John Hawkins
John Hawkins is a blogger who runs Right Wing News and Conservative Grapevine, and writes a regular column for http://Townhall.com. View all articles by John Hawkins
Posted on 10/30/2009 8:04:43 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years.
Everybody knows exactly whom we're talking about here. The same snobby, elitist, stuffed shirt, squishy, poll-obsessed Country Club Republicans who went to D.C., forgot who put them there, wasted the incredible opportunity they had to change this country for the better, and are now pointing the finger at everyone except themselves for their mistakes.
Here are five messages for those people:
We're not going back to the Bush years: Conservatives are sick and tired of hearing Republicans talk about conservatism to get our support and then watching them immediately move to the center once they get elected.
Stop making promises to us that you don't intend to keep. Don't tell us how fiscally conservative you are and then vote for the TARP Program. Don't talk about limited government and then support big government programs. Don't tell us you care about the rule of law and then support amnesty.
We expect you to govern the way you campaigned when you needed our support. If you don't do it, we're going to make sure you catch hell for it.
This country can't survive if you're as childish as the Democrats: For the last few decades, we've had an "adult" party that deals in the real world and a "children's party" that promises everyone everything for nothing. Unfortunately, the "adult party" has been acting a little too much like a 40 year old going through a mid-life crisis for the last few years. Newsflash: This country cannot remain a super power or even a great nation if the Republican Party doesn't start acting like an adult party again.
Yes, the Democrats' "something for nothing" election promises may seem appealing at times, but the country can't thrive with two parties like that--and what good does it do anyone to be elected king of the crap pile? We don't expect the Republican Party to be ideologically perfect or to please conservatives in every way on every issue. That's not the real world. But, if the Republican Party isn't willing to draw a line in the sand over the things that have made this a great country, then the party just isn't worth a flat damn. There have to be SOME lines that can't be crossed without paying a terrible price.
Stop sabotaging our candidates: It is absolutely infuriating that Republican Party organizations talk incessantly about conservative principles, rely on conservatives for the overwhelming majority of their funding, and then turn around and sabotage conservative candidates like Doug Hoffman and Marco Rubio. Who the hell do you think you are?
We're not telling the Republican Party to endorse conservative candidates over moderate candidates or demanding that middle-of-the-road candidates be tossed from the party. What we are saying is, "Don't take our money, use it against us, and then take a haughty 'we know best' attitude." If you do, we're going to take you to the woodshed and show you why it's a bad idea.
"There will be no elite in a bankrupt America." -- Jonathan Hunter: If fiscal conservatism doesn't work any more, then America doesn't work any more because we can't live like this long term. If even the Republicans look at government as just another way to distribute as much borrowed money as they can get by with to their supporters, then this country is going to look like Argentina after the crash in twenty years. This is do-or-die for the future of this country and Republicans, including Republican members of Congress from blue states, need to understand that.
You're not as smart as you think you are: It must be grand to be a congressman or senator. Your fellow citizens elect you to office. Then you go to D.C. where your staff spends all day fretting over you and telling you how wonderful you are. Everywhere you go, all you hear from consultants, your fellow members of Congress, and all the people who want things from you is that you can do no wrong. If only people understood how SMART you really are. It's like being five years old all over again except everyone shares your mother's opinion of what a brilliant genius her little man is going to turn out to be.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, Republicans just spent two straight elections getting splattered like bugs on a windshield. That happened despite the fact that their constituents were screaming at the top of their lungs about the oncoming danger. Yes, that's right; the political novices in NoWhereville, South Dakota were more accurately predicting the problems ahead than the Republican politicians and political consultants in D.C. How in the world we got to a place where so many politicians have such a shallow understanding of politics, I don't know, but Republicans in D.C. need to wake up and smell the coffee. YOU GUYS blew it in 2006 and 2008, not us.
John Hawkins is a blogger who runs Right Wing News and Conservative Grapevine, and writes a regular column for http://Townhall.com.
Interesting article.
I was surprised no one had already posted it here.
These should be posted on every republican elected officials office and in every Republican campaign headquarters.
There are two more messages:
6. You cannot win elections without the conservative votes, period.
7. Conservatives will no longer vote for the “lesser evil” just because there is an “R” next to the name.
The GOP needs to support real conservatives or else go the way of the Whigs. I will not prop up a failed party. I vote conservative, and if that hurts the GOP's chances, then they have no one to blame but themselves.
No more RINO’s. I will not vote for another RINO. I’d rather have a loyal minority that can swing enough phone calls and worried Rats to derail any new legislation. If the status qou is the best we can get..let’s hang on to that, but I won’t vote for a CA Rino Governator that favors amnesity and the welfare state. They should be running as Rats.
That alone speaks volumes.
The ‘elite’ had better start paying attention. These five points pretty much sum up my attitude.
Get on board or else you will be steamrolled. We are getting fed up and things are gonna change and I’m not talking the hopey change thingy.
Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
"Don't tell me you're pro-life and then do absolutely NOTHING to stop the daily slaughter of thousands of American children."
Hear, hear! We brung you to the dance, GOP, and we can leave you by the punchbowl all alone. If conservatives don’t see you as worthy of our votes, who will?
Works for me........:)
The response from the Rockefeller Republicans is:
You can't win with just the conservative votes either.
While that trite little piece of drivel sounds good in sound bites it is misleading. Nobody has ever said, "Screw it all we need is conservatives votes, everyone else can go pound sand."
What conservatives have to offer rings true with almost everyone because that is usually how they live their lives.
People are innately, if not consciously, aware that you can't spend more than you take in.
They crave and seek out the stability of a nuclear family.
They know there is something unique called "American" and that no matter where you come from you can become an "American"... without a hyphen.
They play by the rules and are insulted when those in charge of enforcing the rules look the other way, whether it is on Wall Street or the border.
If conservatives make a positive appeal to how people live their lives then they can bring in more than the self-identified conservatives.
I agree; the response to the Rockefeller Republicans should be that candidates who run and then govern on true conservative principles do in fact win. At least in the productive areas of the country. And, when you get down to it, following the conservative principles you outlined is simply the “right thing to do.” (I know; alien concept in Washington).
While the Rockefeller Republicans are right in that a conservative has no chance taking Maxine Waters’ or Nancy Pelosi’s seat, it’s still the right way to live your life and govern a country. Once you compromise away from this principle, then it’s just about power.
We just aren’t going to play that game any more. The GOP better realize that or it will become extinct.
It is embarrassing to continue reading this garbage from so-called conservatives and republicans. Do some homework for crying out loud and learn what the purpose of TARP was before continuously railing against it.
The perversion of TARP is open to ridicule, but not the original intent.
He left off “ We’re not going to take it anymore”
and restore the constitution...which they claim only gives people the right to due process..and all power belongs to the feds....
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