National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Posted on 10/14/2006 3:14:12 PM PDT by Paul Ross
Merely an observation, my FRiend.
You can do better than be a totally futile defeatist. Figure out how we take the party back. There are still largely good folks, who have not sold out completely. They can be nurtured, protected, and encouraged to take on...and with a good tidal wave of our folks...replace out-right the enemies-within.
And even if you have nothing like any candidates of principle or character in your state...there is always your money that can go to the good ones elsewhere. The enemies within think nationally. So we need to do so as well.
E.g., When the Bush's backed Spectre over Pat Toomey...we had a clarifying moment to rally the base...which still had failed to recognize precisely how duplicitous the Bush's were. Have you seen how Bush is surreptitiously attacking Curt Weldon recently?? And there is no doubt whatsoever that Rove and Bush have attempted to destroy Tom Tancredo non-stop since BEFORE they got into the White House. And word is that Rove and Bush are now mortally afraid of J.D. Hayworth...an unreconstructed Reaganite who actually knows how to talk and reach the base...such that Rove is now trying to smear him as a bigot. Remind you of a previous tactic against Pat Buchanan?
Rather than effectively just going home...let's instead stop ineffectual efforts to form third parties...and recapture the Republican Party. And make it true to its roots. Its time to take the BALL AWAY from these juvenile delinquents.
The big government phony conservatives are ignorant of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson's philosophy.
How is their acting like Democrats supposed to make us want to vote for them?
Whose "them"? I am talking about being very selective. And sending a message.
And this isn't just about voting. Its pretty much about MONEY. That has been the force which has ripped the party away from conservatives. Time to get really serious about "super-funding" organizations and candidates who can pull the Party back to conservatism.
RLC.
National Federation of Republican Assemblies
I have said for years that Conservatives are to the Republicans what Blacks are to Democrats and are treated similarily. They talk a good story while running for election, throwout the, "but what if Hillary, Pelosi, Teddy whoever gain power(I have actually hung up on get out the vote callers who use that technique)" and then once in office govern as Democrat-lite. Sadly, true conservatives have only 2 options, play the game and vote for the rhetoric not the actions and feel used which we are, or stay home and turn the country over to the Pelosis of the world and get even less.
The real problem is that we have allowed the government to become so pervasive in our lives that it really does nake a difference, if only a small difference, who is in office. In a perfect world the government would be so small and restricted in its reach that who was in Washington wouldn't matter. But we don't live in a perfect world do we?
So what do I recommend? Hold your nose and vote for the Republicans that are running this time. Then before the next election work hard to find better candidates, push for term limits at the national level and do what you can to hold your Republican legislators to account for their positions and votes.
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