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
All of the "conservative stars of talk radio" have one thing in common:
They all stand to make obscene amounts of money off conservatives for the next eight years, listening to their cathartic rants and ventings on their call-in shows; from book signings and appearences; from ratings and ad dollars on their networks; and name-dropping at the same cocktail parties that The Left attends, because after all, they're one big happy entertainment industry.
And conservatives will eagerly hand over what's left of their disposable income, because they're Sheep.
Thank you! And you are correct sir.
All my students know is what they hear from the media and their teachers.
The student teachers are almost always among the most liberal and soft-headed groups on campus. Their professors are always full of soft, well-meaning platitudes which, if followed, will lead directly to liberal fascism.
The media, as we know so well, are, if not scoundrels, lapdogs. They too come from some of the most liberal sections of academe.
President Obama will be putting the middle-class on his payroll. We are about to see the United States go the way of Chicago and the UK—a one-and-a-quarter party system. (When do you think the Tories in the UK will return to majority status?) Like outsiders watching Hitler, Americans will see autobahns and employment (in this case tax breaks very carefully targeted to win middle class votes) and not see that all opposition is being crushed by political correctness or bought by highly selected handouts.
Let me change Niemoller’s words.
When he seduced the leftists, I remained silent because I was not a leftist.
When he seduced the Hispanics, I remained silent because I was not a Hispanic.
When he seduced the centrists, I remained silent because I was not a centrist.
When he seduced the seniors, I remained silent because I was not a senior.
When he seduced the youth, I remained silent because I was no longer young.
When he seduced the union workers, I remained silent for I had never needed a union.
And now when I speak up, there is no one left to hear me.
McVey
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The threat from the very groundswell of this type of movement will make it work. When they see Conservatives breathing down their necks and see the threat, they will have no choice but to come around. Now is the time to act.
In Erie County NY we had 3 wealthy Republicans run and won because they saw it was the right thing to do. If they see there is a possibility of them winning especially with the conservative groundswell we can build, they will join in. If not to run, but to support a candidate that will carry the message.
Thank you, lets get this movement going.
Depressing but accurate observations.
I agree.
Throw out RINOs.
Get our game face back.
But these things can only happen when thrown out of power.
Hmmm...I thought the current “Republican Party” was already revolting?
To see the future, you might want to take a gander at this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167150/posts
McVey
Here are some guidelines I offered in 2001 when I already knew, as did many here now, that we principled conservatives have many disadvantages (see tag line for one inkling) working against us.
If you want to try and save this great constitutional republic from its built up internal rot (rather than fully revolt) nobility of purpose has to come above all else. You know; as in the sacred mutual compact amongst the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Even after that, know that every member of your team will be faced with many second thoughts, among them the following, and each will come to them more than once:
With greater numbers of real conservatives in its ranks, the party might not have to wheel and deal with the GOP quite so much and might be able to run real conservatives while the bulk of Republicans continue their RINO shoot-your-own-foot joyfest.
Does it matter if we vote for non Constitutionalists? R-D, Socialists one and all.
With Al Frankenstein counting the votes, what choice do they leave US?
ARII ping!
American Revolution II is overdue.
I never said that cycle doesnt produce entrenched liberalism each time.
It may very well take a “Carter” to get a “Reagan”.
I got through eight years of the Clinton national nightmare, yes we still have that legacy, but I will fight though the Obama mess as well just as hard.
I’m there for ya... joined two weeks ago!
Too late! The party left me!
Agree, They left us tossing in the wind.
Then we praise the good ones and point our fingers at the bad ones and let them know we have someone to take you out.
You have to think that they will not enjoy the possibility of a Primary where they know they can be beat. The very threat will wake them up.
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