The snow dust has settled in Iowa and the pundits are in retrospect. The mainstream media will now inform us how it happened that an underfunded Mike Huckabee beat the Republican front runners and their media favorite, Hillary Clinton placed third in the corn-belt caucus.
Democrats came out to vote in unprecedented numbers almost doubling past presidential primaries. Those numbers are telling. Democrats are hungry for change, not just a new path for our country, but a new path for the Democratic Party. Hillary offered Democrats a repackaged move to the middle – shades of a Democratic party in the minority ala Bill Clinton White House tenure. Progressives Barak Obama and John Edwards gave Iowans a vision of the new Democratic Party, one that will reestablish our international role as the light on the hill, the courage to fight the corporate take over of our democracy, and what we must do to rebuild our middle class.
The Republican turnout was underwhelming. Huckabee was able to win by playing to what has become the base of the Republican Party in recent years – the religious right, proving there are still enough believers who have not lost faith in the GOP.
The question is; Can Huckabee play on off-Broadway, or better put – to Independent voters? It is hard to fathom that free-thinking Independent voters, those who will decide our next president, duped a second time into believing the Republican Party speaks to their values.
There always comes a time on Broadway to shut the theatre doors and write a new musical - and hire different actors.
Patrick J Carano
Summit County
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