My fear is that if one of the RINOs actually gets elected, the party will move irretrievably leftward.
I realize this comment is going to be somewhat unfair, but I’m going to say it anyway. Look what eight years of no vocal conservative leadership has brought us.
Bush has been good on a few issues. Very few. On the others he’s been moderate to wildly left.
Look folks, I know he’s been good on the war, but mercy, doubling the Department of Education’s budget in less than four years? Pushing through another ‘Great Society’ program, the medication addition to Medicare? Allowing people from terrorist states to still come to the U.S.? Allowing our border to stay wide open, and fighting anyone who tried to close it? And then the main reason why ‘we had to have him’, judicial appointments, he gets his chance and nominates Harriet Meyers. Heavens! Is this what we have come to? Is this conservatism?
Look at this. The guy didn’t have a clue more often than not. No one championed our cause at the federal level. And now after eight years some stupidos want to start another eight years in the wilderness. HELL NO!
The RP leadership is a complete disaster. The only time they want to hear from me is the twelve months before an election. The other three years they couldn’t care less if I moved to Borneo. If I send a letter, make a phone call, fax a note, they stick their noses up in the air and cancel the fricken border fence program, or pass another trade policy parceling off our sovereignty.
We don’t have another eight years to watch these bastards disemble our nation. And I’ll be not part of it.
We need a man in the White House that knows what conservatism is, knows how to implemnt it, and knows how to explain it to our fellow citizens so they can get behind it.
If we don’t force our team to loft someone we fits this bill, then we need a third party or we need to prepare for what is to come. We’re not rolling back Marxist advances. They Marxists roll on. Well, I’m not playing that game any longer.
If the RP wants to go belly up, they’re doing one hell of a job of going about it.
The party has already moved irretrievably leftward, but if we separate the wheat from the chaffe we will never survive.
If this happens (and I believe it is), it is because the BASE is drifting leftward. The problem is with US--not THEM.
Being a die-hard conservative and a firm Fred voter, I am extremely disappointed in the results of the Iowa primary. It tells me so-called "evangelicals" as as incapable of analyzing candidates in depth as any Democrat. The were bamboozled with Huck because "he stood up for his faith". Nevermind he disagreed with them on almost all other issues.
As a matter of fact, it taught me that issues don't really matter with Republicans any more than with Democrats.
It may take a real a## whipping in the general election to get the kind of house cleaning the party needs to move forward. Sweep away the dead wood. It will mean a tough period as the Rats run riot, but I really think it’s the only way forward.
Liberal Republicans are MUCH MORE DANGEROUS than liberal Democrats,,,
because liberal Republicans BLUR THE DISTINCTIONbetween conservatism and liberalism,,,,
MAKING LIBERALISM MUCH MORE ACCEPTABLE!!!