Reporting the Obvious
The Washington Post points out in a piece by Krissah Williams Thompson what any of us on the ground could have told you-young Republicans are a bit down about this election:Still, many of the party's newbies are preparing for the worst. Matt Lewis, 33, is hoping a trouncing in November will force the old guard aside and give his generation a shot. He was one of the committed young conservatives who came to Washington during the Bush administration, eager to push the politics of limited government and compassionate conservatism. He worked for the Leadership Institute, which teaches youngsters about the principles of classic conservatives such as Edmund Burke and Frederic Bastiat, as well as William F. Buckley Jr. and Barry Goldwater. He now blogs full time at the conservative Web site Townhall.com.
He's happy with Bush's Supreme Court picks but disappointed by the administration's failure to curb the ballooning deficit and bloated government.
"When everything is working well there is no hunger for new ideas," Lewis says. "Maybe there is room for some new up-and-coming thinkers to get a shot now. There is a bright side to seeing the Republican Party go through travail."
Not everyone who could still be considered a "Young Republican"-including myself-thinks John McCain is going to lose. The problem is that McCain does not encourage confidence that the GOP is sticking to the core ideas that got the Republicans elected to Congress in 1994 and to the White House in 2000. Young conservatives are right to be disappointed in the Bush Administration. Matt Lewis is right when he says the President's Supreme Court picks may be one of the few things he has done right. He hasn't kept the lid on federal spending, and the war has taken the punch from the domestic agenda that a lot of us had hoped to see implemented.
Further, I still hold that a John McCain victory does not equate to good news for Republicans nationally. Expect to see the GOP lose seats in the House, and quite possibly the Senate, even with McCain winning the election.
Put more simply, whether Barack Obama or John McCain win in November will have no impact on down-ticket races, and that simply isn't good news for Republicans.
Labels: Democrats, Presidential Election, Republican Party
posted by Deacon David Oatney @ 11:32 AM
3 Comments:
David,
As things stand now John McLame has little chance of winning in Nov. The guy's an idiot! Hace you read the Op-Ed that the NYT rejected?!? It's a shoddy hit job and not an essay outlining/displaying his foriegn policy vision for the future. If he was in college he'd fail the assingment for failing to do what the assigment was about!
Here in Kansas folks have woken up to the fact that Pres. Bush is a total clown and always has been and they are weaking up to the fact that McCain iswn't much better.
People are also becoming aware that while Obama is young and inexperienced he has a vision that they like and, more importantly, a brain he's not afraid to use. McCan is in for a tough ride. Tougher than you've imagined so far.
SteveMule
I keep hoping for the day when words that show more concern for the where the party sits are replaced with words that are more concerned with where the country sits. The party faithful of both parties seem to have put the country's interests in the back seat while they bicker over who is going to drive. In the meantime the rest of us who care as deeply as they do are forced to pick between a bad choice and a worse one. When will the country come before the party?
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR ALL AMERICANS? WHEN WILL YOU WAKE UP. ONCE YOU PUT O’BAMA IN THE AMERICAN AS YOU KNOW IT WILL BE GONE WITHIN 1 YEAR. WE WILL BE AT WAR ON AMERICAN SOIL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 200 YEARS. GOD HELP US ALL IF HE MAKES PRESIDENT. I'M PRAYING TO MY GOD FOR THIS NOT TO HAPPEN. REMEMBER THE ENEMY SAID THEY WILL GET US WITHIN AND HE IS THERE MAN. SINCE HE WON'T HELP US AS PRESIDENT (O'BAMA) WILL NATO PROTECT ALL THE AMERICANS. STOP AND THINK ABOUT WHAT YOUR DOING
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