callmeslick wrote:I'll follow up the above with this observation and a prediction, Pud:
Observation--this whole fracture of the GOP is the damndest political theater I've ever watched. I was too young to grasp it, but was told how the civil rights thing split the Dems for a while. I am old enough to remember the Vietnam war doing similar. In both cases, the adults in the room ultimately got things under control and kept the party together nationwide. Right now, it looks like the adults in the GOP room(examples-Boehner, McConnell) have utterly NO control over the wing of the party that dominates their candidate-selection process. Yet, those adults see full well that the candidates that emerge generally get crushed, except for maybe 1/5 of the districts, nationwide. That, coupled with changing demographics, could spell doom for the Republican party, and it's clear that most of the nation despises what the Tea Party stands for, so they could never morph into a national force, either. Thus, you might be left with nearly a generation of Democrat dominance, which even I would argue is a bad thing, just due to lack of check and balance controls.
Prediction--I'll put this up here, and in 8 years, if ACWOS is still here, and both of us are(God willing) alive and able to locate it in the archives, we'll look back and assess it: I predict that within 3, or at most 4 election cycles(8 years), TEXAS will be a Democrat state.
Your first paragraph, I will concede is well written, refreshing...actually. You made several points that I am in general agreement with. There are also several, I don't. However, in the overall....you stated your position well. Thank you for that. It was and enjoyable read. Friday nights are Call of Duty game nights here....and I just finished a three hour session with that. BTW, my wife plays as well. The folks we play with are "Yankee's" on the east coast....Grandparents and their grandkids. Mighty fine folks.
I'm now on my second "stress relief" whiskey...so I'll respond in some detail to this tomorrow. My response will be as respectful as yours...a certainty.
On yer prediction....well I say this....I respectfully disagree...
I'll tease ya with this....Wendy Davis has pretty much shot that effort down...not permanently, but for longer than eight years.
The wild card in yer prediction is "immigration" reform?
If it doesn't come to "pass"...yer wrong and mark me down fer that opinion.
If it does...you could be right/write/rite?
I have stated previously...and will do so again now...which is one thing...based upon what you wrote above...No single party has the best idea's. Nobody in D.C. is willing to negotiate/compromise. We can lambaste each other with the reasons why? That's what they've been doing...both parties and everyone has suffered from it. The only viable future of this country is with at least a two party system....that honorably finds a way to compromise. That, I think/believe, we agree upon.
More Saturday from me....I'm a dab knackered from getting my ass handed to me by two nine year olds....for the last three hours in Call of Duty....those kids are damn good and a delight to talk to. Their parents and grandparents are the top of the line.
Hope ya had a Happy V-Day.
