Bob Lord Posted by Bob Lord I'm proud to report the start-up of Arizona's newest progressive blog, The Voice of Arizona Republicans. After reading my recent post regarding a crazy post I read at Sonoran Alliance, one of our commenters, Richard Grayson, was inspired to begin compiling the statements of Arizona Republicans as they move to broaden … Read more
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I have a different view of the Republican bloodletting we seem to be witnessing now. Even before the election, the so-called pundits were predicting the internecine war that would take place within the Republican Party. The masters of the obvious predictably predicted a struggle between the teabaggers and the Establishment. Somewhat less predictably, there now seems to be a spat between the newly identified "conservative entertainment crowd" (i.e., Fox and Rush) and the morons who believed their wild-eyed predictions. This aspect of the squabble is kind of hilarious, because we're seeing that the whole right-wing crowd was led astray by a bunch of gasbags who just couldn't get their collective heads around the idea that polls have predictive value. They even had a website where they "unskewed" the polls. And it also appears that the Romney campaign was throwing fake polling data into the mix, which apparently deceived even the deceivers over at Fox.
What we're not seeing is any real analysis of how all this will play out in the long-term. The furthest the analysis goes is whether the Republican Party will be able to recover, or whether it will go the way of the Whigs, or somewhere in between. But the real change could actually take place on the left. Here's why:
Posted by Bob Lord There's been a lot written about Republican bloodletting post-election, but precious little about what will happen when the Democratic caucuses reconvene. There's an opportunity here for the Dems, if they're willing to make changes. In a sense, it's not entirely fair. The failure of the House Dems to pick up more … Read more
Posted by Bob Lord I need to stop wasting time on this, but I'm finding the right wing fascinating. Check out this post at Sonoran Alliance. If you took the trouble to read it, drop a comment to let us know your favorite, "you own it" line for hypocrisy, idiocy, or sheer ridiculousness. I had … Read more
Posted by Bob Lord For those who follow me, I'm asking a small favor. The intractable situation in Isreal / Palestine is truly depressing. Anyone with an open mind who is willing to read all that's out there, objectively, likely will understand that Israel, especially the Israeli government, lost the moral high ground a long, … Read more