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.
“Wait’ll you see the finger the Democrats will give you.”
That is exactly the kind of thinking that lost McCain this election. Fear has been shown, as a motivator, to be extremely lacking.
This idea that somewhere there is a group of pure people is not realistic.
Just observe the posts here on FR, which is supposed to be a group of like-minded people. Opinions are all over the place. We will never have concensus here on earth. It's not possible.
We have to wait for perfection in heaven.
Thanks. I think several FReepers have thought of it as well. I plan to start researching the PACs that are out there right now and see if any fit. If I find one I plan on throwing my energies behind them.
We really need the power of donations to keep these GOP conservatives in line. Running away from the fight for the party and taking the "high ground" waiting for the party to call us back is not going to work. We need to discuss plans on how to take back this country from the radical left before they destroy it.
I disagree.
If we leave the GOP and go to any 3rd party we will be surrendering to evil. The RATS will maintain a majority and expand on it. By the time a majority of the country figures out how bad national socialism is it will be too late!
We need to be more pragmatic in how we push our goals of LIFE, LIBERTY and the opportunity to PURSUE HAPPINESS.
Looking at the GOP the problem I see is we elected a majority, based on conservative principles and when in power they ignored us. Why? Because they knew we would support them in reelection.
What I'm throwing out there for discussion is why not give that support (money and time) to a PAC that only supports conservatives and mold the GOP to our will. If they want our support they have to remain conservative, when they aren't no money no support and we get another candidate to run in the primaries.
IOW, look how moveon.org took over the RATS and made it a radical left party.
“IOW, look how moveon.org took over the RATS and made it a radical left party. “
Moveon bought the RAT party. The RAT party lied to its constituents. That’s how they obtained power. Conservatives do not lie to their contsituents. We are up front with our beliefs and others have the choice to adopt our ideology or not.
We are not a political party. We are an ideology. To uninformed Democrats and Republicans, they believe they are a political party. They are also an ideology, a leftist ideology and just too ignorant to want to know.
This is why CNNABCNBCMSNBC treat their viewers like mushrooms, in the dark and fed nothing but crap. If people knew the truth they would leave in droves.
Problem is they are told by the media that Republicans and Conservatives are one in the same. And we are not. Finally, here’s the rub. If you aren’t Conservative then you are Liberal. We do not allow for middle ground. Based on that, we cannot be part of the Republican party. We have to be our own party and we have to convince others using our ideology on why we need strong candidates who believe in god and country.
Until we do that, all we are is a wing of the Republican party that the media and the leftists will exploit for their own political agenda.
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
Wrong.
Moveon.org started by only funding the most radical politicians and took off like brush fire. They expanded who they would support in elections and always controlled the contributions rather than giving them to the Rat party.
Some people just don't got a clue, and that includes you.
All the way up the line from public prosecutor to judge, congressman, senator, supreme, and POTUS.
We need to utilize all the mechanisms the Constitution gives us not to be tyrannized by pinheaded politicians and our so-called fellow Americans.
Here, try this instead:
If we ALL just leave to join a 3rd party.."
There, see how it works now?
All of us, including even you Republican sycophants.
"If we control the dollars we will have a greater impact on the GOP."
Trying to starve the GOP into submission by sending money to Republican PAC's?
How young are you, anyway?
Look, bud, I've already been through this, and I'm not getting any younger.
We can fix this problem the right way, or you will be left holding the bag long after I'm gone.
Hey kid, sometimes age brings wisdom but not always.
We can fix this problem the right way, or you will be left holding the bag long after I'm gone.
So long, bye-bye.
You guys can run off and stamp your feet when you don't get your way. All you've done with all that absolutism is marginalized yourselves. Instead of incrementally working towards a goal and compromising along the way you've held out for your principals. Hey why compromise you're absolutely right. Whoop tee do!
Now we are on the outside with very little power and almost no ability to move the country in the right direction. With friends like you guys who needs enemies.
Who has marginalized us? Not us, but rather G.W. Bush and the Republicans in Congress. That's who has marginalized us.
Instead of incrementally working towards a goal and compromising along the way you've held out for your principles.
Incrimentalism is what caused the liberal republicans to be elected and re-elected time after time. Years of compromising with the liberals gave us what we have today.
NOT holding fast to tour principals is what has given us John McCain, George Bush, Lincoln Chafee, etc. etc.
Oh, and of course, Barry O'Bama as your new President-elect.
George W. Bush has made it possible for the socialist baby-killer to become commander-in-Chief of the U.S. armed forces.
Be sure to thank him.
Now we are on the outside with very little power and almost no ability to move the country in the right direction.
I guess that leaves you up a creek then, doesn't it?
With friends like you guys who needs enemies.
Better friends you coudn't ask for.
Come join us in the Constitution Party.
It's where the conservatives are.
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