Emotions are running very high. But I agree with the OP. Look guys we have to get coordinated, and we have to get mobilized.
1.) Right to Life
I can’t stand the concept of parital birth abortion, and frankly the numbers that liberals throw around for abortion for rape is appalling (.001% of rapes end in pregnancy) but make no mistake we must become more centered and give allowances that can get the support of the majority.
2.) Government Budget
I think we need to re-think the concept of government budgetary cycles. Every year dealing with government spending is wasteful. We need to allow time to those doing the budgets to allow for zero-base budgeting and that can not happen on a yearly basis. I’m thinking a 3 year budget cycle. Thoughts?
3.) Tax
Some say Flat, some say fair, the bottom line is a stance that our Tax system must be re-thought. Government has expenses, and once we see our budgetary requirements our tax system need an ability to cope with change in a manner that is fair to all working Americans.
4.) Incentives for innovation and infrastructure upgrades
Jobs and the reason to get people working again.
5.) Zero-Base Welfare reform and Disability aid reform
The people receiving it, the duration they’ve received it etc.
6.) Defense
Building and continuing to reshape our fighting force and intelligence capability
Don’t let your emotions rule you, put your thoughts and ideas down, get them collected we WILL live to fight another day. But make no mistake, a government that will support partial birth abortion is a government that MUST be fought. And that is a fight where the tree of liberty must be watered.
Have you jammed scissors into your babies skull today?
Celebrate choice! Scrambled or poached?
If a people is so selfish as to subvert the most basic right (life) to a less basic right (choice/convenience), that people deserves no peace of conscience. As H would say, it is time to get in their faces. Enough politeness.
Your other ideas are excellent (3-year baseline), but without the right to life and a termination of the charade that abortion is somehow good for women, severing as it does the most fundamental relationship a woman can have, I view those other things as secondary.
Here are some of the issues I wish the GOP had focused on this year:
(1) Supreme Court Justices & Property Rights - Obama criticized Thomas and Scalia, yet they were two of the only justices to dissent in the Kelo decision. Anyone remember that case? Both conservatives AND liberals were screaming about it. Why the GOP campaign didn’t hammer on it in this campaign, I’ll never understand.
(2) Libertarian views - I live in a blue state and grew up in PA, where my family still lives. Mostly everyone I’ve ever met has a libertarian streak, somewhere, somehow. The GOP needs to point out how the Dems intrude on your privacy and limit your choices, thus interfering with your decision-making in your own life and for your own family (as in education, healthcare, etc.)
(3) The Economy - The GOP should articulate more on the economy and educate the public more about economic policies.
There’s much more, but I’m too tired right now.