Patters

Regardless of how small the soul of the Republican Party is, the fact is that both Romney and the Tea Party candidate (this week, Gingrich) are both fighting for it.

Mitt Romney primarily represents old style Republicans -- businesspeople, old money, those of German or English descent, mainstream Protestants, people who basically do not want to change the status quo anymore than its already been changed. These are the Eisenhower and Bush I Republicans. These are the Republicans of my youth.

Gingrich primarily represents the Tea Party type of Republican -- those who fear Sharia law in the US, who do not trust everyone from Muslims to Mormons, who think that Obama isn't really a citizen, who label traditional democratic policies as Communist or Marxist, and who distrust government. I think these are the Republicans who Reagan shaped.

So the battle for the soul of the Republican Party is really just a choice between
(A) Convention
(B) Paranoia

Which do you prefer?

Ilikehappyppl

IMO lesser of the two evils is answer "A"

But I can't stand either thou.....I love god I don't mind guns or lower taxes but that's as far right as I go.

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patsfan13

This is a pretty funny post, politics as cartoon stereotypes.

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

Real World

You mean, politics through the eyes of Patters.

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Leo Tolstoy, 1897

patsfan13

Why are they different?

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"Some guys play in all-star games, some guys don't. I don't know who picks all those all-star teams. In all honesty, I don't know who picks the combine, for that matter," Belichick said. "How does (Miami-Ohio offensive lineman Brandon) Brooks not get invited to the combine? How did Vollmer not get invited to the combine? I don't know. We can't really worry about that. We just have to try to evaluate them the best we can."

IcyPatriot

Incredible how one can see the world with blinders on ... but he does see it that way.

Patters

Surely you realize my tone was tongue and cheek, though there's truth to the message.

Real World

So it was tongue in cheek, but you were serious.

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897

Patters

There is truth to the message. Republicans used to be square; now they seem to be driven by paranoia about everything from Muslims to gays to blacks to Communists to government to science. Why some of them even see the expression "Happy Holidays" as an "attack on Christmas"!!! Doesn't that sound a little paranoid to you?

Real World

I guess one could say it's just as paranoid as people feeling insulted by being wished a Merry Christmas, on well.... Christmas.

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"The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
Leo Tolstoy, 1897