"The only difference in a Liberal Rudy Giuliani and Liberal Hillary Clinton is the fact of which bathrooms they select to use and there are some who are willing to even question that."
Posted on 03/12/2007 8:26:01 PM PDT by Trueblackman
The Great Disconnect between the Republican Party and the Conservative Base
The Republican Party better get its act together like yesterday and realize that without its Conservative base, that it will be left to wonder in the wilderness for many more years to come.
Republicans in Congress are now back in the minority after 12 years of majorities granted to them by the base who envisioned the death of big government agencies like the Departments of Education and Energy with control of the purse strings from 1994-2006 and in 2000 with the election of George W. Bush the base demanded the unabated end of the Clinton Era Tactics of manipulation federal government numbers and phony government surpluses.
Conservatives felt that Bush and company would govern like Conservatives, but after 6 years the base saw no victories as the federal government grew bigger under Bush with “No Child Left Behind” and “Medicare Part D.” Bush refused to fight for our most Conservatives Nominees allowing them to be blocked for years on end by a minority within the minority Democrats Caucus in the Senate. Bush’s “new tone” in Washington DC amounted to the abandonment of his Conservative Principals within 6 months of his first term.
Liberal Republicans like John McCain were allowed to cut deals behind close doors on Judicial Nominees, Taxes and Immigration, while the Conservatives in the Senate seem dumbfounded and refused to stop this self-proclaimed maverick and his band of merry sellouts. McCain seems to take joy in stabbing the base in the back every chance he gets, gleefully going on MSNBC to be praised by Chris Matthews, because he feels that he is somehow owed the Presidency and blames the base for his 2000 Primary defeats to George W. Bush. Now McCain wants to be the 2008 Nominee, “Sorry John, but paybacks are a bi*ch” and I will not vote for what amounts to the Republican Party’s Manchurian Candidate.
The House Managers became fat, dumb and happy and governed more like Republicrats than Conservatives and they thought that the fears of impeachment, higher taxes and liberal control of the House would be enough to rally the base to their banner again in 2006, but this time their rally cries fell on deaf ears and their majorities were lost.
The Republican Party still refuses to learn from 2006’s mid-term election defection by the base, Republicans need to realize that they live and die by the votes of the base and that any candidate that does not appeal to the base will not receive our votes. It is better to lose to a Democrat, than to elect a CINO (Conservative In Name Only).
Now as we enter the 2008 Presidential Race we have Northern Eastern Republicans like Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney trying to sell themselves to the base as having Conservative Credentials, but when one looks at their records and how they have governed, it has been anything but Conservative, yet there are those in the Republican Party who are trying to sell Giuliani as our best bet in 2008. The only difference in a Liberal Rudy Giuliani and Liberal Hillary Clinton is the fact of which bathrooms they select to use and there are some who are willing to even question that.
As a Conservative, I would rather back a Conservative Republican Candidate and see him lose the Presidential Election on principal than back a Liberal Republican IN Name Only like Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and John McCain, who will end up stabbing me in the back anyway and govern himself by poll and focus groups.
The base would rather lose on principals than win out of convenience and the leaders of the Republican Party better start realizing that.
"As a Conservative, I would rather back a Conservative Republican Candidate and see him lose the Presidential Election on principle"
I have a great deal of respect for you.
But please consider the consequences: UNCHECKED Marxist Dem power: Dem President, larger Dem Control of both Houses of Congress AND activist judges nominated and confirmed by Dems, handing ALL THREE BRANCHES of the US government over to the treasonous, socialist Dems.
Conservatives need to focus on the big picture. You can see all the damage the Dems are already doing to the country, by weakening us against the terrorists -- just imagine the damage they will do with a Dem president for 8 years and teh judges who will be there for the next 40-50 years.
It's just a name.
Conservatives need to figure out where we go from here.
It's early.
I seriously hope Fred Thompson throws his hat in the ring.
Barring that, I'm in a wait and see mode.
Very well said my FRIend.
It makes one hope with furvor that DUncan Hunter gets more exposure, (I see him as the closest to a true conservative of ANY of them declared thusfar) and lacking that, I pray that Fred Thompson gets into this race soonere rather than later!! We need to have his views heard LOUD and OFTEN!
Perhaps I'm a conspiracy theorist, be I believe the Republican Party leadership is deliberately using and manipulating the threat of a takeover by evil nasty Democrats as a means of keeping power. They would rather keep the country on the edge of oblivion than allow conservatives to gain enough traction that they didn't have to be in constant fear of liberals.
Your last line says it all. I would rather fall with my principles intact than stand OR fall without them.
At this point it looks like the whole primary process is based on avoiding the tough questions.
The candidates are running because they want to run in most instances. They are not being offered up by the party.
You act like the liberal media had no input into Republicans losing control of Congress. In fact, it was the major reason.
And if we elect RINOs, what will be our plan in future? As far as I can tell, the long-term effect of electing RINOs is to ensure that the Republicans of the future will be more leftist than the Democrats of today. And if we can't survive today's Democrats, we certainly won't be able to survive tomorrow's RINOs.
Same here.
Instead, they just let them get by with it.
Disgusting.
"As a Conservative, I would rather back a Conservative Republican Candidate and see him lose the Presidential Election on principle"
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It's still early.
I have a hunch that it will work itself out.
But right now, we conservatives are justifiably angry that there are those in our midst who place power over principles.
That's used to be the Democrat MO.
Conservatives who can't win are ultimately as bad for the my principles as Liberals who can.
The candidate I choose is usually somewhere between the two. Which at this juncture leaves out everyone but Mitt Romney.
The leaders of the republican party are not that smart or their libs but I repeat myself.
Really? So you were elected to speak for the "base"? You took a poll of the "base"? Or are you possibly projecting your opinion as the "base"'s opinion?
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