REBUILD THE PARTY

Rebuild The Party - A Plan for the Future ^ | 11/08/2008 | The Coalition

[Paige]

As Republicans, we face a choice-

Either we can spend the next several months -- or years -- trying to figure out what just happened, excusing our defeat away as a temporary blip or the result of a poor environment, and waiting for Barack Obama to trip up. Or we can refuse to take this defeat lying down, and start building the future of our party now. 2008 made one thing clear: if allowed to go unchecked, the Democrats' structural advantages, including their use of the Internet, their more than 2-to-1 advantage with young voters, their discovery of a better grassroots model -- will be as big a threat to the future of the GOP as the toxic political environment we have faced the last few years.

[omega4179]

We won’t call it contract with America.
We can call it CHANGE this time.

[Sir_Ed]

Thanks, Magi...I do intend to stand by it.

Ed

[TheFourthMagi]

Good man. Rock on.

[DogBarkTree]

Coward is a strong word for a newbie and a retard. Stick with your one issue and leave it to others to win back the WH. In the mean time, STFU.

[robert david]

Kick all the “RINOs” out and there will be no Republican party. Here’s a newsflash for you, Skippy: you are the RINO not the GOP leadership.

[wrhssaxensemble]

Follow Hannity’s items for victory:

“1) To be the Candidate of National security:
a) Victory in Iraq [although this won’t likely be an issue in 2010/2012]
b) Fully support NSA, Patriot act, tough interrogations, keeping Gitmo open
c) A Candidate that pledges to NOT demean our military while they are fighting for their Country. eg Harry Reid: “the surge has failed”, “the war is lost”
d) Candidate that promises to ensure that our veterans can live out their lives in dignity.

2) The Candidate who pledges to oppose Appeasement:
a) The Candidate will oppose any and all efforts to negotiate with dictators of the world in places like Iran, Syria, N.Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela without “pre-conditions”

3) The Candidate Pledges to support Tax CUTS, and fiscal responsibility:
a) The American people are NOT under taxed, Government Spends too much
b) The Candidate who Pledges to ELIMINATE and VOTE AGAINST ALL Earmarks
c) The Candidate pledges to BALANCE the budget

4) The Candidate Pledges to be a supporter of “Energy Independence”
a) supports Immediate drilling in Anwar and the 48 states
b) Building new refineries
c) Begin building and using Nuclear Facilities
d) expand coal mining
e) realistic steward of the environment
While simultaneously working with private industry to develop the new energy technologies for the future, with the goal being that America becomes completely energy independent within the next 15 years.

5) The Candidate pledges to secure our borders completely within 12 months:
a) build all necessary fences
b) use all available technology to help and support agents at the border
c) train and hire agents as needed

6) Healthcare:
The Candidate will look for Free-Market solutions to the problems facing the Healthcare industry, and will vigorously oppose any efforts to “nationalize healthcare”.
a) The Candidate will fight for Individual health savings accounts, that includes “catastrophic insurance” for every American, so people can control their own healthcare choices.

7) Education:
a) The Candidate pledges to “save” American children from the failing educational system
b) The Candidate will fight to break the unholy alliance of the Democratic party and teachers unions, which at best has institutionalized mediocrity, and has failed children across the country
c) fight for “CHOICE” in education and let parents decide
d) fight for vouchers for parents

Social Security and Medicare:
a) The Candidate will “save” social security and medicare from bankruptcy.
b) Options will include “private retirement” funds so people can “control” their own destiny.

9) Judges
a) The Candidate vows to support ONLY judges who recognize that their job is to interpret the Constitution, and NOT legislate from the bench.

10) American Dream:
The Candidate accepts as their duty and responsibility to educate, inform, and remind people that with the blessings of Freedom comes a Great responsibility. That Government’s primary goal is to preserve, protect and defend our God given gift of freedom.

That Government’s do not have the ability to solve all of our problems, and to take away all of our fears and concerns. We need their pledge that we will be the candidate that promotes Individual liberty, Capitalism, a strong national defense and will support policies that encourage such…

It is our fundamental belief that limited Government, and Greater individual responsibility will insure the continued prosperity and success for future generations.

We the people who believe in the words of Ronald Reagan, that we are “the best last hope for man on this earth,” “a shining city on a hill,” and that our best days are before us if our Government will simply trust the American people.”

[rabscuttle385]

Here’s a newsflash for you, Skippy: you are the RINO not the GOP leadership.

I like peanut butter.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

I thought Skippy was a popular fictional kangaroo character from a children’s television program in Australia. :)

[Gilbo_3]

bmfam...

[TheFourthMagi]

The message that you sent was, quite literally, very gay.

So, don’t send any more messages. They will be deleted unopened.

That’s it.

It’s true that you signed up before I did. And yet, it is additionally true that you are an inestimably pathetic individual, a coward, and a complete failure at life.

[hiredhand]

I like peanut butter.

Peanut butter is good! :-) Let's swap recipes that use peanut butter! Who wants to talk about a dead political party anyway? :-)

[DogBarkTree]

The irony here is that like you I too would like to see Sarah return and personally, Im very Pro Life. Please tell me how willing to put abortion behind other issue to win back the WH I’m a pathetic coward and failure? Not sure how long you’re going to last around here but I can say you’re on the wrong foot early on in your FR experience. As far as my messages being gay, it takes one to know one they say. Either way, posting in open threads isn’t the way to flame on FR. Just a little tip for you. We try not to air too much dirty laundry out in the open here. It only helps the other side use it against us.