Posted on 08/03/2014 6:21:30 AM PDT by winner3000
Dear “Conservatives” and “Establishment Republicans,”
I write today in the hope you all can get over whatever anger, distrust or bruised egos this primary season and political year has caused you. We on the right need to unite and send a message to progressives by unambiguously retaking the U.S. Senate in November.
We all have some problem with what’s happened so far. Someone we liked lost a primary. Someone we didn’t won. Some piece of legislation we hate passed; some other piece we liked did not. No one is completely happy, but we all know things can get much worse – and will if we don’t put aside what divides and do what we must for the cause of liberty.
The political right has a habit of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. This is exemplified by libertarians, and it’s the fast track to political irrelevancy.
Libertarians will hate that I’ve placed them on the right of the political spectrum, and indeed many of today’s libertarians indeed have no political home and are all over the map. Today, the term covers everything from the great Reason Magazine to big-government, socialized medicine-loving Bill Maher. The present day “libertarian” label can mean anything, so it means nothing.
But I’m not talking about those libertarians. I’m talking about the Ron Paul libertarians who were quite comfortable in a Republican Party with which they agreed on a majority of issues.
Back then, libertarians put aside their differences with conservatives and Republicans to work for the defeat of liberals and progressives. All three groups thrived, as did the nation. But now too many focus on the disagreements, the differences, and the scars that come with fighting for what we believe, win or lose.
Both sides have scars, but too many of us...
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Dear Townhall.com,
Which is worse, a Democrat radical leftist “progressive” actively working to destroy America; or a “progressive” liberal Republican utterly beholden to multinational corporations who want to destroy America “enough” so that they can make enormous profits from a dying nation?
In both cases, they despise our nation, our history, our liberty and our freedom; they seek to impoverish and despoil our land; they seek to reduce us to the poverty level of “the rest of the world”; that our nation stops being a nation and just becomes a ‘district’ in a socialist economic bloc.
In either case, if their perfect world is a communist Hell they call utopia; or a corporatocracy; or just a dictatorship, they do not care, because they imagine themselves in charge of it. Their attitude:
“Here at least
We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.”
— Satan, from Paradise Lost, but also the platform of the Democrat party, as well as the ambition of the billionaire overlords of the RINOs.
Any questions, RINOs? If you are still to stupid to.know what I'm saying GET LOST!!!!#
Now the GOP agrees more with the DNC than the Libertarians aka Constitutionalists.
The lesser of two evils means voting for evil. I won’t do that.
Póg Mo Thóin
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country." –Benjamin Franklin
Nice try, but I’m not holding my nose and voting for Dem Lite™.
“Reasonable response.”
As was yours. Our point about what occurred in Mississippi has been made. I agree that what the GOP-e did was despicable but I also know that to splinter our party is not only political suicide but is national suicide.
I thought as you folks who would refuse to vote for a GOP-e candidate but have since realized that without taking the Senate and keeping the House Obama can run rough shod over us and we can do nothing. If Nov. does not go our way the last box is the only option.
“But Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid do represent you?There are only TWO choices.”
There you go again with your GOPe BarbaraStraisand. There are ALWAYS more then TWO choices.
But mostly WE are no longer listening to your GOPe problems
Request denied.Hugs and Kisses,
Laz
To: Monsieur Le Derek Hunter
Get the GOP ‘establishment’ to address truthfully and completely two matters:
* Mississippi
* Mark Mayfield
Until that is done, tell them to go F themselves.
Correcting for grammar and punctuation.
Derek,
If you want conservative support, quit attacking conservatives. If you want conservative support, quit embracing the immoral. If you want conservative support, grow a spine and stand up for what is right and traditionally American.
No more brave new world stuff, bub.
I like to believe in cycles and that our nation's overall politics and morality move like a pendulum, back and forth between the left and the right, but always American, per the Constitution, one nation indivisible.
Something has changed that dynamic and roped the pendulum, pulled it to one side and tied it down.
Reagan called our attention to it when he said that he didn't leave the Democrat party, it left him.
The same is true now with the Republican party. It, too, has left us and followed after the demonrats.
In WWII and the cold war that immediately followed, we appeared to be much more aligned under one philosophical banner against the opposing philosophies of the marxists, communists, fascists, etc.
At some point, the demonrat party fully embraced the opposing philosophies we once were united to fight against for our very survival.
This was where the Democrat party was headed when Reagan said it left him and that train has arrived at its destination.
The GOPe train, too, has left us at the station, going down the same tracks the former Democratic party took.
The GOPe should have ripped up those rails instead, that would have united the party and country, but they didn't.
They took the train.
Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer said, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."Mitt Romney's father among scores of establishment Republicans publicly condemned us as "purveyors of hate."
A good start would be for the establishment Republicans to say we reject such language -- from now on we will respect our differences. We differ with the Tea Party but we will respect their opinions.
Fat chance.
as the GOPe have shown themselves to be the enemy of
great post, thank you
...and the problem with your brand of manure is, WE WILL NEVER KNOW. They weren’t elected, and without some kind of unity the next group faces the same problem. This is wake up time and the same group of thoughtless voters on the Dem side who gave us BHO twice, were aided by the stay at home voters on the Rep side who can’t see the forest for the trees, and the rest of us have to live with what you gave us. We aren’t liking it anymore than you are liking what you think you see as the problem.
your way is not a solution except for being the minority in just about anything that matters, and Supreme Court selections are pretty important as is the head of the Executive Branch. You are now the swing vote, but unwilling to accept the heat when the GOP can’t get over the finish line, and without unity that finish line might as well be Mars. Candidates may be key, but you and I both know they will never have all the qualities or stand on all the issues that the GOP/Conservative/TeaParty folks desire in a candidate.
Face it, we not going to fill the Senate with 100 Ted Cruz clones overnight or in any one election cycle. Fight the good fight like we have for years and we can change the face of Congress. Teaching the GOPe “A Lesson” is a terrible strategy. They won't learn the lesson and we will all be worse off despite our well intentioned efforts.
Elections have consequences.
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