PAY IT FORWARD!
A LITTLE HERE AND A LITTLE THERE,
AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT,
IT'S PAID IN FULL.
Well, the folks who said let Obama win because it would be easier to get rid of the hostile evil than a friendly evil....
Now they have their scenario.
Let’s see them impeach the bass turd.
Not as easy as it sounds huh.
I donated the day after the election because I was so happy to have FR that long sad night. I hope others donate in appreciation of the miracle that the problem with the server was discovered in time for the election.
We retake the senate in 2014 and kick the traitor Harry Reid to the curb!!
Very good Jim, you much more articulate what is on my mind than I can.
Thank you for your inspiration. It helps, believe you me.
Agree completely. We cannot abandon our principles. We just have to regroup and learn to wage this battle with modern tools. With this site as a meeting place and with the help of other New Technology savvy people, we will take the fight to the opposition with renewed vigor and urgency. The leadership of the left is cunning and absolutely dedicated to the reduction of this Republic, but their followers are undisciplined and unreliable. From the election results, it seems that may now outnumber us. However, our cause is just and our faith is strong. What we lack in numbers, we will make up for in our fighting spirit. We will defeat them because, in the end, their beliefs amount to nothing, while our beliefs are grounded in the Constitution and are given to us from a much higher authority.
The elite GOP phonies are so full of crap with their post-election “analysis.” They’re simply plugging in whatever pet issues they had before this election and reiterating them as if they’ve had some new revelation based on these results. Much of the analysis from both sides of the aisle is a pack of lies.
The only people we should be looking to for ideas on what went wrong and where we go from here are the people who FOUGHT AGAINST ROMNEY in the primary. They were proven absolutely right. Their wisdom has been vindicated. The establishment stuffed shirts who pushed Romney on us need to be ignored and driven out of any positions of leadership or respectability.
Coincidentally these elites are the same people who have been trying to destroy the pro-life movement and talking about capitulating on same-sex marriage for years now. The whole reason they nominated Romney in the first place, as they admitted, was because they wanted to run “on the economy” and ignore social issues. How’d that work out for us?
Above all else, Romney was simply a bad candidate. Modern presidential elections are almost always won or lost on personality, charisma and likability. Aside from his brief shining moment in the first debate, Romney lost to Obama on those points. There aren’t a whole lot of solid conclusions that can be drawn from a presidential election since they are so superficial, other than that the people who pushed Romney on us are horrible strategists and their advice needs to be FLAT-OUT IGNORED from now on.
While I don’t think the party should be changing its platform, and I support flat tax rates, if there’s one issue the party is having trouble selling, it’s the idea of cutting taxes or not raising taxes on the “rich.” The most damaging stereotype for years of the Republican party has been that it’s a party “for the rich.” But the blue blood GOP elites who wet dreamed about Romney during the primary and who say we ought to abandon “social issues” would NEVER recommend changing our stance on the tax issues.
In any case, the party needs to come up with better messaging for lower income earners. THIS is where the party’s big marketing problem lies, not social issues. Romney lost with voters with incomes under $50,000 big, and won with voters with incomes over $50,000 almost as big. This gap also explains most of the race, age and gender gaps, since minorities, young people and single women all tend to have lower incomes. By contrast, if you look at married women, they have higher incomes and vote Republican. We should all be brainstorming on how to communicate our message better to people with lower incomes. Nominating Romney was certainly not a way to do it.
It’s also amusing how the most liberal Republican Senator, Scott Brown, lost his election, yet somehow increased liberalism is still deemed the path to electoral victory by the establishment RINOs. These are people with an agenda and a bias stuck in their heads. Reality doesn’t affect their opinions one way or the other. Notice how they set out to destroy Todd Akin by removing his funding and criticizing him publically, yet they don’t blame themselves at all for his loss.
The bottom line is if social conservatism is removed from the party platform, a third party will form very fast. And then the Republicans will never win an election again. The Democrats may win for a while, but the third party will never capitulate to the Republicans and will be content to wait years if they have to until the tide turns their way.
We vote pro-God, guns, and Constitution every time.
Thank you Jim, for your wise words, and for Free Republic.
Thanks to God for our freedom, our lives, our families, and the wisdom of true Patriots.
Great post, Jim!
We do have to change our message, but not our beliefs.
For years, we talk about returning to constitutional limits, small government and individual liberty.
The problem with this is that most people do not understand what any of that means. It sounds good, but they do not understand why it actually is the best course for our nation.
The education must start with us.
Jim, this is all well and good, but using the Tea Party as the mechanism is a losing proposition. Tea Party is now a “prisoner” of the left, captured and presented publicly as “anti-American” for all that term has been defined.
I heard Jim Luntz talk the other day that conservatives need to change the tone and the content of the discourse and actually have a discourse. I’ve been thinking about how that might apply in our political discussions, because I think we mean well but are lousy at explaining our positions in a non-threatening and even positive manner.
So taking that to specifics, here are some examples:
How about we talk not about capitalism, but about economic freedom.
Not about lower taxes, but about protecting family finances.
Not about huge entitlements, but about holes in our mutual safety net.
Not about coveting minorities use of expensive social programs, but about buidling sustainable protections for minority families in the areas of training, jobs, and health care.
Those are just a few possible examples.
Keep up the good work. We need to find a way to reclaim the youth. The Godless messages of the left are compelling.
Thank you for the words of inspiration Jim. I and my family never supported Romney in the primaries but like “some” voted for him in the general. As has been stated many times here and other places, the GOPE would rather lose elections before compromising on their own liberalism. I firmly believe that we now need to form a third party separate from the GOPE, or they will continue to play us like a cheap fiddle. The GOPE can go join the democrat party where they belong and our new party will get all of those millions that sat out this election. It’s a shame it had to come to this, although inevitable.
Thank you Jim
and Happy Veterans Day to you...
God bless you and Sheila and your family..
:)
Thank you Jim
Thanks Jim. It is time for We the People to say enough to the trash that is going around us. Oddly enough being Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, Pro-God, and Pro-Family is now the minority in America. America has to be brought to is knees and must humbly seek God’s Face and turn from its wicked ways. Unfortunately with fraud, deceit and cheating in all Govermental Establishment the Concept of the We The People is also in the minority. The wickedness of the nation has come to its forefront and the judgement will ensue. America may become weakened, but it will survive by the people whom still love the foundations and the principals of the nation.