But that won't happen. McConnell and company understand that within
the hard right's tightly wound ideological cocoon, the slightest embrace of
progressive policies amounts to a complete repudiation of conservative
values. Fair enough. But that type of stifling dogmatism will have
to be eradicated if the GOP intends on remaining relevant.
Despite its ghastly 2012 outcome,
the GOP still has a tremendous opportunity to make a political comeback. Stop with the foisting of 50's era candidates
-- especially those exhibiting the furtiveness of a Mitt Romney. And drop the false pretense that fails to
disguise the perverse reverse populism that draws filthy-rich politicians like
Romney into leveling charges of "class warfare" against those struggling to
rise from the lower rungs of the economic ladder.
Epilogue: Planes to the Party; Souls to the Polls
In a way, a metaphor for this
election may have been expressed by way of an interesting sequence of events,
one of which was the focus of an item that appeared in a local Boston newspaper
one day after the election. The report
noted the election-day arrival to Boston's Logan airport of about 50 private
jets, each filled with corporate squids, their main squeezes, and other Romney
supporters who jetted in to partake in Mitt's "victory" gala at the Boston
Convention Center. That item reported
that airport personnel had trouble finding spots in which to shoehorn this
fleet of corporate jets, a quandary that resulted in delays of a several
minutes or more before the well-heeled Romney supporters were able to high-step
their way off into the night.
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