Posted on 05/22/2008 11:06:22 PM PDT by The_Republican
“Not Quite Dead - Conservatism still alive and kicking”
Just no longer required or desired in “the other democrat party” formerly known as the Republican Party.
Yep.
This is compounded by the fact or elections namely or primaries are no longer about choosing someone based on platform and record but rather superstitions like a congressman can't win POTUS. It goes from there to a beauty pageant. The only answer to end the madness with the national POTUS primaries is to make them just that. All parties contending for office of POTUS should have primary elections held the same day in all states preferably in August of election year. To the parties that don't hold primaries require that their candidate be qualified to be on state ballots by the August primary. This will stop the insane stupidity of New Years primaries and foolish antics of egomaniacs like Rush from encouraging disruption of the primary process.
I think if the primaries had been held the same day this election cycle McCain would not be in the picture even as a VP possibility.
I hope you aren’t suggesting the government mandate the primary setup.
And it should be noted that even the “conservatives” running now are more just Nanny-Staters than conservatives.
“I think if the primaries had been held the same day this election cycle McCain would not be in the picture even as a VP possibility.”
We’d likely have wound up with Huckaloser. But I do agree that the primary system as it is is broken and in dire need of overhaul.
If every primary was held on the same day, it might just cause more of a homogenous voting pattern, as well as give the media even more power in how the effect voting. Ideally it would allow a larger diversity among voters, and clearly take away the ridiculous importance of Iowa and New Hampshire, but conversely could allow the media to completely tilt the election in favor of one candidate. I support the idea of voting into August; the election process starts so early it distracts from that which is more important: the implementation of policy and having congressman actually focusing on the jobs they were already elected to.
It's either that or every state is going to have to make January 1 as primary day on their own free will or it's voters be left out of the process entirely. The idea is to get the actual will of the people and not the will of several liberal ststes who have early primaries.
Maybe or who knows someone else may have stepped up had the entry timing been more reasonable.
I do find it odd though. I'm from GOP stronghold East Tennessee mostly conservative voters here actually. I saw more Ron Paul signs than any other persons combined including Fred Thompson. They were in peoples front yards Big Signs too. Before anyone says something silly I'll add to this that Congressman Jimmy Duncan is pretty close to Ron Paul on issues including Iraq. His congressional seat is very safe. Actually Duncan was approached by the Constitution Party too. Indeed Conservatism is not dead but the GOP is trying to kill it though as is the MSM.
I am in a rural area of “Moscow on the the Columbia” also known as Washington State and I saw one heck of a lot of Ron Paul signs around here, I even saw families walking the streets with Huckabee signs.
I never saw and still do not see any visible support for McGore.
(as far as the Conservative Party goes, I am likely voting for Chuck Baldwin this year)
Conservative Party = Constitution Party.....ugh, bedtime.
I'll be voting for him as well. After 1996 I can't vote a straight party GOP ticket any more. Voting for Dole pretty well cured me of that. I got so disgusted with the 1996 Convention I turned the channel after Christie got done surrendering the GOP platform to the Democratic Party.
I’m always amused when liberals say conservatives have run out of ideas. The statement is a fraud for one big reason: conservatism is a perpetual, self-contained idea. Conservatives don’t have to keep coming up with new ideas. The program of only using government as a last resort as a solution to problems is a conservative theme that will never die. But the idea that liberals are brimming with wonderful, new ideas is a sick joke anyway. Libs only have one main rule: extract as much wealth from the producers of wealth as possible and give it to the nonproducers.
Levin makes excellent points here.
If the Republican party and or John McLames platform pushes amnesty for ILLEGALs it will be the death of the Republican party for me and I am sure millions more folks.
“What so many are (so annoyingly) calling the Republican “brand” is indeed in trouble, for a variety of reasons..”
W did the heavy lifting on the war of terror and isn’t getting any credit for winning. War weariness is a large part of the problem. Only a dose of leftism and another terrorist attack will dispel the delusion that the war on terror, and the Iraq front, was unnecessary.
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