Posted on 07/11/2009 11:38:48 AM PDT by McGruff
In an interview with the Washington Times, Palin makes her most direct comments yet about Conservativism versus the Republican Party. In my humble opinion, it’s clear the GOP, unfortunately, is lost beyond the point of return. When you’re one year out of key campaigns to take back Congress in 2010 and Meghan McCain is The Oracle of the party, you know it’s over. If Tina Brown thought Ms. McCain’s willingness to be a Useful Idiot for liberals would undermine the conservative movement (and consequently Sarah Palin), she should take a serious and long look at what their attacks on Palin provoked: a stronger, more independent, more determined conservative leader and base.
Enter now Sarah Palin with very encouraging comments that lead one to believe that she is indeed planning to do what she must: build an independent conservative movement and take this nation back from the liberals which now control both parties.Thanks liberals, for provoking Sarah into the national scene while vetting that family at the same time.
One thing I will say, the Washington Times with their headline for this exclusive interview reveal an anti-Palin stance. She is, don’t doubt, a threat to every existing political status quo. I hope the Washington Times and their editors realize, sooner than later, that the Palin movement is unstoppable and their credibility would be saved simply by reporting the news instead of becoming a GOP version of the NYT.
Interesting being I have long been suggesting that perhaps the best thing for Palin to do was drop the GOP label and run as a fiscal conservative Independent.
there are more “Democrats” than actual liberals, and more conservatives than Republicans.
Yeah, I’ll join her. FOR SURE.
I don’t think anyone can imagine what is about to happen.
Palin is about to sweep a new conservative coalition to power and may very well do it outside either party.
I don't know if I'm ready to dump the Republican Party yet but I will know by the time they select their candidate in 2012.
I'll still support the House Republicans. Remember not one of them voted for PORKULUS.
If Palin ever runs for office again, she will do so as a Republican.
ANYONE can control a “new” third party, since the typical Third Party can meet in the average church basement.
Prediction:
There is only ONE “independent” in the House, a SOCIALIST!
There is only ONE “independent” in the Senate, Lieberman!
In 2 years, those numbers will not change by more than one or two!
To get anything done, at all, we need to work within the Republican Party structure!
Ronaldus Maximus didn’t really leave the Democrat Party —it, however, did leave him. And that’s why the Republicans got him.
AND SO IT REPEATS...
Independent Conservatives need to take over the GOP, or kill it off. Third parties have a bad track record, unfortunately.
Hey, the libertarians could fill a big library with their convention........
where do i sign up!!??? where do i send contributions!!?? (and i have never contributed to any party....i say this so the GOP knows how badly i feel they have screwed me over!!!)))
Yup. I was hopeful until those 8 traitors voted for the "crap, tax, and restrict trade" bill.
Now it's clear that a completely new party must be formed, much like how Prime minister Steven Harper did in Canada when they formed the Reform party, which became the Conservitive Party of Canada.
The old blue liberals, which were the equivalent to the Liberal GOP here in the USA, faded into history after being destroyed by Brian Mulroney and Kim Campbell.
This is the fate of the Republican party. Meghan McCain is the USA's Kim Campbell equivalent, the final nail in the old Republican party's coffin.
It’d be funny if she ran as a Democrat. Won’t happen, specially in 2012, but it’d be a hoot. Stick it to the GOP, and put a new face on the RATs, I’d vote for her.
Spelling out in her book what she wants to accomplish in a ‘Contract with America’ would move the pile in her direction.
>> To get anything done, at all, we need to work within the Republican Party structure!
What you mean, “we”, kimosabe?
Screw the Republican Party. They are nothing but money-grubbing power-drunk jerkoffs. Just like the ‘Rats.
She will probably wind up running 3rd Party in 2012, and gain all the conservative votes (plus a lot of women's votes), but in the end, it would assure The Messiah a second term, as it would be Ross Perot-like all over again, which left us with Klintoon. Romney is the candidate the money will follow, and the RINO will carry MittWit votes, and some die-hard-won't-admit-the-Party-is-doomed-Republicans.
Once the media props up their boy, with nothing but drooling and 24/7 promotion, it's VERY hard to counter with NO MEDIA COVERAGE IN A POSITIVE light for anything other than a Liberal/Socialist/Hollywood-type candidate.
Her best bet would not be to create a new party, put to create a cohesive faction in the Republican party that is *exclusive* to conservatives. That is, to belong to that faction, an individual must formally agree with its core beliefs, as well as ways and means to achieve those beliefs.
If they refuse, *or* if their actions run contrary to what they say, then they cannot carry that faction’s label.
To make things even clearer, the faction should have a concise statement of its beliefs, much like the Contract With America. And it should be *very* clear that they will not support liberals just because they are Republicans.
I’ve given up on the GOP. I’ll never vote for them on the national level again.
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