(FEARLESS PREDICTION:)Or will they be portrayed as the the "monopoly" party--akin to a bunch of rich, eeeeeevil, greedy 'corporate' white guys intent on "turning back the clock" to the bad old days of Bull Connor, Segregation, women in bondage...etc now that they have a 'monopoly' on Washington. The portrayal - by the Left-wing media, Hollyweird, and DemonRats - of the Republican Party and the Conservative Agenda for restoring a Constitutional form of government to America is not our concern. Let them say what they will. Wisdom is proved right by her actions. The goodness, the rightness of our cause will be and is already being displayed as we advance! Look at Southack's list of President Bush accomplishments in Post #303. Look at just about any scientifically adminsistered poll of the American people (not at the spin the leftpress put on it). Look at the numbers of homeschoolers, and how many of their numbers are at the top of any nationwide testing measure - National Spelling Bee, National Geography Quiz, etc. Look at Free Republic and its steady rise in veiwership and participation and see FR's numbers in comparison to leftist sites on Alexa.
I'm "fearless" when it comes to how my Conservative principles and the Republican Party are portrayed. I trust the American people to figure out for themselves that Leftists are hiding behind pusillanimous propaganda, class warfare and bigoted rhetoric, and how empty of meaning these things are. It is not in the portrayal that we place our hope, and the portrayal can not steal our hope.
Jim Robinson makes the case much better than I ever could; I suggest you click his "Find in Forum" and read every post he's written on these issues. I agree with him 100% - the ax blows to the tree of liberty have taken years to wedge so far into the base our Founders built. But they built on rock, be sure of that, and these storms will not topple the American Spirit, Cause, or, ultimately, Constitution.
We can not disclaim all responsibility for the damage that has been done to that noble document, however. Voting for third party candidates bought us eight years of torment and tearing of our Constitution under Clinton. Conservative stay-at-homes contributed to the foil! And some of us who now know the truth were once pawns of the opposition.
Tell me what great battle for liberty was ever won by a single meeting on a single field? Our perspective of wars past is skewed by our distance - the Revolution, the Battle to remain United, the War to topple the Nazis and Communism...none of these, nor any other, were won in a day, a week, a year, or even an election cycle. Be encouraged! Don't listen to the propaganda of the enemy who would have you believe that all is lost and you will never regain your ground. Don't believe their lies! Don't think for a moment that anyone else believes their lies! They have turned up the volume and pumped up the presses precisely because our victory is at hand!
We can not disclaim all responsibility for the damage that has been done to that noble document, however. Voting for third party candidates bought us eight years of torment and tearing of our Constitution under Clinton. Conservative stay-at-homes contributed to the foil! And some of us who now know the truth were once pawns of the opposition.
I didn't vote for any third-party candidates in 1992, I voted for President Bush, who ran a loser campaign in which he acted ashamed of being a conservative, and couldn't keep many of the votes he won in 1988.
Go ahead, blame the voters for not buying what he was selling. It's just good business sense: when business shrinks, the customer is at fault.
You think by doing this you're gonna appeal to voters on the fence? People have differing motivations when they get into the booth, and an insistance on lock-step isn't going to appeal to many who aren't already sold.
If Republicans want conservatives to vote for them, they need to come up with more incentive than they have thus far, apparently. The blithering shame of it all is that when they get the conervatives to cast their ballots, the GOP wins. Seems like a good formula, why is it so hard for the Republican party to get it right?
