stale ideologue versus fresh ideologue

More steam rising

Sort of where we are right now is watching the total meltdown of an entire political viewpoint into a stew-like mess without any coherent plan, without any reference points internally to keep it on something like a track. So the suggestion that somehow what was needed is new faces regurgitating the same swill as the old folks who've fallen out of public favor is tragically silly. We already saw this plan in action with Sarah Palin over the last election cycle. There was some energy within their party, but lots of energy mobilizing against these new party ideologues. Similarly we saw Bobby Jindal make a ridiculous rambling attempt at speech after Obama's not-state of the union speech and fail to harmonize any general public support against what may be publicly perceived (even real) concerns that exist in our minority views.

The "fresh face" doesn't do them any good if it raises and makes no points with anyone outside their own conservative echo chambers. There are a few spare marbles in the conservative playbook that may have some play in them (budgetary control and tax reform for example), but they're not the ones that the party base seems interested in rallying around. At least, they're not capable of being taken seriously on these issues because they refused to acknowledge them as problems which occurred or even started during their own reign of power.

It's fun for people who have long had a third party affiliation (at least a superficial one). But it's not fun if the opposing party now gets to enact their own ideological morass upon the rest of us on the basis that being in power allows people to "believe that the objective of government is to satisfy their own personal preferences, and bugger everyone else."