The long decline of the Bush administration has been horrible for the Republican Party label. We should have never lost the Congressional race last night.
Rush may have inadvertently stumbled on something very important: if in an election, conservatives can vote for a conservative Democrat instead of a liberal Republican, who should they vote for?
Since 1968, when the leftist radicals took over the Democrat party, conservatives have had no real choice. Either they voted for Republicans, no matter how lame, or else a leftist radical might win. Time after time, it was just the case that the lesser of two evils is still evil.
Conservatives have had to grin and bear it for forty years, as the country club Republicans and the RINOs, and a few wealthy liberal Republicans kept choosing the path of weakness, fiscal irresponsibility, and creeping socialism for the party they controlled.
But now, out of the blue, the Democrat party is starting to get a serious block of “blue dog” Democrats. Already, in many ways, there are more conservatives on the Democrat side than on the Republican side. Or at least they have far more discipline, and act as a bloc.
So let me propose the obvious: conservatives taking over the Democrat party!
If the Democrat party becomes the conservative party, then to heck with the liberal, RINO, and corporate Republicans.
They can still have the party they stole, but no longer will they have more than a few seats. The Republican party will wither until it is of a third party status.
The Democrat party will be the conservative party.
the 2006 elections, on the other hand...
One has to ponder if the Republican party were controlled by a bunch of right wing driven people and promoted their agenda formidably, do you realize the wide-open shot they would have at taking over the democrat party?
I think some grass roots conservative candidates need to get built from the ground up, we retire the old spineless gas bags and start again.
This is an opportunity.
The only reason for the problem is Republican Politicians leaving the path that got them in power.
They have instead been sleeping with Democrat dogs and are infested with fleas.
"...It's not a mistake anyone can make any longer, whether they are pondering the voting patterns of working-class Hoosiers or the driest statistics in the record book. Median "nonelderly" household income, we find, fell consistently through the first half of this decade, despite the solid economic growth enjoyed by the country as a whole.
"...Some nonmedian folks did just fine, of course: The top 20% of households earned more, after taxes, than the rest of the country combined in 2005, while the topmost 1% of the population took home more than the bottom 40%. The top-earning hedge fund manager of 2007, in fact, made about as much last year in nominal dollars ($3.7 billion) as J. Paul Getty, one of the richest men in the world, was worth in the mid-1970s.
"Real hourly wages for most workers, on the other hand, have risen only 1% since 1979, even as those workers' productivity has increased by 60%. What's more, American workers now clock more hours per year than their counterparts in virtually every other advanced economy, even Japan. And unless you haven't read a newspaper for 15 years, you already know what's happened to workers' health insurance and pension plans.
I confess that I am fascinated by the mechanics of this huge social reconfiguration – in the same sense that I am fascinated by the industrial procedures of a slaughterhouse, or by the strategies that enabled small Confederate armies to win victories for slavery over much larger Union forces. How the big change was brought off is the subject of Steven Greenhouse's important new book, "The Big Squeeze," which is also my source for many of the statistics in the preceding paragraphs. Aside from the outsourcing, offshoring, and firing-at-will that make up the best-known weapons in the corporate arsenal, Mr. Greenhouse reveals how managers extract unpaid work through an array of ingenious tricks, from eliminating bathroom breaks to electronically erasing hours from workers' records.
I hope these statistics are wrong, but suspect they are true. I do note that he has not included the catastrophic increase in employer health care costs as part of worker's pay.
In any case with 11 cents of every consumer dollar going for gasoline vs. the 10 year average of 4%, the electorate is angry, upset and in a blaming mood. It will take a while for them to figure out that the Democrats are not going to return this country to its traditions of cheap energy, cheap food and cheap housing.
Paging Senator Luger. Senator Lugar, please pick up the white courtesy phone; we have a message for you.
The RNC/DC elites have ruined a home for conservatives. This has been going on for years and soon we will have to decide for a new party or take control of the GOP.
But maybe we all need to share some of the blame...we elect/re-elect someone because they carry an R assuming they will do the right thing. This hasn’t been the case now for several elections.
One thing for sure is the conservative base is in an ugly mood and its getting worse(better?) by the day.
The real problem is that a politicians reason for being, is to write laws and spend money.
A good conservative should do neither, that is why we have so few good conservatives.
With the franchise expanded to every idiot in the nation and now illegal aliens voting to boot this Republic is doomed anyway.
It was a nice try, but the Founders warned against expanding the franchise to the landless, women, and those under 21, and we just didn't listen.
The GOP needs to get some guts.