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HEY GOP -- GET CONSERVATIVE OR GET LOST
boblonsberry.com ^ | 11/14/08 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 11/14/2008 5:36:26 AM PST by shortstop

Frankly, I don’t give a damn about the Republican Party.

When a pair of shoes is worn out, I throw them away. If I can resole them, I do. If I can’t, they go in the trash. I don’t look back, I don’t mourn them, I just dump them.

Same for my political party.

If it helps me serve my country, fine. If it doesn’t, to hell with it.

It’s as simple as that.

And as the Republican Party lies in tatters on the ground, blown to smithereens by a philosophical suicide, it is no surprise that those who claim the right to put the pieces back together again are the very ones who pulled the trigger in the first place.

The Republican Party is dead because its body finally caught up to its soul.

The Republican Party got cancer and died. Its once-healthy heart was infiltrated and overwhelmed by the greed and lust for power of soulless people in positions of great authority. As it made compounding compromises with virtue it went from prom queen to town slut in record time.

It got lost in the woods of principle because it purposefully smashed its compass on a rock.

And the various plans for reconstructing the Republican Party seem written by the same pimps and pirates who destroyed it. The people who made the Republican Party stayed home on Election Day and the infiltrators who put it on the garbage heap claim now to be its caretakers and stewards.

And the Frankenstein of a party they want to cobble back together is nothing more than an impotent junior-Democrat party, not quite as socialist and not quite as oppressive and not quite as anti-American – but ultimately altogether as destructive of personal liberty and national character. They want a difference of degree, not of principle. They want to fight over the crumbs of power that fall from the jaws of an all-controlling government.

So to hell with them.

Either the Republican Party comes back closer to its roots, or it comes back without my vote or the votes of tens of millions of Americans just like me.

Americans who believe in individual liberty and self-reliance. Who’ve actually read the Constitution and know why this country was founded and how it was made great. Americans who are ashamed of the welfare line and resentful of Mr. Obama’s redistributive taxes. Americans who’ve sent generations of sons to defend this country and who today carry the burden of financially supporting it.

Americans who know that the government isn’t their mommy or their daddy and that freedom is more important than life, and immeasurably more important than a tax-rebate check or government health care.

The Republican Party can either stand for smaller government, lower taxes and freer people, or it can rot in hell.

The liberals on TV and the liberals in the Republican Party can laugh at that all they want. They can look down their noses at the rest of us all they wish, and they’ll keep getting more of what they got on Election Day. Real Republicans didn’t lose this election – they didn’t play this election. They stayed home, or they held their noses and voted for a man they admired but didn’t agree with.

Real Republicans gave their money and showed their support during the primary. By the time the general election came around, there was too much piss in the milkshake for them to have much of an appetite.

And to fix that the smart people want to unzip their pants and top it off.

Like I said, I don’t give a damn about the Republican Party. My family has been Republican since the election of 1860. We go back to Lincoln. But it’s never been about partisanship, it’s always been about patriotism. I’ve been a Republican because the Republican Party was good for America, because the Republican Party was a means to an end – a tool to defend the principles of American liberty.

And the Republican Party can either get back to that, or it can lie mummified in the pages of the history books.

It can continue its process of morphing into the me-too party, the perpetual lesser of two evils, or it can return to its roots – roots that are unashamedly conservative, that are unashamedly American, that are deep in the individualism and exceptionalism and liberty that made this country.

Or, like I said, it can go to hell.

I’ve scraped worse stuff off my shoes before, I won’t shed any tears over the death of this party. The day it sold out my values and my country – on everything from the deficit to illegal immigration to free pills for grama – it lost me. We gave the Republican Party the presidency and both houses of Congress, and it gave us the finger.

And now it wants a double dose of the poison that killed it. It wants to reconstruct itself as the antithesis of what it used to be. It wants to reject conservatives and conservatism. So let it. If the Republican bosses want to join the Democrats in making toilet paper of the Constitution, let them.

We don’t need them, but sometime and somewhere they’re going to need us.

And that’s when we’ll give them the finger.

Like we did last Tuesday.


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To: shortstop

So are you saying, “these boots are made for walking”?...I’m like most of you....I yearn for someone like Ronald Reagan. I heard this young guy, Pence has what it takes...Anyone know anything about him>?


101 posted on 11/14/2008 8:04:26 AM PST by ONEBYEONE
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To: shortstop

The GOP just needs to join the Dem party and be done with it. That is whi and where they want to be.

We need a Conservative Party, a party that is what and where WE want to be as conservatives.

The GOP is stuck on stupid. And you can’t fix stupid.


