Posted on 09/19/2005 8:10:32 AM PDT by Mikey
Haha! What a joke. Always some losers who will twist things to their own short sighted view of the world.
You're spot on about infiltration here. It's not the same site as is was even a year ago. The gloom and doomers are spreading their rain of death on the GOP. It's not going to work.
Since the author does not give examples to support his fraudulent claim it is hard for me to take the rest of the article seriously. GWB is WYSIWYG as far as politicians go.
The is a cry from the political wilderness from libertarians who have wandered there for decades because they refuse to extract the radical element from their midst. It is those radicals who are the public face of the Libertarian Party and until the moderates take over (if there are any left) they remain politically impotent.
The only correct thing in this article is the last sentence, however "disenchanted Republicans" should remember the outcome of the '92 election should they choose once again to send a message to the Republican party.
Does "Down with Madden since 1992" mean that he is gay?
You don't have to be a Michael Palooka for President supporter to understand that the GOP is a liberal big government party.
The author conveniently forgets to mention several, salient points:
1. More people consider themselves religious and attend a place of worship more regularly than they have in 50 or so years. Religious belief and participation is a hallmark of a conservative society.
2. More people have an ownership stake in their society thanks to 401(k)'s, record home ownership, increased upward mobility, etc., than at any other time in American history. People with property want it protected. This is also a hallmark of a conservative society.
3. Census data does not lie: within the next 50 years, blacks (iron-clad liberal voters) will become a staistically insignificant portion of the population. The WWII generation (wedded to the New Deal) is dying off. Hispanics are the fastest growing segment of the population and they tend to be both conservative and Catholic or Evangelical Christians.
4. Slowly but surely, the entire leftist social agenda is being modified or phased out not by government fiat but by social pressure. Welfare reform, the elimination of abortion on demand, the defense of traditional marriage, etc., are all topics better left to the unwritten rules of society than they are to legislation. This is also a conservative hallmark --- it's called "self-regulation".
Put this all together and what do you have?
With the decline in the black popualtion and the dying off of the New Deal population, the Democratic base constituencies are declining. With the general increase in real wealth, more people now have more to protect and enjoy. With the increase in the numbers of people attending church and the increase of socially-conservative Hispanics, the conservative base is increasing in numbers. Social mores are on the upswing and pressing against the bastions of liberal thought silently, but relentlessly. If this doesn't make America a more conservative society than it was before Reagan, I don't know what does.
Where conservatism is failing, however, is in having to govern in a non-traditional (for conservatives) way (i.e. prescription drug benefits, increased education spending, increased social spending, etc). These are tactical retreats intended to make the conservative line more attractive to swing voters. This is what the author seems to have a problem with (i.e. Compassionate Conservatism). This is not what conservatism is, it's just the political enviornment it finds itself operating in these days.
However, we have to be aware that while republicans and conservatives are being elected in record numbers, we should not get big-headed about it and lord it over the rest of the population. A complete conservative victory in all areas of policy would be just as dangerous as a full-throttle liberal victory. If either side actually was allowed to impplement everything they stand for, there would be open revolt in the streets.
There will only be a conservative collapse when conservatives get it in their heads that they can just demand whatever they want and have it magically appear or be rubber-stamped by a conservative-majority government. We still live in a constitutional republic, you know.
Your speculation about what I want aside, you didn't answer the question.
I'll stick with the party that is closer to being a dominant, conservative party than your party will ever be!
What party would that be? If leaping to conclusions were an Olympic event, you would win gold.
The Republican Party can be reformed. Only those people who want everything overnight are losing faith.
No luck so far, they have moved significantly left.
Only those people who want everything overnight are losing faith.
Again, you are clueless to me ever having had any faith in the Republican party. Not to mention, all the things I want are NEVER going to come from the Republican party, and 200 yrs ain't overnight. That's how long people have been wanting things.
See post 40.
The fact is we'll get a lot farther by trying to further conservatism in the Republican party right now (because of guys like McClintock, Tancredo, Pence, etc.) If the Democrats disappear, then we can talk.
That is the key for any 3rd party.. Build from the ground up.
Oh yeah. I got Janice Rogers Brown on the DC court, Roberts on the Supreme Court, LNG plants coming and more energy plants. More logging. If you think you are getting shafted because you don't get every last thing you want, come see me and I'll give you a pacifier.
> As long as the democrat party exists voting constitution only helps the left.
I hear what you're saying, but the only way (AFAIK) these backsliders will listen to us is if we threaten (credibly) that we're going to walk if they continue to spend like drunken sailors. I'm not above a little blackmail if it will help to save my country.
But I'm open to suggestion. What's an alternative way to get 'em to change their minds and start going back to fiscal responsibility? At this point I'm willing to try anything. Bending over and taking it up the kazootie every time they pass another gargantuan handout ISN'T WORKING.
Blah, blah, blah. Yammer, yammer, yammer. Once again the retards at World Nut Daily open their yaps and show their irrelevancy. Lovers of Losers Unite You Have Nothing to Lose But Victory. The Constipation Partay is just another Joke.
You are delusional.
Pence in 2008, before it's too late.
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