Posted on 12/29/2008 10:36:03 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Sounds of discord are getting louder at the Republican National Committee as battles between conservatives and moderates intensify in the six-way race for the chairmanship of the national party committee that will set the course for the future of a party diminished in the wake of the 2008 elections.
Conservatives are working to exert their influence over the direction of the party with a resolution circulated over the weekend that plainly expresses the party’s opposition to past and future bailout legislation.
“I think the bailouts are just wrong and take us in a profoundly radical, left wing direction,” said prominent Republican attorney James Bopp Jr., a vice chairman of the RNC and author of the resolution, in an interview.
It is a potentially precedent-setting move as the RNC has principally served as a political operation and has not waded in to policy debates outside of its national platform which is debated and approved every four years at the nominating conventions.
The problem, some RNC members say, is that the platform is then shelved and its policies are regularly ignored by elected officials.
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Privatizing profits and nationalizing losses is facism.
The industrious individual or the Forgotten Man will not stand for it!
Beware the Snowball effect!
Three fine examples of why Conservatives from all parties need to unify and dump those in both the RNC and DNC.
When people can't handle reality the rest of us need to turn away our faces.
Battles between conservatives and all others. Moderates are undependable. They will vote “whichever way the wind blows”, cross party lines, use bipartisanship, etc, etc.
IMHO, this is between right and wrong, not necessarily shades of gray, which is what a moderate will likely chose.
Right or wrong? conservative or “other”??
support the Constitution-every time!
support the military;
support the unborn;
support reasonable, not confiscatory taxation;
support wealth creation, not wealth redistribution;
support marriage between one man and one woman;
support the right to keep and bear arms (see support the Constitution);
support legal immigration and border control;
On and on. Moderates and liberals/socialist will generally only do what is politically expedient and self benefitting.
(Say No to Compassionate Conservativism)
“In this, fascism revealed its roots in syndicalism, a form of socialism originating on the left. The government cartelized firms of the same industry, with representatives of labor and management serving on myriad local, regional, and national boards—subject always to the final authority of the dictator’s economic plan. Corporatism was intended to avert unsettling divisions within the nation, such as lockouts and union strikes. The price of such forced “harmony” was the loss of the ability to bargain and move about freely.
To maintain high employment and minimize popular discontent, fascist governments also undertook massive public-works projects financed by steep taxes, borrowing, and fiat money creation. While many of these projects were domestic—roads, buildings, stadiums—the largest project of all was militarism, with huge armies and arms production.”
Quote from “The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Fascism”
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Fascism.html
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Which means that it won't be $775 billion but it'll be like $650 billion in which Republicans can then beat their chests and brag about how much they "cut" from Zero's proposal.
Republicans in Congress are going to bend over for Obama. There are too many moderate Republicans in both the House and Senate willing to compromise.
Where is Compassionate Conservativism?
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