Posted on 11/07/2012 5:27:18 PM PST by jda
We're already hearing thoughts on what the GOP needs to do to win again. Here's a view from a non-political, America-living, Christian conservative who votes.
The demographics of this country are changing and in order to build a conservative majority we absolutely have to make minorities feel comfortable in this party.
I was listening on the radio today and a black man was talking about how Voter ID, Immigration Reform, Welfare reform drive minorities away who may otherwise be attracted to our economic message due to the racist undertones of such policies.
Don’t get all upset. I was offened by this suggestion, too. The last thing I think about when I support these ideas is racism. But, apparently minorities see everything through the prism of race. To be honest, I’m thinking mostly about fiscal responsibility and national integrity with these items. Nevertheless, our minority brothers and sisters (blacks, asians, hispanics) are inferring something nefarious when that is the last thing being implied.
Our mission over the next several years should be to do a better job of welcoming minorities into the conservative party and make sure we do a better job of explaining how our policy ideas help everyone. On the flip side, we also need to keep explaining how the policies of the left have done minorities no good over the last 60 years.
The bottom line is the conservative movement won’t survive unless we can get minorities on board. We need to step up and get these folks on board helping us
What Conservatives Need To Do To Win Again
Step ONE: Nominate a CONSERVATIVE!
We have a winner
Conservatives DO need to address immigration reform, not ignore it in hopes it will go away, or be against everything the libs propose. There has to be a solution that minimizes illegal immigration, actually deports and keeps out criminals, addressees those who had no say in their coming here (without giving them freebies), and deals with those who mean well but are here illegally (without giving them freebies).
Conservatives should take the lead in forging a dialogue that actually, in a bipartisan, get-it-done manner, presents a comprehensive solution.
they only need to vote and last night they didn’t
With my heart I totally agree with you. With my brain I see that the conservative movement is shrinking and has to reach out somewhere.
Romney received 2 1/2 million fewer votes than McCain
Obama was 10 million votes shy of 2008
The numbers point to less people approving Obama’s policies, and we couldn’t field a candidate that could match McCains pitiful performance.
Please can anyone explain how this is a repudiation of Conservatism?
The finger pointing on these threads are foolish.
Look at the numbers and use a little common sense.
Turns out that my little township had some of the highest turnout in the state. Just over 70% at my precinct and 69% at the other precinct in this township. However, turnout was down some 20% for the county which did go for Romney.
Create a new Conservative Party.
Yes, I know, everyone says it can’t be done. Even Sarah Palin.
Let’s do it anyway...
God takes the long view, so you find in Scripture the concept of making “a testimony against them”, i.e. you declare the Truth to people and their response will be held accountable at the future Judgment.
The idea of tailoring a message to woo a reprobate people is NOT the answer...for believers. As for everyone else?
“Let the dead bury their own dead.”
Turns out that my little township had some of the highest turnout in the state. Just over 70% at my precinct and 69% at the other precinct in this township. However, turnout was down some 20% for the county which did go for Romney.
The simple fact is that Romney/Ryan couldn’t energize the same amount of conservatives to the polls as Palin
Conservatism didn’t take a hit here. People didn’t flock to the polls for freebies as some are saying. The man promising the goodies fell 10 million short of his last election.
What I heard from non- political junkies, just average people, was that “they hated Obama but didn’t trust Romney”
Also my wife works with a few Born again Christians who told her they and their friends could not vote for a Mormon
They sat it out.I’m sure it was the same all over the country.
So it wasn’t Conservatism that took a hit or its numbers shrinking. It’s what the GOPe tried to pass off as Conservative.
It didn’t pass the smell test.
The current version of the GOP is toast unless the electoral college in all states switch to the model of Maine and Nebraska or the emigration fairy materialize and starts enforcing immigration laws.
Maybe Republicans should move to the battleground states in droves before 2016.
Run a “far” right conservative, thats bold, stands on a good record, quick on answers, humorous,— well, like thatcher
cuz the last 6 weeks was “put up, or shut up” time.
apparently, the author of this vanity failed to elect anybody in his home state.
What conservatives need to do is stop writing silly vanities and get somebody elected to office. I refuse to associate with do-nothing pundits, which makes me unsuitable for Freeper. I suspect I am headed into Freeper exile soon. Not quite there yet.
I hate liberals. ya know what I hate more than Libs? Incompetent, useless so-called Conservatives.
Vince Lombardi when asked what was needed to win, said “we need to block and tackle. Stick your shoulder into somebody’s gut and knock him down.”
