It was called the Grand Old Party. That’s what G-O-P used to stand for. Some may say it still does, but for all intents and purposes one can honestly say, there is nothing grand about the current edition of the Republican Party and it has disappeared when it’s most needed. No, I don’t mean to save the country from a liberal President or even a Democratic House and Senate. It is as simple as Ying and Yang. The honest to goodness push back of the left not by simply saying “No” but with legitimate alternative ideas to bring to the table. The left needs you, not to substitute your ideas for theirs but more so to test their ideas against yours. But where are the legitimate new ideas, ideas that were not woefully followed during the Bush Administration?
Michael Steele has become the poster child for the party’s idiosyncrasies. It is no secret that as qualified as he may be for the position, he was and clearly is a GOP push back to Obama’s candidacy and Presidency. The GOP played a not so subtle race card the same way McCain played with gender when he selected Sarah Palin for his running mate in the 2008 Presidential Election. Subsequently, both Steele and Palin made for great photo ops and the appearance that the GOP had a progressive bone in its body politic, however, at the end of the day they became thin veils inadequately masking the GOP’s internal and philosophical dysfunction. Read more...(1164 words, 1 image, estimated 4:39 mins reading time)
I had to take a short break from The Digital Political to do some other writing, but when I got back the world had just gone Be-GaGa. Talk about imagination. Talk about taking it to the edge… Talk about giving folks something to talk about… Lady GaGa and Beyonce.
Oh how America loves a great fall. I’ve held back on the recent Tiger Woods watch, not because there was nothing to talk about but more so there was so much to talk about and astoundingly not about Woods himself.
What was there to talk about? How about, booty calls, ambien, the institution of marriage, how women feel about infidelity versus how men feel about it. There’s the difference between getting a little something something on the side when you’re rich vs. when you’re poor and have to pick your date up in a Ford Focus instead of a yacht called ‘Privacy’. Be honest, if Tiger’s name was Lamont, drove a Corolla and was the manager at Jack In The Box, there would be no scandal. There’s the guys who say how stupid Tiger was that with all that money he should have never gotten caught and women say how Elin should get half of that money after only five years of marriage.
There’s the tabloid, and digital media like US and OK and People Magazine (Yeah, I said their names and People Magazine, yes you are a tabloid.) whom have clearly taken sides with their female base. Online publications one would think would be above the fray like the Huffington Post, CNN, and others, eventually strayed from reporting and gave in to the sensationalism of it all and started their own girlfriend count and embraced anything that TMZ had to say, confirmed or not. Read more...(1048 words, 1 image, estimated 4:12 mins reading time)
