{"id":5702,"date":"2011-09-07T19:16:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T02:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/?p=5702"},"modified":"2014-01-09T10:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T17:24:55","slug":"republicans-debating-stuck-in-a-moment-they-cant-get-out-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/republicans-debating-stuck-in-a-moment-they-cant-get-out-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Debating Stuck In A Moment They Can&#8217;t Get Out Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>T<\/b>onight&#8217;s debate confirms Ed Rollins was right:  it&#8217;s a Perry Romney race.  We&#8217;ve only had one direct lengthy conversation with Rollins (and it was earlier this year).  We felt him, of course, as he was a big presence down in Texas during the Perot bubble.  He should be relieved to be out of that seat.<\/p>\n<p>Perry showed steadinesss and vacuity that will soothe his oligarchical backers.  His &#8216;social security is a ponzi scheme&#8217; a calculated gamble.   We disagree with the talking heads that see Romney as the clear winner.  Perry&#8217;s dog whistles seismic.    From South Carolina on we see Romney struggling &#8211; except possibly Florida. <\/p>\n<p>Newt increasingly comes across as an aging hair metal band crashing a Gathering of the Juggalos.   He seems content to suck up to everyone to maintain his perch as &#8216;ideas&#8217; man.  In his own mind, he probably has cast himself as Colonel House calling the shots in someone else&#8217;s White House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AintThatAmericaForYouAndMe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AintThatAmericaForYouAndMe.jpg\" alt=\"Romney, Perry, Tea Party, Republican, Republican Debate, Newt Gingrich\" title=\"Oh, But Ain&#039;t That America, For You And Me\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5703\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AintThatAmericaForYouAndMe.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/AintThatAmericaForYouAndMe-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fossilized nature of &#8216;conservative thought&#8217; striking but irrelevant.  All the issues pushed around are camouflage.  Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey more realistic models for the cloaked oligarchical agenda.  It&#8217;s true enterprise zones were novel when Jack Kemp pushed them in the late 1970s\/1980s.  The Laffer Curve\/supply side economics, too.    If the Republican Party intended to be overt about its actual governing strategy the lack of intellectual innovation would be problematic.  Now, it&#8217;s only for rubes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight&#8217;s debate confirms Ed Rollins was right: it&#8217;s a Perry Romney race. We&#8217;ve only had one direct lengthy conversation with Rollins (and it was earlier this year). We felt him, of course, as he was a big presence down in Texas during the Perot bubble. He should be relieved to be out of that seat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[260,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-5702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-acolytes-in-media","7":"tag-election-2012","8":"tag-movement","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stiftungleostrauss.com\/bunker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}