A Loudmouthed Idiot Spouts Off
With back-to-back successful election cycles behind them, it’s understandable that Democrats would be feeling cocky at this point. Still, arrogance is offputting to the people.
Paul Begala’s latest fact free diatribe against the GOP is brimming with arrogance:
I’m sure Republican strategists look at their bench and think of what Casey Stengel said of the 1962 Mets: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
David Vitter is on the D.C. Madam’s call list. John Ensign confesses to an affair with a staffer. Mark Sanford cries for his soul mate in Argentina. And now Sarah Palin calls it quits.
The Republican Party was once a solid, serious, stable group of people. It was the party of Eisenhower, of Ford, and not too long ago, the party of Colin Powell. Now it’s got more flakes than Post Toasties.
Begala would like us to believe that the GOP is devoid of talented people. He’d like people to believe that the GOP is in the early stages of being permanently the minority party, that Democrats are in the early stages of a decades long ascendency. He thought that in 1993, too. A year later, Bill Clinton hired Dick Morris to straighten out the mess that Begala and Carville created.
Simply put, Mr. Begala is a loudmouthed idiot who makes a living by being obnoxious.
Recently, Scott Rasmussen’s polling of the Generic Ballot Question has shown the GOP staying competitive with Begala’s beloved Democrats. Quinnipiac’s latest polling shows that people have lost so much faith in President Obama’s handling of the economy that it’ll likely get a bunch of vulnerable Democrats defeated in Ohio, including Gov. Strickland.
For all Begala’s yapping about GOP incompetence, he’s awfully blind towards the Democrats’ growing credibility problems on the economy, especially considering Vice President Biden’s admission that they didn’t pick the right solution for fixing the economy. Things won’t improve either when people read about Laura D’Andrea Tyson’s call for a bigger, more focused stimulus plan.
Theoretically speaking, what does it say about Democrats that Republicans are staying competitive with them when Republicans are supposedly committing political suicide? In reality, it doesn’t say anything about them because that isn’t the right question.
Here’s the right question: What does it say about Mr. Begala’s analytical skills and his humility?
Simply put, it says that he’s an loudmouthed idiot who doesn’t know when to shut up.
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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog