Posted on 11/10/2008 7:01:14 AM PST by ncphinsfan
Congratulations to Barack Obama, the incoming 44th president of the United States. He soon will fill America’s highest office after a nearly flawless, first-time White House bid. He demonstrates that education, eloquence, and elegance trump lingering racial bias. His staunchly left-liberal ideas aside, he inspires in many ways. May he govern justly and make every American proud.
Now, what about those whom Obama and his supporters vanquished? What the Republican party badly needs is a Night of the Long Knives.
The GOP has been laid low, thanks to politicians who swapped their principles for power and lost both. As the chief electoral vehicle for conservative and free-market ideas, the Republican party cannot regain America’s confidence —nor should it — until the guilty have been cast into the nearest volcano.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Take note that at no point does Murdock suggest that Sarah Palin should be given a second look.
Wut?
John McCain and Sarah Palin campaigned energetically while advocating lower spending and tax cuts. Alas, the bailout fiasco cut them off at the knees. They otherwise might have prevailed, and deserve praise for trying to do the right thing.
What the Republican Party desperately needs is a FUNERAL.
Boner is still running the House Republicans. Snow, Collins et al are still elected “Republicans” along with Linsey Graham and other RINOS, ready at a moment’s notice to join with Barack to screw us. They are considering taking Liberman into the Republican Fold. They are trashing a great American and real conservative Sarah Palin.
I don’t think there are enough knoves in America to adequately pare the chronic Quislings and weasels who were active participants in the destruction of this party of the inept, unwilling, and clueless.
Palin, Jindhal, Sandford, etc, need to start another political party. The American People want change. We should give it to them.
Sure some of the names he puts forward are fine...but there are some missing.
He needs to remember that pro growth principles must be coupled with pro traditional family values and principles along with an agressive and principled defense. The GOP cannot have one without the other two. The GOP cannot survive one without the other two.
How can any conservative be inspired by someone with “staunchly left-liberal ideas?”
How can that glaring fact be simply put “aside?”
This is the kind of double-mindedness that Murdock decries, i.e., the personal lives of Republican leaders, and what has got us where we are today:
the willingness to jettison principle for pragmatism.
Double-minded, I say, and unstable.
No, he did not mention Gov. Palin. My guess is that either:
a) He believed her to be unqualified to lead, or
b) He believes she is “damaged goods” by her association with an incompetent socialist-lite campaign.
Based on her performance as Governor of Alaska, I doubt option “a” is true, but in politics, perception is reality.
Yes, exactly. Damned with faint praise. Does he mention Palin in the same breath as Jindal? No.
The article is not about Palin, nor Jindal. It is about the problem Republicans in DC.
I have been hearing the talking point “damaged goods” referred to Sarah.
Her post-election Borking has already begun.
I think he did not mention Palin more prominently because the problems in the Republican party are structural and this needs to be corrected. They go far beyond Palin.
I’m very much against Newt leading the RNC for the reasons that Mr. Murdock lays out. His time has come and gone. He certainly has lost the moral authority to lead the party.
Geez, guys, this is not about Sarah Palin. Murdock failed to mention her, so, frigging, what? Put her name in there. That’s not the point of the damned column.
We’re sounding a lot like Johnny One Note.
The country is still almost evenly divided.
The church needs to do its job of evangelization instead of pop psychology and get people’s hearts changed.
I voted for Jimmy Carter and then I got saved and have voted Republican ever since.
In light of this, I have no idea what he means when he says "the guilty should be cast into the nearest volcano" (referring to Republicans who turned their back on conservative principles.
She is blooming as a leader and strong conservative. Talk about her being already past as a person to fill higher office is nonsense.
The only thing that would do that is, if she did not want to answer the call.
It is most difficult to have every tiny thing in a persons life held up under a microscope; and have a twisted perspective and motive attributed to everthing one does.
A huge price to pay. My view of her is I believe she is capable and has time to get the overall picture. I would vote for her.
She is smart, honest, speaks and thinks on her feet effectively. She has a wonderful family, she loves God; and lives a Christian life: she is not afraid to take on her own party, against corruption. She is conservative and the people of Alaska support her.
Sarah Palin has 4 years to educate herself on the national and world scene and issues.
She is a winner. She is (an excellent first lady candidate) to be a President of the U. of America.
I believe she is capable and has time to get the overall picture. I would vote for her.
MO
"When Bush arrived, Washington consumed 18.4 percent of Gross Domestic Product. Uncle Sam now devours 22.5 percent of the economy, reported Jon Ward in the October 19 Washington Times. “The country has gone from a $128 billion budget surplus when Mr. Bush took office to a deficit of at least $732 billion in fiscal 2009,” Ward writes. “No president since FDR — who offered a New Deal to pull the nation out of the Great Depression and then fought World War II — has presided over as rapid a growth in government when measured as a percentage of the total economy.”
While much of Bush’s spending has funded defense and the War on Terror, most of it vanished into the furnaces of No Child Left Behind, the 2002 Farm Bill, the 2003 Medicare drug entitlement, the 2005 highway bill, the 2006 ethanol mandate, at least 69,341 earmarks, and much, much more. In 2001, Bush launched federal embryonic stem-cell research. By 2008, he added the word “nationalization” to the American vocabulary, and underscored it with nearly $1 trillion in bailouts and Third World—-style government ownership stakes in banks and financial houses.
Nevertheless, Bush is the GOP’s Jimmy Carter, a weak bumbler who embarrassed his constituents, betrayed his philosophical movement, sank his party, and eventually surrendered the White House to the opposition, this time led by the Senate’s Number One liberal, still in his first term. Bush should retire quietly to Texas, where he can drive his truck, chop wood, and avoid the limelight for the balance of his natural existence."
I cant add anything except "please forgive us GWB faithful, we feel betrayed beyond belief and we need make sure it doesnt happen again. "
I’m beginning to actually wonder whether conservatives need the republican party, a party which in part is actively suggesting it doesn’t really need or want conservatives.
Maybe we could better spend our time and energy encouraging Sarah Palin and other seemingly solid conservatives to consider a viable third party in time to run in 2012. Plenty of time. If the likes of Frum, Will, Noonan et al are going to display their revulsion at non-elite outsiders tainting their party, why even hope they’ll come around. Very likely they won’t, and they can sing the praises of a gutted has-been party to their hearts’ content while a real party builds.
And so what if it doesn’t work in 2012? What’s the worst that could happen, a liberal in the White House? It was destined to happen either way this year.
My short list ping.
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