How To Fix The Republican Funk (Its Not Becoming Democrat Lite, Stupid Alert)

Townhall.com ^ | 05/14/2007 | Star Parker

[Theodore R.]

Remember that funny store about Chelsea begging her mother to take her to the White House for a visit about 1985. HRC told Chelsea, according to the legend, that she would have to wait until somebody “more respectable” held the office before Chelsea could visit the White House. What hath AR and NY wrought!

[hosepipe]

[.. Dollars are flowing in record proportions to Democrats. Democratic presidential candidates raised 50 percent more funds than Republicans in the first quarter. ..]

WHy vote?... Multi millions of proto democrats Voting as illegals AND legals from accross the border, from many countrys will ensure democrats winning.. 2008 will be the election stolen by voter fraud and voter malaise(republican).

Federal republican officials could care less about voter fraud I mean massive voter fraud.. On the other hand republicans NOT VOTING EN'MASS will make a statement. A statement thats never been made before..

I wonder if many are considering seriously, civil war?.. For reasons far beyond all the jobs going to India and China.. And America being looted like a blind cowboy alone watching the cattle..

[cyn]

thanks for posting this.

[billybudd]

The Bob Dole thing was embarrassing. That was the best the Republicans could find? I suspect it was a big setup to get Clinton reelected - and he still couldn't pull off a majority of the popular vote!

I think of myself as a 1994 Republican, because those are the political values I identify with. I can't recognize the Republicans of today. To be fair, Bush isn't entirely to blame because the GOP started getting into the spending game during Clinton's term. But Bush has tarnished the Republicans' image and made it much, much harder to recover.

[billybudd]

Somebody (I think Bill Quick) compared Bush to Nixon - he inspires the extreme hatred of liberals while actually being one of them.

So far, Alito and Roberts are ok. As you say, time will tell.

[ichabod1]

I think what’s happening is that your mainstream, not-so-political conservative person sees what’s happening and think’s “they’re WORSE than the damn democrats.”

[ex-snook]

"what, if anything, will energize the Republican Party?"

Easy. Bush to announce the surge worked, Iraq is standing up and troops are coming home.

[Theodore R.]

I really don’t think Dole’s nomination was a setup to get Clinton reelected. I think Dole just lacked the fire in the belly to be competitive. Some think Clinton had “skeletons” he was waiting to bring out of Dole’s closet if Dole got too strong at the end.

At any rate, E. Dole of NC has been much more conservative than I expected. I don’t think she was to blame at all for the loss of six Senate seats in 2006. She couldn’t help it if she could not find candidates to compete in places like ND.

[Theodore R.]

No matter how bad things get, the people can’t figure out how to go back to constitutional values to solve the majority of problems. They are just too hooked on name ID, celebrity stauts, big government, etc.

[Little Ray]

The President is also head of his party. If Rudy becomes President, the GOP will no longer have a place for conservatives. So, while electing Rudy might be a short-term gain (he ain’t Hillary! or Obama), it is a long term loss (the ‘Pubbies become a Left-Center party).
Also, don’t bet on “strict constructionist” judges that Rudy promised - he thinks abortion and gun-control are “strict constructionist” positions.
Basically, if you want any conservatism left in the ‘Pubbie party, we can’t allow Guiliani to be elected. It would just prove that conservatives can be taken for granted.

[Theodore R.]

Even Nelson Rockefeller allowed “conservatives” a “conservative” lieutenant governor, didn’t he? It was a meaningless gesture though. It seems that Giuliani may be to the left of Nelson Rockefeller, who later picked up Goldwater’s support.

[Theodore R.]

Chuck Hagel, the popular Cornhusker, said today that he may run as an independent for President if GWB doesn’t get out of Iraq by the end of the year.

[Little Ray]

We won’t even get a gesture for a Guiliani GOP - except maybe being told to “put some ice on it.”
Guiliani as President doesn’t get us much in the short run, and, in the long run, is a disaster for conservatives.

[alwaysconservative]

Very well said!

[alwaysconservative]

This article is another attempt to demoralize the GOP into not voting in 2008, or dividing us so that her Heinous can sweep into power.

Be very afraid.

[stevio]

Unavoidable risk of being cliche, I lay the majority of this on Bush, he’s our leader and he’s not leading the Conservative movement. I understood he wasn’t a true conservative when I voted for him, he is still better than the alternatives and I had hope.

[brydic1]

Bush’s lack of leadership is resulting in a solid leftist if not outright pro-communist South America. The Gulf States, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Kuwait and even Saudi Arabia are making obvious efforts to begin a rapprochement with Iran. The dedicated anti-capitalists and anti-christians have been immensely strengthened by the wavering and indecisive Bush Presidency. This president has been an unmitigated disaster for the conservative movement with his total betrayal of fiscal conservatism, his “just get along at any price” with the Kennedy faction of the democrat party. In their wildest dreams the liberals could not have injured the conservative movement more than GWB.

[Darkwolf377]

If Rudy becomes President, the GOP will no longer have a place for conservatives.

So President Rudy will just "decide" what the party is, even though the majority of the party doesn't agree.

Wrong.