We have a movement of people who do not block and do not tackle. They sit in the top row of the stadium and blog about what is wrong with the team. LET ME PUT IT TO YOU THIS WAY, JDA: “AS FAR as I am concerned, you are not even on the team!”
ELECTION FRAUD:
Republicans analyze and blame themselves for not getting out the vote instead of looking at the obvious. It’s not who votes that counts, It’s who Counts the Votes!
Does anybody really believe that fewer people turned out to vote for Romney than voted for McCain in 2008? REALLY?
The Counters simply needed to factor down the Romney votes to be lower than the Obama Votes. The Election was STOLEN. Does the total infiltration of Muslim Brotherhood and SEIU workers in the government set off any warning bells?
The Election has been stolen by under counting the Romney votes to match with the declining Obama Votes and the GOP is saying nothing!!!!!
The excerpted portion, however, gives us a glimpse of the beginnings of the "progressive" movement's deliberate censorship of our founding ideas from the nation's schools. At the 1876 date of this Sermon, however, such persons were self-described as "liberals."
During this 2012 Thanksgiving Season, we might publicize and refer our fellow citizens to the following "Centennial Thanksgiving Sermon" commemorating the Anniversary Year of our Declaration of Independence:
From the "Library of Congress - Historical Collections" -
"African-American Pamphlets from the Daniel A. P. Murray Collection," 1820-1920; American Memory, Library of Congress
Washington, DC,
CENTENNIAL Thanksgiving Sermon, DELIVERED BY REV. B. W. ARNETT, B. D., AT ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH, URBANA, OHIO 1876.
For all who read it would find that this outstanding Minister of the Gospel, State Legislator in Ohio, and scholar of world history, in that year of 1876, foresaw the nefarious and dangerous agenda of what then was self-described by its leaders as the "Liberal Movement."
Arnett's Sermon was titled "Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, but Sin is a Reproach to any People." In it, he details what he documents and describes as America's Christian foundations, using the actual words from the historical record, including those of Supreme Court Justices, Constitutions of States, and others.
On P. 45 of the Sermon, Arnett begins a section called "The Danger to our Country," as follows:
"The Danger to our Country.
"Now that our national glory and grandeur is principally derived from the position the fathers took on the great questions of right and wrong, and the career of this nation has been unparalleled in the history of the past, now there are those who are demanding the tearing down the strength of our national fabric. They may not intend to tear it down, but just as sure as they have their way, just that sure will they undermine our superstructure and cause the greatest calamity of the age. What are the demands of this party of men? Just look at it and examine it for yourselves, and see if you are willing that they shall have their way; or will you still assist in keeping the ship of state in the hands of the same crew and run her by the old gospel chart! But ye men who think there is no danger listen to the demands of the Liberals as they choose to call themselves:
"'Organize! Liberals of America! The hour for action has arrived. The cause of freedom calls upon us to combine our strength, our zeal, our efforts. These are The Demands of Liberalism:
"'1. We demand that churches and other ecclesiastical property shall no longer be exempt from just taxation.
"'2. We demand that the employment of chaplains in Congress, in State Legislatures, in the navy and militia, and in prisons, asylums, and all other institutions supported by public money, shall be discontinued.
"'3. We demand that all public appropriations for sectarian educational and charitable institutions shall cease.
"'4. We demand that all religious services now sustained by the government shall be abolished; and especially that the use of the Bible in the public schools, whether ostensibly as a text-book or avowedly as a book of religious worship, shall be prohibited.
"'5. We demand that the appointment, by the President of the United States or by the Governors of the various States, of all religious festivals and fasts shall wholly cease.
"'6. We demand that the judicial oath in the courts and in all other departments of the government shall be abolished, and that simple affirmation under the pains and penalties of perjury shall be established in its stead.
"'7. We demand that all laws directly or indirectly enforcing the observance of Sunday as the Sabbath shall be repealed.
"'8. We demand that all laws looking to the enforcement of “Christian” morality shall be abrogated, and that all laws shall be conformed to the requirements of natural morality, equal rights, and impartial liberty.
"'9. We demand that not only in the Constitution of the United States and of the several States, but also in the practical administration of the same, no privilege or advantage shall be conceded to Christianity or any other special religion; that our entire political system shall be founded and administered on a purely secular basis; and that whatever changes shall prove necessary to this end shall be consistently, unflinchingly, and promptly made.'
"'Let us boldly and with high purpose meet the duty of the hour.'
