Posted on 08/23/2010 3:46:19 AM PDT by 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.
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And your history would be wrong. Both of the current parties, Democrats and Whigs, were third parties at some point.
When the Whigs found themselves on the wrong side of the slavery argument, they were destroyed. If the GOP is on the wrong side of the abortion argument, they’ll be destroyed too.
We need a party that just as they were opposed to slavery, is apoosed to abortion. If that party is not the GOP, they will fade and die away. There’s already a pro abortion party, it’s called the Democrats. We don’t need another.
>> If you cannot organize Conservative/Libertarians enough to take back control of the GOP,...
bttt
Are you in the 2nd grade?
Since politics is about N-U-M-B-E-R-S, its all they can do if the idiots who populate this country don't understand what the hell is going on or what they're doing or stay home or whine about RINOs or vote 3rd party...they deserve the government they get.
I don’t pretend third parties will have any relevancy.
I’m just saying that the talk that the GOP is the future of political conservatism is a wild and unfounded assumption on your part.
I believe you are right. I increasingly think that the fiscal and economic concerns of a broad swath of the electorate are going to sweep aside the “social wedge issues” such as gun control, abortion, and so on and replace them with issues that are all economic:
1. The economy, state and federal debt levels, banking corruption, etc.
2. Immigration as a jobs issue. A surplus of labor depresses wages, period. No one need conduct some PhD-level study to realize this.
3. The costs of things like healthcare, education, public sector salaries/pensions, etc.
The Fed is showing that the Elite’s plans and schemes have limits. In the case of the Fed, once they get to zero percent interest rates, they’re essentially out of options. Once the similar conclusion registers on the Keynesians who want to spend, spend, spend, then the voters won’t buy their promises of ‘stimulus.’ The voters will be demanding someone come in with some fresh ideas, and not a huge laundry list of ideas, either. Look at Christy in NJ - he has a pretty narrow platform: cut, cut, cut. Real cuts, not “let’s just cut the rate of growth.”
At first, the voters were skeptical, now they’re getting converted to his side. If he has a successful four years, I think we’ll see some other politicians realize that the voters can handle the truth if they act like it is the truth, ie, the pols walk their talk.
What dogma is being expressed here? I don’t see any. I’m looking for the dogma you keep flapping your gums about, and all I’m seeing is you, out standing in your field, erecting straw men.
More like stopping 20 feet too late to hit my children vs. stopping 40 feet too late.
Agreed. All anyone I talk to reiterates the economic disaster looming regarding spending, deficits, taxes, Obamacare, Cap and Trade, etc. Very few social issues mentioned besides immigration.
Repubs would be hitting the brakes, Democrats the gas.
Fun game.
The Repubs would know that no matter what they did there would be people to defend them.
Its not a game.
Republicans are our only hope of stopping Pelosi and Obama.
Wake up!
Leaving Dems in total control for two more years will be apocalyptic, its bad enough now.
1 - My vote is set.
2 - Having no standards for who we vote for is enslaving to us and liberating to the Republicans. They can be anything or everything they want. There’s nothing we can do if our only measurement is that they aren’t Democrats.
Question: Would you vote for Lindsey Graham?
I did vote for Lindsey. He had no opposition besides a Democrat. Same for McCain.
I hated it, but it was the correct thing to do.
Penicillin is hard to stomach and leaves a bad taste, but I would take it before I died of rheumatic fever. Voting for moderates is quite similar.
“Going third party, however, is the cowardly fool’s way out.”
It is a career path move. TV, books, appearances.
Pat Buchanan, Harry Browne, Tom Tancredo, Alan Keyes, Bob Barr, Ralph Nader...and more.
And it works. Each abovementioned personality most likely earns a handsome living, from this career path strategy.
They have followings in the hundreds, sometimes even the thousands.
Tancredo and Barr held lower office, the rest never bothered to stand for any election they actually had a chance of winning.
Tancredo in Colorado is a clear example of the downside from these people. After disrupting the election, he’ll be the darling of the liberal media, looking for a willing talker to criticize the GOP.
A twofer.
I will never vote for Graham.
Let me put it this way:
If I were running you would vote for me.
If you were running I might not vote for you.
I win and maybe you don’t. You’ve lost the power of your opinion and I haven’t. That is what you are giving up by insisting on voting for the Notdemocrat.
Well, a lot of voters like you gave up our private healthcare by not voting for the Notdemocrat.
Thanks.
You also cost us about two trillion dollars.
Go ahead and sit on your *ss because the Repub isn't conservative enough. You will get the government you deserve, again.
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