Conservatism in Exile

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And there’s a very telling passage, in which Limbaugh says, “The culture, we’ve lost the culture Sean. We have lost pop culture. It is unrealistic to expect that people watching MTV, going to see the rot Hollywood’s putting out, listening to the rot music is today, that every four years they’re going to go into a voting booth and vote Republican, vote conservative.”

After years of attempts to make conservatism cool somehow, this is its new face, much the same as it ever was: a cranky old man complaining about the movies and music the young people like these days.

Guess you folks are part of the 19% in the poll who strongly disapprove of Obama.

librlmrin, figured that out all by yourself?

So Obama’s name will be mud by 2012 and probably by 2010 as well. And the Republican Party will make big gains and regain much of its lost power.

Well, there will definitely be an upset in Congress in 2010, but don’t start claiming victory in the Presidential election of 2012 yet. Sixteen years ago we all predicted that Clinton was going to be a one-term President, and we were wrong.

Ironically, it was the “Republican Revolution” of 1994 that gave Bill Clinton his second term. By forcing him to restrain himself, the Republican Congress prevented Clinton from infuriating the American public as much as he otherwise would have. Most people tend to give the President too much credit/blame for the economy, and not to give Congress enough. In 1996 Bill Clinton was able to take credit for an economic upturn caused by a Republican Congress; in 2008 George W. Bush (and by extension, all Republicans) was blamed for an economic downturn caused by a Democratic Congress.

So after the Republicans take back Congress in 2010, and they begin to repair some of the damage that will happen between now and then, it will be our task to constantly remind people where the credit (and the blame) properly belong.

Obama. The Paper Tiger. Rawwwwwwwrrrrr….

All glory is fleeting. Obama is already whining about having to answer substantive questions – particularly about hiring ex-lobbyists to White House positions.