Posted on 02/20/2014 9:33:21 AM PST by Kaslin
I hate articles that don’t get to the point in 5 paragraphs.
You are 100% over the target!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I do not think this article is saying, vote for those with R by their name no matter what.
It’s saying, hang together with big goals, and get to achieve them by little goals that slowly bring you forward. Like a good football game, sometimes you make the first down and sometimes you don’t.
A purist coach would only use the 99 yard pass every time. It is wise, especially knowing how the progressives abuse their media and lie consistently, to hang together on small, doable goals and inch closer to a free republic.
“Sadly, IMO, blame for the demise of the Republic should be placed squarely on the shoulders of the GOP. Not stopping evil when they have the power to do so. Unwilling to sacrifice *anything* for genuine principles.”
Yup. Dems are what they are. Evil. The GOP has had the responsibility to check that evil. Instead, they chose to be “lesser evil” with plenty of help from the voters.
Well look at the result of their lesser evil. Look at the world we now live in where the compromising reaching across the aisle capitulation gave the Dems everything they wanted.
And still there are Freepers saying we should keep it up?
Isn’t it funny that every time we start to gain traction, the voices of compromise appear on FR to disrupt us? Isn’t it funny that they powder over the past and suggest we repeat the mistakes that got us here?
Boy, one might thing we are as infiltrated as the GOP itself...
A won war means lots of cohesive strategically won small battles. We need to plan our small victories toward a Free Republic.
BUMP that!
I believe we'll be seeing more RINO supporters coming out of the woodwork writing similar pieces now that Dr. Sowell has spoken out. Dr. Sowell made it clear in his second piece that the GOP-e are not without fault but that will probably be forgotten by those jumping on the bandwagon.
If you play by the Rules, and the other guy doesn’t, you aren’t going to win.
I’ve thought for awhile that a simple direct slogan would work.
Show modern Detroit, people waiting in line for food, etc. with commentary concerning the growing welfare state and decreasing individual freedoms. End with a simple short question question.
“Wouldn’t you rather be free?”
If every one of us contributed a little, we could afford a brilliant TV AD like this. SHAKE PEOPLE UP WHILE THEY WATCH TV. let them taste a little truth. Too bad we don’t have any leaders who will get this done.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki might say otherwise. Sometimes a nuke ends a war without all the BS of small battles.
Good, YOU go ahead and sell your soul to the devil to win the game. Leave me out.
More outreach crap. The idea that Rep politicians deserve credit because they talk to minorities is nonsense. Minorities vote more than two to one for the Dems because it is in their vested interest to do so. They disproportionately use Big Government. They want more government and more services, i.e., free stuff. The message of limited government and lower taxes don't resonate with them. They also support minority business set asides and affirmative action to give them special preferences and rights over the ever dwindling non-Hispanic white majority. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as classified by the USG and by 2043 half of the country will be minorities.
Yes, this is a war, and lots of RINO's don't understand that. The ease which the right is divided is his main point, there ARE purists (way too many on FR) that do us no good, and we will have to figure out how to unite to rid ourselves of this stain of an administration and defeat the plans of the democrats.
We will never win with 2% of the vote, we will never win if we can't convince a majority our ideas are worthy of acting upon. If we don't start winning we WILL lose this war.
Go sit in a corner until all the hard work is done. Keep your teeth together.
Should we “hang together” in the gop/e’s support of the irs crushing the TEA Party... or hang together in support of the gop leadership trashing Conservatives and our candidates and using tactics that they REFUSE to use against obama and the rats? Should we hang together with the gop/e refusing to establish a Select Committee with real power to investigate Benghazi or all of the obama illegalities he is forcing upon America with illegal EO’s? Should we hang together with the gop/e embracing corporatists through the chamber of crony commerce?
Well said by you both.
I feel cheated. I which master Derek had just put this sentence first. Then I wouldn't have had to read the rest of his pragmatic appeasing screed.
Thanks for posting that. If there is anywhere it is needed, it is on forums like FR. Both the extreme right and left are so drunk on their purity they often lose sight of the big picture, and find themselves complaining until the next election cycle about how dumb,stupid, etc “their” loser is.
The good news is that FR is not going to affect who wins or loses, but you have to be concerned about the mental health of some of those who would substitute their narrow views for the common good.
Romney proved in the end he wasn't viable. To the contrary, he basically took Obamacare off the table as a campaign issue and attacked Republicans in the primary far harder than he attacked Obama in the general.
Try selling that nonsense somewhere else.
Well that was the biggest steaming pile of bullshit I've read today. You want to know what you would have today with mister "viable candidate" in the white house? There would have been another semiautomatic ban, only with no grandfathering or sunset, amnesty and a $10,000.00 fine for not buying health insurance. All done with a boner house, a McConnell senate and all the democrat votes they would hqve needed. I'll brook no talking down to from people too stupid to have looked at romney's words and deeds, something we call a record.
Some here wait with baited breath for guys like Rand Paul to slip into typical libertarianism so they can come running with proof that he betrays conservatism. I don’t agree with the whole libertarian package but he’s only one of many who we can work with. There is no single savior among the men in DC, its going to take many men with a range of opinions.
Look at the men who founded our nation. They were hardly unified as if of one mind. Franklin was a regular old 1700s moonbat. Jefferson was more of a libertarian of his day and Washington was a conservative with everything in between represented. They fought like cats and dogs but agreed on a general direction.
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