[AppauledAtAppeasementConservat]

"If this is a gamble, it is a very big one because people like me are looking at it and being very turned off by it. It may be due to lack of communication and/or roadmap, but it has the net effect of sending me to the Constitution Party."

I sympathize with your rational and agree that entitlements don't just disappear. I am also an adamant supporter of getting gov't the he!! out of my life too especially on social issues.

I hate the stalinist democratcy we are turning into but short of a declaring a civil war what else are we gonna do? Believe me I think we should be ferrying the Dim's and their hippy supporters to antartica but it hasn't happened yet. What's the line they gotta cross before we RE-declare independance? Sheesh the state is ripping my rights away faster than George Washington gave them to me. I think the consensus is nobody wants a bloody war so fighting a cold war is an acceptable alternative for now.

Yeah it could fall apart and we remain marginalized and risk Dim reformations to make this thing an even greater disaster. But again if it fails and Dims do keep ripping our rights away what then?

[superloser]

But again if it fails and Dims do keep ripping our rights away what then?

Civil War II will start once people get any more steamed than they already are. It will likely start at the ballot box with third parties gaining more steam than they already have.

If the old adage of "As goes California, so goes the nation" is true, then all is lost already and we may as well chuck it in, load up on dried beans and shotgun shells and just try to survive the coming quake.

IMO, the key to anything is communication using very small words. Bush is not doing well with this as he stays away from press conferences, no matter how well controlled they are.

Newt had the right idea when he published the Contract With America and showed a roadmap. It was very easy to understand.

Even Ross Perot with his charts had the communications thing down -- even if you needed a PhD in statistics, he showed that he was willing to communicate.

If the Republican Party wishes to keep its base and avoid defections, it had better get its communications apparatus started and begin addressing issues like illegal immigration and massive entitlements.

Elsewise, third parties will hoover up the disgruntled and the Dims will simply always be there.

Note that the Green Party is hoovering up the disgruntled wacky-leftie Dims.