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Sensibility: A person’s delicate sensitivity that makes them readily offended or shocked

Over at American Thinker, Joseph Smith takes on Charles Krauthammer’s over-written, if not overwrought, bland diet for disaster for the GOP in 2012. Krauthammer either has an appetite for political destruction, an aversion to somewhat spicy political fare, or both. He did work for Fritz Mondale’s 1984 campaign, after all. Tell the truth, didn’t all that bland make you puke on election night, Chuck? I know an overwhelming majority of the American electorate regurgitated Fritz without the grits in November of that year.

Under the Krauthammer unified theory, any candidate willing to boldly articulate a pro-growth, pro-jobs, free market agenda, to champion the Roadmap for America, drill-here-drill-now, and the repeal of ObamaCare regulatory state, is out.

My first thought after reading Krauthammer’s latest column was, newspapers deserve their money back. He wasted all that space to write what could have been written with far fewer words: for heaven’s sake, don’t nominate Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, or any other of those scary persons called conservative, please!

With all due respect for the eminently qualified for something else, Dr. Krauthammer, he left medicine to work for Jimmy Carter, before going to work for Mondale and is little more than a complete creation of the so called elite political and media establishment so out of flavor in America today. Leaving the Democrat Party, only to write for The New Republic, Time and eventually the Washington Post is simply not the curriculum vitae of the most qualified person to be dispensing wisdom to the GOP today, unless it wants to continue moving away from much of its political base.

Being highly intelligent, and Krauthammer is that, is worthless if one doesn’t know the subject matter. His speciality is not GOP electoral politics. Since leaving medicine, Krauthammer’s focus has been psychiatry in the Carter administration, writing losing speeches for Fritz and entertaining the Washington establishment with intelligent but now proven somewhat short-sighted thoughts on, primarily, foreign policy as a neo-conservative. The GOP has to stop handing its party over to Democrats in drag whose drag on it will only continue to drag it down if conservatives abandon it.

The major criticism of the GOP establishment over decades has been that it became Democrat-lite. That criticism gave rise to the Tea Party and more primary challenges and defeats for them in 2010 than either major party ever experienced, at least in my lifetime. If self-professed GOP light givers who are the very definition of Democrat-lite continue to lead the GOP on their political war path, their ultimate campaign through American politics is not going to end well. No advancing army has ever bragged about the bland nature of their diet on any campaign. And without the addition of some serious, not trumped up conservativism, in 2012, large numbers of its foot soldiers are preparing to abandon it in droves.

Conservative’s hearts, minds and, ultimately, patriotism are reserved for a traditional America and what that means, not the Republican Party, regardless of how it chooses to define, or outfit itself. Consequently, Krauthammer’s latest seems rather long on sensibility, but comes up way short on common sense.