(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP strategists and analysts sounded desperate, even panicked, when they implored Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels to toss his hat in the presidential rink. Their panic to get Daniels in the race has less to do with any special magic that they think he’ll bring to a campaign to oust President Obama then their mounting horror at how the best known potential GOP presidential candidates have turned the party into a three ring circus. The would-be candidates that have snatched the most media ink and public attention typified the clown lunacy that GOP regulars shudder at.
One (Donald Trump) was still musing over whether the birth certificate Obama released was really the real deal and whether Obama’s college performance was fake. One (Sarah Palin) was going through back flips to not even mention Obama’s name in praising the bin Laden take down. One (Michelle Bachmann) was rambling on about Obama’s teleprompter. One (Herman Cain) virtually demands that the government get out of the business of taxation. And Ron Paul back at it again, claiming that he’d back legalizing marijuana. It was beyond laughable. It was pitiable.
Meanwhile, the supposed serious GOP candidates might as well be on the far side of the moon. They have virtually no name recognition, no program, little money, and busily trash around trying to find something, anything, to get some attention. None have stirred a faint pulse among GOP voters, let alone moderate and conservative independents. Not that it would much matter, it’s still Palin, Bachmann, Trump, and Paul that the public knows best, and, to the terror of the GOP establishment, believes define who and what the GOP is and represents.
Daniels fever is simply the GOP’s front door way of saying that the party is desperate to wipe the bile in the mouths of the electorate from the clownish antics of their media known notables. But how can the GOP do it? Even if Daniels ultimately decides to go for the White House prize, Palin, Bachmann, Trump, Cain and Paul still speak for a big swatch of GOP voters, the likes of Tea Party activists, and leaders, anti-gay, anti-abortion, gun toting, chronic tax protestors, and Christian right hardliners, neo-Confederates, and assorted racist kooks, crackpots and loons. This is the bunch that bring passion, fervor, and energy to the party. They can’t be ignored. A major reason GOP presidential candidate John McCain committed what many GOP insiders still consider presidential candidate political suicide and picked Palin was because he thought that she could fire up the hardliners in a way that he couldn’t hope to. The bitter truth for the GOP is that not much has changed since then.
Palin, Bachman, Trump, Cain and more often than not Paul’s mug are seen round the clock on Fox, on web sites, blogs, and social media, cheered by the pack of rightwing talk show hosts, and Rush Limbaugh. They are heroes, even icons, to the Tea Party throngs, and they know that any utterance no matter how silly and irrelevant will be picked up, played up and endlessly talked about in the mainstream media. Their idolatrous followers love every word from them.
Palin, Bachmann, Trump and Cain could never have gotten non-stop media and public attention from their inane and outrageous quips alone. The media would have quickly grown tired of that and them and moved on to the next salacious, gossipy, trashy, celeb story. Their staying power is based squarely on their ability to stoke popular rage at and frustration with tin ear politicians among Democrats, but especially within the GOP, who’ve turned voters into invisible men and women. This translates to millions of disgruntled, frustrated voters who will be sorely tempted to push, prod and hector the GOP to give Palin, Bachmann, Trump, Cain and Paul their due. Many will be just as sorely tempted to vote for them as the maverick candidate who poses a credible alternative to Obama, and the GOP mainstream. And since there is virtually no chance any one of the media grandstanding candidates will get the GOP nomination, the fear again is that their frenzied backers will stay at home on Election Day. This would be tantamount to a vote for Obama and would be an even bigger disaster for the GOP in 2012 than 2008.
The clownish sideshow ring mastered by the fringe GOP candidates is a textbook Catch-22 for the GOP. If party leaders publicly badmouth, marginalize, or ostracize them than that almost certainly will blow the very slender chance they already have of making Obama a one term president. This would be the GOP’s nightmare and Obama’s dream. The GOP thankfully is stuck with its clowns.
Written By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
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Cain / Paul 2012 – These men are the only ones who can make a difference for the better.
Legalizing marijuana will be great for America (think of jobs) – and revenue. Also it will eliminate punishing for such petty use. Need to focus on hard drugs that really are destroying communities and families.
Do you research on your canidates people – anyone reading this article is making the ATTEMPT to be INFORMED – so my hats of to you there.
Republican/Democrat-Are you kidding me? They are both useless and killing my country. We need some one in here to kick ass, bring are jobs back, kick out the illegals. Bring our troops home and stop the USA from being the worlds/police dept. I really don’t give a shit what happens in Iran, Syria or any other sand box called the Middle east.
Start taking care of American citizens and quit giving my tax money to the yahoo’s of the world. Pakistan are listing?
All right, already, can we please de-certify the rethugs?
They’re absolutely WORTHLESS as advocates of the people, being foursquare for corporate psychopaths and themselves alone.
If we don’t get a handle on their corruption, and soon, we’re sunk.
When someone declares candidacy, that person is throwing their hat into the ring, not the rink.
However, the phrase works as a metaphor if you want to imply that the Republican party is on thin ice.
Ron Paul lost any claim to not being a clown when he went on Fox to debate an Obama impersonator. When the Republicans finally go down in flames, when the right wing’s intellectual bankruptcy is at last apparent for all to see, perhaps the cowards in the Democratic party will stop “moving to the middle” and listen to the truly progressive Democratic voices in the party.
