We Have Found the Enemy--and the Enemy is Us

self | February 2, 2008 | exit82

[smoothsailing]

HA!!! (Great minds and all that...;-)

[RoadTest]

You’ve spoken my mind. Thank you. I, too, will vote for Mitt Romney.

[skeeter]

'nuff said.

Well written, I couldn't agree more.

[Martins kid]

I think we should all contact the GOP and tell them no $$$ from us if McCain is the nominee.

But more important that that we need to contact friends and relatives from Super Tuesday states - ask them- beg them -to vote for Mitt Romney. He is not perfect, but he is much more tolerable than McCain, Obama and Hillary.

The MSM is pushing McCain because they know that the age issue will help Obama and HIllary beat McCain.

MSM knows that the McCain scandals which they are not reporting about now - Keating, his extremely ugly divorce, etc - will finish off McCain one day after the convention.

Romney is our only tolerable choice.

[matthew fuller]

"We conservatives always had a home in the Republican Party. "

I think that it is time for us to go out into the world and make our own way now. I, as others, feel like the Republican Party has left me. It's time for a Conservative Party.

Exit82, you have written an eloquent post, and you have described very many of the same feelings that I have- Thank you for posting this.

I agree that the first priority is to dump the turncoat McCain. Then, we need to overhaul the Republican Party, or build another from scratch, without Olympia Snow, Michael Bloomberg, Rudy Guilianni, Lincoln Chaffee, Arlen Specter, Susan Collins, and Christopher Shays. I don't have anything in common with those people.

If McCain wins the Super Tuesday, how far will he get if the money dries up? This is in our power. We can "starve" him, and the RNC out, then maybe we can somehow force a brokered convention. Let the illegals finance them.

[3IDVET]

Couldn’t have said it better myself..The end of the USA is in sight..All we can do is pray the GOOD LORD will be with us..

[fieldmarshaldj]

He was too dangerous to the establishment. They preferred liberal RINO assclowns. He wasn’t going to play that game and put on a clown suit.

[exit82]

Thanks—you have a great blog.

[potlatch]

[3IDVET]

Couldn’t have said it better myself..The end of the USA is in sight..All we can do is pray the GOOD LORD will be with us..

[Truth29]

Fantastic thought piece. Unfortunately we are at the same penultimate point as the old atomic doomsday clock. It is one minute to midnight. Of all of the possible choices on the GOP side, with all of their attributes and flaws, only one remains who has any chance against McCain. Romney is not the first or second or even third choice of most conservatives, but a dispersal of our votes among several opponents of McCain, will be the end of us. For that reason, Romney is the only logical choice left for all who want to defeat McCain.

[Signalman]

Excellent analysis. Maybe the checked-pants, country-club GOP Establishment will get the shock of it’s life on Tuesday, if, and it’s a big “if”, the voters clear the fog from their brains and vote for Mitt.

[freema]

Ain’t no ‘we’ about it. I didn’t tolerate it, and neither have my children.

[gruna]

No candidate is perfect, but Romney is the best one still standing, in either party.

[bill1952]

but also, when you add the McCain vote (36 percent) to the now-withdrawn Rudy Giuliani vote (15 percent), you see a shift: A majority of Republican voters are straying outside the ever-pure conservative base

There it is in a simple nutshell.
The RNC and the GOP K street boys have wanted to marginalize the conservatives for some time now so that they can get on with the agenda.

I’m certain that they thought that they were a bit farther along the last year or so, what with all of the creeping big spending, entitlement bills being passed and signed, and so they went for the home run - McCain/Kennedy amnesty and the permanent changing of America into a multi cultural part of a Global entity that needs to allow the free flow of inexpensive labor and manufacturing wherever it is best utilized.

Now this does indeed lower most to the lowest common denominator, but that is of little concern to any of the people who believe that nationalism is secondary to the realignment of order being crammed down our throats.

And it is.
Why, McCain was furious when a college proposed a bill to make English the national language.

Rove had stated regarding the immigration bills that, “Conservatives will follow” and he was correct, but premature.

This election will be proof to the GOP elite that they no longer need to factor in the conservatives, especially if they can get some of the new hispanic voters with more socialist give aways that are certain to follow.

We have been marginalized if McCain is nominated, and we had best deal with that reality.
I will not vote for McCain over anyone at all.
I am seeing the indications of a 57 seat Senate and a stronger democrat seating in the house and that is enough to pass just about anything that hillary wants.

Should the democrats be obtuse enough to nominate Obama - which I do not predict - then the paradigm is changed, because, unlike so many starry eyed forecasters, I believe that Obama can be handily beaten in the general, due to a number of intrinsic factors.

IMO, the GOP learned absolutely nothing from 06, seeing it as more or less a setback or speed bump to their plans, but nothing that has caused them to change plans.

So one group or the other is wrong. - Either the GOP McCain/Kennedy types can be ascendant in this country without us, or they cannot.

They can be, and will be, but only if we let them.

In fact, McCain would not rule out signing an amnesty bill, resorting to mumbling nonsense at the pointed question.

It is up to us to understand this dynamic being played out and to plan for it rather than deny that this clear trend, does in fact, exist.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962598/posts?page=9#9

[mel]

I never thought I would see this day

[Gator113]

A very well thought out and brilliantly constructed piece.

Thank you for your effort.

[jwparkerjr]

re: like the Republican Party has left me

It’s like we’ve been going to the lodge meetings every Tues. night for 40 years and then one night we get there and it’s been moved and no one told us.

It’s a cinch the things that we conservatives believe in have not changed. We’re still where we’ve always been, it’s the party that’s going on somewhere else.

One thing about this election is that it will help to identify the people who’ve gotten us into the problems we have today. For my money, anyone who endorses or supports McCain is identified as being a part of the problem. Sometimes it’s been difficult to know who exactly was bringing all this grief to conservative values. If you ask me, now we have a litmus test of our own! Just stand back and see whom they endorse. If they go for McCain, bingo, you have a part of the problem, if they endorse Mitt you have identified a part of the solution.

[ImpBill]

Other than voting for against the Democrats I haven't had anything to do with the GOP for 10 years now. The way Fred Dalton Thompson was undercut by the establishment GOP has finished convincing me my decision 10 years ago was correct.

Not sure if I will even go to the polls on November 4th, which will be the first election in over 40 years I will not have at least voted in, but if McCain is the GOP candidate I certainly won't be even voting GOP this time around.

[Loud Mime]

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