"Now we must not think that we have nothing to do in this great work, for the men who are at the head of this movement are men of culture and intelligence, and many of them are men of influence. They are led by that thinker and scholar, F. E. Abbott, than whom I know but few men who has a smoother pen, or who is his equal on the battle-field of thought. He says in an address on the duty of his leagues:
"'My answer may be a negative one to all who see nothing positive in the idea of liberty. The conviction I refer to is this: that, regarded as a theological system, Christianity is Superstition, and, regarded as an organized institution, Christianity is Slavery. The purpose I refer to is this: that, whether regarded as theological system, Christianity shall wholly cease to exercise influence in political matters. Although the national Constitution is strictly secular and non-Christian, there are many things in the practical administration of the government which violate its spirit, and constitute a virtual recognition of Christianity as the national religion. These violations are very dangerous; they are on the increase; they more and more give Christianity a practical hold upon the government; they directly tend to strengthen the influence of Christianity over the people, and to fortify it both as a theology and a church; and they are therefore justly viewed with growing indignation by liberals. Not unreasonably are they looked upon as paving the way to a formidable effort to carry the Christian Amendment to the Constitution; and the liberals are beginning to see that they must extinguish the conflagration in its commencement. I believe all this myself, with more intense conviction every day; and therefore I appeal frankly to the people to begin now to lay the foundations of a great National Party of Freedom. It is not a moment too soon. If the liberals are wise, they will see the facts as they are, and act accordingly. Not with hostility, bitterness, defiance, or anger but rather with love to all men and high faith in the beneficence of consistently republican institutions, do I urge them most earnestly to begin the work at once.'
"He acknowledges that this is a religious nation and wants all men to assist him in eliminating the grand old granite principles from the framework of our national union. Will you do it freeman; will we sell the temple reared at the cost of so much precious blood and treasure? These men would have us turn back the hands on the clock of our national progress, and stay the shadow on the dial plate of our christian civilization; they would have us call a retreat to the soldiers in the army of Christ; the banner of the cross they would have us haul down, and reverse the engines of war against sin and crime; the songs of Zion they would turn into discord, and for the harmony and the melody of the sons of God, they would give us general confusion; they would have us chain the forces of virtue and unloose the elements of vice; they would have the nation loose its moorings from the Lord of truth and experience and commit interest, morally, socially; religiously and politically to the unsafe and unreliable human reason; they would discharge God and his crew and run the ship of State by the light of reason, which has always been but a dim taper in the world, and all the foot-prints it has left are marked with the blood of men, women and children. No nation is safe when left alone with reason.
"But we have no notion of giving up the contest without a struggle or a battle. We are aware that there is a great commotion in the world of thought. Religion and science are at arms length contending with all their forces for the mastery. Faith and unbelief are fighting their old battles over again, everything that can be shaken is shaking. The foundations of belief are assaulted by the army of science and men are changing their opinions. New and starting theories are promulgated to the world; old truths are putting on new garbs. Error is dressing in the latest style, wrong is secured by the unholy alliances, changes in men and things, revolution in church and state, Empires are crumbling, Kingdoms tottering; everywhere the change is seen. In the social circle, in the school house, in the pulpit and in the pews. But amid all the changes are revolutions their are some things that are unchangeable, unmovable and enduring. The forces that underline the vital power of Christianity are the same yesterday, to-day, to-morrow and forever more. They are like their God, who is omnipotent, immovable and eternal, and everywhere truth has marched it has left its moccasin tracks.
"The Conclusion of the Whole Matter.We have patiently tried to examine the record of the nations of antiquity and learn the cause of their decay and decline, their fall, why their early death; and why so many implements of destruction around and about their tombs, and everywhere, in the silent streets, mouldering ruins, tottering columns, mouldy and moist rooms, and the united voice from the sepulcher of the dead past is, "sin is a reproach to any people." We see it written on the tombs of the Kings, and engraven on the pages of time, "sin is a reproach to any people." These are the principles of governments, Right and wrong; and the people who are the advocates of Right have bound themselves together and by their united effort they have brought light out of darkness and forced strength out of weakness.
"We as a nation have a grand and glorious future before us. The sun of our nation is just arising above the horizon and is now sending his golden rays of peace from one end of the land to the other. The utmost extremities of the members of the body politic are warm and in motion by the commercial and financial activities of the land. Her face is destined to blush with beauty when peace and justice shall be enthroned. The grand march of progress shall mark her in her onward advancement in moral strength, intellectual brilliancy, and political power. Then we can say that we give to every man, woman and child the benefit of our free institutions, giving all the benefits of our common school and the freedom to worship God under their own vine and fig tree. Then will we see written, on the banner of our free, redeemed and disenthralled country, the sublime words written, not in the blood of men, but in the sun-light of truth, that "Righteousness exalteth a nation." It will fall like the morning dew on the lowly; it will descend like the showers of May on the poor; and like the sun it will shine on the good and bad, dispensing from the hand of plenty the blessings of a government founded on the principle of justice and equality.