102 posted on 11/14/2008 8:05:21 AM PST by exit82 (It's all Obama's fault. And Biden is still a moron. They are both above their paygrade.)
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To: CharacterCounts

How many times have YOU contacted anyone to counteract the media’s “the voters want Republicans to reach ...” line? During the primaries did you work for anyone or just sit and whine: “No one represents me”?


103 posted on 11/14/2008 8:26:28 AM PST by sticker
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma
Where are you going to get the people to achieve a number sufficient to win an election? They’re going to have to come from the Republican party. It’s the same people with a different name. Why don’t we just change the name of the Republican party and make everyone feel happy.

We could start with the million who stayed home and didn't bother to vote in this election. Virginia went blue because disgusted conservatives didn't have a dog in this race. Then we can go after the millions more who held their noses and voted for McCain or who voted for Palin.

The GOP is permanently damaged. I've been a Republican all my adult life and I'm embarrassed to say that now becasue the people we have running this party are grossly incompetent and completely obsessed with their own perks and power. They're happy being relegate3d to minority status because they get to enjoy their perks and their power without the responsibility of governing as a majority. As far as I'm concerned Republican = Failure and I will no longer be associated with them.

104 posted on 11/14/2008 8:29:05 AM PST by pgkdan ("White folks greed runs a world in need," Jeremiah Wright as quoted by Barack Obama)
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To: shortstop
"Conservative Third Party!!??...But...but...but...bbbbbuuuttttt.....you will ONLY END UP RE-ELECTING OBAMA!!!"

Just trying out my RINO whistle for 2012. /sarc

105 posted on 11/14/2008 8:30:53 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (What kind of adults will those lil' kids grow up to be? You know..They sang about "messiah" Obama..)
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To: unixfox
we needed to "reach out" more to blacks and hispanics.

that is collectivistic mentality.Natural rights, freedom, and private property are possesions of all individuals, and a limited government that recognizes these is acting in the interest of everyone and in accordance with the individualism of the founding fathers, and not just for one group over another.

106 posted on 11/14/2008 8:37:30 AM PST by mjp (Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck)
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To: EternalVigilance
Therefore it's dead, my friend. Dead. Dead. Dead.

Amen! RIP!

107 posted on 11/14/2008 8:37:51 AM PST by pgkdan ("White folks greed runs a world in need," Jeremiah Wright as quoted by Barack Obama)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

LOL!


108 posted on 11/14/2008 8:49:26 AM PST by TADSLOS (McCain Courted Socialism and Brought Us Marxism Instead)
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To: sticker
I did less in 2008 because I did not believe in the candidate. McCain, Rove and even the second term Bush did not stand for me. I was mostly voting against Obama. If you want to put blame on me or other conservatives because the GOP was taken over by a bunch of me-too moderates go ahead, flame away. It still will not get you wins.

The message is simple, if the GOP wants conservative support it needs to become more conservative. If it doesn't want our support, then it can go to hell.

I did plenty in 2004 and before and got shafted. You just don't get it. A whole lot of conservatives do not believe the Republican party will ever stand by them. You keep right on working within the party if you want to, but do not expect a bailout from conservatives as your party becomes a permanent minority party.

109 posted on 11/14/2008 8:53:53 AM PST by CharacterCounts (Wanted: Snappy, erudite tag line.)
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To: Travis McGee

More like a zombie elephant at the moment. It’s dead but doesn’t know it yet. Just staggering around in zombie like fashion wanting to infect anyone it touches to walk dead with it.


110 posted on 11/14/2008 8:57:02 AM PST by TADSLOS (McCain Courted Socialism and Brought Us Marxism Instead)
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To: shortstop

Fine, If you want to create a Viable Third Party, you’ll have to go the House and Senate and talk to CONSERVATIVES on both sides of the aisle and find out if they’ll change their affiliation.

They’ll say NO because THE ONES WITH THE MONEY to advertise for them are the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.

My son in law ran as a Libertarian for a House Seat in the Alabama legislature a number of years ago. He got 2700 or 2900 votes out of all the votes cast. Something like 15% or there about. He ran as a Libertarian because HIS COST to have the Party support him was less than the Republican’s (they wanted $5000 from him for their support).

Unless a bunch of people have a bunch of money to organize a third party it is not going to happen. So, my advice is: KwitcherBellyachin’ and get ACTIVE in the Party of your Choice.

That said, sounds as if Obama can start his own political party with his foreign financial investors, ACORN, CAIR, the Chicago Machine and the starry eyed youth (in Brown Shirts).


