Our cause is lost because we fear based. We will continue to vote for the 'lesser of evils' instead of true conservatives because we fear how much 'worse' it would be if the other side got elected (never mind that everything the 'other side' does is with the cooperation and aid of 'our side'). Fear attracts that which it is fixated on. Until we start voting for people who genuinely represent conservatism (and I'm not talking about the Arnie types) and the Pubbies lose a few elections to the 'other side' because of it, there will be no change in the way things are going: The Repbulicans will not run true conservatives till people refuse to vote for false conservatives.
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The Pubs are starting to cause me to rethink the concept of Mutual Assured Destruction. At what point does the quickest way to the right become a hard shove of the pendulum to the left?
"Until... the Pubbies lose a few elections to the 'other side' because of it, there will be no change in the way things are going..."
Ditto there!
Only problem is - "Pubbies" don't seem to pay any attention at all to history.
BUSH #41 essentially turned on and betrayed his Conservative Base, considering us to be a mere fringe ideaology and not worth offending any potential "undecided moderate" Voters over.
Had he stuck to the Regan Mandate and staid the course, Perot would never have even been an issue, IMHO, and we would never have had to endure 8 years of Klinton.
But his "advisors" told him the same blarney that ROVE is selling to BUSH #43 now, and Party Chair GILLESPIE has been snickering in almost the same words used by Lee Atwater in 1989, then Chairman of the Republican National Committee under President G.H.W. Bush (41) responding to conservative indignation at what we considered to be betrayals and sell-outs to the Dems with:
"Where are they (Conservative Republicans) going to go?" (Hahahahah....)
Well; in 1992 he found out, didn't he?
Remember???
These elite, arrogant Party muckettymucks up in the National Committee apparantly don't.
And after 4 years of that "crush to the Left", what did our Grand Old Party produce to save our Country, Constitution, and Culture from the continuing Klinonian morass?
The Old Elephant dutifully squatted, grunted, sweated, strained, and out popped...
"VIAGRA MAN"!!!
Now There was a real Champion of Conservatism!
Enter Perot; Take #2! - 4 more years of Klinton Syndicate in the White House.
So if they must repeat this ill-advised lurch to the left and subsequently we end up with a President KERRY, does anyone out there really think that the GOP Upitty-Ups will get the message THIS TIME?
I won't be holding my breath for it, frankly.
Seizing defeat out of the jaws of victory seems to be about the GOP's strongest suite.
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Just heard something on the radio - the vote is apparently in, and it looks like party - time for the "Antis".
Surprise, surprise...
You've struck the nail on the head.
Any time a politician "owns your vote", you can forget about getting him to do anything on your behalf. Why should he? After all, there's no reason to do anything for you -- you're already in the bag. Nope, forget you, buddy. He's gonna go after the other votes -- the ones he doesn't own. That's why you see Rove & Co. pandering to the liberals. It's pretty basic stuff. What's in the bag is in the bag, so go after what's not in the bag.
The sad part is that "what's in the bag" has an established track record of staying "in the bag". It may kick and mumble and grouse (grouse, ha ha, I made a pun), but in the long run, it settles down and stays in the bag.
Same deal with "the Black community" and the RATS, and even though you hear noise from that general direction every now and then about not holding the nose and voting "D", it all melts away on election day.
That's the same principle Master Rove is counting on, and he's so confident in it that he cracks jokes about it.