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
THis is how I am celebrating today's events
We don’t need a revolt, it will achieve nothing. We need a new party that articulates conservative values. If as conservatives we remain in the GOP we will have to compromise our principles. Conservatism is a movement not a political party. We need a party that is exclusive to us, not one we have to share.
Agreed, they can's even defend one of their own. Yet is she? She is everything they oppose.
Sarah Palin was the only thing between John McCain for President and flat line.
Bingo! As soon as Palin was announced I was thrilled. She is everything we supported as a Primary Challenge candidate. She took on the corrupt republican machine in Alaska, she won and followed through with her promise to go after corruption. This is the whole concept with Primary Challenge. We have to take on the corrupt machine and what better way than to go after them in their house of power!
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Don’t you understand that Palin is UNQUALIFIED? Even though she has far more executive experience than the Messiah?
I’ll have to report you to the Thought Police for reeducation, dude...
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Had the same phenomena back during the McClintock/Schwarten-RINO debacle in Californistan. Disgusting...
"Are the peasants revolting? They stink on ice!"
I agree. Preaching to the choir has gotten us no where. We have to become the Party of reform, real change and the return to the Constitution.
When we put up candidates that carry that message and we promote honesty, integrity, Law abiding, Citizen Legislators that do not want to spend their life in DC, we can make huge headway.
People do not trust politicians from the local levels and worse in DC.
It’s in Limbaughs site. He had a monologue talking about a source inside the Republicans retreat a couple weeks ago.
We are a Nation in distress Race.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing back.
I'm not sure you'll get far with that as your campaign slogan.
LOL. The federal revenue from blue states in nearly 3 times that of the federal revenue from red states.
Blue $1,975,116,492,000.00
Red $695,342,860,000.00
Federal revenue came from IRS by way of wikipedia (won't apologize for its use in reporting hard data)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state
Breakdown of red and blue states from 2008 presidential election.
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/election2008/2008-election-map.html#/president?view=race08
You paying the tab for my four kids?
The enemies of the Republic in both parties recognize that.
And Shephard Smith just hates her because he can't look that good in red heels.
We are wise to laugh off the "media" and "party establishment" attacks on Sarah Palin as spasmodic self-preservation of life-sapping parasites.
Your strategy to take back the party locally is unstoppable.
As the media withers on the vine, so, too, shall the national party.
Candidates and principles, not an elite priest class of fish-fisted salesmen.
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