I read your link.
To me, there is one thing the whole group seems to have in common. They are more populist driven than ideological.
For me, that’s a problem as I see that the unpopularity of the GOP is largely due to the absence of any guiding principle.
“To me, there is one thing the whole group seems to have in common. They are more populist driven than ideological.”
They are politicians. I am not sure ‘populist’ is the right word, but I get your point. They are doing the poll-driven, lets find out what the people want us to tell them. But you and I know what needs to happen - stand up for freedom, limited Goverment, individual responsibility, American sovereignty and the founding principles and great traditions of the nation!
I for one would be happy to be given the opportunity to tell these guys that and get them stoked into standing up for it too.
What people are not seeing is the ‘two steps ahead’ aspect of this effort.
This is a dialog - a ‘listening’ plus ‘educating’ on what is really going on with Obama’s agenda. More power to the leaders if they stand up against Obama’s agenda.
If they actually listen, and let Tea Partiers speak ... they will get an EARFUL. Why is this a bad thing for McCain - who practically was shouting at the base over immigration - to actually listen to the Tea Partiers?
If this is a RINO-circle-jerk, where they DONT tap into the huge amount of grassroots energy, it will end up being a non-attended depressing non-event in some Holiday Inn. Move on.
“For me, that’s a problem as I see that the unpopularity of the GOP is largely due to the absence of any guiding principle.”
I agree. Or rather too many in the GOP forgot their principles in the lege ... we have those principles, in our platforms and in our hearts, we just need to update them for today’s challenges and recommit our elected officials to live up to them:
http://travismonitor.blogspot.com/2009/05/howl-of-rinos-and-rebuilding-gop.html
“We should rebrand the GOP around the core fiscal conservative principles of limited Government and more liberty as the non-negotiable positions. If a Republican official can’t shake addictions to higher taxes and more spending, then they are no better than tax-and-spend Democrats and should be shown the door. We should not throw overboard or under the bus any conservative wings, including the valid family and faith social conservative wing, and also the national security and national sovereignty wing. In short, update the Reagan formula for the 21st century, don’t throw it out.”