Friday, September 30, 2011

The Zombies of the GOP cannot settle on anyone they like enough…

Whew!....These repugs are tough; they’re apparently not happy unless they are eating their own!.... Case in point, the darling of the Conservatives, Bachmann is now scoring below Huntsman in the latest popularity polls. And the newer lover boy to come along, Perry is showing more cracks than a Tokyo skyscraper after the Tsunami.

What’s the operative word here, heartless, fickle? Call it what you will, but it seems that candidate popularity in “the party that takes no prisoners” lasts no longer than a cigarette between coffee breaks.

Front runner, Romney still holds the lead he has had in the last four years, give or take a blip here and there, but the faithful are not running out chanting Romney. Apparently, they are not sure that he is conservative enough and his Mormon credentials label him an unknown outsider even though he seems to have been running since I was knee high to a milkshake….Ask a southern believer what he thinks, and his expression tells you all you need to know.

But that seems to be the way it goes!

Now, the punjabs of the pocketbook are trying to reel Christie in, figuring him to be a populist and the next best thing to a serious candidate who can come on strong next to an Obama who is seen right now as stronger than their front line which seems to shift daily depending on the barometric reading.

Christie seems to be a plain talker but he may be vulnerable to the more radicalized right’s view of what a real conservative is….that hasn’t been determined yet; while one suspects that the whole Bush family is foaming at the mouth to get the real inheritor of the Bush mantle up and running, the one that is said to still have a few live brain cells, Jeb. How that is going to materialize is beyond even Swami-like prognosticators of the party’s future to comprehend.

Meanwhile, the most responsible of the GOP’s candidates lapses in obscurity, John Huntsman, who one could say, “he makes some sense….” But the mainline gurus think that Huntsman does not have enough of anything to endear him to anyone except perhaps intelligent independents and disenfranchised democrats who don’t see their future with Obama.

Even Newt has a good day now and then but lags behind virtually everyone. In fact, the other day, Santorum got off a good one that appealed to the GOP crowd and for a moment, he had a fleeting touch of fame that came and went. And the other day, the former Godfather pizza chairman razzle dazzled the onlookers by winning the latest straw poll and then alienated the minorities by referring to them as brain-washed.

By the end of this contest, it seems like they will all collapse into a hopeless mass of used up bodies and somebody will appear out of the woodwork to save the Republican’s proverbial backsides, yet, it seems that the party, influenced by the chronically intolerant would rather applaud death in the electric chair a la Perry and their anti-gay credentials than actually be taken seriously by anyone.

Les Aaron








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