A Gentleman’s view.

We’ll find out just how Grand the ‘Ole Party really is.

If in the spirit of baseball’s upcoming season vernacular, this was the top of the ninth and the visiting team being shut out until now, is down 5 runs, the Republican Party has just struck out with sending up Palin in leadoff, Jindal attempting to make contact, and the man of “Steele” making some attempt to get on base for whoever they can come up with for the cleanup spot. To date, choices this Party has made when selecting equality first, the black U.S. Secretary of State: Colin Powell, first black female Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice, first black Republican Party Chairman: Michael Steele, there will most likely be no claims from the black masses that they were the best we have to offer, and in many cases, maybe some shame. The concept of being the party of the “big tent” is still not one of success for the Republicans, and the strange rants of one black in particular; Alan Keys claiming that the President is an illegal alien communist, bent on destroying America, is not helping at all.

First, in the spirit of understanding the different mindsets that exist between cultures, I will explain my thinking about some of the failures with their selections that personally, I feel they represent as a major defective flaw as a party when selecting leaders period. Empathy and caring about others. This is always primarily about themselves and the seemingly connective moments with a theme that can be manipulated to their particular interests while gaining them power, position or privilege. How else can you explain the first black Secretary of State testifying and stating a lie to all of the participating members of the United Nations and in particular, to the United Nations Security Council Members. Those who were responsible for either not voting on the resolution, looking the other way by not opposing the resolution, or actually voting for the resolution that gave the United States of America the perceived permission to invade both Afghanistan and Iraq. Western civilization was under threat of a nuclear bomb from Saddam Hussein. Knowing the information given as evidence could not hold up in court of law to prosecute, and having served in various war capacities, very well aware of the price paid. Secondly, the first female black to be Secretary of State, willingly accepts the job to carry on the torch for this aggressive position of the use of our country military and resources, a woman did this. Third and finally, we end up with black Grand ‘Ole Party Chairman who dismisses allowing the failure of the banking and auto industries to take place, allowing the housing market to collapse while making massive profits from the supported legislation that created the derivatives that brought it down, then have the audacity to include with this backhand, the billions in lost treasury “fighting terror” with the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, also being dismissive of the lives of over four thousand of our American “homies” we lost using the ultimate in hip hop dissing, “My Bad!”

So, the dirty game of politics is always about maneuvering as one would on a chess board, but more cutthroat. It is always about either what move can I make that will at least give me the appearance that I think I can sell to my choice of constituents as being mostly in their best interests, whether of the moment or of their perceived reality. This can be both fortunate to the politician and their followers if there is actually an issue running concurrent to our mutual gain. Whether benefitting the whole community or just a particular segment, hopefully more than just ourselves as that may come across as an impropriety. This appeared to be the case in the choices of each: Palin, Jindal, and Steele. After Bush, the Grand ‘Ole Party started this with the selection of Governor Sarah Palin with the base assumption this would siphon off a good portion of the disgruntled supporters of former Senator Hillary Clinton’s Pantsuit Army. The former New York State Senator may had gotten a late start in her life, but by this time, had become a very skilled politician and earned her army’s support over a long period of almost two years on the campaign trail for one thing, and had developed a more polished national political skill set in the Senate for another. Then, we as a nation, watched her growth during the campaign, which was pretty tough this time around. They sought to capture the genuine resentment that existed from her lost and what her victory might have been for them.

The problem was their choice to accomplish this mission, Governor Sara Palin was apparently not ready for her 15 minutes when the opportunity came her way. The deer in the headlights interview with Katie Couric of CBS News was a terrible start, the mean-spirited attack dog rhetoric at her campaign rallies’ may have worked for a small base, but not with today’s progressives, a major lack of curiosity as a potential continuation of mindset of George W. Bush, then aligning herself with an even more selective segment of our society and adopting the mantra of “Real Americans”, as though many of the rest of us were not. As though it would okay to just be an representative of all “White Americans”, or all “Black Americans”, or all “Asian Americans” or just all “Hispanic Americans”. Need I say more? Then the party follows this chaos up with the selection of Michael Steele as the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, but no one falls as far as fast as one major prospect, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal with his most definitely not ready for primetime response to personally for me was the best speech the President has given to date. Who selected that back ground for the youngest governor in the country, why not set him leaning back in front of his desk? What about that huge carved around staircase going up beyond nowhere for a backdrop, whose idea was that? What was this new second generation immigrant doing sounding like many of his party’s old faithful who wouldn’t have the time of day for this man of color. This small frail man looking ever so much more smaller that night, even more so now with his false tale of about human connection during one of the most catastrophic experiences of our times, Katrina.

One must also consider the fact that most of, if not all of the mess we are in as country today has been at the hands of many of white males of this Grand ‘Ole Republican Party allowing financial carnage to this country and different strategic segments of our society in particular and wonder of this constant. I have to wonder again if these choices of party leadership is an attempt to regain control of the mindset of supposed psychological implied advantage is in the security of having a white male in charge. The visual media failures of these selections have served the interest of neither implied “Grandness of the ‘Old Party” or the reason to continue to offer these opportunities of equality as to the lack of skills being displayed by those who just don’t understand what it truly means to be an American. So the status of the Grand ‘Ole Republican Party will once again be back in the control of the mean spirited non-inclusive segment with new and different faces using old ideas from narrowly focused individuals with the singular purpose of restoring true conservative values of “Real Americans” once again.