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 was a member of the NYState Conservative Party for 13 years and changed to R to primary a legislator.
I still am active with the state,, the county party is so corrupt I avoid them like the plague. I got into battles with them here locally. The Conservative party that is...
Amen, it sure is.
The Conservative Party is merely a patronage/shakedown operation for Mike Long and his family. Avoid them at all costs.
We need to take it back.
Oh yes, we live in a good area and my kids argue with their teachers.. We are raising good Conservative kids.
Let’s not talk of some fantasy about revolution. This is not 1776. The feds are far too powerful to fight. Let’s hear some realistic and legal solutions to our problems.
That’s the whole point of doing this.
Thanks Amy, I will go over, Jim has known about these plans too.
I don’t see the “conservative stars of talk radio” exactly the same way you do. But there is one glaring point that I do see. They NEVER talk about the homosexual agenda. How often did they talk in support of Prop 8? In the liberal hell-hole of California it passed without their help. Imagine if they would talk about the indoctrination of our schools. They are neutered, probably by the sponsors, but neutered none the less. We’re in dire straits right now.
Saw that when it came out. Promptly cautioned my HS daughter...
That’s too bad, but all the NY parties are patronage outfits.
The problem is, the middle class is so big and money is so tight, it can’t happen, not like that anyway.
It’s time to reach out to the South Park/Foamy the Squirrel wing of the party. That wing of the party is fed up with illegals taking away our jobs, PC nazis and incredible amounts of spending. We need to start being the PC nazism iconoclasts we were back in the 90s to win them back. If we can find a way to win that wing back next cycle, we can make some headway for the future.
God help me, but I am LOVIN’ this thread!
Those of us who joined the United States Armed Forces took a solemn oath. The exact words are “I, (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.
But NOBODY ever said to you, “Go in peace, your oath is fulfilled.” Nobody! Your oath has not expired.
Friends, we are the last surviving nieces and nephews of Uncle Sam. Our fellow citizens are blind, deaf, dumb and worse than stupid. We have a usurper in place of a president and the founders are all spinning in their graves at the monstrosity our government has become.
It is up to us to continue bearing true faith and allegiance to our Constitution. Nobody else. If we don’t take our country back, if we don’t act to restore our Constitution, then our nation shall be lost and the night will be very long and very cold, with no hope of relief.
Act, or accept the consequences.
What threat? Even Lindsay Graham won reelection.
That’s what everyone says. Still, I am sick of the country-club Republicans. At least at Conservative gatherings I feel more as though I am among my own kind. They actually say “born and unborn” at the end of the Pledge of Allegiance, for one thing.
Thanks to Hispanic and black machismo.
I for one take the Mike Long Party, the Right to Life Party, and the Working Families Party as seriously as those "independent" parties the Soviets used to run to give the appearance of political diversity.
They hate us more than they hate the Democrats, partly because we threaten their control of their patronage and other perks but also because they just simply hate pro-lifers--and the unborn, it goes without saying.
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