Posted on 03/17/2011 4:45:16 AM PDT by 4rcane
Some In GOP Grow Tired Of Right Wing
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2690125/posts
The story per Politico.
Time to create the “Red Dog Republicans”.
“But they are right about the RINO elites who are running the GOP into the ground.”
I’m not about to fall for the lies from the RINO at Red State who says: “Now the House GOP is launching a direct assault on . . . wait for it . . . conservatives.”
The whole House GOP, right? Now that’s BS!
Let’s name names, Red State.
That Romney-loving SOB at Red State can go F himself. He’s a liar and has proved that he’s no friend of constitutional tenets.
I remember Rush warning of just this around the time of the election. The first order of busines is/was to fire the staffers, they are the behind-the-scenes agitators who’ve been entrenched in cushy and powerful positions for YEARS. Clean house.
(Look how they sniped Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell, Hoffman, etc., even Reagan)
While I am sympathetic to that good idea, it still gauls me that the party that idolizes communism and is doing it’s damnedest to install it here, is considered Blue, while we are referred to as Red.
The GOP can stop sending me their junk mail NOW!
By now, a yawning abyss exists between Conservatism and the GOP. Every recent election in America spells this out in large capital letters.
GOP leadership ought to capitalize on the changes in American political life ... instead of spinning their wheels and trying to fight the inevitable.
They HAVE TO… and for a couple reasons:
• Democrats do NOT have to perpetually attune themselves to public opinion. There exists an element in America (large-and growing, lazy and over indulged) forming a constant DNC base. With NO adjustment, the DNC party of give-away’s, has a steady appeal and can reach this base without effort and directly. They do NOT have to educate or realign their base because they have generation upon generation of ready-made ranks of unquestioning constituents to hand, thanks to the NEA and MSM.
• The DNC is NOT and NEVER WAS foreign policy adept. Politically and diplomatically maladroit Democratic Presidents are tolerated with a predictable regularity that is by now, so far institutionalized in American politics that it is incontestable… if it is remarked upon at all. Democratic Presidents are traditionally forgiven the worst and most dramatic foreign policy failures. History is rewritten to smooth it over, so nothing will impede subsequent Democratic candidates…. Meanwhile, Conservative foreign policy failures are held to loud and repeated public reprimand.
• The age demographic, I think, applies not at all in the DNC appeal. Lucky for them! Whole families are Liberal with a frightening consistency. This is a tremendous edge. The Liberal appeal becomes almost cultish and tribal… nearly the most difficult bond to challenge.
I could go on but you see that the GOP has its hands full and instead of getting to work, it has chosen to take up an additional and UNNCESSARY fight with its OWN!!! Fie!
The struggle appears to be between leaders of a nominal majority party who nonetheless continue to view themselves as "the opposition" (i.e. - a reactive, minority mindset),and those largely new members who wish to lead rather than follow.
The former group is comprised of perennial "moderates" ever-satisfied to bargain for the best deal they can get while maintaining cordial relations with liberal Democrats. The latter group sees their role as that of actively representing those who elected them by fighting for fiscal responsibility and leaner government, regardless of the arrows fired their way from the Democrats and their news media tribunes, and "popularity" be damned.
There is no way of consistently knowing which media stories are planted (or solicited) by whom, for what reason(s), or in the service of whose agenda. I would take everything you read with a large dose of salt, and instead focus on what individuals actually do - as opposed to saying what they will do - and pay even less attention to what they ascribe to others, especially through second-hand accounts and shadowy intermediaries.
EASY PRIMER ON AMERICAN POLITICS
The Democrat Party is Communist.
The Republican Party is Socialist.
The Tea Party is Capitalist.
I’ve said and will continue to say - it will take at least three election cycles of conservative victories if there’s any hope of reclaiming the GOP. We need to stay vigilant.
wait and see ping
Beware RedState. Their guy now is working for CNN.
Not a whale of a lot of difference between RedState and Politico.
JMO
I have been saying this for 20 years, and since I have started posting here, have been chastised on numerous occasions for saying the gop is just democrat lite....we have a foothold in the party now, the next step is to begin to get rid of the leadership via the ballot box
“By now, a yawning abyss exists between Conservatism and the GOP. Every recent election in America spells this out in large capital letters.”
No doubt. But we just elected more than 700 patriots to state legislatures, resulting in the complete control of 26 states by patriots. These patriots ran under the Republican banner, and I’m not about to throw the party under the bus because of RINOs in Washington. We’ll take care of more RINO traitors in DC in the next election. Everyone knows that it would take more than one election to get the ship moving in the right direction.
In the meantime, these numbers of patriots in state legislatures shows that power is devolving away from corrupt Washington. So when I see that dog at Red State attacking and smearing the entire Republican party, as he just did, and that party gave us control of 26 states, I smell a rat disguised as a RINO.
So yeh, there’s good Republicans and bad Republicans. We’re working on that.
Tea Party needs to turn into a lynch mob.
sergeantdave, redstate is not who I believe in this case. I do however believe Mark Levin who was all over this last night. Redstate is just a back bencher on this issue but he parrots the truth in this case. Good Day....
Well, that's one opinion. Next....
I too remember and see it unfolding right before my own eyes.
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