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 conservative says SCREW the GOP .
Send them to the RNC demanding theat they be implemented and every talk show host you can think of. I’ve sent them to a few already and posted them on this forum a few times.
It took us Carter to get Reagan, so it may take an Obama to get us Palin or Romney... btw because of the big deal about Obama being black, any idea what Ken Blackwell or JC Watts are doing lately?
Yes, it was a different generation ... and RR was able to show them that a vote for him was really the only rational thing a patriot could do, regardless of previous political affiliation.
That appeal is certainly less effective nowadays.
You can bash the voters all you want. The GOP has been smacking us around. To most folks, it feels like being a masochist to keep voting for creeps who don't give a fig about borders, about spending, about morality, or about God. I realize it's not masochism. I realize that most GOP politicians wear the white hats [or off-white at least]. The biggest problem this time around was that we had a RINO who sold out on free speech, loves illegal aliens more than his own citizens, does nothing for the military budget, and fights against tax cuts.
McCain was despised in our party. He was crammed down our throats by crossover primary votes. And a lot of people aren't willing to wade through a moral cesspool to vote.
People are turning as cynical as the Romans were, and it's only natural. So you might as well try to figure out how to persuade rather than brow-beat.
The once sensible GOP philosophical, patriotic, business-oriented platform has devolved into the dubious proposition
So, the GOP, at best, has offered the intelligent voter the "lesser of two evils." This rather stark choice is presented during campaigns that are breathtakingly stupid. e.g., the McCain, or Dole efforts, both unprofessional and laughable in the extreme.
To be a Republican, one needs a strong stomach, a willing suspension of disbelief, a great sense of humor, and a faulty sense of smell. Yes, I am absolutely bashing those voters who stayed at home on election day.
...people aren't willing to wade through a moral cesspool to vote.
Voting Republican in our two-party system can be nasty work indeed. That doesn't excuse anyone from their patriotic duty.
I think the problem is the opposite — we have too many uniformed people voting. They think they have the answers without the facts, without knowing history, and without considering the other side’s argument. Too many ignorant voters who would do the nation a service by being lazy and staying at home.
Aye, there's the rub. Many of those who stayed on the couch in November WERE informed. There's no way we can escape an extremely annoying fact. I.E., if McLame had managed to get the same number of Republican voters to the polls as GW did, it shoulda, woulda, coulda, mighta been quite a different election.
I will never understand why sometimes upwards of 90% of registered European voters can make it to the polls and the best we can manage is under 50%. Of course, in those "urban" precincts, 95 to 102 % is not at all unusual.
But if you put up a Dole, or a McCain, without a platform, with no program, with no plan and constantly changing "themes," you leave the field wide open to a smooth talker with the organization that has the church vans, has the absentee process under control, can register illegals, create "virtual" voters and register them.
Any used car dealer in your home town has a more coherent communications program than the RNC. As a Republican, you are required to know that and still get off your ass, put down your glass, and make it to the polls.
I can forgive you because they at one time had me convinced of their purity, too.
Now I view the CP as a bunch of thieves and cowards. If they're so pure, they can be very effective at improving the Republicans. What's more if some of them had run as Republicans, some of them would be holding office right now.
This tells me they're too cowardly to run the risk of being elected. Then they'd have to put their money where their mouths are and actually govern. Why won't they do it.
I call them thieves because they convince the ignorant (that was me) that they're more worthy and just send money. I got nothing for my money except an education.
My eyes were opened when they ran radio ads during the 2000 and 2004 elections trying to convince Republican voters that Bush was more dangerous than Gore or Kerry.
The CP may have well meaning people and some of them may be pure charlatans but they have NOTHING to offer and can only make matters worse. They are made up of flawed human beings--just like the flawed humans in the Republican party. Now, the Democrat party, they're simply evil.
None and they want it that way. They're too cowardly to run as Republicans--they may actually win. They only have the power to elect Democrats. RATS love them.
Were there really enough votes for third parties that could be the reason we’re going to get Senator Freaken. Third party people are just as dangerous as Democrats.
A respected and exciting conservative leader will rally us. That’s all we need.
We need a calm, rational, non-media-oriented man in that WH. In a year or two, we'll see why a country like Chile needed a man like Pinochet to set things upright, get the wheels back on the cart, and then go away.
A respected and exciting conservative leader will rally us.
Yes, my friend, he will rally US. But that is only 30% of those who show up on Election Day. Our basic demographic is well on its way to becoming less European than that of Chile, or Argentina. Third World newcomers with chips on their shoulders and the desire for every material benefit it took our ancestors 3 centuries to develop are going to vote the US as we conceive it into history.
Where do Christians and family values stand in this party?
First, this is not a “Party” we are going to run candidates in the primary against their own.
Christian and family values is exactly what we are all about. The lack of them is what has destroyed this country and the number one thing we are missing.
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