Rasmussen: Tea Party Tops GOP on Three-Way Generic Ballot

Rasmussen ^ | Dec 07, 2009

[Snerdley]

I see Democrats winning where we would except for splitting our base.

[Earthdweller]

The Republican party has left us behind. You are foolish to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Conservatives need to walk into their districts and just take it back. If they really want it..it's as simple as that. They can't take our money against our will like the do the Democrats...yet. There needs to be a wave of average Joes walking into the districts and just taking back the foundations. That is far from giving up. If Palin can do it...

[DManA]

Yes. I don’t see the republicans picking up that fight.

[x_plus_one]

We aren't divided everywhere...

Most Red state GOP organizations actively support conservatives and conservative agendas.

[Nextrush]

You just listed the gun, abortion, marriage issues etc. that the GOP uses as emotional wedges to seduce conservatives into electing their candidates who then turn abound and vote to make government bigger.

I’ve seen this going on since the days of Richard Nixon who sent Spiro Agnew to attack liberal bias in the media.

The conservative movement back then was swallowed up by the emotions of the time and the real media bias. I hated the media for their awful one sided agenda.

But that RINO Nixon opened up China, made government bigger and cut the infamous Paris Peace Treaty, that the Vietcong violated later.

And the weapon of choice for Nixon’s fight against liberal media bias (endorsed by conservative leaders back then) was the Fairness Doctrine.

They went after NBC for doing a documentary attacking big corporations and their pension plans.

But most importantly two radio stations owned by conservative preachers ended up being taken off the air by Nixon’s FCC on Fairness Doctrine grounds.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Their theory is there is no where for conservatives to go.

[DManA]

We can’t make the Republican leadership do anything but we can veto any move they make. That is not meaningless.

[x_plus_one]

Not only does victory take work it takes teamwork. Our county GOP committee has a lone wolf libertarian who wants to avoid all fund raising for the next election cycle. He knows that money is a corrupting influence and therefore we should avoide it. Never mind that it takes money to run campaigns, get out the vote, advertise and be a viable candidate.

So far we have not authorized any fund raisers since he disrupts all attempts to do so in the name of purity. We will lose our solid republican base in the name of conservative, libertarian, lone-wolf purity.

[Earthdweller]

The theory is, there nothing left for conservatives to lose.

[DManA]

A third party can provide veto power over bad republican candidates. We should put the party on notice that the only way for them to enjoy power is to join us.

[Earthdweller]

The theory is, there is nothing left for conservatives to lose.

[sam_paine]

Most Red state GOP organizations actively support conservatives and conservative agendas.

Good. So all we need is more Red States!

Do you suppose the blue states are blue because the GOP is not conservative enough?

[Nextrush]

You’re watching what the cameras are showing to make conservatives happy but I see ten GOP senators who helped get Obama’s leftist district court nominee through,

I see my GOP congressman vote for Jack Murtha pork so he can get some for his district.

I see my GOP state legislator endorse 15 million dollars of state taxpayer money to bail out a local factory.

I don’t like what I see.

[BP2]

Bookmarked to study in depth after lunch ... I think your post should be on Free Republic's Rino Free America Project... Very HELPFUL.

I remember coming across a very-telling article (in the Boston Globe I believe) published in August 2008 that discussed the RNC Platform. If I find it again, I'll post it here ...

It was interesting to note that of the four or five MAJOR planks of the RNC Platform regarding Amnesty, Abortion, Global Warming, a Balanced Budget, etc. — MOST of which we would readily identify as Conservative — were CONTRARY to McCain's record and the McCain campaign "platform."

That's why I say the problem is NOT the RNC Platform voted upon by Republican delegates at the Convention, rather the Candidates that RNC Leadership tends to publicly and financially support through the Primary process because they erroneously believe that "the middle ground" wins races and is good for the Party and the Nation.

[meadsjn]

What is your electoral strategy?

The strategy is to get conservatives involved all through the election cycle. Elect conservatives in the primaries, and you won't have to worry about choosing between a RINO and Democrat.

Get conservatives elected in every race, from local, to state, to national. Any candidate who cannot provide Constitutional support for their proposals need to be defeated regardless what their party label is.

We don't need another third party. We can take back the GOP. We built it; we paid for it. We just need to force out, or push aside, the former Democrats who have seized control of the GOP in recent decades.

[dools007]

Do you really think the GOP is some kind of living stand-alone entity with the ability to choose who runs it?

The GOP is owned and led by demrats thru their surrogates—RINOs. Do you really think they will simply walk away and let conservatives take over?

The fact is, there is no second political party in America today. The opposition vacuum will be filled eventually. I doubt it will include the GOP.

[Earthdweller]

"Do you suppose the blue states are blue because the GOP is not conservative enough?"

The blue states are bluer and the red states are purple. It's a decades long march to big government control and the GOP has not reversed any of it in all that time. If there is going to be a big government...then we will control it by starting at the bottom and taking over. They will dread the day they ever placed a totalitarian system over the entire nation.

Two can play a grass roots movement game and if history tells us anything...this socialist train is coming to it's fruition and the pendulum will soon swing against it. There is a new wind blowing on the horizon and the old sellouts will be left behind. If that doesn't scare the crap out of some big government blood suckers..I don't know what will. Having control over other peoples lives is not the American way, but if they want to push it..then so be it.

[MestaMachine]

BP2 THIS article is why. The time is NOW. We have to be ready, but what is more important is we have to be WILLING. The "leadership" is like a mule. Either it gets up and walks the walk, or we shoot it. Can't have their cake and eat it too.

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[sam_paine]

It's a decades long march to big government control and the GOP has not reversed any of it in all that time.

What evidence do you have, in US or world history that it can ever be reversed within the political system? Even the American Revolution

Yes, the pendulum swings back and forth, but the pivot point keeps sliding slowly left because kids are being taught leftist redistributionist collectivist concepts in public school and media.

They will dread the day they ever placed a totalitarian system over the entire nation.

I doubt it. Sure...the Stalinists are gone. And Yeltsin finally stood on a tank and the commies crumbled.... ooops. That's right, Putin.

The American Revolution II might not work out for the better, either.

[Earthdweller]

If they break up this Constitutional system...someone else will come along and take the reigns. They don’t know who that dictator will be. It very well might not be a leftist in the end.