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
I would never throw my vote away. Voting is a political act, not a soul-cleansing, as I have said several times on this forum.
I don't know whether you are from New York State, but everything is a little different here. We are the only state where people can run on more than one party line at a time, for one thing, because of Wilson-Pakula. Very rarely does the Conservative Party run a different candidate than the GOP, but they do wheel and deal like mad.
Foreign entanglements... long term troops in Japan, Germany, France, England... etc. and who is paying for these stationed troops? The United States, not the host countries they are supposed to be "defending", Us the American Taxpayer. and in this day and time no one is going to attack these countries, to do so would be suicide... a la Iraq attacking Kuwait.
That is where preemptive strikes come into place.
During my 21 years of service, I have been to most of these countries and do not believe for a second that they are our friends, as they would turn on us in a second should it become politically expedient... and they have!
Over the years my view has completely reversed on "defending" such countries especially after they have knifed us in the back so many times when we needed them.
Hopefully we can put a dent in ‘em in 2010 like we did to Clinton.
And not only do we pay them to knife us in the back we pay for the knife and then help them stick it in!
4 later
see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2123316/posts?page=28#28
Not me. I am finished with the Republican Party.
Give that a read, if you haven’t already done so. Read the pages behind the links, “About Falcon Party” and the “Falcon Party Platform.” It answered all of my questions on pressing issues and was right on the mark with every answer. ...no hidden surprise agendas and no special pecuniary or power interests like the other parties. It will gather good voters from all income levels and walks of life, because it speaks for the interests of most Americans by far.
The answer is to "go John Galt" to whatever extent possible for each individual. Go on a brain strike and remove your talent and your dollars from the service (subservience, really) of others. When the RINOs no longer have the $$ backing and the electoral support needed to stay in power, they will panic as they suffer one humiliating embarrassment after another from the liberals. They will finally understand that they are doomed.
Once they've withered on the vine, the conservatives can come back and establish a viable and PRINCIPLED second party.
One more thing: train your children to be warriors. It is unfortunate that the next generation is going to have to pay the price for the errors of this one, and there will be "casualties" in one form or another. Your children are going to have to be strong to deal with what lies ahead. This is the RINO legacy.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2167666/posts
Jim’s thread...
And, it doesn’t stay clickable cuz you used html SOMEWHERE in your post...not to worry...
If I lived in AZ I'd start with McCain. I wish they would start trying to get rid of him now.
By the way, that’s
FALCON - Fealty to America, Liberty, Conservatism, Optimism and Nobility
http://falconparty.com/
The country needs ro be split in half again, hopefully peacefully this time. Their is no politcal solution. Hoping I am wrong.....
Shouldn’t we try to take back the Republican Party? Besides the CP believes in the same isolationist foreign policy as Ron Paul. Supporting that would be suicide.
So you are saying:
Get us out of all countries where we have our military stationed. (I could probably agree with that one easily), and attack only when it has a direct effect on US security and interests.
I’m not so sure I understand what you mean when you say that “no one would dare attack these countries, (Japan, Germany, etc) because it would be suicide”. Do you mean, because the attacking countries would know that the US would come to the aid of the country they are attacking?
Isn’t that a foreign entanglement? Or do you mean that it would lead to something like a nuclear war?
Just trying to clarify. I agree with you that most of those countries would turn on us in a minute. They complain that we are there, but they whine when we suggest pulling out, as in Germany and Greenland. And I’d prefer to see all of our military stationed on US soil.
Oh, and thank you for your service!
Obama Youth?
We have been doing this in Erie Cty NY for 4 years... All you said has come and gone and more will come and go. Things do not work fast enough for people.
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