Posted on 07/30/2008 10:36:47 AM PDT by djsherin
Perhaps this is just a vent, but as time goes on, I feel more and more frustrated and disappointed with the Republican Party. This party is supposed to stand for liberty and limited government yet look at what it has done (and hasn't) in the past 8 years: Spending increases in Medicare, education (by over 100%), welfare and "entitlements", "fighting the global AIDS epidemic", fighting world poverty, etc; A complete lack of border enforcement, an unfunded and unmanned fence, troops spread all across the world in countries like Japan and Germany that certainly don't need our defense at the expense of our own border, and a massive push for amnesty multiple times; fighting a war on terror while leaving us completely exposed to attack on the border, suspending certain liberties because it is "necessary" to fight terrorism, and tying the hands of our troops in combat; Massive accumulation of debt, record and constant deficit spending, and insane continuation of earmarks and porkbarrel spending.
When will we stop using the federal government as the engine to accomplish everything we want? "Gay rights" and abortion ought to be states issues, and it's not as if the RP has made much progress in either even at the federal level. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I have been terribly disillusioned by this party.
And now for this election, we are running McCain who will add to the list of big government above things such as fighting global warming more aggressively. Is this just me or do others feel the same abondonment of conservative principles?
(It's especially difficult for me since I live around liberals who constantly 24/7 hail Obama as the savior and messiah of the world. And with the media kissing his butt, it's difficult to find people who believe in limited government and conservative principles)
FR... salvation from the hell of extreme liberalism.
Relevant conservatism died with President Reagan. No one since has had the spine to carry the flag.
The tipping point for the GOP is probably going to be McCain.
The GOP leadership slipped out the back door when Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove decided to take a hard left turn.
To be honest, I loved Reagan and voted for him in 1984 (first time), but he said he was going to eliminate the Depts of Energy and Education and never did.
You're a little late to the party, aren't you? This has been hashed all over on FR for quite some time since before the 'Pubbies lost the Congress. As another poster has already noted, OUR leadership died with Reagan. What's left in the Republican Party is followers, NOT leaders!!
Who would give endorsement to Treason (McCain, Obama to speak at Traitor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church)
He wasn’t perfect but he was heads and tails above our current crop of Pubs.
The GOP leadership has exposed itself as a country club clique that does not distinguish between right and wrong. Just personal power for personal power.
I know, it’s just been on my mind lately and I wanted to vent. I guess this new housing bailout thing is just getting to me.
Were you among those who “taught them a lesson” in 2006?
Guess what they learned?
What do you (or, not you, but some) plan to teach them this year?
Will we survive two, let alone four years beyond that?
Now you’ve done it. My anxieties have been unleashed. I need a bottle of Jack. Woe and dispair!
“What happened to the Republican Party?”
Nominated a quasi-Democrat for POTUS. The rest will soon be history.
Are you a precinct committeeman? Do you get involved in your local Republican Party?
That’s the only way we can take it back
So....vote for them so they can continue to slide further left, or DON’T vote for them and watch ‘em RUN to the left?
I’m stuck in Massachusetts, so I truly “feel your pain” about both the ongoing and long-term lack of conservatism around me in Massachusetts and the increasing lack of conservatism by the Republican Party at every political level and for too many years already. I have even written to their Republican Platform Committee about all of my frustrations about the Republican Party at every level, not that I truly believe that it will make any kind of serious and profound impact upon the Republican Party. Both conservatives and conservatism must truly find a new place asap that they can seriously and successfully call home for the long-term. Maybe the Falcon Party? Maybe somewhere else not even created yet?
I’d rather a slide than a run, myself. Buys time.
I was 17 in 2006 during the elections.
“I’d rather a slide than a run, myself. Buys time.”
Buys time for what?
There have always been plenty of Country Clubbers in the top ranks of the Republican Party, ever since I can remember.
But it had looked as if the party was gradually moving to the right since the days of Nixon and Rockefeller. They were dragged, kicking and screaming, but there was definitely movement, all the way up to 2004.
Then things fell apart. I don’t know if it was Bush, or Rove, or what. But after having worked with the Evangelicals and the social conservatives increasingly for years, and after having moved out of the Northeast and California into the middle states and the South, all of a sudden they seemed to have reversed course.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Even if they have no honor and no values, you would think they would understand what it takes to win. Apparently not.
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