Resign, you say???
Posted on 05/14/2008 2:31:52 PM PDT by ovrtaxt
Republican leaders in the White House, the Congress, and the Republican National Committee and its affiliates, along with most Republican leaders at the state level, have failed – or outright betrayed – the conservative voters who put them in their positions.
The result is that the party’s “brand” has become a negative, to an extent greater than in the Watergate era, perhaps worse than in the days of Herbert Hoover.
The number of new Republican voters is flat while Democratic voter registration is skyrocketing.
Contributions to GOP candidates and Republican parties are way off, while donations to Democrats are setting records.
In primaries, votes for Republican candidates at all levels are running far behind the Democrats.
And in recent special elections, the party lost longheld congressional seats in Illinois, in Louisiana, and, yesterday, in Mississippi – all in districts carried overwhelmingly by President Bush. A single election can be a fluke, but when Republicans lose three seemingly safe seats in a row, disaster is looming.
The hard work of the last 50 years by millions of conservative campaign workers, donors, candidates, writers, intellectuals, and activists has been trashed. The conservative movement has been set back 10-20 years – possibly even permanently – by politicians consumed by power, including but certainly not limited to Denny Hastert, Tom DeLay, John Boehner, Roy Blunt, Mitch McConnell, Trent Lott, George W. Bush, Karl Rove, party chairman Mike Duncan, and their friends.
Some deserve more of the blame than others, but they are all part of a party Establishment that has brought the party down.
For things to change, for conservatives to be justified in giving our contributions, our volunteer efforts, our energy, and votes to the GOP, the party must clean house. The party leadership should resign immediately.
We must replace the Big Government/Big Business/Establishment Republicans with principled conservatives, most of them young. By “principled conservatives,” I mean leaders who will stand up to the liberals and fight for freedom and traditional values.
Republicans are doomed to wander in the political wilderness until this generation of weak-kneed, no-vision, inarticulate, afraid-of-the-liberal-media politicians are replaced mostly with principled conservatives in the mold of Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.
Voters almost always reject a pale imitation in favor of the real thing.
The Democrats have firm principled beliefs. What motivates most Republican leaders? Nothing except a craving for power. What do Republicans offer voters? Nothing except “Elect us because we’re not Democrats.”
To Republican leaders, I say: You turned against the principles you once espoused – conservative principles – and, in turn, conservatives and the American people have turned against you. Things will not get better until you accept responsibility, and resign.
You have stayed too long. For the future of the Republican Party, for America and the cause of freedom: Go!
Resign, you say???
Ping.
One of McCain’s most ardent defenders on his blog actually said (paraphrasing) Vote for the lesser evil—that’s McCain.
Something about deliberately casting a vote for evil gives me the willies.
While I won't deny that there's some truth in the above statement, given that it is undoubtedly pro-Obama propaganda by the MSM, why don't we do the following? Why don't we seize the opportunity provided by the MSM's shoving of Obama down our throats to permanently de-claw the IRS?
This post (<-click), while addressing taxes, helps to explain why government "leaders" like Senator Obama are actually in contempt of the Constitution that they have sworn to defend, foolishly following in the footsteps of FDR's dirty federal spending politics. In fact, the article referenced below shows that Obama is the #1 federal spending proposer in the Senate for '08; Clinton is #2.
Obama, a big-shot federal spenderThe people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problem that the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned.
The bottom line is that the people need to send big-shot, Constitution-ignoring federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people need to get in the faces of the feds, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes - or get out of DC.
Time to start afresh with principled conservatism. What we got now makes me sick.
Richard_Viguerie... "pro-Obama?"
Take a nap.
Vocabulary test for the day: Which word does NOT belong in the above quote? (Hint: it's italicized.)
The Republican Party will have several years of nothing much to do but think of what they will have to do to win in 2012.
The number of new Republican voters is flat while Democratic voter registration is skyrocketing.
Contributions to GOP candidates and Republican parties are way off, while donations to Democrats are setting records.
In primaries, votes for Republican candidates at all levels are running far behind the Democrats.
I can think of no other RINO that deserves it more.
TY for the ping, very good article.
The parasite mentality has finally won.
Cut it out, you call them Bitcons, I call them smartcons.
Are you too silly to see that what has been working since 2006, ain’t working? Gawd, what a joke the Rockefeller GOP is.
We are not jumping off the cliff, we are going to swim to a new island where globalist, pandering morons are not welcome.
People like you have pushed a losing agenda. You don’t know the half of it yet, you haved doomed us to years of RAT control.
Once the Illegals are legitimized and given amnesty after the election of Barack Obama the United states will cease to exists in less than twenty years. Chain migration once all illegal aliens are legalized will balloon the unassimilated hispanic population from a mere 12 % to almost half the population and will be pandered to by the most radical of elements in the democratic party. A new constitution will be promulgated that will resemble the Cuban constitution. The Republican party will be a mere memory and quite likely conservatives who dare to speak will likely find themselves in prison or worse. This is how important the next election is. The idea that we can afford to lose this election and come back in four years hence is the same delusion that was suffered by the opposition that lost to Hitler in 1936.
AMEN!!!
And that includes John McCain!
They have taken a once in a lifetime opportunity & have squandered it to the point that I don't think they will ever be in power again in my life. I daresay they should all be impeached!
In how many years will the United States cease to exist upon the legitimization of illegals by Juan McCain?
We can stop this madness at the convention, it’s really that simple, it can be done thats why we have a convention.
How so? Can you fill me in?
Thanks!
It matters not a twit, John McCain is a democrat running on the republican line. Democrats as always will vote for the real thing. The public is being betrayed by the partyless washington crowd that has decided that cheap labor and votes for pandering politicians and their own jobs are more important than the national interest or that of Americans.
This is the mirror image of the parties during much of the last fifty years. It illustrates well how far the GOP has sunk since the high water mark of 1994. "Compassionate conservatives." Ptui.
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