Liberal Pundits Bemoan The Loss Of The Great White RINO

Facing an inevitable Liberal blood bath in 2012, mainly because of the ineptness and incompetence of the Obama Administration, Liberals have been quick to rally behind the next best option, a New England Rino. They are willing to admit that perhaps the Socialism and cronyism of Obama wasn’t what the country needed these nearly three years of an ever worsening financial situation.

However, secretly they wonder whether the Liberal brand can survive the catastrophic repercussions resulting from the imposition of an ideological Socialism during these lean economic times.

Socialism is expensive; only a fool would deny that premise, but when you handicap the implementation of Socialism with massive debt, repressive EPA regulations, massive entitlement programs, an exorbitantly expensive health care plan, the audacious and incomprehensible political corruption of rewarding former donors with massive amounts of stimulus funds, during a period when five countries in Europe are facing default, the US has excessive unemployment and a collapse of the housing market, it is no wonder that Socialism is considered to be oppressively expensive.

Is that a reason to give up on the cause? Not for the Socialist Ideologue who possesses even a minimal cerebral comprehension, it is a time to regroup, drop back ten and punt the ball to your best Rino. A pugnacious Rino that stands up to unions and teachers, who speaks the everyday language of the common man and lets the little guy feel like he is speaking for him with his John Wayne bravado of not backing down and never yielding to those who want to rob from the working people. He is a perfect choice for the Liberal or at least the best choice from the Republican menu; especially, when you are facing humiliating defeat in a year.

Where else will you find a Republican willing to fight for gun control, Anthropogenic Global Warming, who will stand for illegal immigration. With leaders like this, why struggle with being a Liberal when Liberals are facing extinction? Become a moderate Republican or a Rino and ride the wave of moderation to victory.

There is one problem: the emerging hero of Liberalism, from the ranks of the Republican Party, threw in the towel before climbing into the ring. Now they are faced with a Conservative for four years and if his economic policies turn the country around, Liberalism will once again become a dirty word among decent people, to be associated with the failures of Communism and Anarchism.

Thomas Friedman explains this peculiar Liberal dilemma:

By refusing to embrace Simpson-Bowles as the basis of a Grand Bargain, and instead offering a watered-down version, Obama has left a gap for a sane Republican or independent candidate. Why was Christie popular among G.O.P. moderates and independents? Because he seemed ready to tell hard truths that Obama has started to shrink from. Had Christie — a moderate on gun control, climate change and immigration who has also backed Simpson-Bowles — run and won significant support, he would have forced Obama back to the center.

Then, instead of a race between the Democratic left and the Republican right — in which the whole country would lose because the winner would not have had a mandate for the real change we need — we would have had a race between the Democratic center, independents and the Republican center. Then the whole country would win. Because whoever captured the presidency would have a mandate to actually implement some version of the Grand Bargain needed to get growth going again — and growth is the only sustainable cure for unemployment, the deficit and inequality.

Now that Obama’s Socialism has failed, even Liberals recognize the importance of Obama embracing centrist policies, at least until after the election. But a Socialist Ideologue is so committed to the cause that he is by definition incapable of deviating from the purity of the basic ideologic tenets of Socialism. Like the sea Captain who sees the breakers ahead, but trusts his navigation skills to the point that he cannot admit he has made a mistake and sails his ship and crew to destruction, because of his inability to change or to admit that he has made a mistake, despite the obvious and contrary signs of disaster looming just ahead.

A thinking Liberal realizes that the wavering Liberal, who is the first realize when their policies are not working and will defect early to the cause of fiscal sanity, a group that Liberals cast as Independent, thus justifying an ever larger demographic of true Independents and skim milk Liberals, will be the first to flock to the Rino or moderate Republican. The Rino is a much safer alternative, since it is hard to drown in a teacup of Conservatism, but when you are thrown into the 12 foot deep version of Conservatism and fiscal responsibility, there is a distinct possibility of economic prosperity and the end of Liberalism as we know it.