I agree with Rush Limbaugh, that conservatives need to take back the GOP (the way Reagan did)... NOT form a third party. So, I guess that would involve conservatives working from within the GOP...
>>So, I guess that would involve conservatives working from within the GOP..<<
Correct. If you choose to do it Rush’s way.
My thoughts: The US and the entire world is going down fast. The Republicans and Democrats are so similar as to be virtually indistinguishable. Neither is remotely part of the solution here.
If you are familiar with Atlas shrugged, I have the attitude closer to John Galt, while those that want to change the republican party are more like Dagney Taggart. They still think there is a workable solution within the current system.
Alas, by the end of the book even she realizes that the only solution is to get to Galt’s Gulch, let the system implode, and then come back and try to build a life from the ashes.
While I applaud the ideal, the truth is, the only way to get the GOP to be more conservative is to ensure that the same party hacks who tried to gain this seat at any cost (and basically give it to the liberals) understand that wooing liberals to come to the Republican party won’t mean much if their base is heading out the backside of the tent to go to their own party.
That’s what this is all about. Anyone with a brain understands that the majority of Americans are conservative in one respect or another. There might be disagreements about specifics, but the majority hold fundamental beliefs that the liberals are seeking to destroy.
To overcome the D numbers with more R numbers, they’ve taken a broad tent approach, seeking, by default, to create a coalitionist government under the R banner. They do this by ignoring their base and instead giving the farm away in an attempt to look more liberal to woo in the blue dogs and Reagan democrats to be.
To them, it is all about party registration, because people generally vote their party. But it ignores that they’ve lost many many people not by being too conservative, but by being not conservative enough, and thus people declare themselves independent.
My vote’s no longer free, and I hope that everyone here takes a similar stance. I will vote, no matter what the cost, for the conservative in the race. I’ve learned my lessons, it’s time that the GOP leaders do the same.
Limbaugh is right about that. For a “carpetbagger,” Hoffman made a good show.