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.
I worked as an economic adviser for Senator Lugar back in the 70's. Now, I don't even recognize who he is. He's a Democrat in sheep's clothing. We have kept more RINO's in office than deserve to be there. It's time to clean house and start over. If I don't see a heart-to-heart from the GOP and a change in the GOP voting record, I may as well vote democrat. More and more I think I side with the Libertarians than the GOP. Perhaps that's where I should start putting my political energies.
The GOP is a rudderless ship without vision or direction. They spend and tax like drunken fools and I will no longer support them. I'm pissed, and they are going to have to work hard to get me back into the fold.
That is the truth. They took years of effort designed to protect life, balance budgets, protect America, and restore decency, and they took avarice, corruption, and hunger for power to heights beyond which even Democrats had not achieved.
Can this Republican brand be stolen and turned to something good?
Can the Contitution Party amass the numbers that would split the nation into three camps? It would require the Dems and Reps to fight over the other 2/3rds...or would they more likely join forces?
The Libertarians are out, because they refuse to protect life.
A lot of us here at FR are conservatives FIRST. We gravitated to, and supported, the Republican Party because it represented our values and beliefs.
It no longer does that.
It’s not a matter of “spoiled children” or “taking our toys and going home”. It’s a matter of a substantial number of patriotic citizens being unwilling to compromise their core principles to support a bunch of “liberals in elephant’s clothing”.
When/if the Republicrat Criminal Syndicate (aka “Republican” Party) finds its way and returns to its core values, and becomes truly Republican again, I will support it and its candidates. Until then, I will be completely “free-lance” with my vote.
The biggest difference is the Rats will just get us to the disaster of big govt in every aspect of our lives quicker. The Pubs quickly moved to the "center" after the debacle of 2006. The calculation being "if we push those hard right conservatives and Christians into the background we can get the soccer moms and independents". The Pubs got neither and now we have nothing.
The answer has always been push the country club blue nosed Pubs to the corner and put conservatism out front. Yes that includes those "wacky" Christians who believe in protecting innocent life.
If we would just stand up for FREEDOM, LIFE and the opportunity to PURSUE HAPPINESS we can gain a majority again. We need to preach that govt control over your life may guarantee some level of security, but it does so by destroying the human spirit to be free.
Well, he sputtered for a few moments and finally offered up the thought that I should remember that a former president had had a similar experience.
The GOP and the upcoming trainee/interns are absolutely lost!
Tell me, what do you think they're going to do for you?
Hispanics tend to have a conservative family structure. We need to marginalize the radical elements like La Raza and the easiest way to do that is show what happens to the family structure under Rat govt. Probably the easiest organizations to do this through would be the pentecostal Hispanic churches. Unfortunately the Pub elites look down their noses at the religious side of the party.
The GOP has to earn it. As of now, have they not only not earned it, they have spurned it!!
Yup. There's a word for political parties that continually scorn, use and/or ignore their voting base.
That word is: losers.
Republicans need to start their own long march back through all the institutions they ceded. Otherwise, the default mode of this society will be liberal, and what’s left of the Republican party will be reduced to begging the electorate for the occasional opportunity to prove it can run the liberal state just as well as liberals can.
Wouldn't it be easier to take over the GOP and force the "moderates" to the back of the room?
Quote of the day!!!
Tell me, exactly what has the Republican party done for me?
Let me help you out: bigger government, nationalization of private enterprise, huge national debt, ran a RINO as our presidential candidate and helped the liberal/socialist democrats sweep the entire f&^%king federal government under their control!!
Yeah, I think I should forget about CP and stick with the Repubs............................................NOT!
We need a new brand name. The old one is pretty tainted.
It would seem that the easiest path is to take over the party.
It really would not be that hard. Look at how McCain surged after he picked Gov. Palin and how he fell and never regained his lead after the economic bailout. The point being a huge majority in the GOP are conservative Christians who do not want govt in all parts of our lives.
In order to regain control PACs are going to have to be formed that the majority of our contributions go to. If the GOP doesn't return to our beliefs they don't get our money (think moveon.org).
Excellent, excellent article
I've watched the savagely partisan msm/dnc get away with treason and deceit for years while the gop tried to play nice. But now that the gop handed the entire leadership of our country to these barbarians, all that's left to do is to impotently watch them rape, pillage and burn everything I cared for.
There is only a one party system in the United States today: the democrats. They own the media, the educational institutions and all three branches of government.
Heil obama!
Reagan carried NY in 1980 and 1984...
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