Last chance for Republicans

The American Thinker ^ | July 01, 2010 | Jerry Shenk

[Scanian]

In 1994, an electoral tsunami washed House Democrats out of the majority for the first time in forty years. The runoff returned them in twelve years. Four years later, pundits predict another Republican wave in Washington.

Memory won't permit attribution, but someone recently wrote about sine waves, suggesting that politics runs in similar cycles. The facts, though, suggest that, if politics resembles wave action, it is not mathematical sine waves, but more like radio waves in which the frequency and amplitude are constantly variable.

Forty years. Twelve years. Four years? The frequency is increasing. It took twelve years for Republicans to lose their way and return Democrats to the majority, and it appears that Democratic seismic irresponsibility may have shocked Republicans back on track in only four.

In state capitals the economic downturn has highlighted the failures of liberal governance: unsustainable social spending, regulation above job creation, the heavy tax burden on top earners. Voters see it. They have also seen the Obama administration's willingness to paper over those failures with federal stimulus dollars. America is ripe for change.

2010 may be a Republican opportunity, but, since the cycles have shortened, memories of a Republican majority are fresh. In a two party system, the "out" party is the only refuge for an alarmed citizenry. In that context, a reformed Republican may be better than a Democrat, but many voters would prefer politicians who never lost their focus on fiscal responsibility in the first place.

[Leisler]

GOP.
The other Big Government, high tax, high debt party.

[Quiller]

The effect that needs to apply to our ‘representative’ government is not sine waves, but corriolis.

[verga]

The effect that needs to apply to our ‘representative’ government is not sine waves, but corriolis

Or better yet the Coriolis effect.

[Silver Sabre]

Seeing how the non-white population votes overwhelmingly liberal and that the non-white population is growing rapidly, Republicans do not have a good future in store for them.

[sirchtruth]

Without standards among the people it's not going to matter who's in the majority in our government. People have to recognize individual accountability and responsibility. This is what we need to re-instill in the psyche of society.

Nothing challenges this nation as much as this will.

[nathanbedford]

Thank you for serving up a perfect excuse to repeat Nathan Bedford's maxim:

All politics of America is not local but ultimately racial.

The problem is that Democrats have known this and exploited this principle for generations but Republicans, typically, are too fastidious to even acquaint themselves with the rules of the game as it is actually played. No better illustration of the inevitable results of the Republicans unilaterally disarming can be cited today than the election of an empty suit and Manchurian Marxist to the highest office in the world.

Barak Obama simply would not be president of the United States if he were white. It is not racist to say so and it is high time it became conventional wisdom.

He was elected largely because a fair preponderance of white voters wanted to atone for a vicarious guilt for an imputed history of slavery and segregation.

But this is not the sole application of the maxim. Of course, not all politics is concluded solely by the issue of race but substantial, indeed, a preponderance of our politics is determined by America's unique race history. Conservatives, Republicans, Libertarians, and just plain old-fashioned middle-class folks who see their country sliding down the scuppers had better understand that this is the way the game is played or they will lose their country to racists.

For example, they better understand that it is all right for them to vote their race if 95% of the American African population obdurately votes their race. If 80% of Jews will vote their ethnicity, is it all right for gentiles to vote theirs? If Hispanics are voting their race, 70% or better, why not Anglos?

Fundamental to freeing 50% of the electorate from the bondage of imputed racism is the understanding and frank acknowledgment that to unilaterally disarm in the face of liberal racism is unpatriotic, self-defeating, and extremely dangerous for your children.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Without making too much of a point about it, when I was a kid non-whites not only included all non-Europeans, it included all Europeans who did not speak a Germanic Language (English, Dutch, German, Scandinavians), and excluded Hispanics, Irish, Greeks, Italians, even, sometimes, the French, and all Slavs.
Using that definition, the US has had a non-white majority for decades.

[Silver Sabre]

We have the same problem in Canada where our “Conservative Party” hasn’t won a seat in the 3 biggest Canadian cities since 1988 because they are full of non-whites.

[Silver Sabre]

We have the same problem in Canada where our “Conservative Party” hasn’t won a seat in the 3 biggest Canadian cities since 1988 because they are full of non-whites.

[nathanbedford]

Did you just double post for the same reason I did, that Free Republic is hanging fire?

[Silver Sabre]

Yes I double posted because the website was acting screwy.

[Scanian]

You are right.

Demographic reality plus the usual rotgut class warefare and Bush-bashing politics practiced by the ‘Rats puts conservatives at a rotten disadvantage.

The only hope is establishing a conservative GOP majority in the next Congress which will do everything in its power to institute common sense and fiscal restraint in government which will create a stark contrast to the chaos and misery that Zer0, Harry, and Nancy have thrust upon us.

[paudio]

The question now is this: should Republicans also play race cards in election? By that, I don’t mean Rev. Wright style of flaming racial division, but by encouraging ‘minority’ candidates as many as possible—so long as they hold conservative positions?

[Scanian]

I’ll catch hell for saying this but how many of you can remember 1050’s preachers and moralists warning that amorality, teen culture, and RnR eventually turning the whole country into a giant ghetto?

Isn’t that what we are just about on the verge of becoming a half century later? A people with low standards and weak morality who are only interested in “what’s in it for me” and how many goodies they can squeeze from lowdown politicians?

[nathanbedford]

Short answer is, yes.

But by that I do not mean that racial minorities should be advanced as party candidates merely because of their race when they do not otherwise qualify as conservatives. We do not need any more flirtations with Colin Powell or his like. As a matter of fact, I was always skeptical about Condoleezza Rice and thought she was overrated. In any event, I did not find her to be sound on domestic issues.

In fact, the Republican Party has shown a regrettable tendency to overcompensate for imputed racism. Hence the election of our chairman of the Republican National Committee.

An example of a minority politician who seems to have the right conservative instincts is the black colonel running in Fort Lauderdale for the house, his name escapes me but he seems to be rock solid.

[Silver Sabre]

The only hope Conservatives have long term is to separate the country on a Red State Blue State basis. Otherwise we eventually won’t even be able to win Texas or Florida just like we can’t win California.

[LibLieSlayer]

To quote Reverend Manning, “White Folks ain't gonna take it NO MO”!

LLS

[paudio]

Col. Allen West. He is a good conservative. I hope he wins. As for the overcompensating, if Republicans want to encourage more minority candidates they need to recognize this fact: It is common that people overshoot when it comes to minority. When the minority person is somewhat good, people overestimate him/her. However, when the minority person is somewhat flaw, people would deem him completely useless.

0bama (and to some degree, Steele) is the result of such sentiment.

[Silver Sabre]

Don’t forget ever more increasing numbers of government workers who are going to vote democrat as well. The only long term hope is separation on a blue state red state basis.