Cannibal Cafe
Chi Pig with Hellbent Cuntry: “Cannibal Cafe” (SNFU)
Come with me, I’m on my way
To the Cannibal Cafe
Won’t you come to the only place
Where you can be the “Special Of The Day”?
The social conservatives and moderates who together boosted the Republican Party to dominance have begun a tense battle over the future of the GOP, with social conservatives already moving to seize control of the party’s machinery and some vowing to limit John McCain’s influence, even if he wins the presidency.
In skirmishes around the country in recent months, evangelicals and others who believe Republicans have been too timid in fighting abortion, gay marriage and illegal immigration have won election to the party’s national committee, in preparation for a fight over the direction and leadership of the party.
The growing power of religious conservatives is alarming some moderate Republicans who believe that the party’s main problem is that it has narrowed its appeal and alienated too many voters. They cite the aggressive tone of the McCain campaign in challenging Barack Obama, who has close to universal support from African American voters; as well as the push by many Republican leaders to clamp down on illegal immigration using rhetoric that has driven away Latinos.
Some moderates argue that the party’s top priority must be to broaden its outreach, a caution laid down by retired Gen. Colin L. Powell on national television this month when he broke from the party and endorsed Obama. Surveys show McCain beating Obama among white men but losing with almost every other demographic group.
The fight within the party has been building since voters stripped Republicans of their House and Senate majorities in 2006. It has become especially tense recently, because many Republicans are bracing for McCain to lose the election, leaving the party with no obvious leader with broad public appeal at a time when President Bush is exiting the national stage as a depleted figure.
Moving the party further to the right sounds like a great idea: how many more constituencies can the GOP lose?
Conservative champion Rush Limbaugh, who often provides the rallying cry to the party’s most ardent supporters via his radio program, last week laid out a similar warning, suggesting that a McCain win would do little to deter conservatives from pushing for major changes.
“One step at a time,” Limbaugh told his listeners. “We’re going to drag McCain across the finish line — then we start rebuilding the conservative movement. It’s going to happen whether he wins or loses, but especially if he wins too.”
Never mind the blind leading the blind, this is the repulsive leading the stupid.
One moderate contender for party chairman, Jim Greer, is pushing a theme of ethnic outreach. Greer is chief of the state party in Florida and is a close ally of the state’s governor, Charlie Crist, who some in the party say is laying the groundwork to spread his brand of centrist Republicanism to the national stage.
The Florida GOP recently mailed a brochure to members of the party’s national committee nationwide featuring photos of Greer and Crist courting Latinos. One page focused on a black Republican candidate for the state Legislature… the state party declined to pay for direct-mail pieces linking Obama to 1960s domestic terrorist-turned education professor William Ayers, a connection that the McCain campaign has tried to highlight.
BUT…
Two other potential candidates for chairman, both considered more conservative than Greer, plan meetings shortly after the presidential election.
One gathering, in Myrtle Beach, S.C., will be hosted by South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson. In an interview, Dawson said that “moderating our party is what caused us to lose power” in the 2006 elections. He said the party must speak more forcefully against excessive government spending and illegal immigration.
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
It was frustration with the Bush-led Republican National Committee that prompted a number of conservatives this year to try to upend the system. Conservatives won seats representing California, Iowa, Alaska, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Michigan. One new member is a popular black preacher from Detroit, Keith Butler, who presides over a mega-church.
“There is a new blood in the party that is interested in communicating the message of the party — the conservative message,” said Kim Lehman, executive director of the antiabortion group Iowa Right to Life, who in July defeated a state legislator for one of the state’s seats on the national committee.
Former California GOP Chairman Shawn Steel, a newly elected committeeman, described his colleagues as “mostly dynamic and frustrated conservatives that really want to see a dramatic change for the RNC in the way that it communicates to Americans.”
Cannibals. Watch ‘em eat each other. Here’s a reprise, the original hardcore version of “Cannibal Cafe”
Come with me, I’m on my way
To the Cannibal Cafe
Won’t you come to the only place
Where you can be the “Special Of The Day”?
October 28th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
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