[rabscuttle385]

With an America still in shellshock over what went down on Capitol Hill this week, some might be asking “why is Jack Hunter wasting time in attacking the Republicans? We need to stop the Democrats!” No, we need to stop big government, period. And it would be a huge mistake to now blindly embrace the big government party of yesterday in order to stop the big government party of today....Tea partiers should support individual Republicans who have continuously proven their fiscal conservatism, like Jim DeMint or Ron Paul, they should support 10th amendment efforts to nullify Obamacare, they should challenge the constitutionality of the healthcare bill, and they should keep calling their senators and congressman, holding rallies and raising hell. What they should not do is turn into blind Republican partisans, a historically self-defeating condition that so many GOP leaders, talk radio hosts and other mainstream right-wingers now seem so anxious for conservatives to return to.

BUMP!

[jnsun]

Thank you Mr. Southern Avenger.

You vote for the one who understands and declares what conservatism is: the great human privilege of assuming responsibility for one own decisions in Life, and insistence of the same in others. Regardless of the (party) behind his name.

It's called the principle upon which the United States was founded.

Johnny Suntrade

[Rockingham]

This muddies the waters. It is rather like sniping at Churchill during the Blitz because, after all, he is a Conservative, Conservatives appeased Hitler, and even Churchill at times wrote complimentary things about him -- so don't fall for that "we will never surrender" stuff.

Events matter. The key point now and going forward is that, against great pressure to cut a deal, the Republican Party stood fast against Obamacare and presented credible, free market based alternatives. The parties have diverged in a way that gives Americans a clear choice on a major domestic issue. That makes a difference.

[Venturer]

Gee was 75% of the American Public against it?