The speech you’ll never hear
More of this, please. Now, please.
“My Friends,
Regrettably, I belatedly realize now that “me-too,” half-a-loaf Republicanism is not the recipe for presidential success I long thought it would be, because the voters and special-interest groups that favor big-government programs aren’t going to settle for half a loaf when they can have the whole loaf. That formulation never had any chance of winning over the votes of the Democrats and independents I so long played to, while it only served to turn off the Republican base; so it was truly a “lose-lose” proposition.
For the last eight years, we’ve tried being Democrat-lite, massively growing the federal government — just not as massively as the Democrats would have — and what did it get us November 4th? An electoral “whooping” and diminished minorities in both the House and Senate, that’s what.
Parisi makes so many good points in this piece that I won’t bother excerpting any more, although it would surely give me great joy to. Just go already.
(Via Jeff, who makes some good points of his own)
Update! As a proud Southern boy, I just can’t let this stand without comment. It ain’t “whooping;” that’s something cranes and drunk college students do. It’s “whuppin’,” dadgum it. I know it’s a smallish nit to pick, but hey, we’ll never win elections if we don’t accurately define our terms. Precision in all things, man.
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Sometimes I feel....
Like I been tied
To the WHOOPING post
Tied, to the WHOOPING post--
Gord Lord I feel like I'm dyin'
...
Yeah, that just doesn't work at all.