With "slugfest" disintegrating into "blitzkrieg", expect Dr. Lee with Unity day.
The Republican gubernatorial election has resembling less and less like a "slugfest" or family "squabble" and more and more like a disintegrating political "blitzkrieg". Blitzkrieg, the German war tactic, was used to carpet bomb London during world war 11. The "lightning war" or "flash war" (which is what the word "blitzkrieg" means) attacks by the German Luftwaffe killed over 43,000 civilians and more than a million houses were destroyed or damaged in a span of a couple of months.
In this the Republican primary "blitzkrieg", the opposing political camps have let loose their Luftwaffe, prompting one of them, Billy Harper, to take to the air waves to poke fun at the "squabbling candidates". The end result, I suspect, will be the loss of political lives and fortunes (maybe not homes or property damage as in world war 11), but the aftermath will leave similar results.
Whether the political "blitzkrieg" is warranted or not -- I believe both camps will say it is -- is beside the point, for the Republicans will need the services of Dr. Lee, of the O. J. Simpson trial fame, for a political post postmortem.
Yes, I know. There'll be talk of an anticipated reconciliation come Wednesday, but I suspect any illusions of a Republican Unity Rally on Saturday may prompt a response like thus: Forget about it already! This one will hurt for a while.
Am I missing something here? Give us your thoughts.
In this the Republican primary "blitzkrieg", the opposing political camps have let loose their Luftwaffe, prompting one of them, Billy Harper, to take to the air waves to poke fun at the "squabbling candidates". The end result, I suspect, will be the loss of political lives and fortunes (maybe not homes or property damage as in world war 11), but the aftermath will leave similar results.
Whether the political "blitzkrieg" is warranted or not -- I believe both camps will say it is -- is beside the point, for the Republicans will need the services of Dr. Lee, of the O. J. Simpson trial fame, for a political post postmortem.
Yes, I know. There'll be talk of an anticipated reconciliation come Wednesday, but I suspect any illusions of a Republican Unity Rally on Saturday may prompt a response like thus: Forget about it already! This one will hurt for a while.
Am I missing something here? Give us your thoughts.
Labels: Kentucky politics, Public Service, Republicanism
posted by KYJurisDoctor at 7:00 AM
1 Comments:
JD,
I believe your analysis is accurate. The interesting part, for me, is that the Fletcher Campaign seems to be assuming the role of victim. It is interesting because the party has been the victim of an seemingly arrogant effort by the Fletcher Campaign to paint a picture of disloyalty to anyone who believed that Ernie was wrong. They (the Fletcher camp) have created a situation where the entire party is drug into his obvious improper actions and then his following denial. The result? Well, I wonder if they "want" unity? Unity might imply that a fall disaster was solely Ernie's fault. Ernie's loyal following has tried and will continue to blame his poor record on those who chose to point it out to the party - from within.
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