The right is really throwing much effort into blaming Palin for their recent defeat. They would have you and I think that she alone was the greatest cause of failure. Extravagant shopping sprees, naive positions on National and Foreign Policies, and just a general lack of knowledge about current events, all aside, she “Has what it takes” a Republican ditto-head recently proclaimed to me in an email. I really couldn’t understand, it was something about pit-bulls and six-packs. But the fairy-tale is over for Miss Wassilla and it is time to relinquish the gleaming tiara, the glass slipper didn’t fit after all and the shiny carriage has turned back into last Halloween’s rotting pumpkin.
Once again I find myself in opposition to our friends on the right. John McCain’s defeat doesn’t rest with fairy-tale Sarah, Caribou Barbie, or even Miss Wasilla. The sound defeat of McCain/Palin is much larger and much more profound, it is the rejection, by the American electorate, of Republican ideology. And therein is the problem. Republican ideology has become unidentifiable and untenable for its most ardent supporters. Forced to the extreme, even obscure, right in an effort to retain “the evangelical vote” for the benefit of high-rollers and big business, the party has failed. Many times they have denied the truths of modern science and technology to appease this crowd. “Global warming is just God hugging us closer” is a recent case in point. The Republican Party continues to lie to the evangelicals about prayer in the school and other theological positions, knowing all the while that when you force people into a particular religion, you no longer have a democracy. It would be a theocracy and even the Republicans aren’t dumb enough to want to go there.
So its truly back to the drawing board for the Grand ole Party. With a little luck, maybe it will just split into two separate parties. I’ve always advocated for more political parties in this country and this is the best chance I’ve seen for this to occur.
