Posted on 07/15/2009 9:42:24 AM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
Next year's elections are going to produce a political earthquake. That is because we currently suffer the most left-wing government in our nation's history. After just 6 months in office, the flower children that rule Washington in overwhelming numbers are already smashing through all records regarding federal taxes, spending, deficits, and debt. Obama and his ultra-left Democrats adopted a so-called stimulus bill raising spending a trillion dollars that never had a prayer of actually creating jobs and promoting long-term economic growth, because it was based entirely on old-fashioned, brain dead, proven to fail, Keynesian economics. Though we would have to double federal taxes to finance the entitlement promises we have already made, the ruling Washington Democrats completely ignore that and focus instead on adopting yet another entitlement -- national health insurance -- that would be the biggest of all.
Global atmospheric temperatures are down over the last 11 years, and temperature trends during the 20th century were consistent with natural causes such as varying ocean current temperatures and solar activity, and not with the theory of manmade global warming and carbon dioxide emissions. Yet the left wing extremists that run Washington insist on adopting the largest tax increase in world history to reduce the use of oil, natural gas, and coal by 83%, which would effectively repeal the Industrial Revolution. Mandating high cost energy is only going to trash the economy for no good reason.
Meanwhile, Obama is explicitly pursuing nuclear disarmament with the full support of Congressional Democrats on the openly expressed, child-like theory that if we get rid of our nukes our enemies will get rid of theirs.
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But it is not just potential candidates that need to start organizing now. Conservatives need more grassroots political activism. This should be focused on ideology rather than party. All you need to do to become a local political force is find out which of your friends and neighbors share enough of your beliefs to work with you. Collect their names, addresses, emails, phone numbers. Call regular meetings to discuss particular issues of interest. Study up on the issue and lead a discussion on it, or invite speakers to do that.
If you can get just 20 people to come to regular meetings, biweekly or monthly, you are a local political force, particularly if you are collecting all the contact information of everyone who comes to every meeting. Candidates will come to your meetings to make their case. Study the federal, state and local candidates for your area, and inform your group at these meetings on their records, what they have they been for and against. Decide which of these candidates sufficiently share your values and actively support them with fundraising and volunteers.
But it is not just Republican candidates and activism that will enjoy exciting opportunities next year. In districts that have been drawn to be overwhelmingly Democrat, unexpected opportunities will arise next year for Democrat primary challenges against old, liberal left warhorses. There is opportunity for candidates that will ask voters in these districts if they really are as left-wing as some of the loony left incumbents, like Waxman or Frank or others. America desperately needs black challengers in African-American districts to campaign on new ideas and solutions, like school vouchers that would bring freedom of choice and competition for the poor in education. African-American small businessmen in these districts are being driven out of business by wildly unrealistic liberal-left policies such as excessive taxation, the threat of cap and trade high energy costs, and the threat of forced unionism under the proposed card check legislation.
African Americans would benefit the most from empowering policies such as personal accounts for Social Security that would allow their families to accumulate their own savings and capital over a lifetime. They would benefit the most from realistic policies to produce general prosperity such as low taxes, and reduced federal spending, deficits and debt. They would benefit the most from a new welfare system based on work rather than dependency. Altogether, this comprises a new anti-poverty, civil rights agenda, and America needs candidates in the black inner city to pick up and run with this flag.
Unfortunately, America is headed for some bad crashes under the current flower child policies of left-wing extremism, on foreign policy and national defense concerns as well as domestic and economic policy. Next year’s campaigns will involve a crusade to restore policies to rebuild traditional American freedom and prosperity. Where will you be during that crusade?
I hope Conservatives have the b@lls to actually REVERSE what has been done, rather than simply trim around the edges of the growing weeds of Govt, as Republicans have done in the past
Unfortunately, for this thesis is the fact that voting fraud will carry the day.
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I will be commanding an armored division and will be offense.
I hope and pray Gov. Palin does not leave our Party and form a third party. That is the worse thing could happen. The Democrats will simply divide and conquer us like a steamroller.
The only good thing that I’ve seen in the last six months is that the liberals have shown their hand and the conservatives might take back congress and the Senate in the next round of elections. Our local Democrat congressman is running scared and started running TV ads defending his decision to vote for every tax and spend program that the democrats throw out on the table without bothering to read them.
not reading / posting FR....but, working hard to defeat my
Congress-critter (Chandler KY.-'Rat) and this P.O.S. of a president.
She won't. She's smart. She has studied RR's playbook.
I’m with you. With ACORN, the Repubs will never have a shot.
LOL!
Personally, I’m not at all optimistic about 2010 or 2012.
In the Missouri Senate race, lackluster Blunt could easily lose due to conservatives not turning out or the Libertarian candidate getting 3% of the vote (what happened to Talent).
I can't see the chosen favorite Florida, Crist, winning. They better get Rubio.
The list goes on.... They better get behind Tome in PA, or is Conyers still supporting Specter?
If I ever run for and win elected office, I’m rolling back a whole lot of Communist crap.
Good. I was listening to Mark Levin yesterday on the radio and he was talking about the lunacy of a third party. Historically they have never worked. We need to be united now more than ever.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love it
Me too
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