Posted on 09/15/2009 12:51:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
Confronted with an oncoming tsunami, many on the left spent the weekend quibbling over how many drops of water it contained.
MONEY LINE!
Equally important is we need to get out and vote in the primaries. I’m not sure McCain would have been much better than Obama.
This is fine with me. Let them ignore it or pretend it is insignificant. If they go ahead and ram their insane leftist crap thru regardless of what they are seeing and hearing - and if the anger and activism are real - they will be crushed in 2010 and probably in 2012 as well.
The real question is: Will the GOP have the courage and will to reverse the leftist agenda? Or will they just go along while wringing their hands and whining about “fairness”, “decorum” and the “rules of the senate/house”?
They longer our enemies cover their ears, call us nasty names, and remain in denial, the easier it will be for us to vanquish them utterly!
That depends on us. On whom we vote for in the primaries. On how effective we are at educating our friends and neighbors regarding what and and whom they should be voting for—and why.
I agree with you completely
2) The Tea Party people were almost universally polite, well-spoken and cleaned up after themselves. (Witness by contrast the attendees at most pro-Obama rallies with their mass produced signs, and thinking processes.)
3. The proper symbol for all of our protesters, regardless of the specific issues of each, is the Gadsden Flag, the rattlesnake on a yellow field, that should now start appearing at every public event in the nation where TV cameras are present.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "A Million People Prove that NPR Doesn't Count"
Before we get a headache over the 2012 Presidential election we have to concentrate on congressional election in 2010 so we can repeat 1994 and win the House back and perhaps gain some seats back in the Senate
We do have to work harder to get good candidates to begin with (in the primaries), and while I think McCain would have been awful, I don’t think he’s a crazed megalomaniac and I don’t think the people surrounding him would have been anywhere near as bad as those surrounding Obama. One of the things we have to consider is that you get not only the president, but all the people in his party, so while there would have been a lot of RINOs, we still wouldn’t have had David Axelrod, Emmanuel Rahm, etc.
I like to call them Bliss Ninnies.
I have always defended Bill O’Reilly when he was attacked here by some freepers, because I have found him fair and unbiased. Lately however I have screamed at my TV because I could not take it anymore. Last night when he said there were only 75,000 people at the rally in DC was such a situation
14 months until elections. That’s a political eternity.
Some really good stuff can happen between now and then, and some really bad stuff can happen.
Freedom and liberty are still playing defense, and barely holding their ground. The statists still run the school systems and the colleges.
Biggest lesson of the past couple decades or more is that we must not trust ANY politician to do the right thing. We The People will need to continue holding their hand and, occasionally, kicking their butts.
Another good step would be to arrange for theater style seating during any get-togethers with our reps. The kind of seating where they stand down in the well and look up at us, arrayed through ranks of seating above them. This is the reality that needs to be reinforced in their minds.
I agree entirely, but I don't think the majority think of that when they pull the lever for president. The apathy on our side after 8 years of Bush certainly didn't help in 2008. I'll say one thing for "The One/Messiah," is that he's united Republicans in a way that John McCain could never hope to accomplish.
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He’s united conservatives (true liberals),
not so much the GOP, which is infested with elitists
in need of a purging.
Years ago the company I worked for offered an early retirement package. Our joke was those with even half of a brain took the package. About 4-6 months later the company went on a rampage of firing people. Most of those people who didn't take early retirement got terminated with no real package. Those in the home office got a free Kinko box to put their personal stuff in before security escorted them off the property. George 76 and I have joked about the free Kinko's boxes for a few years.
Flash forward a couple of years, and about a dozen of us had been hired as consultants by a former peer, who, also, took the early retirement. At one of the first meetings of the new company, one of the guys who didn't take the early retirement package was moaning that we, who took the early retirement package had insider knowledge.
Our new boss said "Hey you were in a dark tunnel that that had railroad ties across the bottom with rails on top of the ties. For months you kept hearing the engine coming closer, the lights flashing and even the engineer blowing the train's whistle. Those of us with half a brain found another tunnel that took us safely outside, and you stayed and ignored the obvious."
Our new boss looked at a couple of us and shook his head. The whiner didn't last long in his new environment.
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