Susan Estrich thinks the Republicans are in a vacuum.
“Imagine how different things might be right now if there were a Republican Party. I mean a party like the one led by Ronald Reagan, George Bush or Newt Gingrich; a party with a program, a single set of talking points, and the technological and communications advantages to get their message across. That kind of Republican Party. The kind that doesn't exist right now.”
Estrcich makes some valid points in her broadside. She suggests that at present it’s only people like Limbaugh and Beck who are making the shots against Obama’s incompetence. She castigates the Republicans in Congress and the RNC as “the people who do, or should, call themselves the leaders of the Republican Party” and suggests “they should make way for others who could fill those shoes.”
To be fair any political party that has suffered a substantial defeat after several years in power is bound to be in aftershock. The old authority structures are broken and the vision ahead is bound to be unclear. It happened to the Conservative Party in Britain after 1997 and after eleven years the Tories are still only half way along the road to recovery. Clearly the Republicans do not want to wait that long.
At present it doesn’t matter so much who is calling out Obama as long as the shots are striking home and there is enough evidence to indicate that the Styrofoam temple is beginning to show some dents. But before the end of the year there does need to be a Republican politician who can spearhead the counter attack but this is where, regrettably, Estrich seems to go all David Brooks….
“Sarah Palin is still the big draw for Republicans, with Bobby Jindal now a distant second. But neither of them, as recent history has painfully proved, have the experience, gravity, understanding or credibility to go toe to toe with Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and the rest as to what the economy needs, and doesn't. Until the Republicans find some folks who can, this will remain a one-sided game, even on weeks like this, where that one side finds itself in the sort of situation that a real opposition party could exploit.”
Ah – we’re back along that track again – Gravity Road. What Estrich means is a guy in a suit who can discourse about Adam Smith across the glistening crystal goblets of a DC dinner party and who looks comfortable in a board room. The one sort of person the Estrich Republicans do not need is someone who does her own shopping, changes a few diapers and puts on her own lipstick – oh and also masters the intricacies of a multi billion pipeline deal, presents a State budget and goes toe to toe with a whole bunch of Geithner clones in her own state – she might be able to connect with the folks but…….no credibility you see, darling……..
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Estrich, of course, is obviously the one person you would search out if you needed an insightful analysis of the Republican Party having strongly supported both the Dukakis and Clinton campaigns. She was a Harvard high flyer and then a DC legal luminary and now is an academic with USC and a lawyer with a high profile Los Angeles law firm. She is therefore the ideal person to lecture us all about the economics of wealth creation unlike someone who has merely helped run a commercial fishing business.
Above all Estrich is a feminist who believes women need to empower themselves in the world of politics and succeed in their own right, not just as the appendages of men. Naturally she is a passionate supporter of Hillary Clinton and totally disdainful of Sarah Palin…..
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Is this woman a wacko? Obama didn’t even understand how dividends worked so that could explain why he picked Geithner the Buffoon. Someone who has run a state has a feel for selecting the best people to work in their cabinet. Sarah Palin has done that in Alaska. I’m confused, why would Sarah Palin have to go toe to toe with Tim Geithner? Sarah Palin would have never picked that buffoon to head up anything.
This administration has been a disaster from day one. I do enjoy the fact that for some reason they all have Sarah Palin on the back of their pea less brains. Can it be that she was the only one with executive experience and would have on day one as VP governed as a CEO and not like a bunch of clueless senators?
If you don't think Sarah Palin passes Susan's "gravity test" then absolutely no one on earth does!
Governor Palin runs Alaska line a well oiled machine. The state is one of the few that aren't broke! And she has managed to keep Alaska in the black despite not having an income or sales tax to fund government.
She has more experience as a chief executive than Bill Clinton did when he took office in 1993.
Alaska's budget is 3 times larger than Clinton had in Arkansas, and she has 4 times the employees.
She has foreign trade experience and CIC experience.
What's laughable is for someone to think she couldn't stand up to Turbo Tax Tim!
My goodness, Governor Palin stood up to Big Oil in Alaska, and showed them how the cow ate the cabbage. She fought them, and won.
She also took on her own party over mass corruption. She ended up taking down the entire leadership of the republican party. Including the sitting Governor!
The woman has plenty of gravitas. She is plenty up to the challenge.
For a liberal, I actually like Susan. She can have lucid moments, but remember who she once tried to elect President. Her judgment on these issues isn't all that great.
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