WHY THE REPUBLICANS ARE GOING TO LOSE!

Am I a Dead Republican?

I am sorry to say Republicans don't get it. It is the old white boys club, and I don't mean that in a racist sense. They are out of touch with the country. They have isolated themselves from reality of twenty-first century .The country is changing demographics rapidly. By 2050 there will probably be forty percent of the country non-white.

It is the young people born in the eighties (millenniums) who get it and they aren't Republicans and perhaps not even Democrats. Racism is not an issue for them. They want a new dynamic for America. It reminds me somewhat when John Kennedy came into the presidential campaign of 1960. Agree or disagree with him the torch passed to a new generation and there was a new excitement in the country. The older generation prior to Kennedy presidency was the leadership of WWll and Korea. However, his assassination and the Viet Nam War created a chaos in the country as the old guard took charge again. Now the baby boom generation who created the chaos is now the older generation and in charge. The country wants change and a vision just as in 1960. The millenniums can help make it happen.

A Frank Rich column in the New York Times February 17, 2008 dicusses the weakness of the current Republican party leadership. Go to the New York Times website to read the full column.

Rich writes:

"Even by the low standards of his party, Mr. McCain has underperformed at reaching millennials in the thriving culture where they live. His campaign’s effort to create a MySpace-like Web site flopped. His most-viewed appearances on YouTube are not viral videos extolling him or replaying his best speeches but are instead sendups of his most reckless foreign-policy improvisations — his threat to stay in Iraq for 100 years and his (sung to the tune of the Beach Boys’ version of “Barbara Ann”) that he will bomb Iran. In the vast arena of the Internet he has been shrunk to Grumpy Old White Guy, the G.O.P. brand incarnate."

I have been a very right leaning Republican, but no more. I consider myself an independent that is leaning more and more to the left of center, except in fiscal matters. The Democrats don't understand fiscal responsibility and the GOP in its current state is no better. Waste! Waste! Waste. I believe at this time I will be voting for Obama, if he doesn't go too far left in the campaign.

The only hope for a Republican victory is if Hillary gets the nomination. The right wingers will come out in droves to defeat her. My decision between McCain and Obama will be a tough one. I think it may be too late for McCain.

I hate to be so serious lately, but I promise to back off political commentary for a while.

Have a nice day!

Samuel C, Arnold