111 posted on 11/14/2008 9:07:38 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (Psalm 66:7b "He watches every movement of the nations. Rebels will not be able to oppose Him.")
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To: shortstop

“Either the Republican Party comes back closer to its roots, or it comes back without my vote or the votes of tens of millions of Americans just like me.”

And me....... No more compromise... no more leftist agenda. I’m a Conservative and I’ll vote only for TRUE Conservatives. If they don’t measure up to my standards too bad, I’m not lowering my standards for any of these jokers.

Mike


112 posted on 11/14/2008 9:16:03 AM PST by BCR #226 (07/02 SOT www.extremefirepower.com...The BS stops when the hammer drops.)
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To: pgkdan
The GOP is permanently damaged. I've been a Republican all my adult life and I'm embarrassed to say that now becasue the people we have running this party are grossly incompetent and completely obsessed with their own perks and power. They're happy being relegate3d to minority status because they get to enjoy their perks and their power without the responsibility of governing as a majority. As far as I'm concerned Republican = Failure and I will no longer be associated with them.

This sums up a lot of how I feel. Bush had a Republican Congress, and they all spent our money just as bad or worse than the liberals. Bobby Jindal was right, the GOP has strayed and it's going to be punished for it.

The thing that disappoints me most is that we had some conservative candidates in 2008, but they were ultimately beaten in the primaries, and we ended up with non-conservatives McCain and Palin (sorry folks, until she publicly renounces her support of amnesty and the pro-amnesty comments she made, she's not a conservative). It really makes you wonder about the party, where the money goes.

I've said it many times, I'm still the same Conservative I've always been, and I'm not leaving the party, the party has left me.

I will not be voting straight-ticket GOP come 2010 and 2012. I will only vote for Conservatives from here on out, which means probably a lot of third party candidates for me.


113 posted on 11/14/2008 9:25:45 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: pgkdan

Please take a look at the Constitution Party. The last two weeks, I bounced around looking for a new party.... then, my wife says, “I support the Constitution Party” Next, two scout leaders during a camp-out talk up the virtues of “The Constitution Party”. Yesterday, I saw my first “I vote Constitution” bumber sticker! The fog and mourning I have had since the election lifted and I felt good walking around SAM’s Club. We all can form up on this new mission. Leave the liberals and “moderates” the stinking dead elephant. Let’s form up to protect the beautiful “U.S. Constitution”. The left (except Barry Obama and “Constitution is a flawed document” and “negative rights”) wouldn’t dare attack it without looking like the socialist/communist they really are. It is a great Brand that represents freedom.


114 posted on 11/14/2008 9:42:32 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)
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To: Conservativegreatgrandma

Then, lets flood them with conservative Free Republic blood and form up behind the name and our Constitution. When you were there before, the time wasn’t right. Maybe, it is time now. I am disallusioned with the GOP.


115 posted on 11/14/2008 9:46:28 AM PST by FreeAtlanta (Join the Constitution Party)
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To: shortstop
The Republican Party got cancer and died. Its once-healthy heart was infiltrated and overwhelmed by the greed and lust for power of soulless people in positions of great authority. As it made compounding compromises with virtue it went from prom queen to town slut in record time.

Yeah, maybe so, BUT our guys got invited to some of the A list cocktail parties... /s

116 posted on 11/14/2008 9:50:01 AM PST by GOPJ (Election Day... liberals who had spent years praising McCain all voted for Obama - Coulter)
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To: shortstop

“Real Republicans didn’t lose this election “

Who are the “real” Republicans? Even in conservative York County, PA, the party regulars were always more concerned with patronage and pork than conservatism.


117 posted on 11/14/2008 9:52:00 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: sticker

“We would have had more influence with McCain than we will ever have with barry. “

We’ve never had any influence with McCain before. What makes you think he would listen to us if he would be President?


118 posted on 11/14/2008 9:53:19 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: sticker
You'll never, ever convince the clowns who like to pretend they were loyal to whatever principals they believe they are upholding that they gave us Obama. By definition they won't let themselves be convinced, because then they lose their self-given right to lord over us how wonderfully “pure” they think they are.
119 posted on 11/14/2008 9:56:28 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: Designer
Much easier to simply join another party.

I disagree.

If we just leave to join a 3rd party we end up with no voice because the 3rd party will not win enough seats to be effective.

I think the better way is to mold the GOP to our will with our dollars. Do not give any money to the GOP. Give the dollars to a PAC that will only help conservatives, with the clear understanding that when they stop acting like conservatives they stop getting the support and we run a candidate against them in the primaries.

120 posted on 11/14/2008 9:58:47 AM PST by wmfights (Elections have Consequences!)
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