Dear President Ronald Wilson Reagan, My Party Left Me Too...

My Own Thoughts | 04/20/2012 | DoughtyOne

[DoughtyOne]

...is there life after the Leftists take over?

We have been operating under the rule of "Lesser of Two Evils" for decades.  I have agreed with it.  I now stop to ask folks who have been doing the same thing, has our nation grown stronger over those decades?  At some point we have to be honest with ourselves.  For me, the answer is a clear, "No."  I can't answer for you, but there are many people out there who understand exactly where I'm coming from?

Instead of saying people who continue to do this are wrong, I want to give them something to think about.  Perhaps it will help them see things a little differently.

What we have been trying hasn't worked.  We slide farther left every single year.  At some point this has to stop, or we lose the nation we love no matter which party is in power.  Take a good look at Mitt Romney.  On just one topic alone, I can't vote for him.  He's a gun control advocate.  Once our guns are gone, they're gone.  Bad as that is, it runs much deeper.  I don't need to tell you about all of it.  You know what I'm talking about.  Romney is a blithering idiot when it comes to Conservatism.  Some would say he's lying his ass off.  It would be hard to argue otherwise.

Carter was universally scorned in 1980.  Obama, arguably much worse, isn't.  He is still wildly popular with the Left.  Has our nation changed?  It's my take that it is undeniably worse and in danger of cratering if we don't change direction.  And where is the voice of the loyal opposition?  That's right... crickets.

For this reason, I simply cannot fall back on the lesser of two evils rule of thumb we have always fallen back on.  I say this because IT IS NOT a change of direction.  If that hasn't worked, and it clearly hasn't, what reasoned argument is there for doing it again now?  Well, to my way of thinking there is no reasoned argument other than the ones that have always been used to advocate for it.  And that tactic having failed, the arguments in support of it are unsustainable.

We have tried this and failed.  So now we must come up with something different.  I, for one, will not sit by and continue play the business as usual game.  The Republican party must be made aware that it cannot continue to thumb it's nose at it's core base.

Here's the political spectrum we should be operating under.

1780 [L---------c---------R]

This is the political spectrum that would reveal us to be adhering to our Founding Father's vision and our Founding Documents.  This is precisely what the goal of Conservatives should be, to return to this model, and to do it as rapidly as possible.  Are we trending back toward that model?

I see something like this.

1980 [L---d---r-c---------R] *
1984 [L--d----r-c---------R] *
1988 [L--d---r--c---------R] *
1992 [L--d---r--c---------R]
1996 [L--d---r--c---------R]
2000 [L--d--r---c---------R] *
2004 [L-d--r----c---------R] *
2008 [Ld--r-----c---------R]
2012 [Ld--r-----c---------R]

The sad fact is, we are trending away from Conservatism.  That's why many of us are livid at our nominee this year.  AGAIN!!!!

Here is where we are headed folks.

2016 [Ld--r-----c---------R]
2020 [Ld-r------c---------R]
2024 [Ldr-------c---------R]

Does that look enticing?

With the exception of Ronald Reagan in 1980 - 1988, we have been spoon fed our candidates.  I'm not saying they spoon fed us the exact candidate, but they did take advantage of trends to make sure what types of candidates would get the nomination.  How did the RNC manage that?  It allowed it's primaries to be held under conditions that made it possible for Democrats to participate in the Republican nomination process.  Did anyone think that was going to give us more Conservative candidates?  No, it was a given that we were going to get more Leftists.  And more Leftists we got.

The RNC also continually talked up our more Leftist candidates, and made it clear they frowned on our more Conservative ones.  Look what took place this year.  Rove, Card, other party officials and office holders pushed Romney as hard as they could.

Why would the Republican Party do this?  For some time the leadership has been convinced that the nation was heading Left, and it didn't see any possibility of Conservatives being elected.  Rather than look at our rich history and notice that our widest victories were realized when we played on our differences with Leftist policy, they decided to adopt more Leftist policy in an attempt to look more appealing.  And as this took place, the information dispensed to the public heralding Conservatism ceased.  And as the push for Conservatism ceased, the nation moved farther left.

