Yes, by the look of things the GOP is headed to the Boehnyard.
Well, it seems to have already arrived there.
2014 will determine whether the GOP is Boneyard bound. We will have to retain solid control of the House and maybe gain a majority in the Senate (if possible, and it depends on which seats are up for re-election).
Right next to free elections and our once free republic!
Our side elected Romney yet we have all Bama for a second term someone cheated where the GOP hiding under the boneyard we need them now front and center
I think it’s more likely that the conservative movement is headed for the boneyard actually. The GOP will adapt to this brave new world the left has created and eventually return to power with a more moderate base. The old guard, in the meantime, will wither and wane and watch as the world goes to hell in a handbasket.
great analysis. the history of “amnesty” is very clear. but can the lemmings, i mean the GOPe, stop themselves.
no matter what they do, conservatives have some lessons too. we are already unified under God and His principles masterfully laid down in our founding documents.
but we have to work to unify conservatives behind one party, lead by one leader, offering one slate. hint: secularism (apologies for God), coercion, bipartisanship, ignorance, ignorance of principle, appeals to fear, pandering to race, etc. will not work to unify conservatives, although they are the bread and butter of democrat unity.
/mark
בְּתוֹךְ הַבִּקְעָה וְהִיא מְלֵאָה עֲצָמוֹת*
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Discern what you will but with the Weeper of the House overseeing the Boehner- boneyard, might as well call this valley of bones the Valley of Weeping.
RINOs certainly are.
Wether or not the rest of the GOP follows remains to be seen.
I fear the answer is “YES”.
Lots of lumberheads out there drooling in cups, fail to see this.
There is no political party on the right (GOP or any other new/third-party) that would be effective. I don’t care if you found a candidate that was a clone of Reagan, I have serious doubts the political right will be given an opportunity to do anything effective before it’s too late.
The *only* way the political right would be able to regain control would be to out-promise free goodies to the voters and there’s no way we could do that — even if we were that desperate — because the political left will always be more than happy to give away *far more* goodies than we ever would.
The problem, as I see it, is that half or more of the voters are addicted to govt and WILL NOT STOP voting themselves “gifts from the public treasury”. Like Rush said, “you can’t beat Santa Claus”.
I have serious doubts that any political party can fix this before the system collapses under it’s own weight. It would take a significant shift in our society away from govt handouts and back to self-reliance, self-sufficiency and rediscovering the intense shame & humiliation of accepting welfare or charity when you know you are capable of finding a job and standing on your own two feet. That societal change is not going to happen in our lifetimes. It took decades to reach this point. We won’t change it overnight.
If this country survives 0bama’s 2nd term, I will be pleasantly surprised, but my expectations are very, very low. We know we can’t afford 0bamacare and it will now become permanent. And I think it is impossible to “spend” our way out of debt, but the political left will bankrupt us trying to do so because they are controlled by their ego and must prove themselves “correct” or die trying. The Supreme Court is going to be stacked in liberal’s favor for *GENERATIONS* to come to ensure no liberal effort is defeated in court and as a safety backstop to any efforts to reverse the damage via court challenges.
I think we should all ponder the realistic, reasonable (and dire) implications of 0bama’s re-election and begin making the appropriate plans & preparations for our future as we each see fit. I believe there is a massive “reset” in the near-term and it will be very, very ugly.
Hate to be a downer, but I don’t see the glass as either half-full or half-empty; I just see a half a glass of water.
The more appropriate question in light of recent events would be, Is the USA headed for the boneyard?
The answer is yes; at least, in any variety of recognizable form.
I guess so. At this point, though, so much has changed that it's hard to remember those days back in the 40s and 50s when manufacturing jobs were plentiful and passed on from generation to generation.
Pat Buchanan, like Kevin Phillips, (maybe) Richard Whalen, and some of the National Review writers was a Catholic from the Northeast who thought that his people could provide a new core for the GOP -- together with Westerners and Southerners to be sure, but Catholics from the Northeast would provide the other leg of the table.
It didn't turn out that way. Part of the reason was that the GOP became the Southern and Evangelical party. Part was that Nixonian conservatism was always half-liberal, and whether or not it could have survived on its own, there wasn't much left when Nixon went. That Catholics couldn't go quite as far as Protestants could with the free market talk was another.
But the fact that that whole world was coming apart was surely another reason. The unraveling may have been due to free trade, but now it's hard to see how things could have stayed the way they were, let alone to imagine how they could (or should) be restored to the old way.