Posted on 01/19/2009 3:56:08 PM PST by The Mayor
This conservative says SCREW the GOP .
Send them to the RNC demanding theat they be implemented and every talk show host you can think of. I’ve sent them to a few already and posted them on this forum a few times.
It took us Carter to get Reagan, so it may take an Obama to get us Palin or Romney... btw because of the big deal about Obama being black, any idea what Ken Blackwell or JC Watts are doing lately?
Yes, it was a different generation ... and RR was able to show them that a vote for him was really the only rational thing a patriot could do, regardless of previous political affiliation.
That appeal is certainly less effective nowadays.
You can bash the voters all you want. The GOP has been smacking us around. To most folks, it feels like being a masochist to keep voting for creeps who don't give a fig about borders, about spending, about morality, or about God. I realize it's not masochism. I realize that most GOP politicians wear the white hats [or off-white at least]. The biggest problem this time around was that we had a RINO who sold out on free speech, loves illegal aliens more than his own citizens, does nothing for the military budget, and fights against tax cuts.
McCain was despised in our party. He was crammed down our throats by crossover primary votes. And a lot of people aren't willing to wade through a moral cesspool to vote.
People are turning as cynical as the Romans were, and it's only natural. So you might as well try to figure out how to persuade rather than brow-beat.
The once sensible GOP philosophical, patriotic, business-oriented platform has devolved into the dubious proposition
So, the GOP, at best, has offered the intelligent voter the "lesser of two evils." This rather stark choice is presented during campaigns that are breathtakingly stupid. e.g., the McCain, or Dole efforts, both unprofessional and laughable in the extreme.
To be a Republican, one needs a strong stomach, a willing suspension of disbelief, a great sense of humor, and a faulty sense of smell. Yes, I am absolutely bashing those voters who stayed at home on election day.
...people aren't willing to wade through a moral cesspool to vote.
Voting Republican in our two-party system can be nasty work indeed. That doesn't excuse anyone from their patriotic duty.
I think the problem is the opposite — we have too many uniformed people voting. They think they have the answers without the facts, without knowing history, and without considering the other side’s argument. Too many ignorant voters who would do the nation a service by being lazy and staying at home.
Aye, there's the rub. Many of those who stayed on the couch in November WERE informed. There's no way we can escape an extremely annoying fact. I.E., if McLame had managed to get the same number of Republican voters to the polls as GW did, it shoulda, woulda, coulda, mighta been quite a different election.
I will never understand why sometimes upwards of 90% of registered European voters can make it to the polls and the best we can manage is under 50%. Of course, in those "urban" precincts, 95 to 102 % is not at all unusual.
But if you put up a Dole, or a McCain, without a platform, with no program, with no plan and constantly changing "themes," you leave the field wide open to a smooth talker with the organization that has the church vans, has the absentee process under control, can register illegals, create "virtual" voters and register them.
Any used car dealer in your home town has a more coherent communications program than the RNC. As a Republican, you are required to know that and still get off your ass, put down your glass, and make it to the polls.
I can forgive you because they at one time had me convinced of their purity, too.
Now I view the CP as a bunch of thieves and cowards. If they're so pure, they can be very effective at improving the Republicans. What's more if some of them had run as Republicans, some of them would be holding office right now.
This tells me they're too cowardly to run the risk of being elected. Then they'd have to put their money where their mouths are and actually govern. Why won't they do it.
I call them thieves because they convince the ignorant (that was me) that they're more worthy and just send money. I got nothing for my money except an education.
My eyes were opened when they ran radio ads during the 2000 and 2004 elections trying to convince Republican voters that Bush was more dangerous than Gore or Kerry.
The CP may have well meaning people and some of them may be pure charlatans but they have NOTHING to offer and can only make matters worse. They are made up of flawed human beings--just like the flawed humans in the Republican party. Now, the Democrat party, they're simply evil.
None and they want it that way. They're too cowardly to run as Republicans--they may actually win. They only have the power to elect Democrats. RATS love them.
Were there really enough votes for third parties that could be the reason we’re going to get Senator Freaken. Third party people are just as dangerous as Democrats.
A respected and exciting conservative leader will rally us. That’s all we need.
We need a calm, rational, non-media-oriented man in that WH. In a year or two, we'll see why a country like Chile needed a man like Pinochet to set things upright, get the wheels back on the cart, and then go away.
A respected and exciting conservative leader will rally us.
Yes, my friend, he will rally US. But that is only 30% of those who show up on Election Day. Our basic demographic is well on its way to becoming less European than that of Chile, or Argentina. Third World newcomers with chips on their shoulders and the desire for every material benefit it took our ancestors 3 centuries to develop are going to vote the US as we conceive it into history.
Where do Christians and family values stand in this party?
First, this is not a “Party” we are going to run candidates in the primary against their own.
Christian and family values is exactly what we are all about. The lack of them is what has destroyed this country and the number one thing we are missing.
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