Posted by Dana Loesch Nov 5th 2010 at 6:29 am in GOP, Mainstream Media, Print Journalism, journalism, newspapers
You knew this was coming. From the NYT:
The right finally had an action hero: young, dynamic, serious about policy, with a biography ready-made for inspiration.Facepalm.
“He’s our Cuban Barack Obama,” said Alex Lacayo, 36, a campaign volunteer at the Rubio victory party on Tuesday night who could not stop giving hugs to strangers. “He gives us hope.”
I realize that the quote came from a conservative, but the media seems desperate to find the conservative Barack Obama so they can formulate a plan to tear him down just as the President was rocked by an election cause by his own willful misfortune.
The media doesn’t understand conservatives at all.
Conservatives don’t need to look for “hope” in a person because people are imperfect. Conservatives put their stock in the ideology ushered forth by our Founding Fathers, the ideals that keep us free men. The media’s desire to make a figurehead for every movement (which is why the tea party frustrates them so) perpetuates the construct of celebrity politics; it perpetuates it as an industry with election night as its Oscars.
Elected office was never intended to become its own industry; it was to be filled with common men who, by way of still having jobs and families back home, maintained the connection to the problems of average, everyday people and thus could better serve.
I hope conservatives reject this king making game of identity politics. They need to work on building a coalition and take advantage of their increased ranks, bringing all persuasions of conservatism together, hone the message, and become an unstoppable force for 2012 because while one battle was won, the war is ongoing. If their message is strong and clear it matters not who heads, so long as they are emblematic of it.
Rubio is a fine elected official, young, beautiful family, has built an impressive resume, he defies stereotypes, but were he to become the figurehead of new conservatism, the momentum could be dismantled through him alone. The bigger offense I see, however, is to analogize him to Obama – Obama, a senator who abandoned his seat for the White House (when Palin gets criticism, he escapes it somehow), a senator whose record of experience and service pales in comparison to Rubio’s – cheapens Rubio. We don’t have to sink to the left’s bar of identity politics to win, as proven with this past election.
The left puts their stock in substance and lives on identity and figureheads. It will be the end of the right to do the same. Instead of one, let us raise up many.
Related: Arianna Huffington analogizes Rubio to a Mexican dictator
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