Posted on 11/18/2006 8:26:57 PM PST by new yorker 77
Thank you for giving us blanket amnesty for illegals.
Thank you for courageously abandoning our troops.
Thank you for handing victory to the terrorists.
Thank you for guaranteeing higher taxes.
Thank you for guaranteeing no more conservative judges.
Thank you for empowering John McCain.
Thank you for bringing back universal health care.
Thank you for endless investigations.
Most of all, I want to thank you for showing complete disregard for the tens of thousands who spilled their blood to give you your right to vote.
Your callous, self-serving apathy has guaranteed the government actions that you so bitterly complained about.
A final reality check to all you non-voters who still call your self conservative:
You are not a conservative.
You define un-American.
You define un-patriotic.
Please stop pretending to care about the troops.
To all you people who actually voted.
Thank you for defending our Constitution.
"You don't get it.
We lost tpp many conservative seats in the House."
We DID lose conservative seats in the Hourse....but why? I posit the following argument:
* To the extent that conservatives lost it was because they caused an obvious cognitive dissonance with the voters who know darn well the GOP for the past 6 years has been anything but conservative. In other words, sometimes the overall party makes a difference in local races. These individual candidates were left hanging on their own by the national party which definitely did not agree with these individual candidates.
* If the GOP had been conservative all these years, perhaps better, winning conservative candidates would have been fielded.
It's to protect us and our families from the likes of you and other social liberals.
Maybe the super conservative you want in the primary is unelectable in the general and the party knows it and you don't. The party WANTS to win.
Yeah, I held my nose too. Look what we have now.
Martinez, Blunt, Boehner and Lott in charge.
For the first time in my life, I'm seriously thinking of changing my registration to Independent. I've finally had it with them!
And to protect children from adults who place their own personal convenience above the life and liberty of innocents.
And these are the people who want to take over the party, then chastise those who don't follow them. Unreal.
That's a knee-jerk strawman argument, as I previously stated I busted my ass voting for Republicans and getting the word out to other people. The GOP lost due to other factors beyond my or other conservatives' control.
- They have lost the Libertarian vote with their excessive spending, Medicare Rx, and sticking their noses into social issues that belong to the states (and being a bunch of hypocrites).
- They lost the blue-collar vote per post #78 with the trade deficits and the erosion of our manufacturing base. Though I support free trade, there should be an overhaul in reform in our tax policy and regulatory environment that are causing jobs to flee in droves despite a strong economy.
- They lost a lot of independent & moderate voters who were frustrated over this ridiculous "winning hearts and minds" war strategy by the Bush administration. If you're going to fight a war, fight a war and explain that the Dims/MSM are the ones making the war drag on by giving ridiculous Constitutional and Geneva rights to terrorists and court-martialing our Marines.
Same here. I've already decided to do it.
"The GOP never had enough votes in the Senate to do anything meaningful"
....but they sure were able to grow government, pass a new medicare entitlement, almost pass illegal amnesty.....the list goes on and on.
If nothing else they could have focused on doing no harm to a conservative agenda, had there actually been one.
Apparently it doesn't work for the majority of people who vote. ;)
How nice. So we get the electable moderate and end up with what? More of the same B.S. that lost the friggin' Congress in the first place.
No more! Conservatives or nothing.
This Big Tent crap has got to go.
To paraphrase the Pope, "I'd rather have a smaller, purer party."
We'll see. God works in mysterious ways, ya know.
Perhaps the elephants will be more careful in the primaries next time. This election was lost, to some extent, in 1988, 1996, and 2000.
Every time the Country Clubbers tell "us" to shut up and sit in the corner (1980 and 1994 should have taught them something) it kind of kills the credibility on rants like this.
For the record, I voted a straight ticket.
"Oh we get it just fine. It's those "roadkill" RATpublicans that didn't get it for years, and apparently still don't get it. I use this whiner thread as evidence of such. Blackbird."
Well, you are of course correct, but we conservatives are now tasked with correcting our fellow republicans and re-educating them in the ways of Reagan. It will take us years to recover from the political damage that our president has wrought, but at least, courtesy of the voters, we can start repairs now.
It is not time to single out every RATpublican (LOL, by the way) for punishment. We have to get them to evolve their thinking in a conservative way. The ones that refuse, we jettison from the party.
How do we begin the re-education process?
Sorry Chief, but back 'atcha!!!!!
Your moderates are the ones who lost the show.
If real conservatives had the stones to stand up enunciate their values, they'd win every time.
Part of the reason we lost the Congress (IMHO), is that during the campaigns, 'pubbies talked conservative, but looking back at the 2 year history, people just didn't believe them.
This isn't a game. It isn't about winning. It's about what is best for our country. Yall may not like conservatives but you need us to "win"
"I don't understand getting mad at non-voters"
Well, it seems to be the opening strategy of moderates to retain control of the GOP. They will fail for much the same reason as they failed in the recent election: They aren't as smart as they think they are.
The last "Super Conservative" we had was Ronald Reagan, and he won two landslides.
Conservatism wins when Republicans don't run away from it in the name of pragmatism.
..........those who stayed home can go to Hell. They've sure helped consign us to at least two years of fighting the fires of Hell. Those who threw a hissy fit by taking their ball and going home are the worst of ignoramuses. Those who do not come to the aid of their brothers and sisters, who haven't the courage or the stomach to hold their noses to avoid having worse occupy the powers of government are simply not trustworthy, nor are they worthy of respect. Their factionalism is traitorous and poisonous to good party/ideological discipline.
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