I see the kkklowns are out in full force on this site. Your hatred for Pres. Obama is overwhelming-you see he has more in common w/you (whites/pinks) then he does Blacks! You (He) all have a WHITE MOTHER-so that makes him HUMAN just like you! WHEN YOU SPEAK OF HIM-YOU ARE BASICALLY SPEAKING OF YOURSELF-so all of your name calling means NOTHING!
A Bachman/Palin type candidacy would be a disaster for the Dems, as well. It would confer a legitimacy to them, and their ideas that they do not have now. And the kind of exposure that allow them to push the dialogue even farther to the right than it is now.The end result might be an Obama win, but the polarization of the country would become even more extreme. When 10% of the population control 70% of the wealth, the only hope they have of staying in power is through divide and conquer, and a wingnut candidate would only increase that division. At least Ron Paul has something for everybody, and his ideas are worth debating, since they have an intellectual, and not an emotional basis behind them.
Wow, the Paultards are out I see. I bet you’d get handshakes at Paul rallys…and yes you all are probably the most informed of the Right. But you guys have your own problems. Like how the semi-sane…aka..embarassed rightwingers are all hiding in your basement. Yeah he has good ideas but he is, and has been unwilling to extricate himself from the clowns. I would say that it is a bit harsh to paint the doc with the clown brush. But it must be said that many in your camp harbor and many times, agree with that insane clown posse. You see what Koch, and the oil industry did to the Teatards?
Reading the Comments on this article: Earl Hutchinson has attracted the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. How is it that Raynosaur comments about Dr. Boyce Watkins, most of the commenters have the same agenda, of racist laced destraction. DON’T FALL FOR THE DESTRACTION, REGISTER TO VOTE IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY AND MAKE IT YOUR BUSINESS TO GET PEOPLE TO THE POLLS. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE SO-CALLED CLOWN PARTY. (G.Bush was a two term President)
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This article explains why Dr. Boyce Watkins isn’t writing for a reputable publication. I’d say you are the “laughable” one.
“And Ron Paul back at it again, claiming that he’d back legalizing marijuana.”
Back at it again? Yes, the man who predicted the current financial crisis is back at trying to fix things, and amen to that.
Legalizing marijuana would be a great way to reduce our bloated government spending. The war on drugs has failed miserably, and causes more problems than it solves. Personal liberties are the right and responsibility of everyone, and should not be taken away. If someone makes a bad decision with their personal liberties, there are consequences. In the case of marijuana, there are health consequences, and legal consequences if your use of this substance affects another individual, or their property.
The people I currently know, who do not abuse marijuana, heroin, or other illegal substances, would not begin to do so, just because they are legal. For those who I know that are using these substances, they are currently illegal, so that shows how well the laws are working.
i take it that you believe that the people in jail for marijuana possession deserver to be there-i think “beyond laughable” is the term you used, it certainly applies here
Now THAT is hilarious! The ONLY white man who is working the get the Man’s foot off your neck and off of everyone else’s too. You hear anyone else talking about freeing the million black men in prison on drug offenses? You hear anyone else talking about lowering barriers to business so the so-called “unemployable” can open their own small businesses? You hear anyone else talk about removing withholding from your paycheck and eliminating the income tax? It may come out of your check only 30% at a time, but it’s still gone forever. The MAN doesn’t want you to have that money so you can’t start your OWN business and get his foot off your neck.You hear anyone ELSE talk about ending the emasculating ‘affirmative action’ that teaches black folks they can only get a job if a white man gives it to them? You ever go to ANOTHER Republican rally and see the welcome you get like the smiles and handshakes you get at a Paul rally? And why is it, that of the brothers at the rally who agree, why is it that a white man (a poor white man who got the MAN’s foot off his neck) is the only one who will share this information?
Wow a racist magazine what’s this country coming too.
Hutchinson is a hate merchant.
Lets see in 2004 there was running in Dem primaries:
Carol Mostly Fraud
Dennis Kuchinich
Al Sharpton
Ill taker Palin, Bachman and Trump over those Dem clowns anyday
Why can’t the Democratic party get rid of thieves and liars like Barbara Lee Maxine Waters and Charley Rangel?
Vote Herman Cain in 2012!
http://www.hermancain.com/
Earl, BOOBIE, you forgot to list this joker, the biggest clown in the country:
Barry Hussein Soetoro
Oh, sheeeaaat! Snap, Negroid!
You can’t be serious, can you?
What are you? Another “moderate brother” trying to pass yourself off as a conservative?
You are not a conservative, and therefore are not qualified to preach to conservatives about who is, or isn’t a clown.
You need to brush up on your edumaction regarding what constitutes a “conservative” and a “clown”.
Your boy, Obama, is the supreme example of a “clown.”
Our MAN, Lloyd Marcus, it the supreme expample of an “American / Patriot”.
Unlike Obama, Jesse, Al, and every other race-baiting, politically correct asshat, Lloyd Marcus is an HYPHENATED-AMERICAN first and foremost.
Get a real job, Buckwheat.
The GOP base has succeeded in pushing to the sidelines all the sane politicians that they call RINOs. If you want to change that, the GOP regulars have to start standing up to the extremists and stop kowtowing to wedge issues. I’m not hopeful on that score.
I do not care about Republican clowns, I do care about the marxist in the White House and how to get rid of him.
You are intellectually dishonest to tag Ron Paul “mug” along with those idiots but I guess that’s your point. You are not credit to our struggle. Do you even know the percentage of black babies aborted each year and supported by Yezzz Massaa Jackson and Sharpton?