Election Analysis Part 2: Where Do We Go From Here?

The GOP USA Eagle ^ | 11-13-06 | Bob Eberle

[Jo Nuvark]

Over the next two years, Republican leaders need to remember that they came to Washington to change it, not embrace it. We need an agenda that approaches issues from a conservative perspective and not one driven by politics. America is a conservative nation and wants conservative government. They don’t want corruption and power-hungry politicians.

[Jo Nuvark]

A longer article, but toward the end, Eberle has some concise bullet point suggestions for a new order.

[Jo Nuvark]

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[Jo Nuvark]

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[yldstrk]

around and around in circles? Like a bunch of frickin' idjits?

[IslandJeff]

Thanks. I remember his Dad, having worked on one of his campaigns when I was knee-high to a grasshopper.

Sounds like "Bobby" is off to a good start.

[yldstrk]

OK Democrats. Produce.

[MNJohnnie]

We need an agenda

As big a pain in the butt as Newt is he told us this months ago. Paging Mr Newt, Paging Mr Newt. Please pick up the red emergency phone. Your Party is calling.....

[EggsAckley]

Hi Jo,
I seem to be on your ping list twice. I'd appreciate it if you would remove me from both. I've been getting far too many pings lately and am trying to be removed from most lists.
Thanks very much.
EA

[Jo Nuvark]

Sure thing Eggs. I'll miss you.

Jo

[upchuck]

A longer article, but toward the end, Eberle has some concise bullet point suggestions for a new order.

From the article:

The next Republican agenda should focus on the following:

• Overhauling the tax code. During the end of the 2004 campaign, President Bush talked about a flat tax or national sales tax. I nearly fell on the floor. However, nothing came of this rhetoric, and my hopes quickly faded. It’s time to get rid of the income tax, and few things are more “Republican” than pushing for a new, fair tax system.
• A new strategy in Iraq. We need to ask ourselves, “What is working and what isn’t?” Does it do any good to patrol a road in the day time only to leave it unprotected at night where a new roadside bomb can be placed? Can America solve thousands of years of ethnic hatred? America and the world should help the new Iraqi government get on its feet, but only the Iraqi government can walk on its own.
• Real border security. Although other issues such as Iraq and corruption apparently weighed more on voters’ minds on Election Day, there is no doubt that immigration reform is still vital. During the course of the campaign, even Democrats started talking tough on immigration, so those pundits such as Fred Barnes who say immigration was a losing issue are simply wrong. We must fix the problem of illegal immigration without amnesty.
• Cut spending and reduce government. These are core Republican principles, and we must return to them. I hope I never again hear the phrase “compassionate conservative.” Trying to solve problems by spending huge amounts of tax dollars and increasing the federal bureaucracy is neither compassionate nor conservative. Problems are better solved outside of government.
• Conservative judges. Our entire social conservative agenda depends largely on getting conservative judges appointed. Because Republican leaders abandoned their core principles, we lost the Senate, and the battle for conservative judges has become significantly harder. However, this does not mean we should back down. We must continue to support conservative judges.

There is no doubt that Republicans can win back the House if we simply return to our roots and govern as conservatives. No more Democrat lite. America has spoken. The results are obvious, but so is the path to redemption. The only question is whether Republican leaders are willing to walk down that road.

[EggsAckley]

Thanks Jo. I'm still around, just not as much.

[KC Burke]

I think from here we plot a steady upward gain in majority in all branches of government.

Generally, in a war Presidancy year six election, you loose big, and we lost less than the average with the media and the leftist monolith clearly damning Bush and the Republican's forgeting conservative principles to try and protect their seats by "pork-barrel" idiocy that is as passe as the Democrat party.

We have a bare situation of a minority, which says only up from here, to me.

Reinvigorate our principles, throw out those who forgot them, bring forth new faces and sound the trumpet for the values of western civilization.

We will soon have a 60% majority in both houses.

[Jo Nuvark]

I agree with you. This scarry bump was necessary to jar
our Representatives into line with real conservatism.

Hopefully, '08 will be extremely rewarding.

[KC Burke]

thanks