We did not wait for generations. It was 16 years from the defeat of Goldwater by an historic margin to the election and re-election of Ronaldus Maximus by historic margins. We did this despite Thoroughly Modern Millhouse selling out the party base twelve times before breakfast each morning, naming Gerald Elmer Fudd Ford to replace Agnew, inflicting Betty Ford on us in the process with her abortion cheerleading and vacant brain pan, Kissinger, the usual crop of Wall Street greedheads, trust fund feeders, trust fund recipients, Panama Canal abandoners, disarmament treaty (START I through infinity), detente pushers, wage and price controls, SCOTUS social revolutionaries of the likes of Herod Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Lewis (a good man of business but clueless on social issues) Powell and a host of lower court quislings, created the Environmental Protection Agency, OSHA and a variety of other Lilliputian institutions to plague the economy, etc., etc., etc. Ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
A republic? Representatives? A friend has suggested that members of Congress and the Senate be required to wear the same sort of jackets as NASCAR drivers, festooned with the patches signifying their respective sponsors: Chase Manhattan! Big Pharma! Government Motors! United Nations! LULAC! NAACP! SEIU! Senior members with really colossal K Street clienteles would have to wear coats with lengths of cloth trailing behind them to accommodate all the special interests they represent.
Sorry. The purpose of this exercise is to nominate someone for POTUS worth electing, to elect him or her as impressively as possible, to rub the noses of our enemies: media, academia, Junior Leaguers, envirowhackos, sexual perverts, babykillers, etc., hard in the dirt. to ram through an agenda full speed ahead (think Pelosi, Nancy and Reid, Harry as to tactics) to pack the fedcourts with people who have a copy of the constitution and reading lessons and an attitude favoring both. Using the budget process, eliminate the functions of government designed to carry out social and fiscal revolution against our constitution.
That means no compromises. If, God forbid, compromises occur for a higher good, they can be nothing but TEMPORARY compromises.
Very few Americans polled EVER confess to being liberals. They are all noise and no substance and need not be taken into consideration. A few like Barbra Streisand and Alec Baldwin and Johnny Depp are forever "threatening" to move to Europe if we win. Let's win and call their bluff. We could even take up a collection to pay their way if each one took a Demoncrat Senator or Governor or Congresscritter with them and all concerned renounced their American citizenship and understood that there is no coming back. I think the trust fund obsessives should get the same treatment. We can do without them and WHY would they want to share a country with social issue conservatives????
The Congress, including the GOP Caucus, is a shameful Black Hole of Calcutta ideologically. Boehner is an absolute rank disgrace. He gives booze and golf bad names along with tanning salons. Cantor is thoroughly useless. So is McCarthy. My congresscreature Adam Kinzinger is all too typical. Elected in 2010 as a TEA Party Congressman (with no other credentials), he was not in DC ten minutes before reporting to Bonehead that, having been elected by the suckers back home, he was available for whatever the drunken stumblebum of the House might wish. Therefore, when the Chicago Demonrats destroyed his district in the redistricting, the skeevy little quisling moved to the most Republican District in the state and, assisted by a mountain of special interest money provided by leadership in DC, took out our far superior Congressman Don Manzullo. If Saul Alinsky rises from the grave to challenge Kinzinger, I will NEVER vote for Kinzinger. Did I mention that Manzullo was being punished (after 22 solid years) for asking the Weeper of the House to allow a resolution telling Obozo that there would be NO MORE DEBT LIMIT INCREASES? Of course, that might frighten the Barons of Wall Street and K Street.
The House was infinitely more conservative under Newt Gingrich than it is today under John Barleycorn and his fellow quislings in leadership.
Whatever you may imagine, social conservatism is what made Ronaldus Maximus POTUS. Social Conservatism is what makes Reagan Democrats into Reagan voters. Likewise military conservatism, foreign policy conservatism, 2nd Amendment conservatism and other issues having nothing to do with the insatiable greed of the Romney types.
Economic issues do not shake the world. As Reggie Jackson might have said, they are not the straw that stirs the drink. Numbers, accountants' tricks and jargon, outright lies, self-serving crap from the comfortable to afflict those who are not so comfy, farming the taxpayer to line Muffy's trust fund are all tools of the GOP-E to ram it to the general public while hallucinating that you win elections by posing (truthfully) as the Sheriff of Nottingham while the Demonrats get to play Robin Hood.
You go ahead and practice national suicide on the installment plan worrying about nothing but $$$$$$$$$$$$ and then $$$$$$$$$ as the numbers swim before the eyes of a public too abused to care. There is a LOT more anger against your GOP-E quislings than you imagine. They AND THEIR ILK will be long gone before generations have passed. We shall either have a Reaganesque restoration or we will be living in a commisar ridden USSA.
If you want conservatives' votes, get the brainless GOP-E quislings the hell out of the way, nominate candidates worth voting for or pay the price as a party and as a nation. Rule or ruin. If you think that's juvenile, then remember that Nixon, Rockefeller, Lindsay, Ford, Michel and a host of other former leaders in the dumpster agreed with you when Ronaldus Maximus was proposed. We (the actual we that does not include $$$$$$ quislings) won then and we shall win again.
Oh and as to coalitions: Babies, guns, marriage, military, togh foreign policy, nationalism, and the interests of ordinary citizens. No Wall Street bailouts, no matter what. That will do as a coalition now and forever. Make long overdue inroads into the black and Latino communities which the elitists are always just to busy to bother with, and the coalition will be really permanent. If the trust funders want to come along for the ride, fine. Otherwise, readjust the tax laws to cut them down to size.
OK, I don’t agree with much of what you said. It sounds the like a Leftist with all the envy. You have no evidence of “the insatiable greed of the Romney types”. Romney is moral and much more moral than Obama. I do not subscribe to the “rule or ruin” doctrine as you’ve described it.
If it came down to a Mark Kirk clone v. Durbin, I’d vote Mark Kirk’s clone. He’s an improvement. If it came down to a Mark Kirk clone v. a Peter G. Fitzgerald, it’s Peter all the way.
Your way is valid only via destruction, misery, violence, bloodshed and revolution. I don’t think we’re there yet. You’ll never get rid of crony capitalists, but you can checkmate them, limit their power and educate people. Remember that Marbury of Marbury v. Madison was a political crony. The year? Tuesday, March 3, 1801 the day Adam’s presidency came to an end.
That’s 213 years ago. This isn’t a new problem. Get back to the Constitution, one step at a time.