Posted on 09/29/2007 4:27:18 PM PDT by CheyennePress
Uh....I think you need to get back to your medical studies.
Nah, a hard right conservative won’t do the trick, because he won’t be able to muster enough of the middling vote that will be needed to reach the White House. We need someone conservative enough they he won’t become too enamored of getting the media on his side, can speak the language to bring conservatives along, but someone who won’t scare away the folks who are suspicious of the Right.
All under Mel Martinez’s tenure.....
Somebody needs to tell the Republican leadership that they can continue to be in the minority, OR they can regain both houses of Congress.
But THEY must be the ones who swallow the bitter pill and do what is necessary to get their house in order, and regain public popularity and trust:
They MUST guarantee party discipline, with harsh punishment for those who stray. And they MUST guarantee fiscal discipline, to the point of abolishing earmarks altogether.
Right now, the Republican leadership are like the small boy with his hand in the cookie jar. His little hand, full of cookies, is too big to pull out of the jar. But he refuses to just take one cookie at a time, he wants them all at once. So in his greed and anger, he cries and rages at the cookie jar, for not letting him have all the cookies he wants.
The OTHER thing the Republicans must do is to recreate the Contract With America. A short list of popular and responsible items that ALL Republican candidates sign on to, if they want ANY help from the party in the elections.
Oh remember, how some Republicans refused to sign the CWA, because they felt it was not right, and not fair, and that the seat they occupied was THEIR seat, and they didn’t have to promise anybody anything to keep it. More fool they.
The public LOVED the CWA, because it cut through the smoke and said, simply and without reservation, what the Republicans promised to do if elected. People loved that.
They loved it because it was clear, easy to understand, wasn’t full of waffling or mind changing, double talk and all the other crapola politicians usually use.
And the public would LOVE a CWA-2. Because it is honest.
And if Republican candidates won’t be honest with their constituents, why should they expect support at all? If they want to lie or deceive that much, they should switch parties.
But it is the Republican leadership’s choice. Control yourselves and your peers, or stay the minority.
The GOP must regain, and run on, Conservative principles. That is how they gained control of the WH in 1980, and how they took control of the Congress in 1994.
When they gave up their conservative principles, they lost the Congress in 2006.
Why vote for Democrat-light when you can vote for the real thing?
Now is not the time to attack the left. Now is the time to promote conservatism amongst our fellows, and to cry out a warning to those of you who are content with less. The Right will not be content with compromise, and no quarter will be given. To compromise is the certainty of doom IMHO, and I will fight tooth and nail with you or any other to preserve the values that we all supposedly stand for.
Those who jeer that attempt had best look to their principles.
Yep...and a salary threshold of almost $80,000! Yep that’s poor! (Well, on second thought in the overtaxed “Peoples Republic of NJ” it might be).
“It is gallows humor time for Republicans in Congress, where one lawmaker jokes that “there’s talk about us going the way of the Whigs”
Keep being soft on illegals and having “gay-eruptions” amongst your ranks and you sure as heck will.
It actually raises the level to $82,000/yr and makes children up to and including the age of 25.
But the MSM never tell you about this part of the Bill.
The Bill was just a way of getting the foot in the door for complete socialized medicine.
Exactly. The only way forward is for the RINOs to step down. That should be the demand right now. Retiring the RINOs and turning control to the Conservatives is the way to win.
If Giuliani gets the GOP nomination, as he well might, I expect the Republicans to go the way of the Whigs. In fact, I hope they will.
It is hyperbolic sarcasm
BUMP.
No member of the GOP who is not to the left of Lenin will ever get the approval of the MSM.. Write it off.
BUILD THE DARN FENCE.
The rest will take care of itself.
Just STOP SELLING OUT YOUR BASE. STOP IT. COMPLETELY. NOW.
It’s really that simple.
Then start winning elections again.
As Conservatives here have proclaimed in no uncertain terms, "conservative enough" is not going to be enough. The base will vote for a Republican, but only for a Republican GUARANTEED to hold fast to the principles we hold dear.
To compromise is to lose. What good comes of enchanting the moderates if the base stays home?
They need to step down and cede control to the Conservatives.
I think JD Hayworth, Rick Santorum and the popular vote in 2000 all show us that just "being conservative" isn't enough.
The battle for hearts and minds is not so simple as just calling someone a Rino and preaching to the choir here.
Speaking as one who has supported the GOP physically, spiritually and monetarily since 1970........I’m not giving them or their candidates another dime until I see something change.
I think the Rats are going to lose control of Congress in 08, along with not winning the Presidency. It’s the National Defense stupid! And the voters can see no difference between the Rats and our enemies.
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