GOP in Default Mode

American Thinker ^ | August 23, 2010 | J.R. Dunn

[Man50D]

It's widely acknowledged that in 2010, the Democrats are on the ropes. But just about the same could be said for the Republicans.

A few weeks ago, John Cornyn and John Boehner revealed this election's GOP platform. In a year of massive unrest, public disgust with government, and large-scale rejection of interventionist policies, the GOP will emphasize...deficits. An issue to warm an economist's heart -- and the occasional accountant's, too. Top that one, Obama.

In the wake of Scott Brown's stunning upset in Massachusetts last February, with the entire New England region open to exploitation, the GOP is doing nothing. There are no plans to challenge incumbents in New England. No money, no candidates, no program. Historical moment? Wuzzat mean?

No effort is being made to emphasize the achievements of the nation's Republican governors. Jan Brewer, Chris Christie, and Mitch Daniels, among others, are steering their states through the worst economy since the Carter '70s, pressing critical policy changes, and most important, defying Washington while they're at it. Yet the RNC knows them not.

We will merely allude to Michael Steele's perennial circus act to look beyond to 2012, where we have one announced candidate, the immortal Mr. Newt Gingrich, whose most recent sojourn is a national tour with the most Rev. Al Sharpton.

[Man50D]

We will merely allude to Michael Steele's perennial circus act to look beyond to 2012, where we have one announced candidate, the immortal Mr. Newt Gingrich, whose most recent sojourn is a national tour with the most Rev. Al Sharpton.

Newt also did a political ad with Pelosi in support of the global warming fallacy and he may run for President. It's another example how the OP(formerly the GOP) has incrementally merged with the socialist RATs to form one big Socialist Republicrat party.

Both parties worked to impose centralized interventionist policies. The Republican slogan was "the same program, but slower," its major selling point the contention that it could emplace collectivist policies more "responsibly" than the Democrats.

The socialist Republicrat party has been moving the country twoards socialism for a long time.

John Cornyn has already stated that the party will make no attempt to repeal ObamaCare. If the GOP won't tear down that monstrosity, what good is the GOP?

Too many people are hinging their hopes the OP(formerly the GOP) to repeal the unconstitutional Obamacare. It will be ultimately up to the people to stop Obamacare by openly defying the BO/BS regime.

The Tea Parties are not Republican

They are being incrementally co-opted by the OP(formerly the GOP)with more OP candidates making appearances at local and national tea party events. The Tea Party movement began in opposition to both wings of the OP yet more groups are endorsing OP candidates and Michele Bachmann is trying to co-opt the tea party movement with her Tea Party Caucus.

What's the alternative? Not a future as a third party.

Dunn doesn't see the forest for the trees. He writes in the preceding paragraphs how similar the parties are but then makes a comment based on the erroneous premise they are two distinct parties. We have only one big socialist Republicrat Party under the deception of two different names. Names alone don't make them distinct from each other. Ideology determines the character of a party. The RATs and the OP have been moving in the same direction for decades. Another party will restore the two party system.

It defies logic how Conservative keep insisting to retake a party that no longer exists but in the past has shown nothing but disdain for Conservatism. Repeatedly returning to that party is the political version of battered wife syndrome. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result. Unfortunately Conservatives have been implementing this insanity for many years and still do so today. Twenty five years of this failing strategy needs to end now. It's time for Conservatives to wake up and break from the socialist Republicrat party by uniting under a party based on strong Conservative values. That is not the OP.

[MNJohnnie]

Search is your freind, all ready posted.

What defies logic is this lunatic insistence that some magic 3rd party be created that will grant the whiners choir their every political whimsy.

If you cannot organize Conservative/Libertarians enough to take back control of the GOP, you certainly are going to epically fail trying to do the much harder work of organizing a new political party from the ground up.

[jazzlite]

Beyond disgusting, isn’t it?

[MNJohnnie]

Every single 3rd party in US History has completely failed to achieve any of it's goals. Instead it merely acts as a spoiler splitting the vote and assisting it's enemies to victory.

No, contrary to the big lie, the GOP was NOT a 3rd party. It merely took over the existing machinery of the defunct Whig party.

Time the siren song of the “3rd party” be put to rest. The historic data doesn't magically change just because it conflicts with the emotion based dogma and bubble world view of the perpetually whining choir.

[Man50D]

Search is your freind, all ready posted.

I did a title search, as I always do, but there were no matches.

[MNJohnnie]

Past time you recognize that your position on this issue is wholly emotion based. It is not at all based on any logic or rational assessment of the historic facts.

