Posted on 11/28/2009 12:28:57 PM PST by Jim Robinson
She's a God, Country, Family, small government, no nonsense traditional Christian conservative. She's an outsider not corrupted by business as usual Washington politics. They hate her. She's pro defense. An army mom. She's pro-gun. Hunts, fishes and enjoys the great outdoors. She eats corrupt office holders and wasteful spenders for lunch. She drills for oil. She's a fighter. A winner!
She's the exact opposite to Obama in all respects. She's an American patriot!
In short, she's exactly what we the grassroots tea party patriots are looking for.
People aren’t voting for the GOP they are voting for conservatives...that is the point.
We have given the GOP too many opportunities and they ALWAYS let us down. Don’t forget it is because of the GOP we have Obama today...are you willing to roll the dice to get another Obama down the road?
Hoffman lost mostly because of the GOP. If the GOP were representing conservatives Hoffman would have been the nominee to begin with. They waited until there was little chance he could win and changed their game.
That is exactly what you can expect from either the GOP or the DEM - they only care about the party they do NOT care about you. Preserving the party is more important than standing on principle or conviction.
I'm not saying it will be easy to get the RNC to stop finding and supporting rinos but it can, will, and is being done.
Is it fast enough for me---hell no,but am I going to let the rinos have my party--hell no.
Stick with us.
Third parties in this country have a very definite history and its usually bad. Often leads to the wrong person winning.
Exactly. That's why we need to make sure we support conservatives in the GOP primaries. Right now Sarah looks to be the strongest conservative of the potential candidates out there: Pawlently, Jindal, Romney, Huck, Jeb, etc. If she decides not to run, we are left with the alternative of picking whoever looks the strongest among the candidates. This will be reminiscent of 2008 where no credible strong conservative candidate was running, and much of the public was alienated with GW and the GOP, to the point where the electorate rejected good conservatives such as JD Hayworth.
Hopefully, this scenario won't happen again if Sarah decides to run - the opposite may be true and the public will be fed up with Obama, the Democrats, and their communist agenda, and choose to vote in conservatives.
Some fail to recognize that Sarah is a conservative and if she runs, it will be as a GOP candidate. But worse yet, in their simplistic generalizations and nihilistic world view of blaming the GOP for failing to pass the RINO test, they underplay that it is Obama who is screwing us day in and day out with lasting repercussions that will be felt beyond our generation.
No question that part of the blame goes to the Bush administration. Sure, Bush made some foolish mistakes like TARP, but that is peanuts compared to Obama's monstrous bailout and stimulus package, and more stimulus packages to come. He has made moves to take over the car industry and expand the federal government's involvement in healthcare, while increasing the role of government and weakening our national security by dismantling our military and exhibiting an indifference to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama is an advocate for gay rights and I'm sure that he will make a push for same sex marriage, expanded abortion rights, teaching of the homosexual agenda in our schools, etc.
It is the Democrats who are destroying the country right now. The GOP is outnumbered and doesn't have the votes to stop anything right now. Yet when they voted on healthcare in the House, all of them (except one) voted against it. And in the first big procedural vote in the Senate, all of them (except one who abstained) voted against it.
As I said before we need to work together as a unified force to support conservatives for the House and the Senate elections so we can stop the bleeding. Calling for third party is foolish and an easy way to lose elections. This is not how we win elections.
Reform isn't an easy job but that's exactly what Ronald Reagan did. His words still echo some 32 years later with the same meaning as they had then:
"Let us lay to rest, once and for all, the myth of a small group of ideological purists trying to capture a majority. Replace it with the reality of a majority trying to assert its rights against the tyranny of powerful academics, fashionable left-revolutionaries, some economic illiterates who happen to hold elective office and the social engineers who dominate the dialogue and set the format in political and social affairs. If there is any ideological fanaticism in American political life, it is to be found among the enemies of freedom on the left or right—those who would sacrifice principle to theory, those who worship only the god of political, social and economic abstractions, ignoring the realities of everyday life. They are not conservatives."Our first job is to get this message across to those who share most of our principles. If we allow ourselves to be portrayed as ideological shock troops without correcting this error we are doing ourselves and our cause a disservice. Wherever and whenever we can, we should gently but firmly correct our political and media friends who have been perpetuating the myth of conservatism as a narrow ideology. Whatever the word may have meant in the past, today conservatism means principles evolving from experience and a belief in change when necessary, but not just for the sake of change.
"Once we have established this, the next question is: What will be the political vehicle by which the majority can assert its rights?