We are now at the point where our Constitution, Capitalism, and other tenets of a sound Constitutional Republic are scorned.

Look at the graph above, and see how that worked out for us.  Ronald Reagan was our last president who won with a large margin of victory.  Starting with the elder Bush, that margin either disappeared completely or was so razor thin that we had a public perception of a Constitutional crises arise in the aftermath of two elections.

Moving to the Left only assured us that the real Democrats would get support.  Why vote for a moderate Leftist when you can vote for the real thing?  Did the RNC learn anything from McCain?  No.  Here we go again with Rove, Card, and the usual suspects trashing better candidates and singing praises to Romney from the get-go.  What is our hope for the future, with the business as usual approach?  Think of our elections since 1988.

And so we have come to the point in our nation's history, where the Republican party is now willing to promote people who don't give a damn about our sovereignty, our Founding Documents, the sanctity of life, our Second Amendment Rights, and more.  At what point do we admit we have full blown Leftists running for office in our party, and refuse to play along any longer?

If Romney were running as a Democrat there isn't even the remotest of chances that you would vote for the man.  But now, because he's running against Obama, some entertain the thought.  And what happens in 2016, when a member of Hamas runs as a Democrat and The Republican is only as bad as Obama?  Do we then vote for the mirror image of him? 

Look folks, at some point we have to let the (R) party know, that they have jumped the shark, and we can no longer support what they want us to.  You see, if we don't, we'll forever be voting for McCains, Romneys, and worse of their ilk. 

If they can get a Leftist like Romney elected, it's effectively the end of Conservatism.  No Conservative will ever get the nomination again.  Should that be our goal?  No.

Why do I say that there will never be another Conservative nominee in the future?  Take a look at this election cycle, and realize it only gets worse from here if Romney can get elected without the Conservative vote.

I hope you'll join me in sending a message to the Republican party.  That message states these things...

1. I will not vote for Leftists(R)
2. I will no longer support the perpetual movement of this nation to the Left
3. I will no longer remain an active member of the Republican Party as long as it fails to support a return to Constitutional governance
4. If you want my support and the support of other Constitutional Conservatives, you'll talk up people who share our ideals, and criticize those who do not share them
5. You will seek to change rules and tighten up processes thus enabling more Constitutional Conservatives to win elections
6. Failing that, adios...

[No One Special]

That is Friedman and it is about collectivism but it is only 8 minutes long. By chance, do you happen to have another URL for the vid you mentioned?

[brityank]

Many thanks for this, you’ve well summarized the drift of our society over the past century.

Along with this is a video, “The American Form Of Government”
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE )
that lays out just what type we should have - and the warning that we are headed to a tyranny of the elite!

[af_vet_rr]

All you say is true, but we just must go with Romney now. Jebbie and his parents demand that we do so. And what Republican can say “no” to a Bush?

LOL. Unfortunately the weak-minded are doing exactly that - voting for Romney because the liberals in the GOP scared them.

They talk about how Obama will become a dictator and tell everybody what to do, and yet here they are, doing exactly what they are told by the liberals running the GOP.

[JediJones]

Romney will create a Mormon theocracy if elected! BOOGEDY BOOGIE BOO! Are you scared now, all you wimpy, wobbly Romney-butt-kissing freepers out there? Vote Newt and we will never again bow to a Mormon bishop.

[af_vet_rr]

In the mean time, we need to build a power base. The question is how.

It can't be within the GOP, because the GOP will not allow it. Some people are convinced they can persuade Romney to move right, but he's already talking like he's going to move left for the general election, plus if he gets the nomination and somehow wins, he will install liberal Republicans just like him in positions of power, both within the GOP and within his cabinet.

Anybody who thinks that the GOP will somehow allow them to build a Conservative powerbase from within the GOP has not been paying attention to the last 24 years. Just about every Presidential election since 1988, Conservatives convince themselves that things will be better or that the liberals running the GOP will listen to them, and every time a liberal gets the nomination and expands the government and/or loses to a Democrat, or turns it over to a Democrat.

