10.28.07
Opening Game’s Close
“Any game of chess can be divided into roughly three parts; opening game, (where you first deploy your forces), mid-game, (where any questions of who controls what are decided), and end game, (where you prevail).” [source]
The article this passage comes from is titled “How to Win From the Beginning.” Though chess-oriented, it offers the perfect context here. Winning from the “beginning” is not an option for the GOP in the 2008 elections. Coming from behind, perhaps, but having opened this game with too many of the wrong pieces in play we’re down to wringing our hands, complaining, and/or vilifying those who (on principle and fundamental belief) have had all they’re going to take of equivocating for lesser-valued causes.
Survey the Recommended Diaries list from earlier today, and explain something to me.
Why are we all so worried about losing the White House to our perceived WORST nightmare, while simultaneously insisting we all get behind an only subtly ‘less-so’ alternative (in the minds of some of us)? Why, in fact, is no one even mentioning the extent to which we are each collectively responsible for having done this to ourselves in the first place these last 6 years?
The reality that all our eggs are in this lesser of two evils basket, AGAIN, is of our own doing…and I’m frankly more than a little disgusted that we are down to this…for the third consecutive freaking election cycle.
The strategy that led to our demise in ‘06 was a culmination of years of bad decisions from our political heroes, and non-existent admonitions from their constituencies; the ills of the GOP are the product of we (arrogant and insufficiently cynical) the people. And we come here now, at war with each other over that which is not even the fundamental problem?
The 2008 GOP POTUS forces are deployed. We know the nine, and we know there will soon be 1. We have yet to determine who that may be, but if we aren’t fighting over “who controls what” for the COUNTRY and its future, which one of them prevails and moves into the White House will be of very little consequence.
More below the fold…
This next election is about a whole lot more than keeping Hillary off of Pennsylvania Avenue. It is about immigration, healthcare, war, entitlements, taxes, and (as always) the children!
This next round is (yet again) our chance to make things right on the Hill, or at least address the most fundamental of flaws up there, starting with the geniuses we keep putting into office because they are at least NOT Democrats. AND, this next election (as with each of the last three) is another chance to build for the long term future-of the party AND the Conservative ideals that allegedly gave birth to it. phhht-yeah right-like THAT exists anymore in the GOP…but I digress.
For POTUS, 2000 was about AlGore, and 2004 was about JFKerry. Today, we’re making it about Hillary!, and we keep missing the same fundamental point over and over again; take care not to destroy the founding principles of the Republic in the name of power…especially when the power remains OUT of the hands of those who are supposed to possess it.
God gave us the power to think for ourselves, and do right by ourselves to the extent we can based on what we believe. Our Constitution understands that, and the sects within the GOP better start figuring that out as well. MY personal decision for a particular candidate is not going to kill the GOP. Our continued willingness to sell out the principles it was founded on just might.
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