In a column on Nikki Haley’s God-awful response to the State Of The Union Speech, Mark Steyn captures succinctly what is wrong with the GOP Establishment:
So the usual vapid cookie-cutter split-the-difference slippery bromides indifferently delivered. That’s what the GOP panjandrums decided America wanted to hear in a campaign season when their own base has told them that it’s insufficient. By the way, that’s true not just for Trump and Cruz voters, but to one degree or another for Carson, Fiorina, Paul, Huckabee and Santorum guys, too. Defining the “moderate” vote as Rubio, Bush, Christie and Kasich, that adds up to a combined 21 per cent in recent polls.
So these days the GOP can’t even schedule an insipid forgettable SOTU response without insulting the overwhelming majority of its actual voters.
How can they when they decided sometime back that Conservative Thinking was doomed in America, that it’s time had come and gone forever, that the American People now were so used to the Big Government Habit, they could never overcome the addiction?
They’re ‘Realists’, ‘Pragmatists’, you see.
Actually, of course, they’re Useful Idiot paeesengers on a sinking barge speeding down the Denial River piloted by three Captains [Turtle-Breath, Eddie Munster, Prince Reibus] who have imbibed too much Kool-Aid and are blind drunk stupid.
More from Mark:
Trump is a monster of the GOP elite’s creation. And their solution to it is to use what’s meant to be a rebuttal to the President as a rebuttal to their own leading candidates and the two-thirds of their voters who support them. Truly this is the dumbest political party on the planet.
I’ll restrain myself here and just say: You’re too kind, Monsieur Steyn.
One final quote from Mark on Mzzz. Haley:
Last night it fell to Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina and daughter of immigrants from India, to deliver the response, and much of what she had to say was the traditional boilerplate delivered with the usual glassy-eyed prompter-face.
Love it.
The GOPe: Glassy-Eyed, Prompter-Faced Gits™
