The Republican Five Stages of Grief game! (Mods, reposted b/c it didn't...

[Brotherjohn]

... post to "Latest Threads" before.)

Republicans are in the midst of the Five Stages of Grief / Loss.

Josh Marshall brought up this great observation a couple of weeks back, when Peggy Noonan and others were arguing that Bush may lose because he's "too exciting" and that people were looking for something more "normal". That, he said, had all the earmarks of "bargaining" stage of the Five Stages of Grief, or of Loss.
(http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com , July 27th, 3:43AM)

So they're currently settling into Stage 3, the "Bargaining" stage (although many are still stuck in Stages 1 and 2). Day after day, I see more evidence of this. Today, we see Laura Bush trying to latch the "divider" tag onto the media instead of her husband (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=595048). That's pure bargaining.

Let's make it a game! What do YOU think are some good examples, or predictions of what they'll be saying as they progress to the latter stages?

Here are some suggestions:

1) Denial - "The American people can know that every measure has been taken to avoid war." (George W. Bush, 3/17/03) (Okay, we all know that W has been, and will be, stuck in denial for a LONG time)

2) Anger - "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve." (John Ashcroft, 12/6/01)

3) Bargaining - See above examples.

4) Depression - "Oh my GOD! The terrorists are winning!!" (Bill O'Reilly, 10PM EST, 11/2/04)

5) Acceptance - "Oh well, we'll run Ahh-nold in 2008." (Ed Gillespie, 8AM EST, 11/3/04)

Any more?

[NYCGirl]

1. Arnold in 2008 in #5?

"Oh well, we'll run Ahh-nold in 2008." (Ed Gillespie, 8AM EST, 11/3/04)

Not even chinless wonder Ed Gillespie can do this, unless it's suddenly discovered Arnold was born in a small log cabin in Alabama...you have to be born in the US to be POTUS.

[efhmc]

2. They are working on that amendment, you know.

[markbark]

3. Since when do the Repugs

pay any attention to the Constitution?


--MAB

[Brotherjohn]

4. It was a humorous attempt at how they'll grasp at straws. But efhmc...

... is right. They ARE working on that.

Put nothing past a bunch who go by a Supreme Court decision which goes against all precedent, simply by saying "it can't be used as precedent" (and not to mention which violates everything they believe in, States' Rights and all that), to win the White house.