Posted on 03/02/2007 4:16:56 AM PST by Jim Robinson
I don't like crybabies who continue to allow #3:
3. Conservatives should do this within the GOP, but not allow the GOP to bully usTo go unnoticed.
Number 3 is the most important in my view.
Follow through with that, and the other two become much easier to deal with.
The media has already engrained in the public perception that Conservatives are cold, heartless, right winged radicals. It's up to Conservatives to define who they are. Not liberals.
Done that. Great post!!
"My strong recommendation is to stop bitching and do something."
We're trying friend, however, right now we got our hands full just trying to convince so called "conservatives" here to realize that Rudy is not the conservative many people here think he is. As long as "conservatives" are going to promote candidates like Rudy it makes our job a lot harder. Regardless, we will continue to "do something" and yes, we will bitch along the way.
Let’s act independently of the Republican Party and their failed big government leadership.
Let’s focus on the conservative movement, not the GOP.
Fine by me.
Let’s withhold support from all Republican National Committees because they spend our money in primaries to defeat conservatives.
Let’s withhold support from most Republican elected officials, supporting only those few principled conservatives
Let’s challenge in primaries all establishment big government Republicans and Democrats at the National, state, and local levels.
Let’s run principled conservatives for local, state, and national party offices.
I congratulate CPAC for not having the Chairman of the Republican National Committee at CPAC for the first time in memory.
And conservatives—this is important – for the time being, we should withhold our support from all of the top tier 2008 Presidential wannabees.
Not a one of them deserves our support today.
A home run if you ask me.
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Thank you for posting this.
I fear that there are far fewer of us than previously thought.
OK.
What's your theory about what changed between 1964 and 1980?
That's right on Jim, but sadly, many here think that getting a liberal republican elected is somehow going to help our conservative cause down the road. I say it's just going to make it that much harder to turn the tide back in our direction if we do that. Why is that so hard for some here to understand that?
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Work harder. We got our work cut out for us. Conservatism is being defined by the liberal media once again.
I know that.
I'm not talking about what Reagan did, I want to know what you think about what the VOTERS did.
Do you seriously believe the message the voters sent in 1980 was ,"we made a mistake in 1964, send us more Goldwaters"?
Two reasons:
1. They think of politics as a game to be won or lost, not a long struggle to advance or maintain our principles
2. They lack confidence that conservative principles can be sold to the general public, quite possibly because they've not devoted the necessary time to consider why these principles are correct
The house will stand, but it'll be all one or all the other.
Preferably not the other.
Doesn't anyone have anything new to add, besides the old lack of values combined with big spending that costs Republicans their seats?
Too much subjective opinion from people who are mad and disillusioned because they lost control of something they never had--the GOP.
Great post -- and good ideas.
I don't believe Conservatism is monolithic. My definition of Conservatism is not the same as the next person's. I also don't believe we should just sit idly by while our sworn enemies define who we are.
Reagan wouldn't have won a landslide in 1984 by calling fellow Republican's that they were spineless, mealy-mouthed RINO's, or fellow American's in flyover space that they were toothless hayseed Bible-thumping hicks. Reagan wouldn't have won in a landslide believing in the all or nothing mentality. Reagan wouldn't have won as a third party type either for that matter.
There has to be some certain bit of compromise. Reagan demonstrated that well. Destroying the Republican party or each other won't get us anywhere fast, seems too many are hellbent on doing more of that instead of advancing Reagan's idea of Conservatism.
Conservatives seem to believe they had control of the GOP and somehow lost it thanks to "RINOs" in 2006. As long as they continue to misidentify the reasons why Republicans didn't win big, not much will change.
agree...bttt
More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says
I'm with it.
Gonna be hard to avoid the third party thing, though, if the GOP becomes the Giuliani/Romney/Schwarzeneggar "post-partisan" Unprincipled Party.
Job One is to keep that from happening.
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