Posted on 11/07/2008 8:47:56 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
I feel a strong need to get this message out there. Sarah needs our support. And those of you who are insulting her and saying she is "not smart" or "not Presidential material" are insulting all of those people who went out into the rain and cold to watch her over the last few months. You are putting the future of your party at risk. We may have a situation from the movie "Troy" develop within the GOP.
We need to rally behind her. We need to stand up for her, because she took a lot of sharp cuts for standing up for us. She is the leader of our party now.
It seems like we have some Republicans who buy into the MSM lies. It seems like we have some Republicans who base their opinions of Sarah on the way their co-workers talk.
Hey folks, we tried to do it your way. We picked went RINO and RINO fails.
When we give the American people the "real thing'. We seem to win. We have a genuine Reagan conservative in Sarah.
I already suspect RNC has a plan to stack Jindal in with a couple of other socially conservative candidates to cross out Sarah's numbers and push someone like Romney on us in 4 years.
We must be looking for this and we must not let it happen.
With no sitting president, I would say Mike Duncan, the party chairman would be the leader.
Sometimes dissension in the ranks is a good thing.
It keeps everyone focused on the ultimate goal.
They grasp that if real conservatives are allowed to win, the RINOs will lose. When McCain selected Gov. Palin it implied to me that he wasn't worried about being overshadowed by a conservative. Had that been true, it would have been a plus. As it is, however, it seems that either McCain was more interested in stifling conservative than winning the race, or he was severely lacking in leadership skills.
Who is still dumb enough to believe the media? The only people who do not support Palin are the ones who are threatened by her. Go Sarah!
I don't think she has a phony bone in her body.
If she runs again, I work my butt off for her.
They are not irrelevant because they are very loud and they are trying to destroy her.
Great picture.
As of now I have nothing but admiration for her and absolutely admire how she has dealt with all of this unnecessary cruelty and incredible judgment that seems so out of touch with reality. She is a crowd drawer and a natural charismatic leader. When it is time we will find out exactly what she believes--then we can bicker over facts and philosophy, until then in my opinion she would have made an excellent VP and would make a better president than the inexperienced Obama.
You hit the nail right on the head!
I think some of these Sarah-haters are male chauvinists.
You know, the good old boy network. They sit in their leather chairs, in dark mahogany paneled rooms, smoking pipes, looking down their long noses at us.
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The GOP needs a communicator who can reformulate those planks into something people will support. Everyone should agree on them, but many people have been conditioned not to agree with them in those terms.
With regard to the War on Terror, a President or candidate needs to say "A lot of people don't like having the U.S. trying to play the 'global top dog' role. To tell you the truth, I don't particularly like it either. Nonetheless, it is necessary. If we don't fight to maintain the 'top dog' role ourselves, it will be taken over by someone else a lot less nice. A lot less. Were we to allow that to happen, the results would be catastrophic beyond imagination."
With regard to taxes, a President needs to point out that in a free country there's a limit to how much revenue the government can raise. A company that can manage a 5% return on investment over inflation would be doing decently, but raising the tax rate on such a company from 33% to 36% would drop the post-inflation return on investment below zero. It's hard to collect much tax revenue from a business once it's no longer worthwhile keeping the doors open.
With regard to borders, the point needs to be made that the present ICE is worse than useless. There is no reason why people who seek to follow the immigration laws should be treated worse than those who don't. It would be better to encourage everyone to come than to encourage only those who would break the law.
With regard to energy, a President should point out that if spending $10B cutting sulfur emissions would help the environment more than spending $1T curtailing carbon dioxide, then the latter course of action is not environmentally friendly. The global 'climate change' alarmists are diverting funds away from things that will demonstrably help the environment and toward things whose per-dollar environmental benefit is, at best, far less clear.
Repeating the conservative mantras won't help. They need to be reformulated. I hope you would agree that the reformulations above are still 'conservative'.
While the base may love Palin, that’s only 30% of the electorate. Like it or not, we need the RINOs to win elections.
Thanks.
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Conservatives have a lot in common with most libertarian principles. To the extent that they are are willing to focus on areas of agreement, both parties could benefit considerably. I would hope the libertarians could make a few concessions:
Those seem like a fair compromise?
We need to attract moderates, but we need to eliminate RINOs. Once RINOs get in power, conservatives will have to deal with attacks from both sides; the attacks from the back will be worse than any from the front.
I think we are dancing to the same tune.
I prefer to speak in broad generalities for the most part, when communicating to the electorate, because unfortunately, details seem to bore most voters. It stinks that people don’t care enough to educate themselves, and instead rely on 30 second ads to tell them all the need to know. Simple is better when laying out a platform, imho, and I think your statements demonstrate great examples of how to communicate conservatism in a simplified, and palatible manner.
Too often, conservatism is shown as being “cold” and lacking compassion. I believe breaking down our platform in a more simplified, broad manner, we can demonstrate that we are compassionate people, but that the key is we are people, and not the government.
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