So I promised some quality material a few days ago but things have been summarily delayed, namely because of a trip to Vegas.  Alas, I am in Vegas now…blogging (ya i know lame give me a break).

Anyways I have something which has been bugging me, and has been for the past week or so.  I touched on it last post but I would like to take the time to expound on what I was talking about when I said the fight/argument over who is or isn’t the Republican party leader is, well, stupid.

To begin, it is a admitted white house political move to turn attention to Rush Limbaugh.  As I said before, this is a great political play because it starts a pseudo civil war within a party which was not warring to begin with.  Now you may say Alex, hold on a second.  After the loss of both houses and the presidency the Republicans were akin to floundering fish on the banks of the political tide pool, of course they were fighting.  Your retort my fellow interlocutor would be correct, Republicans were lost, stunned, and incapacitated after the loss of near all political capital.  But in that statement you have your answer.  The party was not warring with itself, it was lost.  Why was it lost?  It had strayed away from its original conservative ideology and lost its definition.  The Republicans, after being in such control for so long, forgot how to define themselves, and in-so-far as that, forgot how to hold true to a set of values or a definition of what they were.

Now, this loss of focus can be seen many different ways.  It is naturally organic for anyone to lose their way, or get off mission, and then let the draw towards structure bring them back to some set of values or path.  Whenever anyone loses their way it is natural instinct to find your way back to the path you were on.  This does the same for political parties.  Whenever suffering a great loss or a ideological disconnect with core values, those such core values are reassessed and taken stock of; at which time a new and improved set of core values is rallied around.  This same process can be seen with the democratic party, their move towards moderate center of the political spectrum, and after such a long time out of power, a reassessment and rallying around strong liberal principles which got them re-elected this recent year.  The white house has effectively stopped this process of organic growth and redefinition and has turned it on its head.

Enter Act 2 of the beautiful greek tragedy.  Can you hear Robert Gibbs singing the greek response Choir while David Axlerod narrates the stage movements (sorry you’d have to know greek plays to get that reference.  I have no idea why I am trying to be smart referencing greek plays…)

The organic and possibly volatile rebirth of the party has been circumvented and made into a pissing match between a who’s who of the republican party.  Rather then allowing for Republicans to gather together and enter into a meaningful dialectus, the White House has told people there is a power vacuum in the party…and oh by the way this so called vacuum is devastating to the party and must be filled right now (even though nearest elections are over a year away, and presidential elections are in 2012).  There is no need to feel such a apocalyptic urgency to fill this phantom chasm the White House has supposedly imposed upon the Republican party.  As I said before, the organic process of redefinition and re-assessment of values has to occur and out of that will a leader emerge…Not out of some false time constraints the other party has set on us.  Has everyone lost their minds.  It is so vitally important to be talking about IDEOLOGIES not people.  What IS the republican party?  What is Conservatism?  Why is Obama’s plan to get us out of this recession bad, or good for that matter?  These are the kind of questions that must be asked, not ignorant squabble I hear being asked of every congressman the news media can get its hands on “do you agree with Rush that he said the party should fail?”…”do you believe Rush is the leader of the party or is Mike Steele?”…”why did you apologize to Rush?”  You have to be kidding me.  Is it any wonder why we are at a political/cultural state such as this now?  Do people not talk about issues…let me re-phrase…do people not give a crap about what ideology they falsely claim to embody?  We are as much to blame as the news media, take a look online at some blogs, social news websites etc…we drink this crap in like its honey.  I think if I asked a 5yr old what would happen if all he ate was sweets…your teeth would fall out and you wouldn’t feel too hot.

I would like to leave you with a quote I made up last night…yes I made this up while I was in a club in Vegas at about 4am, yes that does make me weird.  Anyways, that aside, lets see if this dog can hunt.

We must have IDEOLOGIES dictate our LEADER, not a LEADER dictate our IDEOLOGIES

It is so vitally important in this day and age, when it seems like the sky is falling around us, to engage as a nation in tough debates about the issues.  I truly believe that the Hegelian dialectical process.  Posit a thesis, engage with an antithesis, and through that forms a synthesis.  What we are doing now as a nation, right and left, is a collective staring at the wall.  Walls don’t talk back, but the louder you yell at them, the louder your own dumb voice is thrown back at you.