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Posted on 11/09/2008 9:37:27 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Now what?
The Republican Party -- nationally and in Pennsylvania -- lies in tatters. Having lost the White House to Barack Obama, suffered historic losses in congressional elections, been almost shut out in statewide races and experienced further erosion in the state House, there is no doubt the GOP has hit rock bottom.
It is, most significantly, a loss for so-called moderate Republicanism. Party moderates have opined time and again that a more middle-of-the-road presidential candidate could win Pennsylvania. McCain was touted as that candidate. It was a double-digit trouncing.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
The GOP at all levels has abandoned its core principles. From the string of corrupt Republicans headed off to jail, to big-government spending like the Medicaid bill and the bailout, to state-level support for Gov. Ed Rendell and his big spending ways, Republicans have sold out, melding with Democrats into one big incumbent party.
The GOP has become an unprincipled, undisciplined, ineffective shell of its former self. It has a party structure controlled by lobbyists and special interests, unable to excite even its own base. Worse, the structure is mired in the politics of the last century, unable or unwilling to take advantage of the modern techniques of organizing and communication.
Limp-wristed, policicaly correct, hand-wringing “compassionate conservativism” isn’t conservativism at all... it’s liberalism.
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Thin? Decimate is a better word.
Begin by cleaning the voter registration ranks, cut public funding to partisan (left wing all of them) groups that subvert elections, and use the courts to go after any elected politician and .org that gets in the way.
Regards.
We need a political equivlent of a Weatherby Mark V.
No more moderates. They have no ability to excite passion in the conservative base, and why would a liberal vote for a moderate Repub when a liberal Dem is available?
I don't think so. The party will try to resurrect itself while still espousing the same creed. I'm just about convinced that it's time for a new party. I'm just not politically savvy enough to know how it's done.
Finally someone not blaming the loss on Conservative Christians, or Sarah Palin
Its time to purge the liberals/moderates. No longer can the GOP try to be DNC-lite
We need to rid the party of the “Fred Robers Whiny Elitist Liberal” crowd. Stupid to let people in non-conservative areas of the country try to dictate what Conservatives do.
The fact that Conservatives won in the Marriage Amendments in states that went Obama means that Conservatism is fine...and GOP Liberals are a loser
BTTT
It’s too bad that Norm Coleman, Ted Stevens and John Boehner are still there.
They should have been swept away with the rest of the losers...
Exactly what I've said before on this forum. Why do we let the RINO-infested northeastern states chose our presidential candidate? We need several large conservative states to move their primaries up.
This is what the RINO women think:
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Lingle says GOP platform too rigid
Gov. Linda Lingle, one of the most moderate Republicans on the national political scene, says she has ideas on how her increasingly conservative party can again ascend to power in Washington.
But the two-term Hawai’i governor, who campaigned across the country for the GOP presidential ticket, said in a post-election interview with The Associated Press that she won’t devote any of her time and energy to actively press decision-makers in the national GOP for change.
Lingle said the national GOP needs to become less ideologically rigid and attract more ethnic minorities and women into its fold if it is going to recover after big losses in Tuesday’s election.
“If someone looks up and they don’t see anybody who looks like them in the party hierarchy or power structure, by nature they are not going to feel attracted there,” she said. (snip)
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081108/NEWS01/811080327/1001/localnewsfront
Good idea...states where the GOP is not strong in should not decide the candidate.
Also, should do away with winner-take-all primaries. That way a liberal GOP candidate cannot rely on liberal states to win nominations
Definitely!!!
We need conservative politicians who will identify socialists and communists for what they are. They can be civil, but they shouldn’t back down from telling the truth about the politics of their opponents.
I could no longer vote for the Republican party after Bush authorized torture in Gitmo. That aside, I was still shocked to the core of my being when Bush crafted that wall street bailout bill. A Republican president just flat out nationalized the insurance industry, banking and housing. It still gives me chills when I think about it.
The Republican party lost because they didn’t just betray their core values, they completely forgot them. THAT is the reason for the failure of this past election. While the social conservatives whined about ‘gay marrage’, Republican leadership was voting to turn this country into a socialist nation.
Until we admit to ourselves that we’ve forgotten what it means - what it REALLY means - to be a ‘conservative’ then we will continue to lose elections.
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