Posted on 06/09/2009 5:13:16 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
..when they should be looking for a good listener
I love on this is the accepted version of the truth. It is always stated as fact that Palin accepted, then Palin's version is always the one that is framed as alleged. Palin right now is the only politician articulating conservatism who has any credibility. Newt can, but he goes off the reservation too often.
Not giving a ‘keynote’ address to two groups who are stuck in “no drive” sounded like good advice to me.
The Republican messenger will be nominated sometime between 30 and 36 months from now. Until then there will be various Republican messengers.
The GOP has more than one great messenger. Ruch Limbaugh, as a non-politician, is a great messenger. Sarah Palin, as a politician, is both a great messenger and a great leader, IMO.
The GOP is not scrambling for a messenger - they are scrambling away from a leader (which by definition cannot be a moderate).
JOM, of course.
I don’t believe a thing the GOP says anymore.
Take their Sarah Palin invite to the big shin dig last night. They invited her because they needed conservatives to believe they care what we think.
Before settling on a “messenger”, the elephants have to come up with a MESSAGE.
We already got one in Sarah Palin, but the Prison-sissy wing of the GOP keeps us from winning elections.
I say let Alaska secede and allow Sarah to be the President of Alaska.
Washington is dead, its been invaded and overthrown by the enemy, its currently under occupation and the Resistance is unwilling to come out and take action.
The Democrat Party was always a liberal big unionist party. But it WAS once upon a time a patriotic party which served its blue-collar real American worker constituency well.
But then the leftists and communists, finding they were going nowhere fast, realized that by usurping a genuine political party they could sneak their agenda in through the back door. And more recently, under George Soros and ACORN, that party was taken much farther left than even the Communists of the 1960s ever dreamed.
We need to emulate them. We need an activist, rank and file political group like ACORN, but representing the conservative patriotic Ameicans who vote for GOP again and again but get short-changed every time by the pandering ambivalent leadership of the Republican Party. WE need to take our party back from these buffoons if we ever expect to defeat what ACORN and Obama represent.
I don’t think the 2010 elections will go well — the GOP is no longer able to operate as a party of principles. They offer nothing to anyone. While it is true that the Democrats cannot deliver, they at least know how to offer something.
Did you happen to catch Rush in the first hour yesterday? He said all that needs to be said in regard to where this country needs to be headed and how we'll get there. It was a true classic from Rush and should be required listening for all. The Republicans had damn well better be listening.....
All the more reason to FLUSH CONGRESS in 2010!
Diapers and politicians should be changed often and for the same reason.....
Well, conservatism isn't dead because it cannot be dead. Conservatism is not manmade. Conservatism is a philosophy. It's not a scheme. It's not a plan to figure out what the American people need and want, and then give it to them. That's populism! Conservatism is a philosophy based on God-given natural rights. The Declaration of Independence, is that dead? Of course not! What's dead is leadership on the Republican side, and because there is a lack of leadership of someone who has the substantive understanding of liberty and the political skills to advance it, we get all this cockamamie nonsense about the death of our principles. Our principles are not dead! Our principles cannot die. I'll tell you, in a lot of ways this reminds me of Jimmy Carter and his malaise speech. He blamed the American people for his miserable failures as president. Now we have conservatives and conservative wannabes, many of whom have held high office or hold high office or speak and write from formerly conservative outposts, who blame conservatives for their own miserable failures. What is lacking is not ideas and principles. What's lacking is the right people to speak those ideas and principles, folks. Admit it.
So would I. Go Cudda!
They can’t pick Palin since Katy Colin doesn’t like her. The DC chablis Republicans are all about trying to be liked.
Pray for America
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