Why, whatever do you mean good sir?!?!
Yes.
I think actual conservatives and the RINO-Liberaltarian Faction have reached a parting of the ways.
Today I just don’t know.
At this point, I’d be happy if the election season FR moderates would go away and stop telling us that we need to sell out all of our principles to win.
Sarah....for such a time as this. If you get the ball rolling, we’ll stand with you.
Was wondering what would need to be done to establish a Conservative Party in each state, and nationally. New York has one.
I’m getting weary of being told by the Repubs to vote with them and support the establishment candidate.
But, one of the downsides is a chart on O’Reilly tonight that showed something like 41% self-identify as moderate; 23 % as conservative, and something in the low 20s as liberal. That’s a LOT of self-identifed moderates!!!
Was wondering what would need to be done to establish a Conservative Party in each state, and nationally. New York has one.
I’m getting weary of being told by the Repubs to vote with them and support the establishment candidate.
But, one of the downsides is a chart on O’Reilly tonight that showed something like 41% self-identify as moderate; 23 % as conservative, and something in the low 20s as liberal. That’s a LOT of self-identifed moderates!!!
Now that Der Fuehrer has been re-elected, we may eventually not have any opposition parties.
A platform would be a good place to start.
Yes but carefully. We’re not just going to form a party that storms to power. We need to get a few candidates into the house under the tea party banner while continuing to support the cream of the crop republicans as we grow the brand.
As we grow we can start peeling off the good republicans.
How about this suggestion: hey Tea Party, no one has heard a word from you since 2010. Get off you asses and get out the vote, get on TV, get into your neighborhoods. You made a difference in 2010 and then went invisible. Big mistake, one could say you lost this election. I have not heard a work about any Tea Party on my local scene or National news outlet nor anywhere else for months.
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds”- Samuel Adams
Fine by me. The GOP-E brain trust is just going to serve up another RINO four years from now. FoxNews will fall into giddy cheerleading mode, and we’ll see endless interviews by DC’s GOP beltway pundits. They’ll lose the election. And then they’ll vehemently lash out and blame social conservatives, Tea Party people, Palin, evangelicals, and whomever.
It’s like a broken record. And it makes me want to vomit. The GOP as a party has become totally defective. I’ve been a Republican voter my whole life, but at this point, I’d bolt to a genuine conservative third-party at the drop of a hat. That goes double if Palin would lead the way.
The Tea Parties are already formed across the nation - some big - some small... some very organized and very active - some not so much... Who do you think organized large scale protests in 2009 and 2010 all over numerous American cities - with huge turnouts... ? Who do you think organized the Massive Turn out in Washington, D.C. where about one million people turned out? It was a coalition of Tea Party Groups that organized huge attendance at Town Hall Meetings across the Nation in 2009... You are aware of the Tea Party Caravans from California to D.C. that stopped in a dozen cities or more in 2009? NEWBIE - you need to get in touch with the many ORGANIZED Tea Party Groups across the Nation and see what can be done... You are LATE at the Tea Party it would seem...
Why, whatever do you mean good sir?!?!
This was posted in a similar thread. I don’t know anything about the org, but am looking over the website:
http://www.conservativehq.com/
At a minimum, it’s time to have some sort of conservative, or Tea Party pre-convention to select a conservative candidate to run in the Republican presidential primaries. In 2008 and 2012 we had crowded fields with several fairly conservative candidates and then a RINO or two. Each time we ended up with a RINO who won with little more than 35% of the vote at the point where the winner was apparent.
This splitting the conservative primary vote is a proven formula for nominating RINOs. And it could give us Jeb Bush in 2016.
My suggestion is that we take a long-term view on the presidency - 12-16 years. The GOP is a damaged brand, as is the “Tea Party” (not the Tea Party philosophy, just the name). There is no point in pursuing either one any more. The media has successfully destroyed them.
Instead, we hijack the Constitution Party and start looking for legitimate candidates who can communicate conservatism in a rational and convincing manner - a cross between Rush Limbaugh and Tom Sellick (I can dream, can’t I?).
In the meantime, we abandon the presidency and concentrate our efforts on getting Tea Party-type people into a majority position in the House and Senate - local and state efforts, not national efforts - more under the radar. If we’re able to do that, whoever is President is immaterial. With 60 senators and a majority in the House, we can get anything passed we want to - overriding a presidential veto as required.
I don’t see any other way at this point. I said early this year that the selection of Mitt Romney as the GOP candidate would be the death of the GOP. We can’t change it from within and I believe that there is no way to convince the mentally-challenged non-conservatives and non-republicans to join us - the media won’t let it happen. It’s time we recognize this and take some positive action to save the Country.
I don’t think it really matters one way or the other at this point. Elections do have consequences. Losing this one the way we did, it’s gonna be pretty difficult to recover from this.
You were one of the biggest Romney boosters on this site. Welcome back to conservatism.