Posted on 01/19/2009 3:56:08 PM PST by The Mayor
Time for a revolt? Yes, it is. It is actually long past due for one, and now is the time to start.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." Thomas Jefferson
All over the country Republicans have been losing elections, from here in New York to the National elections. Why? Simple, they have lost their way and have strayed so far from their base no one wants to support them or vote for them.
The Republicans have had their chance to set the agenda, but over the past eight years they proved that once in DC, they throw their constituents under the bus. I feel sorry for the people that call me from the RNC looking for donations, I give them an earful, tell them to pass on my thoughts and concerns to the supposed "Leadership". I have refused to donate but still get letters and questionnaires in the mail. We know these are only pretentious efforts to make us believe we are helping to set the agenda. No, the only thing the RNC looks for is that check in the envelope. I have been tempted to send these back empty.
Now it seems that all the Leaders are scratching their heads wondering what they have done wrong. We need new leaders they say, yet the ones that come to the forefront are from the same group that had a part in putting us in the situation we are in today.
Why are they scratching their heads anyway? If they had been listening to us, as they say, they would know why we are in the losers seat. Their answer to the question? Well that was revealed by Limbaugh in an insiders report from the Republican Retreat. Their orders are to basically "Retreat", and now GW Bush is saying we all must get along. Who are they trying to kid, what are they trying to hide? Basically they want us to surrender to the left. Surrender? Sorry that word is not in my vocabulary.
This weekend we had our first meeting of Primary Challenge. The agenda for the next couple of years is to find candidates to run for the Erie County Legislature and other seats that are up in the county. Next year we will be running candidates to challenge the Party committee seats, both Republican and Democrats. The politicos have been in their own world of greed and corruption for so long, it is time to clean house.
It's time to bring Primary Challenge to the National level.
So how do we take back the Republican Party and Congress and rebuild? We have to do this on two fronts. Taking over the committees at the local level is one step and is a long and tedious process but one that must be done. Usually committee seats are only up every two years. Here in New York, that election just occurred, so we have two years to get the right people in place. We need people, people that are fed up and willing to stop sitting on their apathy, stop being keyboard activists, to get up and do something about it.
The next step is one that has to start now, and the House of Representatives is a primary concern. Searching out Reagan Conservative Republicans to run in a Primary against the incumbents is the place to focus. We need to list the RINO's that need to be eliminated in the next election and the Primary is where they are most vulnerable. By listing them now, making this list very public and in their faces, we can hold them accountable for their votes over the next two years. If they know we are coming and they lose, maybe, just maybe they will get the message that the base is taking the Party back..
We are fed up with the excessive spending, the bloated government, the taxes, the patronage, regulations, restrictions, earmarks, government intervention, government control and the surrendering of all we stand for as Reagan Conservatives. Smaller, more efficient, less intrusive government, the free markets, Capitalism and the infrastructure that made this the Great Country we are. We have become a government dependent society where government supposedly has the answers for everything. The same people that got us here are going to fix this mess? I think not.
Last I knew Congress had an approval rating of 12. This proves the point that WE, The People are no longer in control. It is time to put We The People back in charge.
If Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingrahm, Boortz, and the rest of the Conservative talk show hosts are serious about what they say, and their desire to take back the country to put Reagan Conservatives back in charge, they should be all over this plan.
"It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work -- work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it." --Ronald Reagan
So there’s a common thread. Liberals are girly-men.
They and their supporters are clowns, and stooges of Mike Long. They have nowhere to go but down.
It was a Republican governor and a Republican State Senate that legalized abortion in New York before Roe V. Wade.
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Right to Life is now gone, as it insisted on running its own candidates even when the Republican/Conservative candidate was pro-life. It should have been called the Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face Party. Their motto: "We'll send them a message." It deserved to die.
Working Families has no members, just Democrat union members who vote the WFP line, but it functions to make the Democratic Party seem more moderate than it is. Started by machine Democrats.
