Posted on 09/25/2009 7:34:25 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
Once again a familiar scenario is being played out. Memories fade as to how bad liberal governance can be, and a liberal Democrat is elected president. Once in office, the failure of policies based on what liberals would like the world to be (instead of what experience has shown) becomes obvious, and dissatisfaction with this nonsense rises. In Obama's case we have the added specter of his obvious hatred for his own country and his desire to right imagined wrongs to add to the mix.
Please, please, conservatives, I beg of you. Put your energy into reshaping the Republican Party - not in creating a new party. Third parties only serve to elect Democrats. Remember the Anderson debacle and how Ross Perot gave us Clinton, and fight instead to renew Republican commitment to conservative principles. Demand a new Contract With America complete with a promise to incorpoate Term Limits - and this time, hold them to this promise.
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is Barry really imploding? I don’t believe that...
You are Naive. 51% still approve of Hussein and he still has the State Run Media.
The words sure look nice.
I've never heard Obama say anything disparaging about Kenya ...
When the party reflects my values get back to me.
I dont’ believe it either. One well placed lie, another ‘Emergency’, maybe a homeland terrorist crisis or two and the big O will be sitting pretty with most of the country ...
Here is the roll call vote from March 29, 1995, for the term limits constitutional amendment, which needed a 2/3 vote to pass:
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1995/roll277.xml
Note who did not vote for it, especially the Republicans.
If we have a crisis Barry won’t know what to do. He doesn’t listen to the General HE apointed in regards to troops or anything about the war. Worst acting President ever.
We need an organization which will focus on primaries.
We need an organization which will recruit conservative primary challengers to existing RINOs, mentor and support those challengers, and allow us to fund those challengers to victory.
LOL!!! Glad I wasn’t eating or drinking anything when I read your comment!
LOL!!
And no more McCains or even Doles, I like Dole however
Getting the GOP bacjk on track? Job number #1 is getting RINO Juan McCain dumped in the 2010 primary.
You've made a couple of big mistakes there, I think, and they really matter.
First off ... yes, Obama is a liberal Democrat, and the Dems naturally consider him to be one of their own. But the fact is that in many ways Obama transcends Party. His appeal, such as it is, tends to be visceral and personal, rather than partisan. He's a rock star, not a politician. And Obama, with that towering narcissism of his, has already shown this tendency to make and keep things personal.
As for "liberal governance," the most that can be said is that Obama's got an intellectual tendency in that direction. But here the news is much worse: as we saw from his week of silly speeches, Obama actually governs according to his own excruciatingly naive, sophomoric, and generally ill-conceived ideals.
What we face now is much, much worse than any "liberal Democratic" governance of the past ... which, even if ill-conceived, was at least carefully conceived.
As things currently stand, we don't even get to rely on the "careful" part -- we're stuck having to hope that Obama's ego-stroking will occasionally cause him to make a correct decision; and that none of the bad guys will take serious advantage of the fact that we're being led by a callow amateur.
I tend to agree, but I would put it a bit differently: what we need, is a de facto return of the Smoky Back Room, whereby serious candidates can be identified, recruited, and vetted.
And at the same time, we need to get serious about the intellectual side of conservatism; and we need also to get serious about when and how to apply it in the real world.
As it stands now, all we've got is a bunch of shallow celebrities who don't stand a chance in hell of being taken seriously by the general electorate.
For every impassioned plea to “reshape the Republican party”, I see ten RINOs elevated or promoted by the party. Even the head of the RNC clearly believes that republicans must “court” blacks, and that pro-abort pols are welcome standard bearers.
To paraphrase the Gipper, the republican party has decided to leave conservatives. Why should conservatives martyr their principles to save the republicans?
The problem is that you seem to be assuming that the people in attendance in that Smoky Back Room share your values, and would vet accordingly. Currently, the RNC people have too many RINOs among them.
What's needed is some trusted new group (whether that be SarahPAC, something growing out of the Tea Party organizations, or something else) which would hold their own "Smoky Back Room", and field conservative candidates worth backing in the Primaries.
Well, sir, I'm sorry to say that the use of the term "RINO" has become a sign of intellectual poverty -- nothing more than a shorthand way of saying "doesn't agree with me about X."
Until you get over your delusions of party purity, you're going to be a very disappointed man.
“Put your energy into reshaping the Republican Party - not in creating a new party.”
I’ll join any party that stands for low taxes, small government, individual freedom, strong military. Pretty simple really.
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