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Posted on 03/16/2009 7:33:14 PM PDT by Kaslin
As if it is not enough that they have been decimated by the Democrats in the past couple of elections, the Republican survivors are now turning their guns on each other.
At the heart of these internal battles have been attacks on Rush Limbaugh by Republicans who imagine themselves to be so much more sophisticated because they are so much more in step with the political fashions of the time.
New Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele's cheap shot at Rush's program as "ugly" set off the latest round of infighting. That is the kind of thing usually said by liberals who have never listened to the program.
Regular listeners to the Rush Limbaugh program or subscribers to the Limbaugh newsletter know that both contain far more factual information and in-depth analysis than in the programs or writings of pundits with more of a ponderous tone or intellectual airs.
Why Michael Steele found it necessary to say such a thing — except as a sop to the liberal intelligentsia — is one of the many mysteries of the Republican Party. Steele has since apologized to Rush, but you cannot unring the bell.
More important, the mind-set it betrays is at the heart of many of the problems of the Republican Party, going back for years, long before Steele appeared on the scene.
An element of the Republican Party has felt a need to distance itself from people who stand up for conservative principles, whether those with principles have been Ronald Reagan, Rush Limbaugh or others.
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The sad part is the GOP really needs to hear this. They should be teaching it.
It may be too late now, but if the Republican Party was really interested in getting the black vote, there are two things they could do that would make the work easier.
1. Be solidly pro marriage and anti special rights for gays.
2. Be anti amnesty, anti-illegal alien, and pro defended borders.
Whenever I bring these topics up, most black people are 100% for the conservative position, but their argument was always they didn't see any difference between the Republicans and the Democrats for them to change. No matter how cogent the conservative position happens to be, the Rudy McRomneys representing the party are the ones holding the Republicans back.
How much CHOICE does the child yet born get?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but only if yer mum doesn't want to KILL you!
Steele concludes by rejecting liberalism as patronizing and dishonest in part, and as folly in other parts, since history can never be undone, but, he implies, it can be and it is being played for all it is worth by liberal and race-pimp pols.
Nevertheless, he concludes that conservatism's appeal to minorities will always be weak compared with the appeal of liberalism. (I would go further and say that both pale next to nativism, white-hating racial and ethnic jingoism, and other bleeding-red-meat guilty pleasures of the identity-political Left.)
All conservatism has to offer is intellectual honesty, the discipline of self-reliance and responsibility, and self-respect.
There, fixed the obvious for you .....
Your statement is still screwed up, though -- you misidentify the GOP's problems.
The main problem was in shunning real, identifiable values, refusing to run on values but trying instead to get all tactical and Karl-Rove-y, walking away from the base to suck up to lost-cause voters, refusing to discipline the big spenders, homosexual harassers, walking scandals and sellouts, and making sure the Party would never discipline anyone for anything by putting a hamburger like Denny Hastert in the Speaker's chair and a gay like Ken Mehlman at the head of the RNC.
Remember, Dr. Einstein, if the 'Rat Party is all in bed with NARAL and NOW, then in order to present the voters with a real choice, the GOP has to support the right-to-life of the innocent unborn. Otherwise there IS no choice for the voter! And there is no champion on the field for the right-to-lifers, either.
... something like 85% of Americans believe in some form of “creationism”
load of hooey, although if even remotely true, goes a long way to explaining recent elections.
Sorry Bubba, but it's true. Of course, we can rest assured that the other 15% - the idiots who believe in evolution - leaned heavily for Obama.
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So many Zots, so little time :-)
Maybe not but I can, loser.
Creationism has NOTHING to do with the GOP losing voters.
What is “taking away choice”?
Is he referring to the “right” to kill the unborn for convenience?
Seriously, how do you defend that?
perfect illustration of my point, thanks.
Still failing the Turing test, eh?
Of course it doesn't. Most of the people who are evolutionists already vote Democrat as it is.
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