The Conservative Party, I will stick my neck out to say, shows the state GOP up for what it truly is: not conservative.
They may be "top-down" as it stands, but if enough of us join the Conservative Party, perhaps we can make it more "bottom-up."
The Reagan era is gone.
How well I know.
It's been gone since Bush I was in the White House.
Going John Galt can be done immediately. Plus it is cheap, stealth, legal and offers plenty of days off for fishing. It will buy time while we figure out if we promote the Constitutional Party or another conservative party. Fire the republicans.
The blue states wouldn’t let us go. Who do you think is paying their bills?
This means attending your county GOP meetings every month and getting your conservative viewpoints registered. It means bringing in like-minded friends and relatives and getting them involved. We have to capture local races as well as national, otherwise guys like Franken take advantage of their Soros-funded, local government plants. We have to get our kind of people into town, county and state positions and once secured we have to work our way up to national offices.
More important, even when we are stuck with RINOs, we have to get out there and vote for them anyway. A RINO may only give you 51% of what you want but it's better than any deal an Al Franken will give you. Liberals may whine and cry a lot, but they don't whine that their candidate is not democrat enough. They put their vote in for Lieberman and take the good with the bad. This is an incremental fight and 51% with some victories is better than 49% with no chance at all.
The country our parents built for us is too precious to let fall because intricate wants are not completely met by our representation. We are working against a biased media and a liberal education system which means our ideas will not be carried by anything short of a massive grass-roots effort. Let's take a lesson from the libtards; Think nationally and act locally.
If only we could overthrow or neutralize Mike Long, and take an aggressive stand against the government bureaucracy (way too many party functionaries are state and local employees, especially on Staten Island), then it may be a party worth utilizing.
-- Barack Obama July 2, 2008
Obama will bring change:
One day you're just another black supremacist thug, knocking heads for Louie Farrakhan, the day after the Coronation you're an officer in the Obama National Security Force.
How do we get a conservative message out now that the media as a whole has come out as blatantly and unapologetically for the left? And that’s still where most people get their information-from traditional newspapers and television news.
Not to mention, all the questions stated in earlier posts, such as how to break the stranglehold that the entrenched Republicans have on power, who are more wedded to their perks and power than to conservative principle, such as that it takes big money to run for office now, and those that have it seem to run in order to increase it, and such as that we are indeed in uncharted waters now as a nation, this is not merely just the usual swing of the pendulum? Such as that it seems most conservatives have jobs and families, and can’t take the time to gather in DC or other places in large numbers, like the liberals do, and do goofy things in large numbers that get the attention of the media (and they would only either ignore or ridicule any such efforts by conservatives anyway)? Such as that too many people, even those who may have formerly voted Republican, seem to have given in to the “gimme” mentality, and actively desire a government from which they can leech? It seems the whole spirit of what it has always meant to be an American has undergone some sea change. I’m doubtful it’s recoverable at this point.
I would second that, if not for the fact that New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut have been subsidizing the rest of the country (including the South) for almost a century. We give considerably more than we get back from the Feds.
No. Conservative believe this. Republicans have long since proven that THEY DO NOT!
And until the Republican party is controlled once again by conservatives, they will not be in power.
Furthermore, if you do not believe in this, you CANNOT be considered a conservative, no matter how much you believe yourself to be. (Huckabee, anyone?)
No, conservatives need to back conservatives in elections, regardless of party. That way, conservative ideals are but into effect in the government.
If a political party wants our vote, then they will sponsor conservative candidates. If they do not, then conservatives already know what that party then thinks of conservative values.
Restricting ourselves to the Republican party has put us in the same position as blacks vis a vis the Democratic party. They think us a safe voting block that will never question the party, as the supposedly have no alternative. So party officials do not cater to our beliefs. (why bother, they’ll still vote Republican anyway!)
Very well said! Thank you.
I can’t argue with that statement.
Screw the GOP.
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