Posted on 10/21/2008 6:38:52 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
I worked tirelessly for the Northwest Florida Republican Party for many years. I need to start over and this time seek the beginning of a truly independent party.
First, the Democratic Party left us and now the Republican Party has dumped us. The bailout for Wall Street, the banks and the greedy real estate mortgage companies and all their coharts should never have happened. They should have been left in the burning meltdown they created. We have mortgaged our grandchildren and great grandchildren. I cannot believe that I have lived to see our once great and mighty country slide slowly toward liberalism and now, like a sinking ship, slide into the depths of socialism.
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“Bums, parasites, and goofballs may now outnumber normal, traditional American families. “
Doubtful.
Gross
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Aggressive voter education, Republican candidates must take it to the cities hard.
Wendell Wilkie was a rat-turned-RINO-turned-indy liberal but he had the right idea, he went to places to campaign where they threw rotten vegetables at him. Got to start somewhere, ignoring urban voters is what we’ve been doing, Republicans don’t even put up candidates. They need serious prodding. Form a real opposition, that means no liberal rinos. And we must be LOUD and visible.
City council level is a good place to start. We have 1 GOP alderman in Chicago (and 1 rat turned GOP, back to rat). GOP statewide winners in the recent past have carried a few wards. At least 4 ought to be GOP NOW. 2 wards on the lakefront and 2 in the white northwest area.
Even modest gains would make a big difference.
But party leader will continue to focus on the low-hanging “swing voter” fruit while the rats claim to be conservative and fool GOP voters. That’s another thing, educate conservatives voters, your southern rat congressman is not a conservative, he’s for Obama and Pelosi. “Democrat” should mean “poison” in Areas like Mississippi CD-1.
Point of fact, if conservatives can’t retake the GOP they can’t win with a third party, just split the vote and allow the rats to sweep everything.
I saw FRed at the Commonwealth Dinner in Richmond, VA in June, 2007, and he was great then...
He still hadnt announced though...
I believe if he had announced at that point, and continued to give as good a speech as he did that night, he might well have been a shoo-in...
I voted for Duncan hunter in the primary, but I was preparing to vote for FRed in Nov...
Mitt was done in by the Evangelical and Huck
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No, Romney was done in by his own liberal politics..
This is a letter to the editor and should be identified as such. So many letters to the editor are fakes written by dems to demoralize Republicans - and yes, I’ve had friends who wrote those letters for the Democrats.
fmj, I agree with you about Thompson and the media. Thompson was ignored and given little exposure after he joined the campaign trail. The media immediately went after him and his wife without showing either of them. The Left does not want a strong conservative running and for obvious reasons. A clear choice between liberal and conservative almost always elects the conservative.
However, I disagree with both of you about Rush. Saying he is “just an entertainer” is straight out of the DNC PLaybook.
Swanky, you obviously don’t listen to Rush either. He has repeatedly said and proved the he is a conservative, not a Republican, and he does not even like McCain. He says we have to back McCain simply to keep Obama out.
On Thompson, Rush did him no harm. He just kept waiting for Thompson to give him something to talk about but the media kept Thompson in the dark and offered their own talking points of “He is tired and lazy, no fire, he has a trophy wife, he is just an actor, etc, etc.”
Just as the Left gave us McCain with crossover votes in Iowa and New Hampshire and lots of media support they denied us Thompson or Hunter by ignoring them, giving tehm almost zero exposure.
He says we have to back McCain simply to keep Obama out.
Sorry, to me that comes right back to shill.
The takers, including those who “produce” through meager efforts just to make enough money to survive have always out numbered the true self disciplined producers and leaders. Sadly in an effort to look “enlightened” or because they are to busy actually producing to take notice, the true producers allow those who seek to live off of them just enough access to the government to install those who support the takers and toss money from the treasury. these “leaders” become more and more corrupt until the system fails.
Lather, rinse, repeat...
We are close to the repeat stage I fear.
Or not...
Tough call to wish for failure in an effort to see a fresh start. I just hope in this accelerated age the change will take less than a century or so.
LOL!
He was the most conservative of those running at the time.
I haven't drunk the Evangelical Kool-aide. I am thorough on my research too. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat AGAIN. IDeally I would have liked to see him as out nominee - since Fred bailed out earlier ... and Sarah for the gender role. That is the role she is filling.
Nonsense. Thompson, who I liked personally, ran as though he didn't want the nomination.
“Nonsense. Thompson, who I liked personally, ran as though he didn’t want the nomination.”
Amen to that.
Sorry, to me that comes right back to shill.
Only if you support Obama. If you don't support Obama then your thinking is so nuanced as to be meaningless.
Go peddle your bullshit somewhere else moron.
It was time to seek a third way twenty years ago when the GOP old boys first foisted Poppy Bush onto the conservative revolution.
Touchy I see.
NO profanity, NO personal attacks...
The real disgust is for the Democrat controlled congress.
Democrat congress at 9% approval rating. Lowest approval rating in history.
One good thing about this election is that the worst sell-outs are outing themselves, whether they are the moderates who gave us McCain in the first place, or the idiots we have often seen on FR, some on this thread, who have displayed a total lack of political judgement.
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