Delicate Arch

Back when my son was a small child, he used to be very good at catching frogs. None of us could do it, but Ian would approach the animal and invariably come up with it. One summer, Ian and I took a trip out west. One of our stops was Arches National Park in Utah. On our trek up to the ‘Delicate Arch’ we encountered many small lizards scurrying among the red rocks. True to form, Ian set out to catch them (by their tails). To our amused surprise, the tails would immediately detach from the body, the lizard would escape as the tail continued to writhe between my little boy’s fingers. We were told that the lizard would go on to grow a new tail within a matter of days. No one would confirm that the tail too would go on to grow a new body, but (in our innocence) we clearly suspected as much

Today, in our haste to promote the Republican brand, we may well have missed something even more potentially significant: that which comes after the implosion of the Democrat Party. When something like a party implodes, it doesn't just disappear. Its disparate parts continue to writhe in the political vacuum like the detached tails of common lizards. We see the Dems coming apart; uncooperative; speaking out; challenging their leadership. From all this may yet emerge a new, and more acceptable animal for the American voter to embrace.

Clearly, Obama’s socialist version is not acceptable to the American – or even the Democrat – voter. Would Hillary’s version of same, for instance, be more acceptable? Certainly, the press would play up a Hillary dominated Democrat Party to the hilt; much more so than, say, the Palin Tea Party types. We could very easily be lulled into an acceptance of socialist lite under the stewardship of a known, as of yet unsullied, potentially political powerhouse.