Politics

Pat Buchanan explains how much of a mess big government Republicans have made of their chances to win elections.

"In the five elections since 1992, Republicans have won the popular vote once – in 2004."

Ouch.

"Yet consider the uphill struggle the GOP faces in a year when the election should be a cakewalk. "

How true is this? Obama is a disaster, but Romney is only tied with him. Then again, as Buchanan recently pointed out, Reagan was in a tight race with Jimmy Carter at this point. But Romney is no Reagan.

It seems the Washington Redskins victory, specifically RG3's performance, is some sort of proxy for Obama's success, at least in Washington.

"His virtuoso performance wasn’t just about a new era in Washington; it transcended football."

Right. I wonder what it transcended into. I'm thinking no. It was just a great rookie quarterback performance. Maybe the greatest. But it's just football. It's like this guy wants us to believe that since RG3 was so successful, so was Obama. Sorry, no.

I can't help but love any essay that begins like this:

"If you thought the Republican national convention was the worst display of narrow-minded chauvinism, belligerent nationalism, and fanatical Israel First-ism, then you didn’t imagine what the Democrats were going to be like."

Jusstin Raimondo just gets better and better.

"The parallelism with the GOP committee vote on their rules change — which will put the kibosh on future Ron Paul-like insurgent candidacies — is all too telling. And what it tells us is this: the two state-privileged, state-subsidized “major” parties are private clubs, under the complete control of party bosses and unresponsive to the will even of their own activists. That Villaraigosa would pull something like this on national television is indicative of the deep contempt our political class has for ordinary Americans. "

We need a new word. Contempt in this context is too tame.

"Every once in a while, the scripted narrative of “American democracy” is interrupted and the ugly reality shows through the Potemkin village façade."

As both parties flagrantly showed in their conventions.

For the first time in several months, Obama out-raises Romney in August. Unless this whole reporting of money raises is corrupt. Who am I kidding?