I don’t about the rest of you, but I would like to start winning elections again. How we lost US senate seats in IN, MO, MT, and ND-—ALL states Romney easily carried is totally beyond me. Yes I want conservatives, true conservatives who believe in traditional Republican principles likes fiscal resonsibility, limited government, lower taxes, pro-business, and policies fostering economic growth and energy independence. But we need to nominate responsible conservatives who can articulate these policies and attract people to the cause rather nominating people who seem to go out of their way to alienate people and turn people off.
“I don’t about the rest of you, but I would like to start winning elections again.” It’s EASY DO NOT Let GOP-e run things and we will.
1. Ending abortion by whatever means necessary;
2. Naming to SCOTUS and every decision-making court or bureaucracy ONLY those who support the basic TRADITIONAL values of Western Civilization;
3. Preserving marriage as an institution involving one man and one woman per marriage (no space aliens, no twelvesomes, no household pets, no farm animals and no perverts of any sort);
4. Preserving and advancing the 2nd Amendment constitutional rights of Americans to keep and bear arms and not just for target practice or hunting. This means CRUSHING state attempts to INFRINGE on 2nd Amendment rights of individual persons to keep and bear arms since this issue is federal only and not a state issue;
5. Preserving and advancing the actual US Constitution generally, and resisting the fanciful hallucinations of so many incumbent judges;
6. Instead of platitudes about "fiscal conservatism" whatever that may be, and which can NEVER exist on its own in a moral issue vacuum, NOT incurring excessive government bills in the first place which means NOT having to pay off those bills not incurred and NOT having to tax folks to pay for the ridiculous luxuries of government run amok;
7. NOT reserving "fiscal conservatism" to a platitude that seems to mean special favoritism for the very successful and a jackboot on the neck of the rest of us;
8. Not thrilling the J. P. Moneypackers by yackety yakking mindlessly about "class warfare," but not practicing "class warfare" like Obozo does or like all too many GOP "leaders" do in the opposite direction;
9. Cleaning out the accumulated abuses in the public school systems both financial and ideological and in higher education as well. Encourage home schooling, private schooling and other alternative education methods. Enact National Right to Work (modeled on Wisconsin) for all public education and other governmental employees. End tenure. End the expensive and non-educational frills in public school systems that give them such advantages among low information voters;
10. Addressing the hideous level of expense associated with "higher education." Apply antitrust laws to higher education to end expensive bundling such as mandating purchase of fast food plans, purchase of texts at college bookstore at prices like $250 per volume for quite ordinary texts, health insurance policies (usually including abortion), mandatory residence in dormitories, and a wild cornucopia of other non-necessities. Put the 10-12 hour per week spoiled faculty on a severe economic diet to better reflect the value of their respective courses. Math and hard science teachers are scarce and can command high compensation in the free market. That is no excuse for paying anything other than minimal salaries much less equal salaries to Lit teachers to tell you what various authors "meant to write" when they wrote the precise opposite. End the mindless stranglehold on entry into various jobs and professions currently abused by higher educational institutions. Encourage a return to employers responsibly making decisions on potential employees and not relying on the often ideological judgment of the unknown but remarkably uniform near Marxist professors. If Johnny got a C from Hillsdale and Bobby got a B at Antioch, what does that really mean and how can an employer tell???
11. Eliminating altogether many departments or other nuisances of the fedgov: EPA, Labor, Commerce, Energy, Agriculture, much of HHS, all of Obozocare, the Consumer (anything), Education, OSHA, HUD, and fill in a couple of hundred blanks of YOUR choice.
12. Get the government COMPLETELY out of the way of the development of the ocean of oil and gas underlying this country from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, to Texas, California, North Dakota, New York and who knows where else. Well-paid jobs for a tremendous number of Americans in the private sector, lower energy prices by far, an end to subsidizing Mohammed el Kaboomski, an end to having to give a damn what happens in the "Arab crescent."
There are twelve necessary elements in the conservative issue tapestry to inspire a generational conquest of the non-performing, incompetent, immoral, vampirish Demonrats.
If you are concerned that we have no more gaffes about rape, so am I. Create a candidate school. Any candidate who wants to receive party money (encourage major PACS to take the same attitude) MUST attend for a week. The school does not tell them what to think but rather how to express themselves and how NOT to express themselves as a matter of common sense.
What normal voter gives a damn about the profit picture of Amalgamated Veeblefritzer, Inc., and especially so when the Veeblefritzer magnates move the jobs to Bangladesh, spitting on American workers to pay some ten-year old 10 cents an hour to serve the old bottom line. Likewise no ordinary voter cares one bit whether Muffy's trust fund may prosper or not o whether she will have to stop hanging out at the polo club and get a job. Such concerns as these motivate NO ONE but a tiny slice of Mitt Romney GOP-E think alikes. The 47% does not care. The 68% does not care. Indeed the 90+% does hot care. Nor should they. Muffy is depending on YOU to help build her trust fund inspires no one but a few Muffies.
If you REALLY want to know who alienates people and turns them off, it is the GOP-E obsession with the idea of a political party consisting of and serving only the interests of he GOP-E who soooooo resemble the worst of Obozodom without the humble origins or overt Marxism.
If you want to "start winning elections again," then nominate people with the common touch and appeal of Reagan who used bold colors and no pale pastels to actually LEAD the party, the movement and the nation unlike the scared little rabbits of the GOP-E like Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Bush the Elder, Robert Taxman Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney. We need red meat candidates. We need candidates, as George Wallace once said, who put the hay down where the goats can get it.
No more spineless doormats and politically correct "gentlemen" who haven't a political bone in their bodies. Warriors not diplomats. People who bring a Bushmaster to a knife fight. Better to apologize half-heartedly afterwards than to grovel and beg permission to politically slay the Demonrats, "spill their entrails upon the ground and listen (joyfully) to the lamentations of their women."