Journalistic Dumbassery

Sitting at breakfast this morning reading a NYT Digest (which I guess the hotel prints out, rather than getting a stack of the International Herald Tribune to distribute) and I let out a snort of disgust and derision so loud that the waiter thought I had snorted most of my coffee...
Writing in the Opinion section (which is were the NYT prints speculation as if it were hard fact) Ross Douthat is expounding on the current Progressive unpleasntness about the GOP not having any sort of policy agenda. He then proceeds to excoriate Marco Rubio and Rand Paul.

He opines here:

Rubio and Paul are not necessarily the most qualified of the Republican contenders — they are relatively young, they lack executive experience, and their legislative records are modest.

So if you are a Conservative, this is a deal-breaker...

But if you are an African American junior senator for Illinois, these are endearing qualities that make you a shoe-in for POTUS.

Double-standard much, NYT?

Don't get me wrong here - there is some meat in this article...
Conservatives need to keep in mind Obama is not going to be the next president...
but there is a possibility that the next president could be a Democrat, and possibly that Republicans will lose seats in the house and senate, and if so, we could reasonably lose control of the senate.
The Republicans have a narrow window to actually do something, and whatever they do they will either need Obama's cooperation or they will need to have enough votes in the senate to override a veto.
These are simple facts --and the Conservatives need to get their shit together and make sure that they have a track record to exemplify in 2016, otherwise all will be for naught when the Clinton machine takes possession of 1600 Pennsylvania Av.

Again.



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