Time to leave the Bush's behind.
Sorry Jeb, I liked you as our governor but you’re wrong. It’s not “nostalgia”, it’s principle and values. We don’t change these to win votes.
We should take Jesse Jackson’s advice and stay of of the Bushes.
Thanks, but No Thanks!!
Damn these RINO’s. We must rid ourselves of this cancer.
As they say in engineering, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Sincerely,
/Zak
No, I think it’s time we leave Jeb behind.
Reaganism isn’t based on nostalgia, it’s based on the principle foundations of conservatism.
Maybe they should learn that first, and then open their cheese holes.
Sorry Jeb, we have tried ‘middle of the road’ and it doesn’t work for us. Look at the last election cycle.
I enjoyed watching Sarah Palin energize the troops with her conservative values. I was amazed at the turnout for the Tax Day Tea Party. Don’t tell me conservatism is dead.
>> “You can’t beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don’t like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that,”
The “something” the ‘RATS had in ‘08 was:
a) A GOP that squandered its credibility in its 8 years of waxing and then waning power
b) A consistent message (the WRONG message, but consistent)
c) An articulate, well organized machine that “sold” the message (with lies, but nevertheless they worked at selling the message)
d) A weak, pandering idiot of a POTUS candidate that was ASHAMED of his message and ASHAMED of his platform and DID NOT WANT TO WIN.
What the people of the US need, Jebbie boy, is NOT to “forget Reagan” but to EMULATE Reagan. Reagan always know what he stood for — he unflinchingly SOLD his message — he DID NOT squander his power — he WANTED TO WIN.
CONSERVATISM SELLS! Too bad the GOP is too stupid and corrupt and self serving and in favor of big government to figure that out and win with it anymore.
Screw you Jeb Bush. Yet another sellout to big liberal government.
JEB has come out of the RINO closet.
Yeah Jeb, it worked so well in 2006 and 2008...
RINOs are addicted to using the US Treasury to reward donors and pay for pet projects.
The Constitution is so antiquated in the brave new world of multinational corporations and NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, etc.
Let's look at what they are literally doing. The listening tour thing...starts in a democratic stronghold. Why? To win democrat votes all the while losing their base.
They are trying to destroy the GOP by forcing a split. So many here want to work through the GOP and/or win back the GOP of old, but perhaps we do need to take their clue regarding the GOP being relegated to the era of nostalgia.
1. We need to be protesting these guys at their “listening tours stops.”
2. We need to speak out loud and clear that they do not represent us.
3. And their continued plan to destroy the GOP revealed for what it is.
4. Start forming a new party. Yeah...I said that. We have until 2012 to resurrect from the ashes of the GOP a strong party to replace the GOP.
(but jeeze they are so much better than the TOTUS.)
but Jeb, you have it all wrong....we need to be conservative you @$$hole....not more liberal.
(What a mistake it was for Reagan to pick papa as his running mate.)
Maybe somebody can explain something to me...
In general, conservatism is a winning philosophy. And when republicans give up that philosophy, they tend to lose to the dems, who are liberal. But then weak minded republicans seem to think, “hey, the liberals won last time, maybe I should try to be liberal too, and maybe the voters will like me.” But then the republicans lose by an even greater margin, because they have alienated their conservative base AND liberals don’t want to vote for someone they see as coming “late for the party,” especially when they know there’s no question about the liberal leanings of the dems. So, the republicans try to even move farther to the left, as they push their supporters to the side, hoping to gain support from the last people on earth who would ever vote for them...
Where am I wrong here?
Mark
Well, this is the first time I’ve heard a Pubbie equate principles and morals to ‘nostalgia’... That’s an interesting, but wrongheaded, notion.
If Jeb and his folks want to build a ‘new’ GOP, more power to them. But, those of us who believe in the founding principles of this great nation, and those of us who work hard to lead a moral life and deal with the world ethically, will likely not be joining that dog and pony road show.
It’s time to take back the country.
“Nostaligia” for “messaging?”
Can anyone identify the problem with about 50 percent to 75 percent of GOP politicians?
The Bush’s have ALWAYS hated the Reagans. At this point they are also just jealous that we still love Reagan while we hate them for destroying the party.