine Republican presi
dent, Dwight D. Eisenhower,
won on the promise “I’ll bring
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Democrats then could be just
as bad. A more bizarre and
imperious creature than Sen.
Robert Byrd of West Virginia
was impossible to find back
then.
Conservatives today are
frustrated that America
appears ready to elect an
untested and liberal new
comer, Barack Obama; and
to do it with issues still loom
ing about his past political
beliefs and associations.
Voters aren’t rejecting con
servative values this year.
They just don’t know what
they are. All they know is
that they can’t stand the
inarticulate, pompous bunch
that now speaks for and rep
resents the Republican and
conservative causes.
Although McCain has
more experience in his little
pinky than Obama does in
his whole body, McCain likely
never had a prayer this year.
Most of this humdrum
bunch of Republican elected
officials never liked him much
in the first place. Moreover,
because of a basic inability
to develop a message that
would truly resonate with
the public, McCain has been
successfully portrayed as the
third version of George W
consequences.
“Did you know,” the first
specter spoke up, “that
Barack Obama was not born
in this country?” *
“He wasn’t?” I replied.
“You’d think somebody
would have thought to check
up on that before the final
weeks before the election.
See MOORE, page ioA
Street, pork belly! Dat day be
Halloween, eh, swine? What
better day fo’ yo’self to meet
yo’ come-uppance?
Incidentally, pork chop,
there is no “s” on the end of
our name.
- Becky and Walton
Wood
the boys home from Korea.”
And then he helped create
new jobs by building the inter
state highway system.
Here’s my idea: Bring our
troops (and the billions being
spent over there) home from
Iraq.
- Kristina Simms,
Perry
Bush.
I’ve told readers before
that in 1980, the national
Republican establishment
despised Ronald Reagan.
But I’ve neglected to point
but that until he and Jimmy
Carter debated on national
television rather late in the
campaign, Carter was lead
ing in most polls by nearly
double digits.
What changed so quickly?
It was simple. Republicans
fend swing-voting Democrats
and Independents watched
the debate and heard a man,
Reagan, with a new message;
one that they could see that
he really believed in. They
knew somehow he was a man
on a mission - a mission for
them, not for himself.
What will the Republican
Party need to do if Nov. 4
turns into the sort of repu
diation that puts comedians
like A 1 Franken in the U.S.
Senate and gives so-called
“Red States” over to Barack
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Obama?
Clean house. Every last
Republican elected official
should consider whether they
have stayed in politics so
long as to become a mirror of
what they sought to replace.
Fresh, new candidates will
have to find the courage to
challenge Republican incum
bents in primaries, with the
hope being that the dinosaurs
of the party won’t have the
energy to fight for another in
a long succession of terms of
elected positions.
Sbrah Palin may have been
a mistake as far as giving
an already edgy electorate
the idea that the Republicans
could not provide effective
leadership in the tough times
to come. But make no mis
take: Palin and the many
others like her who have yet
to emerge are the future of
the GOP It’s not Palin’s ide
ology that energizes the party
and captivates the interest of
the rest of the nation. It’s her
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humanity.
Let the house of cards
collapse. Torch the gilded
thrones. Let the Potomac
Fever break into a cold
sweat. Then the GOP cart
rebuild its whole party. Trust
me, nothing can be more fun
or rewarding than having a
cause greater than one’s own
personal political greed.
Matt Towery served as the
chairman of former Speaker
Newt Gingrich’s political
organization from 1992 until
Gingrich left Congress. He
is a former Georgia state
representative, the author
of several books and cur
rently heads the polling and
political information firm
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