Reply #5: Kind of interesting....

[Old and In the Way]

I admit I've been scanning Redstate.org looking to see how the Domenech story is being covered. Pretty much as expected, not very.

Anyway, on the frontpage, their leade article is "The Graying of the Movement: Time for RedState's Rise." Here's a quote- "To be sure, the right has won on the ideas. We do not just think we are right -- we are in fact right. But it does not matter if we cannot reach young conservatives." Won on ideas? Hardly. It's been one disaster after another for the "ideas" Party. That's all they have to show for 5 years of total government control...ideas. And 4 Trillion added to the deficit, an ecoomy that is pretty shaky unless you are in the top 5% income bracket, a Trillion dollar mess in Iraq, the incompetence of New Orleans - before and after, systematic corruption of Republicans in DC, no oversight, and a growing theocratic movement that threatens 200 years of constitutional seperation of Church and State. Take away Republican owned voting machines, the forced marriage of political necessity to evangelicals, and the compliant corporate media cover-up of Republican mismangement/corruption....and what ideas have they won with? They wonder why young folks aren't signing up for their conservative ideas? Maybe because they are smart enough to know a train wreck when they see one.

But, if RedState is the 'gold standard' for reflective thinking on conservative politics (as opposed to, say FreeRepublic), these 'conservatives' are navel gazing on the Titanic. They spend way too much time demonizing labels (liberals = bad;conservative = good)...and not nearly enough time making honest assessments of what their Party/Syndicate leadership has wrought on this country. They are making themselves irrelevant.

So while these polls show that the erosion of Republican support continues, the internet braintrust wonder who'll carry the banner for the next generation. Hmmmm, maybe Ben Domenech can give them some answers.