Posted on 01/06/2010 7:36:27 AM PST by Palmetto Patriot
The very public way in which the existence of a center-right in the Democratic Party proved to be a mirage has done more to undermine the party’s chances for victory in 2010 than any other aspect of the healthcare debate.
When liberal Republicans failed to rally to Bill Clinton’s 1993-1994 agenda — including his failed healthcare proposal — they laid the basis for their total demise in subsequent years. Sens. Jeffords, Chaffee, D’Amato, Packwood, Hatfield and Specter (as a Republican) are gone. Sens. Snowe and Collins are all that remain of the once-dominant Rockefeller wing of the GOP. They have been replaced by real Democrats.
Now that Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu and Byron Dorgan in the Senate and the likes of Marion Berry, Tom Perriello and John Spratt in the House have shown how easily they fold under pressure and how thin their conservatism really is, their states and districts will no longer be deceived into reelecting them. They will be replaced by real Republicans.
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Spot on.
Dick has a way of cutting to the chase. He has grasped the essential tipping point that has been reached in the Rat party.
For the sake of our country, may we make the most of it.
Just hope that it’s not too late. Change in Congress is what’s needed, not Obama’s change. Socialism, in my view, will go....one way or another. The American people won’t stand for it and will get rid of it, one way or another. I only hope it can be done without a massive revolution and done soon. We need total change in Congress, in the Federal Reserve, our housing industry and especially in our taxing structure. Forget Health Care for the time being. We need to fix our country first and fix it now, not in 2012.
P.S. At the same time, the Republican party will either wither away, replaced by the TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party focused on one thing - LIMITED GOVERNMENT - or the Republican Party will be taken over and transformed by the TEA Party.
Our system is such that the end game is always two major political parties. Even if a third party emerges, it eventually has to replace or displace one of the major parties. I believe that is happening with the TEA Party and the Republican Party.
BTW, there is one way to help the TEA Party movement takeover the Republican Party: that’s by conservatives unifying around ONE, SIMPLE platform: LIMITED GOVERNMENT through LIMITING GOVERNMENT.
Every single “single” issue can be advanced through limiting government - maybe not accomplished, but advanced. Of course, advocates can continue their efforts to accomplish the goals of their “single” issue, but divisions and disagreements on priorities won’t hold back the formation of this new party or its takeover of the old Republican Party.
Abortion, marriage, school choice, national security, immigration - whatever issues are a voter’s top priority are advanced by limiting government.
(National securit and immigration, for example, are advanced because the government will/can do a better job on these issues when it is not busy doing things it has no business doing in the first place.)
Congress should serve only two terms, one in office and one in prison.
Good read, he is spot on.
***For them, in 2010, the mandate is clear: Switch parties or lose the election.***
What makes him think that we Republicans want these potential RINOS? Not me!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus
Third parties cannot work in our system, as stand-alone organizations.
Because of our winner-take-all and Electoral College system to have power, the “third” party has to become popular enough to become one of the two major political parties — either by displacing it or replacing it.
If it displaces one of the old major political parties, that old party then either goes away or labors in Loserville as a minor party.
If it replaces one of the old major political parties, it either keeps the old name (say, Republicans) but in fact is a new/renewed party or it gets a new name (say, TEA Party).
So, I agree with you.
Republicans don’t have a choice in membership. One becomes a member of a party by simply saying one is a member of that party- and registering with the voting registrar as such.
“Change in Congress is what’s needed, not Obama’s change.”
Start here:
Democrat Spratt is running for his 15th term in Congress. He is currently the Chairman of the House Budget Committee. Nancy Pelosi’s entire agenda runs through him. Despite representing a Republican District (SC-5) and presenting himself as a Moderate, he has voted with her 97.8% of the time.
John was quoted as saying “I rarely vote against my own constituency” at one of his Town Halls, and was roundly booed. He later voted for the Health Care Bill anyway.
It’s time for him to go.
Please consider supporting his opponent, Mick Mulvaney. Find out more about him at:
http://www.mulvaneyforcongress.com/
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