OK who are you, and what have you done with the FReeper who signed up in 2000?
:)
You mean because I’m even more cynical... or more “optimistic”... lol
BTW, I’m going on record here that as of now I support Palin for President... I don’t think we have the luxury of waiting until the primaries... we have seen how the establishment uses that to their advantage and will once again saddle us with someone who is electable.
If we lose... we lose... I don’t think we will but I’m prepared for a second term of Obama with a stronger Tea Party controlled Republican majority in both houses of Congress than I am making another deal with the devil, a la Mitt Romney, Pawlenty or any other RINO the establishment throws at us.
I still like my paleo friends like EV but some of their criticisms get to the point of splitting “theological” purist hairs (since we’re still talking about this in terms of “worship”). Reagan wouldn’t have lived up to the standards we’re imposing today.
As far as “electability”, as a firm believer in the Sovereignty of God, my job is to pray, support and vote. God will decide who sits on this earthly “throne” we call the Presidency and His will can and will not be thwarted. If more of us had this kind of confidence in the providence of God (myself included), we would stop worrying about pollsters and pundits and not be afraid to be bold and courageous in our politics.
From http://www.rmcpac.com/ronald-reagan-stated-1975-raise-banner-bold-colors-not-pale-pastels
On March 1, 1975, in the wake of the disastrous post-Watergate election, Ronald Reagan stood before a disheartened Conservative Political Action Conference and proclaimed, “A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.”
Then, as now, there was a din of voices from the media and from “moderate” Republicans calling on the Party to abandon its conservative principles.
Reagan’s Message
Here is what Ronald Reagan told the assembled delegates of CPAC that day:
“I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party” - when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?
Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.
Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.
It is time to reassert our principles and raise them to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”
Five years later, Ronald Reagan was elected President of the United States.