[Altura Ct.]

Thursday that a "credible conservative" movement that doesn't focus on "hatred" of President Obama is needed.

This guy and this statement optimizes what the GOP has become and is. The 'reach across the aisle', no backbone, conciliatory wimps. The stand for nothing, acquiescing, Marxist/liberal embracing memes. The GOP has become nothing but platitudes. Money and war have become its central planks otherwise there is no distinction between parties and other then finances even that distinction is slight. They stand for nothing, for us, as people. They are not conserving a damn thing!

Dabney was right:

“[Its] history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation.

What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.”

[Mr. Silverback]

I find it interesting that we are discussing the blather of a guy who was thrown out on his ear BY REPUBLICANS for being liberal, and you think it somehow indicates that the current GOP is safe ground for liberals.

Ahem:

"Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors, which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?"--Ronald Reagan, speech to CPAC, March, 1975.

If, like you, we had chosen the former in 1975, we would have gotten 8 years of Carter, no President Reagan and either two ineffective parties opposing the Dems or a GOP with the country club firmly in charge for a generation or more because the conservatives had to come crawling backl after a crushing defeat. Instead, we chose the latter, took our party back, won the Cold War and revitialized our economy in a way not seen since WWII.

I stand with Reagan. You want to stand with Perot, that's in your wheelhouse.