[No One Special]

I’m sorry. The URL is perfectly fine. It was my mistake.

[No One Special]

I think the progressive / neo-liberals / communists did it by building from within and from without. The outsiders, that is, the radicals, knew how to use power and they are succeeding. They are now in the process of making their party a good facsimile of historical totalitarian parties, at least that’s my judgement. They had and have a seeming advantage over us: they are entirely amoral and will do anything to accomplish their ends. We have an advantage over them. We can make our case in the light of day rather than under the cover of darkness. What is needed is the willingness to try and the intelligence to come up with a plan. By the way, what I have just said about the amorality of the radicals in the democrat party also goes for the republican establishment / rinos. They also are amoral and thus have a weakness that can be probed: they can only lie about their true agenda. Play to the weaknesses of the enemy and to our strengths. Seems to me, in a general sort of way, that’s the key. Don’t burn your bridges by foregoing the structures that already exist. The structures are fine. What inhabits them is not.

Another key: conservatives are not good leaders or followers because they just want to be left alone, but, we need leaders and an army. We are going to have to change. If we want to change the world, we need to start with ourselves.

This is a time to come together, not split apart. Recognize that each one of us has talents and experiences that can be valuable to the cause. Like I said in my previous post, 95% of Americans do not understand the problem. If I’m right, that means 5% do and are available for conscription into our political army. What do you think a united 15,000,000 man American political army can do? I think it can turn the entire world upside down.

It’s been done before. It can be done again.

[No One Special]

Another key: conservatives are not good leaders or followers because they just want to be left alone, but, we need leaders and an army.

I just wanted to expand on the idea of leadership a little.

It seems to me we keep hearing that Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican party. It seems to me this idea is put out there by the enemy. It seems to me there are many amongst us who accept this idea and as a result expect something from Rush he cannot give while we expect we need do nothing until Rush calls us to arms.

This is ridiculous. Rush Limbaugh is not a leader. Those of us who think he is and who are dissapointed because he did not give something we expected need to realize the problem is not Rush. The problem is us for expecting something from Rush he could not give and thereby foregoing our responsibility to do something positive for the cause.

And of course, the enemy knew just exactly what I just said. I mean really, why do you think they drafted Rush as general? It is because he is not along with the fact they want to put a target on his back.

We need leaders, real leaders, not ones picked for us by the enemy.

[trebb]

Romney is a deep planted mole and another attempt by the communist/socialist zombies to destroy the party.

We'll know that for sure once Obama taps him for the Veep position in late Oct and he accepts...

[Darren McCarty]

Why would the Republican Party do this?

Because conservatives (most of us) have four major problems.

1. Poor organization. (Not that RNC is much better)
2. Absolutely no patience and little knowledge of tactics and rules of the game.
3. Most people look for leaders instead of being leaders.
4. The perfect is the enemy of the good or at least acceptable.

I can't speak for your state, but here the Republican party is elected. Precinct delegates run for office and pick their leadership in local and state parties, as well as RNC committee members. Most of the time, that position has no candidates. Most of us don't run, or at least heavily back good people to run for party leadership. Most of us sit and bitch. (Not directing this at you since you actually have been active). One of my best friends is about as conservative as it gets, and he's accepted or at least tolerated in mid-level leadership because he's a hard worker who is active. He'll probably be state party treasurer someday because he's an expert on campaign finance regulation. Those active and who pay their dues earn respect of the grass roots party members.

The other thing is campaign knowledge. How many people have run a campaign? A serious campaign that isn't for what is known as "some dude" in insider circles and had a serious chance to win AND had serious opposition. It can be for local office even. It's not cheap, either in finances or manpower. If you have one and not the other, the other costs much more than it otherwise would. If you have neither, you will lose outside of a miracle. If you are poorly organized, both will cost more. Good name recognition is key.

