Posted on 05/05/2009 9:34:56 AM PDT by AJKauf
The next time you take your family to visit the American Museum of Natural History, be sure to make time to see their collection of fossil remains of extinct creatures. These include the dodo bird, the Tasmanian tiger, the Caspian tiger … and the Northeast American Republican.
Laymen tend to think the mass extinctions surrounding the last ice age happened fairly rapidly, but some animals such as the short faced bear lingered on in small numbers for thousands of years. By comparison, the once robust herds of United States Republicans roaming the territories north of Virginia and east of Ohio have plummeted below the viable gene pool margin in less than a decade. Yes, I’m afraid that the African white rhino is now laughing at the pitiful numbers of the Grand Old Party RINOs in this region.
The recent departure of Arlen Specter for the greener fields of the Democratic supermajority drew a great deal of media attention, but it was only the latest trophy in the Northeast RINO hunt. The process actually began, albeit quietly, back in 2002, but the trickle turned into a flash flood during the 2006 and 2008 cycles. As for Pennsylvania’s neighbor to the north, the New York Republican delegation is now down to three members of Congress, less than any time in the modern era. The pattern repeats across the region, but Republicans haven’t always carried a poisonous aura with these voters....
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“Purge the Yankees” more like it.
Something tells me there are large numbers of people in the Northeast that would respond quite favorably to a CONSERVATIVE message.
But Conservatism and the present day Republican Party have very little in common.
The Northeast is also the weakest part of the country economically.
Indeed. I'm a Massachusetts conservative, totally without representation in government at any level.
Good to hear!
I’d hate to think that such a magnificent area of our country is COMPLETELY infested with liberals and their diseased mindset.
Ditto! IMO, the closest thing there is in this state is Steve Lynch on the federal level.
There are a few (maybe 20 total) Republicans in the state legislature. Pretty pathetic indeed.
This is now so mainstream an opinion that me thinks it’s time to BUY THE RIGHT, and SHORT THE LEFT in the Northeast!!
Yes.
“Indeed. I’m a Massachusetts conservative, totally without representation in government at any level.”
Just remember that you are not alone. There are more of us here than you might think. I’ve thought seriously about leaving, but this is my home, and dammit, I’m not leaving without a fight.
Yep. These same NE states are the ones businesses are running away from.
Agreed. The things that keeps me sane and serve as reminders that we're not alone up here are the Northeast Shooters forum, and my local sportsman's club.
Why don’t you worry about the pimps, dopers and mental deficients in the Libtard party.
And to think, once upon a time, the Northeast was the most Republican part of the nation. Of course, that was when the Bible Belt was socialist and voting for William Jennings Bryan!
The South would’ve voted for Satan as long as he ran as a Democrat in the post-Reconstruction to 1960 era. Rather like how the N.E. and Coastal states are today.
That seems to be the type of loyalty all Democrat constituencies have. What's up with that???
It’s pure unadulterated hate, which the party is unparalleled at fanning. Prior to the 1960s, the Southerners basically hated the GOP because of its Lincoln/Sherman associations (and indeed, you still have pockets of that hate in rural areas that cast votes for the False Messiah despite the fact they have nothing in common with him). Today, you have the extreme left and racists in the Democrat party that have an unhinged hatred for the GOP as the “party of Bush, Cheney, et al.”
Now, I can understand why White Southerners in the post-Civil War era could hate Republicans, since if they lost loved ones fighting the Northerners and had their properties and livelihoods destroyed, it makes sense. But there’s absolutely zero sense in the kind of hatred the Dems and their most brainwashed constituencies have for the GOP (especially those individuals that have absolutely no power or luck in life).
You look at places like Detroit, which haven’t had Republicans in charge (as in elected Mayor) for over 50 years, and yet they won’t blame the party that has turned their city into a basketcase to rival a 3rd World hellhole. That would make about as much sense as White Southerners at the end of the Civil War coronating William T. Sherman or U.S. Grant their Messiah after they laid the place to waste.
More complicated than that, of course, but you get the idea.
**One other thing regarding the subject of this article. One reason why the N.E. has been eviscerated of Republicans is because the liberals got control of the state parties in those areas and essentially told the Conservatives to go screw themselves. With two liberal parties, there was no need for both to exist, and so in states like Massachusetts (which used to be one of the most GOP in the nation), the GOP was buried in just a short span of time (less than 2 decades) under liberal RINO leadership. These same liberals are trying to do the same thing to EVERY state party in the country, and are meeting with considerable success. They’re a cancer that must be destroyed before they destroy us.
As a matter of fact, there have always been small pockets of Republican strength in the South (East Tennessee and north Alabama are just two examples). I myself am the product of a Southern Unionist Republican patrimony. The notion that all white Southerners supported the Confederacy is a myth.
The neo-Confederates are also beating the drum against the Republican party. They're claiming now that it was (in the words of Birchite Alan Stang) "Red from the beginning" (because it represented the Hamiltonian political tradition, which to today's "palaeos" is the original American Left). You also have neo-Con(federates)s claiming that there is a straight line from Jonathan Edwards to Ted Kennedy and some even seem to blame Protestantism for its critique of Catholic traditions in light of that "rationalist blueprint" we call the Bible.
While I acknowledge that New England has always had its radicals I also have a deep love for traditional New England (Massachusetts is, after all, practically the American Holy Land) and I can't help but do a double-take when "palaeos" start blaming the Pilgrims or Oliver Cromwell for contemporary liberalism. Sheesh.
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