Searcher44
Gold Member
I watched/listened to several hours of the Republican convention yesterday. What came across loud and clear to me was an attempt by the Republican establishment to remind the independently minded voter of what the party line was when it came to the fundamental principle that unified the party, above all else, beyond any picayune economic or moral or constitutional matter. The fundamental principle the average Republican had to embrace was fear. In the early years the bushies had employed this tactic to near perfection. This new faction wasn't fooling around. Speaker after no-name speaker was beating the delegates over the head with it. Forget your rage against the crony capitalist whose unpunished greed had mired the country in 8 years of middle class morass. Forget Wall st. raping pension funds and the Oligarchy making out like bandits with $100 million dollar bonuses. All the things that turned the Republican voter to a populist like Trump. Forget all that and remember, you must be afraid, very afraid. Every fucking Republican in the hall should have stood up and yelled "We're not afraid of fuck-all! We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it any more!"