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 sure hope he feels better after his little rant.
With McLame playing drum major for the BIGGER-government-by-inches parade?
No thanks.
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BO's election now has us on the express-train to socialism, and I'd rather be around for the collapse of government than to leave it for my grandchildren to deal with.
Exactly!
I disagree. If we take over the party (think moveon.org) and force those that want our support to fight for republican principles we will win elections. The greatest period of growth and energy in the Pub party was when the Christian Coalition was in it's zenith. We need a new PAC that fills the same function.
Conservatives don't have their equivalent of George Soros. 99% of conservatives are simply hard working middle class people who live more or less pay check to pay check and who dream of someday being able to retire in comfort.
The Republican party has long been run by North Eastern liberals who live off contributions from billionaires and corporations. That is why the Republican party is often referred to as the "Party of the Rich".
I'm not sure they would miss our $100 donations. Also, I don't know how a conservative is supposed to work his way into the RNC heirarchy. In fact, I don't even know who runs the Republican party.
BTW what do you mean "regain"?
"The Republican Party can either stand for smaller government, lower taxes and freer people, or it can rot in hell."
That's wraps it up perfectly.
I agree with you. Most of the current mess (at all levels) happened on our "watch" so to speak, and I am not quite coward or hypocrite enough to be comfortable leaving my progeny "holding the bag".
I want my young son and my young grand-children (and THEIR children) to grow up in a truly FREE society, the government of which is ACTUALLY based on the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and the economy of which is based on REAL capitalism. I fear it is too late to SAVE what we (used to) have. So, the sooner Obama and his handlers destroy what is left, the sooner we can try to re-build another REAL Republic from the ashes of the National Socialism under which we currently live.
Step 1: Work to close all the primaries for national office; registered party members only.
With your line of thinking, perhaps you can get a job with the marketing department of GM.
If we can find a PAC that will represent us and only fund candidates that hold our views why not find out if they will miss our money. Moveon.org did get bank rolled by Soros, but we have forums like this. If we can identify a particular PAC we can count on instead of giving anything to the GOP give it to that PAC and when the GOP solicits funds tell them to ask that PAC. In short order the GOP will become very sensitive to that PAC and it's concerns.
BTW what do you mean "regain"?
There was a moment when the PUBS first earned a majority in the House where conservatism was the guiding force. It's when they moved away from "The Contract with America" that they started losing their way.
“Reach out? He has to be joking. These people will NEVER become conservatives. Neither will union workers, gays, feminists, welfare recipients, illegals, teachers, and the entire state of New York.”
FORM OUR OWN PARTY. What is so difficult here?
That was a grass roots movement headed by Newt. It died the very day Newt left office. The Republican Party itself probably opposed the Contract with America.
I disagree. Step one is for all conservatives to look away from the GOP. Instead work hard and donate money to true grassroots conservative groups. Work to make them as effective as the numerous left grassroots groups. If we could ever get to the position where conservative groups held the keys to the money then, and only then will we control the GOP.
No true conservative should ever send a dime to the GOP directly. They use the money against us.
We were sure on the same wavelength. See my post 53.
Unfortunately those days are long gone. It won't happen again.
Surely, you can see the extreme threat that is in Obama, Pelosi and Reid.
The libs are perfectly content to take whatever they can get incrementally. It's our side that wants it all or nothing. Why give up gained territory?
Unfortunately, most of those organizations you mention sold their souls to the exact same people who killed the GOP.
If the Republican Party keeps "gaining territory" at this clip, the Democrats will control every square inch of this country.
My position: conservatives need to CHANGE (excuse the term) the Republican party, not abandon it.
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