Posted on 09/14/2009 2:55:55 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Dear Mr. President:
As a 64-year-old, lifelong fiscal conservative and Republican since Nixon, may I humbly thank you? In the eight months or so since you took office, you have succeeded in reviving a party, the GOP, that many had left for dead.
1) You have named men to office so wildly irresponsible, so extreme in their positions, so vulgar in their means of expression, that they have made the Republican Party regain its of gleam of gentility and good graces. I am not talking only about the tough guy/ballet dancer Rahm Emanuel, who screamed like a jilted drunken sorority girl at GOP leaders after Joe Wilson's outburst (itself a disgrace) last Wednesday night. I am talking about a high White House official who called Republicans by a barnyard epithet at a public speech recently. This is the same guy who signed a petition to investigate whether the government caused 9/11 -- itself a favored position of Neo-Nazis and other nut jobs. Thank you. I thought no one could outdo an appointment like Henry Paulson, Bush 43's Treasury Secretary -- but you have.
2) You have proposed a national health care plan so wildly extravagant, incomprehensibly complex and over the top that it makes President George W. Bush's budget gaffes seem like blips -- plus you have told fibs about it so immense that you have embarrassed yourself as a public figure:
• Obviously, no responsible leader in government thinks there are enough savings in Medicare to pay for national health insurance.(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
plus you have told fibs ..”
YOU LIE!
Ben is wrong. The GOP has not been revived by Obama - conservatism has.
Especially go after ALL DEMOCRATS everywhere, including McCain.
The GOP is still in a coma!
Many of us have been holding the GOP’s feet to the fire for decades. Ben Stein is more a libertarian than a conservative. The Republican Party has no future when they embrace social liberals.
Thank you, I was just going to point out the same thing. As Rush said today, “You didn’t come out in droves like this when the Republicans were in power”. We were mad, yes, but it took an abject socialist like Obama to really light the fire.
But, this has to turn into a revival of the Republican party if we’re going to get anywhere in future elections. All a third party will do is splinter the vote and hand Obama a second term. I don’t like it but that’s how it is.
That’s funny, right there. I don’t care who ya are.
Ditto that. If a RINO is on the ticket, fuhgeddaboutit!
The Pubbies are getting a little ahead of themselves. They still have to field a candidate who’s a better alternative to the Dem. That seems to be a chronic problem for them.
The Pubbies are getting a little ahead of themselves. They still have to field a candidate who’s a better alternative to the Dem. That seems to be a chronic problem for them.
CONSERATISM....works every time its tried. If McCain continues to speak for Republicans...thank Obama’s gaffes won’t mean anything. And we DO NOT WANT A THIRD PARTY....that will re-elect the messiah.
Winner!
Thanks, you just convinced me to sit out the election! I won’t vote third party and the GOP can’t win.
“Ben is wrong. The GOP has not been revived by Obama - conservatism has.”
Dead on.
I won’t be voting for any more RINO’s ... PERIOD!
‘All a third party will do is splinter the vote and hand Obama a second term. I don’t like it but that’s how it is.’
And that will be in every election. The Two party monopoly will continue.
I think you might be in a coma too. LOL
Hear, hear!
Stein misses on that important point, but otherwise a very good commentary.
I especially like the last paragraph:
Thank you, thank you, thank you. We thought we were down and out, and now you have given us a fresh start. You have, so to speak, let us hit the "reset" button on all of our messy recent history. You guys are so bush league, so to speak, you make us look like seasoned, sensible, prudent professionals. And it only took eight months. Thank you, President Obama, and we'll look for more. You truly are the gift that keeps on giving.
Lol. Bush killed the GOP?
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