Posted on 11/13/2010 1:45:58 PM PST by bronkburnett
Republicans were cast into the wilderness beginning in 2006 because they abandoned a basic set of principles – not just their own principles, but those of the nation they were entrusted to lead.
Rather than standing up for American freedoms and free markets, the GOP instead became the party of big government and corruption – enabling Democrats to sweep into power promising to “drain the swamp” and usher in an era of “hope and change.”
Obviously lurking beneath these rhetorical flourishes was a radical socialist agenda – one that has exploded our debt, derailed our economy and eroded our individual liberties. Not only was the swamp never drained, but the cost of Washington’s corrupt, deficit-driven “dependency culture” has never been steeper.
In a sweeping repudiation of this socialist agenda, taxpayers have taken action on a grand scale.
First, they reclaimed a significant chunk of the Republican Party for the fiscal values it so recently abandoned – a most welcome ideological shift. Second, they sent representatives of this recalibrated Republican Party to Congress in numbers not seen since the depths of the Great Depression.
Armed with this mandate Republicans must now begin the hard work of leading our nation out of its current fiscal and economic malaise. That process will clearly take more than one election cycle, but it begins with the selection of GOP committee chairmen. As these critical decisions are made, it is imperative for Republicans to choose leaders who can be trusted to advance the agenda that they were elected to implement.
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the tea party movement put the Republicans over the top in this 2010 election. and if the Republicans do not react accordingly, those same tea party people will abandon them in 2012.
Does McConnell understand this? if yes, then he looks bad. if no, then he also looks bad. McConnell is making a mistake by not banning earmarks either way.
You mean like in the 2008 GOP Presidential primary?
yes, we got sold out. McCain threw the election.
Read this: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=226973
That’s why Bush blasted McConnell as a POS in his new book. He’s a snake and untrustworthy.
McConnell and Boehner are putzes and not real leadership material. Period.
We will most likely be stuck with them and Steele at the RNC. All BAD!!!!
Wish the members of each house would wise-up and place some in their leadership positions who might actually LEAD!
“He chose....poorly”.
No more Jaun McLames, Bob Dulls, or Obama lights.
No wise presidential track record since Reagan, as both parties have supranational goals, and the Dems certainly eviscerated Reagan’s domestic agenda. The Bushes were after the North American Union (that is what Bush seems to mourn for) and Soros is after world govt., period, rather than the regional concerns of the Bushes.
With regard to the Dems, Soros simply favored Obama over the Clintons’. The Clintons are still fighting back. The Tea Party is in between the old and current Republican establishment and the marxist/leninist Dems currently holding the Dem high ground,and is being shot at by both sides.
If the Republicans do not offer up a nationalistic candidate, then it is the supranational agenda fight all over again between the Reps and Dems over our collective carcasses.
One at a time, put them in a room full of chalices. An old knight will challenge them to pick the grail.
.....choose wisely.
And don't forget that without independant voters, the GOP would still be in the minority in the House.
Are there any wise leaders to choose from?
They actually think the socialists/Marxists will allow them their positions in the Obama restructuring of America. These are the Nelson Rockefeller, blue blood, country club RINOs. They represent the STUPID PARTY writ large. They are dangerous due to their myopic and lemming-like group-think. They will fight conservatives to the bitter end because of the threat posed to their personal power and prestige.
At least McCain was against earmarks unlike Mischief McConnell.
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