“Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff.” Ronald Wilson Reagan
It’s time for the Reagan Republicans to start behaving like Reagan
The Wall Street Journal in several places in Saturday’s edition gives a well deserved spanking to the self important giant talking heads on talk radio and the conservative misleaders who have put us in a place where we don’t have a candidate any of us loves much.
Surely Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter can agree that these challenges are terribly demanding and cannot be left to luck or divine providence. Finally, there is the cost of their extremist rhetoric to the Republican Party. As President Reagan once told me, “Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff.”
On the other side they do. Obama will be the candidate. I didn’t think so for a long time until I began to ask myself what it would take for him to lose. He can’t.
They have a candidate they believe in and we have one that at best arouses tepid enthusiasm. Shades of Bob Dole.
But, he didn’t cheat. McCain. He won fair and square. He needs to finish this deal out with grace and without gloating. The childlike idealism of the right has to come in line. That’s what McCain said and guess what, he’s right. Get in line.
There is too much at stake. Giving into radical Islam is suicide. There will be several (3 or 4) vacancies on the supreme court. Global failed states with nuclear weapons will mount a new threat that a happy fresh faced liberal will fall on.
So, it’s time to get with it.
Pay attention, western civilization is at stake. Your ego isn’t that important. The world is. We have to win this thing.
In case the poli Sci C students need a little education, Huckabee and Paul have to stay in this to the end. There must be debates, we must stay in the news. We have to have a forum that gets the message out. Staying in does that.
If they drop out, we drop off any page, particularly the front page. Do the real right thing. Get behind McCain. I hate it, I thought I never would, but it’s time to stop Obama.
Clinton is over. She can’t.
