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Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012 | 2 a.m.
When thinking about the state of the Republican Party, I defer to a point that the Democratic consultant James Carville made the other day: “When I hear people talking about the troubled state of today’s Republican Party, it calls to mind something Lester Maddox said one time back when he was governor of Georgia. He said the problem with Georgia prisons was ‘the quality of the inmates.’ The problem with the Republican Party is the quality of the people who vote in their primaries and caucuses. Everybody says they need a better candidate, or they need a better message but ...
Friedman,
The problem with elitist liberal know-it-alls, is they believe in their souls that "The problem with the Republican Party is the quality of the people who vote in their primaries and caucuses".
To use Hurricane Sandy as proof of global warming (man-made, no less) and to use a maniacal troubled man who caused the tragedy at Sandy Hook as proof that there is a need for gun confiscation is irrational at best.
However, we have come to understand that liberals believe the world started the day they were born and will end the day they die. Arrogance at its most extreme - wrongheadedness that affects the rest of us.
What is most frustrating about the Friedmans of the world is that it takes so much precious energy debating & defending facts that there is little energy left for honest debate of opinions.
Your inane "Send in the Clowns" editorial is further proof of what totally frustrates we sane citizens, and moreover, forces us into the shadows.
Purgatory
Mr. Friedman:
You're as wrong as you can be. The GOP is on the rise and the Dems are quickly sinking. Just look at the likely Dems for president in 2016. Who's left? Hillary? Too old. John Kerry? Also too old. Biden? Talk about bring in the clowns.
Dems blew it in 2008. They hitched onto the momentum of junior Senator Obama with half of a term voting mostly present. Dems should have stuck with Hillary. It was her time. And let Obama wait until 2016 which should have been his time.
What a pity when the best the Dems have to offer is a recycled Bill Clinton ahd his wife Hillary.
CarmineD
The heart of the fiscal cliff negotiations "story" is Friedman's paragraph that begins "Because they control the House, this radical...." He gives the facts that show that President Obama offered Republicans a significant compromise. It's true that "he made his own base holler...." However, the Republicans can't even agree on a one million dollar limit on increased federal taxes.
I also appreciated Paul Krugman's column "When prophecy fails" (L.V. Sun, 12/26/12). He gives examples of Wall Street Journal editorials', Erskine Bowles', Alan Simpson's, and Alan Greenspan's erroneous financial predictions. They are part of the Republican "doomsday cult." They don't intend to ever admit they have been wrong. Krugman aptly suggests that "it's time to stop taking them seriously."
Freidman lost my interest when he blamed Sandy on global warming. Talk about a clown.