3rd party movements only help elect their enemies program by splitting the supporter of their political position into competing factions. It is an idiot's notion that has failed EVERY single time it has been tried in US Political history.

[Cboldt]

-- I did a title search, as I always do, but there were no matches. --

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2575738/posts

[Man50D]

Past time you recognize that your position on this issue is wholly emotion based

3rd party movements only help elect their enemies program by splitting the supporter of their political position into competing factions.

You either didn't read thoroughly what I posted or misinterpreted my comments. I clearly stated we don't have a two party system and haven't had one for years because of the OP's(formerly the GOP) insistence of reaching out across the aisle in the spirit of bipartisan approach with the socialist RATs! This has caused the OP to be more socialistic instead of turning the RAT party into Conservatives. Why is this concept so hard for people to grasp when its been happening right before them for decades? It's truly astounding so many Conservatives are in such a deep state of denial.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Third parties are the action of a mass hysteria death wish, the RATs best friend.

If you don’t like the GOP the way it is, get busy and help coservatives take it back, unless of course, you’re actually a RAT.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

But the point is still true that GOP control of congress, in and of itself, doesn’t mean very much. I think we’ll be declaring victory in Nov. 2010 and realizing our defeat in Nov. 2011.

We need to prepare ourselves for a multi-year effort with the GOP trying to sabotage it all the way.

[EBH]

Every single 3rd party in US History has completely failed to achieve any of it's goals

There would have been a time I would have said you are wrong, but it just took the GOP a few years to actually fail. For an advocate of the GOP you should really read up on the history of the party you support.

Ironically you might find there was another time in our Nation's history when "conservatives" were deeply disgruntled and formed a new coalition...they succeeded in Congress in less than a decade.

It is critical to understand the breadth of corruption that exists. One doesn't cut away the rotted core and eat the apple.

All our attempts at redress either to the government or our own party are ignored. I do support getting conservatives back into the party leadership, but I hold no allusions about some Grand Old (third)Party that took a hundred years to fail.

[screaminsunshine]

Who cares about the RNC idiots. We are bypassing them.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

e need to prepare ourselves for a multi-year effort with the GOP trying to sabotage it all the way.

That's the point to TEApublicanism - taking back the GOP, and then turning it into a weapon for use against the Dimocrats.

Going third party, however, is the cowardly fool's way out. It is an active attempt to get around the hard work of restoring the GOP. But the irony is, starting a (successful) third party from the ground up would be infinitely more work than merely recapturing the existing framework of the Republican Party. If these third partyists are already too lazy to plug away at the one, what makes us think they'll have any staying power to do the other?

[bert]

Unless the Witches from the North are made irrelevant, there will be no real control. There must be adequate votes to make consider those two as really Democrats.

[MNJohnnie]

The reason parties drift from core values is the “true believers” don't want to get off their asses and do the hard dirty work of running a party day to day. So they sit on their asses and whine non stop about how impure and imperfect the parties are.

The solution is not to sit around fantasizing about some magic 3rd party, that OTHER people will have to create for you, but get off your ass and get in the trenches. Past time to take the party of Reagan/Goldwater BACK from the apparatchiks that have hijacked it.

[Man50D]

Third parties are the action of a mass hysteria death wish, the RATs best friend.

Did you not read my comments? I clearly stated we do not have a two party system to form a third party!! The RATs and the OP(formerly the GOP) have merged to form one big socialist Republicrat party!! Another party will be the second part in opposition to these socialists!!

If you don’t like the GOP the way it is, get busy and help coservatives take it back, unless of course, you’re actually a RAT.

More confirmation you either didn't read what I posted or do not understand so I'll reiterate. Conservatives would be far better off uniting under a party based on strong Conservative values than trying to take back a party that abandon conservative principles long ago by accepting socialism. The Republican party, as many conservatives conceive in their own mind, exists in name only! I am a RAT since your definition includes wanting to unite under a conservative banner instead of the OP wing of the socialist Republicrat party.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

GOTP

[Wolfie]

Pay close attention. None of that matters. The Republican base wants Republicans in offfice so they can say they “won”. Doesn’t matter what they do while in office, it will always be excused. Those types don’t stand for any principles, they just want to “win” for the sake of it.

[LibLieSlayer]

The dims have their affirmative action president and we have our affirmative action rnc chair... both chosen for the color of their skin... both epic fail. The republicans are certainly in need of some purging... cornyn is an example as well as about 60% of all repubic incumbents... but if we had Tom Delay as rnc chair for example... the game would look all together differently... but we have steele... which is worse than having no one at all.

LLS

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Imagine what Republicans could accomplish with real leadership at the RNC ?