New York Times Op-Ed columnist Charles Blow is fun to read. His stock in trade, these days, is picking up on poll data (from the polls which have results he likes), posting the data in huge print, and writing colmns which make conclusions based on those poll data.
His latest column is about CPAC – the Conservative Political Action Committee – and its just-ended convention.
Use the link I’ve provided and you will see that Mr. Blow has put up a series of poll results showing the country is emphatically against Republicans on key issues, which presumably is why he characterizes the CPAC convention as – to use the title of his column – “Hackneyed and Hollow”.
Mr. Blow fleshes out that characterization by telling us that “There remains in the Republican Party, as evidenced by the speakers at this event, a breathtaking narrowness of vision and deficit of creative thought.”
I am no apologist for CPAC, I assure you. But this is too easy to answer for me to pass up the opportunity.
According to the University of Virginia’s political pundit, Larry Sabato, over the 6 years President Obama has been President. Republicans’ “breathtaking narrowness of vision and deficit of creative thought” has resulted in gaining 13 Senate seats, 11 governorships, 69 House seats, 30 state legislative chambers and 913 state legislative seats.
According to politifact.com – which ain’t exactly an arm of CPAC – these losses are at least double those seen for any other two term presidency since Truman (and who knows how far back before that?).
This being the case, I have a question for Mr. Blow: If Republicans’ narrowness of vision and deficit of creative thought have yielded those gains, what would you say about the presumably broader vision and surfeit of creative thought provided by Democrats? Any thoughts on why they were the losers of everything Republicans gained?
Tell me, sir: knowing those actual results, do you really still think the public is that negative about Republicans? That positive about Democrats? That they join you in seeing the reasons for voting in so many Republicans “hackneyed and hollow”?
Just asking…..