"Standing on the threshold of the second century of the nation's life, with the experience of the past lying at our feet, we are saluted by the shout of triumph from the millions who left their homes and business and attended the Great Exposition of the skill and genius of the world, collected at Philadelphia. We were permitted to receive the greetings from the oldest to the youngest nation of the earth. Egypt and the United States clasped hands over the waste of 5,000 years, and lay their treasures at the feet of our civilization. The material, intellectual and mechanical deterioration of the one, and the unprecedented progress of the other, stand in great contrast; in all that makes the nation great,—morally, religiously and socially, the young nation is ahead.
"Following the tracks of righteousness throughout the centuries and along the way of nations, we are prepared to recommend it to all and assert without a shadow of doubt, that "Righteousness exalted a nation"; but on the other hand following the foot-prints of sin amid the ruins of Empires and remains of cities, we will say that "sin is a reproach to any people." But we call on all American citizens to love their country, and look not on the sins of the past, but arming ourselves for the conflict of the future, girding ourselves in the habiliments of Righteousness, march forth with the courage of a Numidian lion and with the confidence of a Roman Gladiator, and meet the demands of the age, and satisfy the duties of the hour. Let us be encouraged in our work, for we have found the moccasin track of Righteousness all along the shore of the stream of life, constantly advancing, holding humanity with a firm hand. We have seen it “through” all the confusion of rising and falling States, of battle, siege and slaughter, of victory and defeat; through the varying fortunes and ultimate extinctions of Monarchies, Republics and Empires; through barbaric irruption and desolation, feudal isolation, spiritual supremacy, the heroic rush and conflict of the Cross and Crescent; amid the busy hum of industry, through the marts of trade and behind the gliding keels of commerce.”
"And in America, the battle-field of modern thought, we can trace the foot-prints of the one and the tracks of the other. So let us use all of our available forces, and especially our young men, and throw them into the conflict of the Right against the Wrong.
"Then let the grand Centennial Thanksgiving song be heard and sung in every house of God; and in every home may thanksgiving sounds be heard, for our race has been emancipated, enfranchised and are now educating, and have the gospel preached to them!
"Sons of freedom, sing the glad hymns of praise on the Western plains! Daughters of sorrow shout the joyful tidings amid the savannahs of the South-land! Proclaim it on the Atlantic's western stand and declare it on the slopes of the Pacific! Humble followers of the Son of Mary, chant the eternal truth in the temple of the Most High, that “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”
"We invite every nation, kindred, tongue and people, to come to our land. Come from the bogs of Ireland; come from the dykes of Holland; come from the mountains of Switzerland; and from the sunny plains of Italy; and enjoy a government made for man! Come from the jungles of Africa or Egypt, the university of the infant world; come from Asia the cradle of humanity; come and bring your gifts from the Islands of the South Sea and spice land! Come ye men of every clime and race and see a nation founded in Righteousness, guarded by Justice, and supported by truth and equity, and defended by God!
"When thus united in one grand commonwealth of nationalities the universal prayer will be:
"Show us our Aaron, with his rod of flower!
Our Miriam, with her timbrel soul in tune!
And call some Joshua, in spirits power,
To praise our sun of strength at point of noon.
God of our fathers! over sand and sea,
Still keep our struggling footsteps close to thee."
That's right! White Americans don't count and have no future in America. So hurry up and die off white people, abort your children, let your elderly parents and grand parents wither away and die. Just tell them to get euthanized if they can't stand the abuse. And forget about your children having a future in America, because that future belongs to Hispanic invaders. Because that is what you just suggested is the future of white people in America. You sound like another guilty white liberal apologizing to blacks & so called "Hispanics" for being born.
And if you have any notions of "Hispanics" being successful, just take a look at the conditions they created in the countries they came from. Yes, those same Hispanics that are the "future of America" are largely responsible for the mess their countries are in. And they are doing a great job of duplicating that "success" here in America.
What cripplecreek said.
All that you are doing is what they've been pushing for 60 years: keep moving the line to the left. Just give up a few more basic principles, compromise, and maybe we'll throw you a bone.
Not.
Total sucker play. Just went down big time yesterday.
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