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Edited on Thu Dec-28-06 02:00 AM by calimary
Have been since the beginning. IMPEACHING the Number-One republi-CON would, by itself, contribute to making the GOP look terrible, collectively. Remember, after Nixon came thatclose to it, himself, who won the White House the next time it came up for grabs, in 1976? The DEMOCRATS. And this was, mind you, with many prominent Republicans (with a capital "R") joining in, from Barry Goldwater on down. That did little to rehabilitate the entire party as a collective entity. If it had, the voters would have shrugged and said "oh, hey, all is forgiven." But they DIDN'T. Jimmy Carter won and the party of Nixon was FURTHER repudiated. I can remember back then how even Republican candidates for Congress in 1976 were apologizing for their party, and openly regarding themselves as sacrificial lambs, because they knew their chances of winning the hearts and minds of the electorate after Nixon was virtually nil. And most of 'em turned out to be correct about that. Nobody wanted to vote GOP. Nobody even wanted to admit they'd voted for Nixon, either time. Suddenly, you had NO voter base whatsoever. Nobody even wanted to admit they were registered Republican, even when they were and they knew YOU knew they were. It was quite a remarkable time.
I just want to see the whole republi-CON landscape soured, poisoned, sewn with salt, so that none of these vermin can ever rise again, and do ANY further damage. Remember: the neocons did NOT align themselves with the Democrats. It wasn't the Dems they kept playing footsie with, after Clinton laughed them out of his office in 1998, when they presented him FIRST with their PNAC hard-on dreams. So they slithered under their rocks and waited til they had a better prospect to carry their colors. And they found it in the republi-CON party in general and in george w. bush in particular. It is far more a republi-CON tendency to want to force its views, whether political or evangelical or economic OR in foreign policy, on others, rather than invite others to join a broad-based coalition of different views - the TRUE big tent people (who are the DEMOCRATS). It is far more likely that a republi-CON leader will want to do the "tough-love" thing and use force. Which means it's far more likely that more of our troops will be sent into harm's way under republi-CON leadership.
Which is why I would rather see such leadership hobbled, permanently, so it can't ever find itself back into a position of power, to do more damage and exercise more short-sightedness - and, sadly, get more of our soldiers killed unnecessarily. I think what's needed is to try to nip that in the bud. Fewer republi-CONS calling the shots? Probably means fewer wars of aggression and choice for hidden agendas and oil. If it had been Al Gore standing on the rubble of the World Trade Center (and probably far sooner than at the end of the frickin WEEK), you would have seen a different call to arms, a call to launch a REAL New American Century - one of wiser use of natural resources, energy resources, and a national challenge akin to the race to the moon - to get us OFF of fossil fuels. That was 2001. By now, if Al Gore had been standing on that rubble pile back then, we would have been FIVE YEARS FARTHER ALONG toward energy independence spearheaded by the wholesale encouragement of, and research into, and development of, alternate energy sources. Correspondingly, we would have been FIVE YEARS FARTHER AHEAD in meeting the challenge of global warming, and perhaps even preempting it. But under the republi-CON mentality, what we got is war, war, and more war, and squandering of our resources, and our money, while at the same time being told to go shopping. We got the same old crap about letting the free market forces go, unfettered, rather than tempering those runaway pirates with civic and social responsibility and obligation to the common good.
THAT'S why I would rather go, first, toward anything that would short-circuit all things GOP. Because the GOP is the root cause of all the rest of the shit we're going through now, including all our troops who've been forced to sacrifice unnecessarily and die in vain. The GOP is the source, the hatchery, where all this shit is born, to begin with. The GOP is the center toward which all the pirates and the war mongers and the death-traffickers and the trickle-down lovers and the have-mores and the robber barons and the oily boys and the war profiteers tend to gravitate. And the GOP is the springboard from which they're far more likely to launch their evil into the rest of the world. They don't tend to flock to the Democrats. They just don't. I'd rather go to the root and rip the root out before the weed has a chance to grow and spread and choke the life out of the whole garden.
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