Palin vs. Pawlenty

[elfs]

It occurs to me that, in the question of which Republican candidate should we back, we should back Pawlenty, and not Palin. Here's the problem: right now, the Republican party is a drunk. It's close to bottoming out. After thirty years of drinking down the business community's money such that most Republicans have forgotten that one of their responisbilities is to promote the general welfare, a task that applies for every American and not just the predatory class.

Here's the thing: if Pawlenty wins, well, things won't be so bad. If Palin wins, life will become a hellish landscape of Christianist predators.

On the other hand, if Palin loses, the Republican party will not have finally bottomed out. They might learn the lesson that backing the batshit nutters does not endear you to the majority of Americans, most of whom are not batshit nutters.

But if Pawlenty loses, the Republican party activists will go all in for sheer madness. They picked a reasonable candidate, and they lost. Since most of the activists live in a black-and-white world, the only lesson they'll learn is this: Palin could have won.

Yes, we'll have to live with that 29% of America that does not actually belong to the Reality-Based Community screaming and yelling and giving their money to FOX, and they'll be on the Internet forever, but untill that madness burns itself out, if that's at all possible, they'll never have power again.

My only concern is that we'll have to live with madness for a long time to come.

Comments

[pakraticus.livejournal.com]

Meh, you assume it's a teeter totter. The lipertarians try to tell us it's a balance board. As far as I can tell it's a game where the winning move is to send in the most lobbyists with pre-written legislation suiting your perceived best interests. The "moderates" just give the illusion that voting made a damn bit of difference in the behavior of those elected. In the end, those with the money and the connections can get away with murder, and those that don't will be charged with murder and sent the bill as well.