Pap Attack: Lack Of Leadership Will Doom GOP In 2016

[GoLeft TV]

In 1981, the Democrats suffered with a similar kind of leadership void that the GOP now faces. Back then, it would have been difficult to name the person in charge of the Democratic Party. The years following the Jimmy Carter presidency left the party looking like a clown car pulling away from the curb. If you have any doubt today that the GOP leadership void is severe, then ask ten friends this question: Who is in charge of the Republican Party? Better yet, read a few of the conservative blogs where the discussions about a need for leadership are delivered in words that sound almost apoplectic. The scene that will come to your mind is the one in the movie, Home Alone, when Macaulay Culkin first realizes that he has been deserted. All the grown-ups have left the house.

It’s never a good thing when a major American political party finds itself in a corner like this. When both major political parties are healthy, democracy operates as it should. The excesses are eventually filtered away from both parties, and the system is able to save itself from the kind of narrowed ideology that has consumed democracy these last eight years.

Full text at Ring of Fire.

[Stevepol]

1. The big reason for the disconnect is the voting machines.

When so many elections, particularly close elections and down ballot elections, all go one way because of the voting machines, there's no way the electorate can have any way to prevent the crazies from getting elected. You end up with a Congress that has almost no connection to the electorate. They can do what they please and the poor voter thinks there is this horde of people voting for crazies. In reality, the people programming or hacking the machines pick the winners and losers or at least make it likely that certain candidates will get elected.