Posted on 11/24/2008 12:18:52 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com
How can the Republican Party rebound? The first step would be to quit letting Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham set its agenda.
A second step would be for Congressional Republicans to actually try to help President-elect Barack Obama succeed in addressing the country’s dire problems — offering better ideas where appropriate and opposing just when necessary, not reflexively.
And the third — maybe the biggest one — would be for GOP governors to use their posts to show the country how conservatives can solve problems, especially the dismal state of American education and its menacing cousin, lagging American competitiveness.
If one governor would fully implement a widely circulated proposal to transform U.S. education — based on having most children graduate after 10th grade and using the savings to pay teachers like professionals — it could serve as a model for the nation and bring the United States back to world standards.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.indianagazette.com ...
That was my first thought.
What the heck? When has the GOP ever listened to Rush, Hannity, Ingraham? Perhaps back when they were on a role with the "contract for america" and they were actually getting somewhere with conservative values.
jw
Wouldn't that create a perpetual minimum-wage class?
...it could serve as a model for the nation and bring the United States back to world standards.
How would we be back to world standards with a generation with only a 10th-grade education? Where will the scientists, economists, doctors, historians, writers, engineers, and political leaders come from?
-PJ
“A second step would be for Congressional Republicans to actually try to help President-elect Barack Obama succeed in addressing the country’s dire problems — offering better ideas where appropriate and opposing just when necessary, not reflexively.”
You mean the way the RAT party did when Bush was elected and they were out of power? The RATS did exactly the opposite of what this fool is proposing. They reflexively opposed EVERYTHING and demonized Bush at every opportunity. They didn’t become the Republican party lite, they went HARD LEFT. Seems to have worked remarkably well. Maybe thats why Morty is recommending the opposite.
“he is only interested in one thing... stem cells because of his late wife’s illness”
Then raise money for research yourself, you lazy bastard.
Sorry Mort, but the problem with conservatism in government is that it tries to masquerade as liberalism in the name of “bipartisanship.”
Smaller government, more reliance on individual responsibility, and no more handouts from the public trough.
And here are his wife's recent political contributions (via the FEC). Mort has none (at least in his own name):
KONDRACKE, MARGUERITE
WASHINGTON, DC 20007
AMERICA'S PROMISE ALLIANCE/PRESID
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03/19/2008 |
1000.00 |
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04/03/2008 |
-1000.00 |
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04/03/2008 |
1000.00 |
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04/03/2008 |
2300.00 |
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KONDRACKE, MARGUERITE
WASHINGTON, DC 20007
AMERICA'S PROMISE ALLIANCE/PRESID
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09/04/2008 |
250.00 |
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10/15/2008 |
1300.00 |
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KONDRACKE, MARGUERITE
WASHINGTON, DC 20007
AMERICA'S PROMISE ALLIANCE
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09/19/2008 |
250.00 |
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KONDRACKE, MARGUERITE
WASHINGTON, DC 20007
AMERICA'S PROMISE ALLIANCE/PRESID
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10/15/2008 |
250.00 |
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Rush let the Country Club blue bloods determine the outcome in the primaries. He explicitly didn't call the shots, and that, perhaps more than anything other single thing let the debacle that was McLame get his clock cleaned.
Although Fred might've been dearest to Rush's heart, I don't believe Rush saw a clear "must have" in the race. With the way the primaries were pre-stacked, the Republicans' conservative-haters were in the drivers' seat from the start.
If Johnny hadn't picked Sarah or Jindal, it probably would have been a 60-40 rout, which is not to say the Dem's did anything honestly.
What Mort is basically reflecting upon is that the Country Clubbers want to use this opportunity of their defeat to shift the burden to bury the Conservatives, about whom they continue to be embarrassed--wrongfully. McCain's associates were comfortable dissing Sarah because they knew how the old man feels.
As Rush is wont to say, "Reaganism is not dead", nor does Conservatism need to be redefined or updated."
You're going the way of the dinosaurs, Mort! Go of and let yourself be petrified of the Sarah-tide that's coming.
HF
Are these people idiots?? The problem with the Republican party is that they're NOT articulating a conservative agenda.
So according to Mort all would be well with the GOP if only conservative "troglodytes" (one of Morty's favorite words) would abandon their principles and support homosexual marriage, open borders, and amnesty for tens of millions of illegals and their extended families. So all we have to do is become libs, eh Mort? Is that all? He and his fellow "Beltway Boy" Fred Barnes see eye to eye.
Ditto's
Uhhhhhhhhh guess what Morty, it is YOU that will be ignored.
On second thought, it's nicer out here in Independent land. No need to clean up after the RINO herd. Reagan needs a new house. The old one just needs to be condemned.
Kondracke makes no pretense of being a Republican.
He just pretends to be a “moderate.”
Every time I have seen Mort Kondracke on Fox News talking to Fred Barnes or anybody else, you can tell he is a Democrat. He may not be as liberal and as far as the rest of them, but he is a Democrat. When a Democrat offers the opposition advice on how to win, I think it would only be wise, if you want to win, to follow the contrary.
I would not seek to abandon anybody who was right on so many occasions.
Rush said in 2006 that the Republican defeat will lead to the nomination of John McCain in 2008. It happened. In 2008, Rush kept hammering McCain on his “sucking up” to Obama on numerous occasions (NAACP speech, the Obama is “an arab” reply, etc.)
Please give a read to my article on this exact subject from my board.
Obama Victory, Parallels to 1976, & the Future
http://makingsense.proboards27.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=146
Nobody likes a lukewarm candidate, especially when substance is on his side. Lukewarm candidates are usually people who know what the right thing to do is, but is diluted (watered down) to appease the opposition, so liberalism sneaks in to every policy there. Not a winning strategy if you ask me.
Average teacher salary approx 50K
Average school year 180 work days
Average school day 6.5 hours
180 x 6.5 = 1170 hours
50000/1170 = 42.735 / hour.
Average professional with Masters degree 80K
Average work year 260 days
Average work day 8 hours
260 x 8 = 2080
80000/2080 = 38.46 / hour
Looks to me like they are paid a fair wage for their services Mort.
Yes
I agree
We should ignore Rush and Hannity and we should listen more to people like Ted Nugent and Ann Coulter. Just my opinion.
If our wonderful McCain listened to and had Rushs temperment and Rush, he would have won pulling away.
Remember several years ago the late Molly Ivins made the comment about George Bush that “one of the key traits of a ‘dry drunk’ is impatience?”
Maybe Mort’s fallen off the wagon...
There, fixed it.
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