I have a plan for doing it, that doesn't necessarily involve any political party at all.
Could be participated in by republicans, libertarians, the apolitical... hell even the d-word.
It involves old-fashioned political activism.
Not political partyism... but political activism.
Like the kind this website used to do.
Like full page ads in the Washington Times...
Fundamentalism of the Constitutional sort.
You have the potential to unite all these people in common purpose... but you keep dividing them with the GOP "us or them" mentality.
The prize is supposed to be a Limited Federal Constituional Republic that recognizes the chains the constitution places on it. Not a whole bunch of guys with a "R" on their team jersey, who tax and spend like drunken liberals.
Work for the prize.
What exactly do you have in mind? And how is JimRob's support of the president undermining it?
You don't think there was any partisanship in that ad?
Rule by liberal judges since you can't get a fraction of the populace to support your ideology? How about holding a Million Doobies March? That would certainly get the sub-motivated on their feet!
Interesting observation.
It's isn't "us vs. them" but rather "us vs. it". The sooner the masses realize that "it"(govt.) doesn't have their best interests at heart and an agenda of it's own, the sooner change will take place. And no sooner.
The political activism you call for must actualy result in something beyond self-congratualtions, and by wielding the power of party (a party transformed to a large part, but not a perfect part) we could actually have real reform.
I, also, long for the days when the fight against the factionalism of Clintonism united us all in common purpose, but time doesn't stand still. It made for an interesting and varied fellowship, didn't it?
In your call to "work for the prize" we must all examine ourselves. Lord knows, I've tried and I hope it sometimes shows. I posted long ago:
Rant cannot restore the Republic; Party can. Each of us should examine where we as individual actors in the restoration of constituional deliberative democracy are limited by ideology or craven pragmatism. Let us compete amongst ourselves by showing who can post their Battle Flag higher up the slope of the New Left's Little Round Top. Put down your swords when speaking to your brothers and sisters.I will grant that you always make the effort to make the arguement, and for that I applaud your fairness. But I have always seen the prudent course to be the capture of the Republican Party along with a reinterpretation of its vision along conservative principles.
In that journey I never feel less than enriched by your contributions. The stew must have its bay leaf, I always say.
Please...spare us your usual liberal boobery...
"Away, and mock the time with fairest show; false face must hide what the false heart doth know" -- Macbeth