Agreed:
Dump the RINOs - Crist, McCIn, Bennett, Graham-nesty and the rest. They are all Dem Trojan horses and McCain is probably worse than Arlen Specter.
Ping to some good comments by former VP Quayle.
Hey Dan, the Tea Parties have sprung up because the entire frickin’ Republican Party has gone Perot!
He had me until he praised Romney.
We won’t. We’ll take over the GOP.
He’s right? The T%ea Party is going to run candidates against the dims and pubbies?
lol...Advice from Dan Quayle?
Where is this membership list that Mr. Quayle speaks of?
Right answer.
Dan, do us all a favor and recognize, if you will that a significant number of the people at TEA party gatherings are people who have tired of being shat upon by the GOP they have supported decade after decade, hoping it would see the error of its ways and quit compromising its way into liberal territory.
John F. Kennedy, the quintessential Democrat, could run to the right of many in the GOP if he was still alive.
The ball is in the Republican Party Court, so to speak.
If the Republican Party fails to recognize that the most energized of its former base now wear TEA party T-shirts and wave flags and posters and signs at such rallies, than the Republican Party will go the way of the Whigs.
God help the Republic if that happens, but there are a lot of eggshells on the way to an omlette.
If the Republican Party fails to run candidates who will fight the encroaching socialist juggernaut which is already strangling our economy and destroying our industry, things will get very ugly before (if ever) the Republic is restored.
You strike me as a man who loves this country, its traditional values, and its Constitution. I, for one recognize the Alinsky-style tactics which the media used to marginalize you as a serious political force, and now, I think millions more will also.
If you love this Republic as we do, do not ask us to compromise our principles, but help us restore it by insisting the GOP run the most conservative candidates the districts will elect. There is no time like the present, with an overwhelming majority of Americans disgusted with the current administration and its policies.
poTEAto
Hate to break it to you Dan, but it was your then boss, Bush 41, that cost the Republican Party the White House. There would have never been a Perot candidacy if Bush had not dropped the ball, i.e. "Read my lips!"
BUMP what you said.
There’s not a doubt in my mind that the scumbag Democrats will attempt a stealth takeover of the tea party movement (with the purpose of trying to turn it into a new “third party”) with the unwitting help of some of its self-proclaimed “leaders”.
The TP doesn't need a leader in the form of a person; "Persons" have almost without exception disappointed when money and the imagined priveleges of power have been showered upon them or have otherwise tempted them. And THAT, my FRiends, is the root of the left's current power. This is why the "free lunch" crowd has taken as their leaders NOT politicians who have any admirable qualities; but politicians who will shamelessly offer goodies, who will bludgeon the opposition, who will pander to the basest "get whitey" instincts of a self-identified victim class. The law of the jungle appeals to this class of voter. That they are bamboozled by false promises and flim flam should be no surprise, frankly. Lacking an improvement in education level on their part and lacking a willingness to competitively pander on our part, there is no chance we will appeal to that class of voter. Ever. It's a lost cause. We know this. We know the poor will always be with us. It's just a question of whether the poor believes its' best chances lie with those who will punish the evil rich by confiscating and redistributing their perceived wealth, or with those who wish to provide them with real opportunity, not utopian nonsense peddled as opportunity. Today, the drones still believe that government is their best hope. That they will learn the foolishness of their illusions is scant comfort to those who know the lessons of history prove that giving up our unique freedoms and the uniqueness of the US itself will be a one-way street.
The TP's leader is the Constitution itself. And that is its beauty. It is nearly perfect as it is. It need not run a candidate, indeed it would be suicidal to do so and I am OVERJOYED that one has not emerged. My greatest hope is that one WILL NOT. It is, IMO, the very manifestation of the "silent majority", as it was once called. It needs no leader. If it does not pervert itself over time, it is ultimately the "party" of the individual. It is the non-party of the mob. It is an amorphous agglomeration of individuals who, hopefully, will realize that their power lies not in trying to convince a non-listening elite of anything at all except that they are being watched.
And amorphous is good. Because there's nobody to bribe or extort. THAT is the greatest frustration of the left. And THAT is a powerful argument. That is what the left hates about the TP. There's nobody to dig up dirt on. That doesn't mean they don't try, as we see. These are probes. Unless we allow them, they go nowhere. Who gives a crap if drones call us "racist"? We can't be frozen and ridiculed a la Alinsky if we don't care. Get used to it. Be not defined by what you resist.
It is, at the end of the day simply a "Constitutional Consciousness". Hopefully, it will simply vote its awareness. We know that elections in the US are in the main won by margins in the under-5% range. The TP needs to know that it is potentially the most powerful party there is...by a LONG shot. Because all it really has to do is to acquire about 10% of real voters and it will be able to swing ANY election. Simple as that.
Exactly!!!!
Why does the GOP believe that they can tell their base what to do? It is most certainly the other way around, and the quicker they realize that the quicker we can all get down to kicking butt. If the GOP continues to bark order to the base about who to support then they will be sorely mistaken.
I already voted Republican in the last election, look what it got me. If I would have voted 3rd party at least I could tell you who I voted for and feel good about it. Now if the rest of us did that then the GOP would be running as the third party.
HOWEVER, it is not the Tea Partiers who need to take his advice. It is the leadership of the GOP that must not veer off and take the party the way of GHW Bush.. into that go-along-to-get-along rut the GOP always gets pulled into. The Republicans should not be trying to compromise with the Democrats. They should be trying to defeat them and their agenda... and defeat them soundly.
The way to do this is to support the tea partiers and follow their lead. This will mean curtains for the Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, Mitt Romney types. But it will elevate the Jim DeMint and John Kasich types who understand the US Constitution and strive to uphold it.
Bush41 and Quayle were a disaster for the
Republican party
Ever since 1988, the conservatives in the Republican party have been paid lip service, and betrayed time after time. If the Republicans truly want to be elected, they had better find some people with conservative records to run as candidates, or continue to be the minority party.
I am sick of voting for the lesser of 2 evils.
The threat of a third party can not and should not be removed or taken out of consideration especially not now. To do so gives the Green Light to RINO's who at this point need to be fearing for their seats and be sent back home to the private sector replaced by Conservatives and by Conservatives I mean better Conservatives than Rockefeller Republicans.
Business as usual can't continue for this nation. Business as usual can not continue in the GOP now either if it is to survive as a party. If the GOP like the DEMS continues to refuse to listen then yes it deserves to be replaced. Republicans replaced Whigs in short order remember?
Mr Quale you could have possibly been POTUS after Poppy's second term. Poppy Bush cost you that. If you can't see the policy blunders he made and admit to them as being the reason many voted Independent then you are part of the problem not the solution. It was Gerald Ford when talkng I think it was to George Bush JR about Conservatives said "Where else can they go?" Was Ford taking a long nap during the 1996 elections? They can and do go elsewhere. It is the job and duty of GOP leadership to change course and agenda so they don't. Making loyality demands on voters who have had enough especially when the favor was not returned in kind anytime after 1994 gets you and the GOP no where.