As far as Romney goes, the seeds were planted for Mitt back in Iowa when conservatives not only failed to find a strong anti-Romney (Santorum and Newt were blips on the radar until the others dropped out or crashed), they repeated tore down the other non-Romneys over and over. That is in addition to many trying to rip all candidates in an attempt to clear the path for Sarah Palin who wasn't even running. If Tim Pawlenty was in, he would have been in the nominee. Not exciting, but a competent manager who is at least pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, better than Mitt on fiscal issues, and known as a one of the few real decent guys in politics.

[central_va]

Another key: conservatives are not good leaders or followers because they just want to be left alone, but, we need leaders and an army.

Our founders created a system where the individual that wanted to make his own way in the world could do just that and be protected from the "collective". The system's final safe guard was supposed to be the SCOTUS. The SCOTUS was to be the watch dog so the individual could concentrate on his own life and not have to constantly look over their shoulder to see how the statist were creeping up on him/her. This system allows personal productivity to skyrocket, buy alas it has never worked. THe SCOTUS has been a dismal failure since the beginning.

[tomkat]

Bravo !

                           

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[No One Special]

The purpose of our three-headed system is to divide power in order to protect individual rights. In that sense, none of the parts is final IMHO. The final protection is the very fact that “We the People” are sovereign, the very thing that makes America “exceptional”. It is and always has been our duty to be vigilant to protect gainst a day when it is necessary to reclaim our rights thru something other than the ballot box. We are our own final guardians. We are the ones we have been waiting for. Did I just say that? :-)

[DNME]

Don’t ignore the role played by the media.

An unbiased, fair media would and should keep ALL political hopefuls in line. If a candidate had any skeletons in the closet, we would know about them, if the MSM hadn’t been corrupted.

Now, we have a Leftist media (the Big Media, anyway) that goes to great lengths to PREVENT us from knowing any dirt about their loved ones. Have we ever seen that video the LA Times refused to release during the 2008 contest? Obummer should have never made it past the 2008 primaries, but for the loving assistance of the MSM.

Also, the Leftist media quickly attacks and obliterates any Conservative who dares raise his or her head. Just look at Herman Cain for recent proof. They must be rummaging through trash cans trying to find something, anything, to pin on Allen West.

Not enough people get their news through the alternative media, like we do.

[mo]

Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media “vet” the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.

This “election” will be a non-election...featuring the state approved “candidates”-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.

The “two-PARTEY” system merely means that the R & D in DC gang up on Flyover Country....and laugh all the way to the bank as they do so

[af_vet_rr]

An unbiased, fair media would and should keep ALL political hopefuls in line. If a candidate had any skeletons in the closet, we would know about them, if the MSM hadn’t been corrupted.

If, God forbid, Romney gets the election, the MSM will make sure and drag every skeleton associated with him out into the light of day, there's no doubt about that.

It's just a shame that the MSM wanted Mitt so bad that they held off on exposing him in the primaries while gleefully going after any and all Conservatives.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The MSM has become our worst enemy. All we get from them is lies and propaganda.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Now, we have a Leftist media (the Big Media, anyway) that goes to great lengths to PREVENT us from knowing any dirt about their loved ones. Have we ever seen that video the LA Times refused to release during the 2008 contest? Obummer should have never made it past the 2008 primaries, but for the loving assistance of the MSM.”

The entire MSM covered up for Obama!

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Why would the Republican Party do this? For some time the leadership has been convinced that the nation was heading Left, and it didn’t see any possibility of Conservatives being elected. Rather than look at our rich history and notice that our widest victories were realized when we played on our differences with Leftist policy, they decided to adopt more Leftist policy in an attempt to look more appealing. And as this took place, the information dispensed to the public heralding Conservatism ceased. And as the push for Conservatism ceased, the nation moved farther left.”

Take a look at the fossils we have in the House & Senate. They have been there for decades. All they care about is themselves. We need TERM LIMITS, so these people don’t get too comfortable and come to believe that their office belongs to them!!

Lugar age 80

Hatch age 78......still RUNNING!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Where is everybody?

Sheesh..