"I have to say I cannot agree with some of my friends—perhaps including some of you here tonight—who have answered that question by saying this nation needs a new political party.
"I respect that view and I know that those who have reached it have done so after long hours of study. But I believe that political success of the principles we believe in can best be achieved in the Republican Party. I believe the Republican Party can hold and should provide the political mechanism through which the goals of the majority of Americans can be achieved. For one thing, the biggest single grouping of conservatives is to be found in that party. It makes more sense to build on that grouping than to break it up and start over.
"Rather than a third party, we can have a new first party made up of people who share our principles. I have said before that if a formal change in name proves desirable, then so be it. But tonight, for purpose of discussion, I’m going to refer to it simply as the New Republican Party.
"And let me say so there can be no mistakes as to what I mean: The New Republican Party I envision will not be, and cannot, be one limited to the country club-big business image that, for reasons both fair and unfair, it is burdened with today. The New Republican Party I am speaking about is going to have room for the man and the woman in the factories, for the farmer, for the cop on the beat and the millions of Americans who may never have thought of joining our party before, but whose interests coincide with those represented by principled Republicanism." -- Ronald Reagan 1977: The New Republican Party
I love it!
LOL! No problem. Unfortunately, I get them too.
Small correction. We will put Rubio in as our Senator defeating our current Governor. Other than that small typo, I agree with you. Let's go get 'em!
Let the DEMs get stronger. The stronger they get the more they are despised by the American public. They are going to cause their own demise. Electing the GOP back into office only prolongs our suffering...eventually we will need a new conservative party anyway...so let’s get it going now.
Obama is a result of the GOP. Look at how pathetic the GOP is in challenging Obama’s Constitutional eligibility, there are legitimate questions and NO ONE is getting to the bottom of it. What good is any party that let’s someone usurp the office of the President?
But, while Nero fiddles, Rome burns....
And after the fires, new growth will florish and we will finally be free. We have to think about the future generations. Where we sit today is completely all of our own fault we need to stop thinking about what we can do short-term to save our own hides we have to fix the problem so future generations can actually have a chance at the American dream.
We are in a no-different situation than when our fore-fathers faced the same kind of tyranny.
Nope. You’re making a mountain out of a molehill and creating scenarios that have no basis.
Your concerns on this are about as sound as ACORN’s concerns that Obama would somehow toss out all gun grabber legislation because he once said he wasn’t after our guns.
He isn’t pro-2A and she isn’t for massive government growth and stimulus packages.
Thanks, RodGuy! Hope you can make it to Orlando on January 23rd for the “Pink Slip Tea Party” event! :)
Yes, they are....but they have also been staying home in great numbers and not voting at all because the "conservative candidate" isn't conservative enough. That only makes it easier for DEMS to win. Perfect example, all the conservatives who stayed home because they would NOT vote for McCain. That gave us Obama. We must get Congress in Republican control and THEN work to rid Congress of the RINO's.
We have given the GOP too many opportunities and they ALWAYS let us down. Don’t forget it is because of the GOP we have Obama today...are you willing to roll the dice to get another Obama down the road?
I learned about rolling the dice when I worked night and day to try to elect Ross Perot. What did I do? A great job at putting Clinton in office! Yes, the GOP gave us McCain, the perfect example of a RINO. However, if EVERY conservative who stayed home voted McCain/Palin and we took back Congress in the process, we would at least NOW have:
1. Our troops winning in Afghanistan.
2. Much better Health Care legislation.
3. No Cap & Trade
4. Less spending by Congress
5. And best of all, Sarah Palin in the perfect position to be President in 2012!
Agreed! Also love your Freeper Name! Let's hope the "sky is falling" for the GOP RINO'S and we get more real conservatives in Congress in 2010!
I’m on board the Palin bandwagon.
Great! We Florida Freepers will have a booth at the event which starts at 3:00PM on Saturday, Jamuary 23rd. We will set up our booth sometime between 1:00-2:00. Will know more details soon. :)
Voters are tired of politicians who are liars.
There are way too many dishonest politicians, and the electorate is sick of it.
Sure the Far Left and Radical Libs will vote again for BHO, but I seriously doubt that either Independents or mainstream middle of the road Dems will vote for him next time.
I think that voters are sick and tired of the fake mirage the politicians construct around themselves. And that's why Governor Sarah Palin is so appealing -- she has the voice & feel of authenticity. And... you just can't FAKE genuineness, ya know???
LOL
All of the politicians and most of the mass media is peopled with phoney baloney people.
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