It takes more than the Republican Party. It takes all of us. This has been my point. We can't just elect elect a representative here and there and expect miracles, we're going to have to drive the liberals out of power whever we find them in abundance. Liberals are against all the people, that's why they've overtaken the unversities and the media, they know truth is their enemy and so have overrun the two main sources of information, so they can support themselves by spreading lies.
...been actively combating the illegal behavior of liberals during the Clinton years - Sheesh, at least just the last 2 years!) Bush would have had (and likely been projected to have had) 'a landslide', and subsequently he and the Republican Party could be adopting/pushing more conservative/constitutional positions, and leading the majority instead of pursuing the majority.
And instead of helping the liberals by standing back and throwing rocks of members of their own team, the whiners and complainers need to get off their butts and use their talents to roll back socialism where it needs to be rolled back, and it's not government! We already have the people in place in government, we don't have the support out here in other areas, like the universities and media. Our representatives are going to be hogtied until we make a change out here where the true power exists, the places that control public opinion. The Gingrich revolution really opened my eyes. It was plain to see where the power lies after watching what happened there. The voters voted resoundingly for the Contract for America and after implementing a big part of it, Gingrich should have been a political hero. But the liberals, with the power of the media were able to spread enough lies to give Clinton the power he needed to neutralize the Congress after these great successes, and demonize Gingrich, as proven by the budget battle. That proves it takes much more than representatives here and there, it takes the logistics of truth, to keep truth flowing, so that the lying socialists of the Democratic Party don't prevail. And since the liberals control America's main sources of information: the universities and the media, they are able to prevail against good people and force us to spend more time throwing rocks at each other instead of the enemy. Look at your posts as an example. You are unwilling to admit that we have a big problem with the flow of information. You seem like a thoughtful person, but you seem to want to only focus on one thing, the Republicans in Washington, and you won't even acknowledge that there is a lying liberal infrastructural behemoth across the U.S. that needs to be slayed.
Heavens no. My focus does include the 'lying liberal infrastructural', but I don't agree that it is the 'behemoth' that some/many make it out to be. I believe it is more like a bully, that is in fact a shallow coward that can be readily defeated if one simply stands up. It needs to be slain and can be slain, but the knights don't seem to want to pick up the sword, they seem to prefer to offer sacrifices.
I blame the likes of Trent Lott for leading the retreat, for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, I agree with Ann Coulter's characterization of the Republican Party (she was speaking of the leadership) as the 'Stupid Party'.
I believe (as you seem too) that many of us in fly-over country would readily support a forceful conservative position as espoused by Gingrich's contract with America. And we common folk, at the grass roots levels are voting with our dollars and feet as well. Liberal publications and TV is losing reader/viewership, public schools are losing to private/home schools. We sent those freshman Republicans and the Contract with America to Washington. My view is 'we out here' are waiting for 'them in the beltway' to pick up the damn sword, get in the game, and catch up.
I believe had Lott, et al, had more gumption and stuck to principles and conservative positions and stood up to the shallow bullying media (as well as lib-dems), and enforced the laws (such as voter fraud), then Bush would have his landslide, he could be more conservative, and you and I wouldn't be having this debate, stimulating and edifying as it is :-)
It takes more than the Republican Party. It takes all of us. This has been my point.
I agree. But I think where we might differ, is my conviction that the Republican Party, under leadership of Lott, et al, abandoned many of us more conservative members, in a futile and needless effort to win voters from the left of the electorate in acquiesence to the 'behemoth' media, an acquiesence I've been arguing was not needed, that persistent adherence to principles and law enforcement (impeachment, voteing, treason, etc) would suffice.
What seems to happen here in this forum, is that the more ardent Bush supporters, don't agree (or are unaware) that perhaps the 'behemoth' can be defeated, and advocate what to me seems an accomodation to the 'behemoth'. When those of us who argue that there are many voters who would support the party and president if it would confront the 'behemoth' more and return to the principles of Gingrich, the Contract with America, Reagan, etc, we are told were being naive or disloyal, to foresake our values, and continue to support the Republican Party as is (which to me means more of Lott's feckless leadership)....and that pushes hot buttons.
ps: I need to leave, but look for a ping from me on a related thread, and I'll be back tomorrow