Posted on 05/14/2008 6:43:50 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
You are absolutely correct!
The Democrats made a point in stressing that the Democrat who won in Miss. represented that Districts values-which meant Conservative.
You have to allow each District to pick a Representative that represents them, including moderate Republicans.
Then, you have to elect a truly CONSERVATIVE Speaker, not a compromiser like Newt or Hastert.
But most importantly, the House must represent the People, which means sometimes resisting the President.
Clinton destroyed his Party's majority by demanding it do his bidding and Bush has destroyed his own as well.
The GOP must develop a national identity of limited Government, which includes limiting spending and securing our borders.
However, I do not think the leadership of the GOP will ever do so, so a 3rd Party alternative may be the only option.
Me too. If not, I will leave it to my three conservative children to carry on. I am impressed by many in their generation.
Childers is a conservative Democrat and ran to the right of Davis. Not unlike the crop of new Dems in 2006, with one difference. The 1st congressional district is highly conservative. I might note that since 1964, 44 years ago, only one Democrat has won a majority of votes for POTUS, and that putz was thankfully a one term wonder.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
well ..you know why and so do all freepers.....for the worthless sh*p that this present Pub Congress/Senate/Presidency has brought us, it also brought us a few good judges....
and judges is where its all at...
if the Pubs don't put up some defense, I hesitate to think what the Rats will pull off....immediate national health insurance, gun control, the "fairness" doctrine, etc.....
there is lots at stake here....
we've had dark days before.....Clinton rode in with a Rat Senate and House.....we defeated that and we can do it again...
and they are taking us with them, lock, stock and barrel....
WAKE UP people....so we don't like McCain....the elites pushed him on us....it doesn't matter...
if McCain wins...and I think he will..or Barry or Hitlery....if we don't have a modicum of Pub presence in the House and Senate, we will face horrors that will never be fixed....
complain , complain, complain, but for Gods' sake ....DO THE RIGHT THING when it comes to November...
he is not perfect...he has "history"...so did Reagan...the greatest president in my life....
so yes...there are good people waiting in the wings....we just need to keep our selves in the game.....
“We used to call them “Bob Michel” republicans, after a GOP senator who spent a whole long career as minority leader and never so much as caused a ripple while the ‘rats did whatever they pleased..”
No offense, but Bob Michel was in the house, not the senate. Otherwise, a very good point.
You don’t need to worry about us not voting, (other than McCain) but the GOP is like the Washington Generals against the Harlem Globe Trotters. “Gee, we lost again. How’d that happen?†Wink wink...
I HATE the thought of leaving the country in the hands of Obama and company.
The troops deserve better.
I agree the troops deserve better.The country deserves better as well and we will not get it if we dont do something about the cesspool called washington real soon.Any one of the three will sell this country out.Its just a matter of when, not if.
McCain or Obama.
It’s beginning to look like a choice between a slow spiral into hell or a nose dive.
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Thanks for the tips on how I can fit in, and welcome to FR! =)
"Principled" and "pragmatic" are not mutually exclusive qualities in a voter.
They are mutually exclusive in a politician.
Reagan, which we can agree was the greatest president in our lifetimes, cut and ran from from the war on terrorists in Lebanon, and signed real Amnesty into law, and appointed Sandra O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy which became the mushy middle of the supreme court.
Reagan was a pragmatist who spoke eloquently about guiding principles.
Exactly right - and the exact two issues that caused the problem. Now, angry at being rebuffed, like the old Soviet Union they want to "dissolve the people and elect a new one."
Buckley's famous quote recognized centuries of scholarship on conservatism including Burke etc: 'Standing astride history shouting "Stop!"'
Conservatism has never in history been able to reverse the tide. It has only had moments of victory that has slowed the inevitable advance of pernicious 'progressivism.'
Your revelation, airborne, was constructed in great detail by Russell Kirk's Conservative Mind in 1953.
Absolutely nailed it. Great post
I have now. Thank you. I will look into it.
Disrupter alert!
btw, good comments.
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