Posted on 12/04/2012 1:29:55 PM PST by Bigtigermike
(CNSNews.com) - Conservative leaders don't like what they're hearing from House Speaker John Boehner, the man in the middle of fiscal cliff negotiations.
One day after Boehner mentioned an $800-billion tax hike -- half the amount President Obama is seeking -- conservative activist L. Brent Bozell III said the Republican Party is no longer the party of limited government, limited spending and limited taxes:
"It is now officially exactly right behind the Democrats -- on everything," Bozell said. "It is time for conservatives to start looking for a new home. There's precious little left for us here."
Bozell said it's no coincidence that just before releasing his proposal, Boehner orchestrated a purge of conservatives from key positions of power in the Republican Conference.
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I never voted for either party for a while, but I think Obama and people like him are an exception. See my problem with your line of thought is that conservatives are easily divided and conquered by the most simple of differences. It’s not the parties fault that we’re not proactive and putting in OUR leaders into the republican party. We got Mitt...because we lack the will. I don’t play the victimization role of the left. WE.....ARE THE ones to blame!
But again, I would rather have Mitt than Obama and I wouldn’t want a third party to interrupt conservatives from really influencing the republican party.
On a sideline note, how much of the conservative base was talking about the housing bubble and medical/medicare/medicaid cost here or anywhere for that matter (before it happened)? I was talking about medical arena for sometime and predicted that eventually we’d have to make a chose. But most of the conservative here got fixated on far less important topics in the long-run and I truly think our lack of will is what is to blame. If most of us paid attention and actually acted more than talked, then we wouldn’t be in this mess...and I’m willing to take some of that blame. Are the rest of the freepers that willing? Are you?
Hell of a GOOD idea. That seed planted now would grow into something IMMENSE by 2014 and probably be UNSTOPPABLE in 2016.
All it takes is LEADERSHIP. America's Conservatives are waiting for someone to STEP UP.
Thing is self restraint, fiscal sense, and such do not win elections. People want other peoples money. They don’t want to earn it themselves.
It's called Stanton's Law: "After our guy is elected, he stops being our guy."
“How about the Conservatives in the House mobilize to vote out Boehner from his leadership position?”
Thats what I’m thinking. We need to get rid of the problem children and just get the party back on track.
Agree completely. I will no longer put any faith or expectations in amy political leader. My faith is now placed on Christ alone where it should have been all along.
“How about the Conservatives in the House mobilize to vote out Boehner from his leadership position?”
To what end? The next gop leader will be as bad or worse. The weeper is merely a symptom of the underlying problem.
Did you sit out this election?
“As Ross Perot showed, with essentially unlimited money and a ton of MSM publicity, a third party can pull in a solid 19% and lock in Dems solidly.”
So what? Even when the gop wins, they act to expand the scope of socialism. When they lose, they do the same. The Dems are already locked in.
“You either make the republican party more conservative or nothing. “
Then it’s going to be nothing. The gop isn’t interested in becoming more conservative.
The title is misspelled.
DEAD! THEY'RE ALL DEAD!
Except this time, they really ARE all dead. I guess all we can do is warm the benches, strengthen the Statehouses, but then I come across this graph
I left the Republican Party a few days after the defeat. Boehner does not have the ability to resist the democrat arguments. He must be turned out because he is burned out. We need an angry Speaker of the House.
Your statement is what the "Reform the GOP" types apparently cannot see.
The current GOP is driving the country off a cliff at 50mph, while the demos are going 100.
So what is the difference??
Gonna hold their feet to the fire, are ya?
I posted this a while back but it definitely applies here considering the insanity I see on this thread...
We also need to make it clear to those who call themselves conservatives that contributing cover and support to the GOP BY THE RANK AND FILE is also very much the problem. And we need a clean break from those types as well.
You have all seen them. Those who call liberal ideas and candidates ‘conservative’. Plenty infest every remotely conservative site on the web, including this one.
We can be serious about who and what we are and believe, or we can keep playing this pathetic game.
I have made my choice. Time for many here to man up and make theirs.
We either believe in principle or we do not. And those who do not cannot by definition be ‘conservative.
“Did you sit out this election?”
No. I voted.
Bingo.
But someone needs to step-up quickly. Sarah Palin, are you listening?
It is a huge job, and it needs to be started now.
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