Republicans have a Pebble in their Shoe

Two years ago, amidst the corruption and cronyism charges leveled by the Democrats, the Republican’s lost both Houses of Congress. Nobody needed to tell them how to ruin an election. They got hit in the face with the harsh reality yet they are still behaving the same way. They had shut their ears to the cries of the people and have paid a high price for it. GW, the younger Bush, has been an object of scorn for sometime, due to the Iraq war and the Republicans, loyal to the end, stood by and have done nothing. History is going to remember Bush as a man who was willing to risk his name and Political future to fight the Extremist on their land rather than our own. His resolve, not his popularity will be fondly remembered. This will happen and none of the current crop of Republicans will be there to see it.The Republicans have an even bigger Pebble in their shoe, excluding

With the 2008 election looming large against a backdrop of polling data that leaves both Houses of Congress in the lower teens for popularity, the Democrats have pulled out their big guns. Hillary Clinton looks like she could be a potential threat! If that’s not enough to have a decent Republican hide his face in shame, nothing could be. How can this be? The current crop of candidates is viewed as being a pebble in the Republican Shoe and this view is promulgated by other Republicans! In early December, 07, CNN hosted a sham Republican debate. It was later revealed that 7 of the U-Tube questions were set up jobs where the questions were intended to demean or double cross the candidates. All of the Republican candidates performed flawlessly. The only looser in that debate was CNN who show their true colors at the most inopportune times. When one candidate is selected after
the Primaries, whichever one it is will stand up to the Presidential task with equal resolution.

John McCain, Mr. Congeniality, was the Republican version of Big Bird. His job was to swoop in, take the election by storm and be available, in the Oval Office, for interviews from time to time. This, according to inside the Beltway general consensus. Rudy was to put on his white cowboy hat and ride in from the sunset reminding us of the superb job he did cleaning up New York . He was the red meat candidate, just in case the people remembered McCain’s moniker being; “The Democrat’s favorite Republican”. Mitt Romney bought whatever he wanted and expertly managed the rest. Huckabee, by the skin of his teeth crawled, scratched and fought his way into the fray. He didn’t have the backroom backing that McCain does, nor did he receive the same overt encouragement as Giuliani. Mitt wasn’t interested in garnering any of this as he understood the lay of the land and had no use for being labeled an insider. Huckabee has avoided lining up with any of the party faithful as his interest is more of a lone voice crying in the wilderness. In other words, the Republicans, even with a pebble in their shoe to remind them, have been slow learners. Their lesson has been and still is that the people select the candidate they want, insiders don’t.

In mid December of 07, Romney and Huckabee are fighting each other for the lead. The big news from both the McCain and Giuliani camp is how they are re-structuring their campaigns. Both are excited and anxious to present their new image. Both of the former fair haired boys with the runaway predictions find themselves having to play catch up to the intended cannon fodder of Romney and Huckabee who have turned out to be the pebble in
the Republican shoe.

With egos the size of the Capital Dome, many of the Old Guard Republicans who feel that they have, by virtue of their extended tenure, the right to call the shots for the rest of us. They have played the McCain and Giuliani shuffle while the rest of the Country didn’t do the dance. Romney and Huckabee are taking a page from Frank Sinatra as they “Do it My Way”, which doesn’t include approaching yesterday’s Republican losers, on bended
knee and begging for their blessing. Make no mistake! McCain still has a vast number of endorsements he can call out at any time, he is very formidable. Giuliani stood up to Yasser Arafat and told him, essentially, to get lost. Rudy is nobody’s fool! The candidates are not the ones with a pebble in their shoe, the Republicans on the Hill are.

As the process continues, candidates like Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson have been ignored as of late. This too is a result of not playing ball with the Washington Insiders. Both of these men have the ability to come from nowhere and rocket to the front without giving a moments notice. In some small way, it would be nice to see the Republican Party support their candidates. It hasn’t happened yet and the media has enjoyed every second of their free reign. Treating the un-chosen as though they are a pebble in the Republican Shoe has not paid off. Treating voters with the respect they deserve by elevating parts of the debate and taking a lesson from it might pay off. In a secular, liberal society where the cultural moorings are becoming frequently unhinged, the Republican message should be contoured to identify with that of the Founding Fathers. Instead of that message, “We the People”, are being fed some sort of weak, luke warm pabulum as we wait to see what the Republican message will end up being. They obviously haven’t learned yet and deserve more pebbles in their shoes.

When a candidate like Hillary, who has been at the center of some of the most debase scandals this Country has ever seen, can offer a realistic threat, the party has fallen too far. When her record of dishonesty and duplicity actually constitutes a legitimate challenge to an entire established Political Party, you have to know improvement is overdue. Where are the leaders? Why are wise men being hung out to dry without Party support? Unless the Republicans, pebble in their shoe and all, come to their senses, their party will be so watered down in four years that they won’t even have the choice of how to screw up.

By: www.rara.us Writers