Posted on 01/29/2008 9:52:21 PM PST by pissant
Will do.
Gotta be a bit grandiose if you are planning on tackling the formation of a new conservative party, I reckon
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I’d advocate the following.
A party of Conservatives who take the GOP BACK - Honestly, America is a “Two Party System” and to drag everyone away from the GOP to form a third, independent party is not going to be easy, nor cheap, and it will be looked at as it has in the past with “Independents”. As a rag-tag organization of “extremists”.
Logically, we should be fighting within the Republican party to bring it back on course, and forcing these idiots who “want to find an ‘electable’ candidate’ or who think one or two things is TOO conservative to leave rather than the rest of us bail out.
In truth, no, there are things I have always disagreed with, within the GOP - and some things, on occasion to me are simply MORE conservative than I truly am myself.
HOWEVER, I HAVE and will CONTINUE to stand by the principles, in action and deed, even if I don’t necessarily agree completely with them. (No, I won’t give examples).
My “loyalty” to this country is without question. And it has rarely been questioned with the GOP since I changed parties many years ago (After I voted for Carter, I realized what a dumb mistake it was - I tried to stand up for him and believe I’d made the right decision, but increasingly he showed me I was stupid for voting for him).
I’m one of the True “Reaganites” that exists. I believed in everything Mr. Reagan stood for - and one of those things was to always stand on Principles in the face of adversity and to continue to show right from wrong, and do those things which are right, and NOT do, nor tolerate those who do WRONG.
In my mind, and in common sense, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and numerous others in the political structure of this country are simply WRONG and trying to do this country WRONG. While they certainly can and do believe in themselves - they refuse to understand that Socialism and Gun Control, and Abortion is NOT RIGHT, they won’t accept those things as wrong.
Until they DO, they need US to show them and fight them politically.
Until the day comes that our society actually falls apart, and we take up arms again as happened in the Civil War for individual’s rights we have to use our system as it works now.
That means fighting WITHIN the system, not with OUT it - and if we create a new party, we are no longer in the “main stream of society” - you become a group that is largely ignored by the media, called names (like fanatic, or Right Wing Kooks) or other things. A group that is seen by the rest of society in the poor light painted by a Leftist media has little chance of succeeding in anything they attempt.
No, while I can see the extreme frustration we’re all feeling (check my Tagline please for whom I believed was the best suited) I can’t completely agree that walking away from the Republican party is the right thing to do.
Instead, while they have tried to “walk away from US”, we need to stand in front of them and redirect the traffic, force those who are NOT Conservative Republicans to come back to the party the way it SHOULD be, not the way the Leftists in America want it to be.
We need to STOP compromising.
STOP working with “the other side”.
Block them at every turn.
Stop playing “Political Correctness Games”.
Tell the truth, and expose the lies.
Fight Socialism at every turn.
We need to fight for America, as a FREE REPUBLIC and we need to continue to be an example for the world... a place where every foreigner seems to want to come. (If America is such a damned bad place as the Left makes it out to be, then why do we actually have so many illegal aliens here again??????)
No, Fellow Freepers... it’s time to take the GOP back from the Left.
Well good luck. FALCON will not require you leave the GOP. So you will be free to come and go as you see fit.
You have my word, I’ll look into this. But, regardless, I think it is the wrong approach. We have a lot more say in things in a local level, by running ourselves and putting up candidates who are more conservative and fighting our way back to the top of the stack, than we will as “group of fanatics and extremists”. Believe me, having dealt for many years with groups of conspiracy theorists (who, by the way almost ALWAYS turn out to be Leftist, anti-capitalist, Eco/Euro-weenies) labels come quickly and easily for them... as does the one or two real kooks who will give you a bad name quickly.
Good luck
Hang tight. It’s going to be a fun and useful ride. No kookism allowed. I will help see to that. We are currently putting the finishing touches on the platform and philosophy and will have the website working hopefully next week.
Add me to the ping list. I wrote the address on the site.
Will do
I’m in. Where do I get an application?
Website will be up an running very soon
Why wasn’t it called the Eagle Party? American Eagle is our Bird and all the money printed has this bird on it...
Its a wide world out there. I’m sure you’ll find a comfortable niche.
For the same reason the democratic and republican parties have their names. The guys who started them picked ‘em.
BUMP
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