Marc Sanford!
What happened to the PUMAS...was that a joke? I think it was and we all fell for it.
I think the next Thatcher has been right on stage in front of us during this campaign.
I hope Romney fades.
On a bright note, Biden is out of the Senate. Of course, he’s about to become the Vice President of the United States.
Yep. One of the good things to come out of this election is it discredits both the Bushes and McCain within the GOP. It’s time for new leadership to take shape.
I think the world of President Bush as a man. But his whole family should ride off into the sunset as far as politics are concerned.
This party, this movement, the nation needs new leadership with new ideas. We need to get back to our core values while at the same time learning to connect with people better.
If McCain (or better yet- someone else less useless) had run as the “save the economy” candidate he would now be making his acceptance speach. That is what people care about at the moment.
They were all weak because they pandered to the right wing.
We need a candidate who represents true conservative principles, rather than just a partisan like Bush and Nixon.
keep in mind,
it’s a lot easier to be a Reagan or Thatcher when you’re running against the failed liberalism of a Carter or whoever was the labor PM before Thatcher then it is to run aganist the failed conservatism and Republicanism of Bush. It was much easier for Reagan to run against Carter in 1980 than it would have been for him to run in 1976 trying to continue the Nixon legacy.
It will be much easier in four years if people can see what the effects of Obama’s liberalism are rather than just being so sick of Bush right now that they’re willing to chnage course.
So long as we have the evangelical litmus test of proper denomination, proper church attendance, etc, I honestly don't see a manner or method that we reach a conservative who can unite the party, and the nation, against the expansive federal government. In the present climate, there is no way Ronald Reagan would ever have become president. He signed abortion into law in California as governor! He flip-flopped and was extremely pro-life! Burn him at the stake, especially for his Hollywood connections!
Nope, not going to happen. I am, by no means, suggesting evangelicals be tossed under the bus, but religious affiliation has to come off the table in the defining of who is a conservative, or we'll continue to have just useless RINOs who represent /none/ of the ideals of the conservative movement, religious or otherwise. We will continue to split our votes and let these ‘middle of the road’ leftists take over.
When the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party)-controlled bureaucracy and the MSM get through with Jindahl and Palin it will make what they did to Joe the Plumber look like adulation.
I’m officially starting the Tim Pawlenty 2012 campaign right now... He has the experience and charisma to take down NObama in four years, especially after America wakes up and realizes that NObama could not deliver on anything he promised... God forbid he raises taxes for the “middle class”, it’ll be 1992 all over again.
I don’t know what no one here is talking about Pawlenty much but I think he would be a great candidate and he’s NOT a senator... No more senators! Pawlenty 2012!
Who’s with me?!
First, we start with the darkest red states with the smallest populations. Such places (Wyoming, South Dakota, Idaho, etc.) will be cheap places in which to campaign for a low-budget conservative candidate. After a succession of primaries in these states, we would move on to all of the big red states in a "Super Tuesday" type setup. If there is no nominee after this vote, then we have a second "Super Tuesday" in the big blue states. Finally, we would finish off with the small blue states.
I'd like to have all primaries/caucuses be a winner-take-all format so that a nominee is chosen quickly. I'd also penalize any state that goes out of order by taking away half of their delegates and reallocating them to the smaller states. For states which have open primaries, they too would lose half of their delegates and have them reallocated. If a state went out of order and had an open primary, it would lose 3/4 of its delegates and have them reallocated to the smaller states.
This is assuming Obama doesn’t just do away with term limits and stay as POTUS for as long as he likes. Nothing seems out of the realm of possibility at this point.
If he put it up to a vote I would guess the American sheeple who elected him would gladly keep him on forever.
I was not among those who advocated McCain’s loss because he was not a true conservative, but now that it’s done, can we be honest?
McCain was Bush’s third term. Bush won the base on abortion and taxes alone, because he pushed the party left on everything else. Fortunately for America, Bush did most of the right things on national security in response to 9/11. Other than that* his presidency was immensely damaging to the party.
I’m not glad Obama won, but let’s look on the bright side - we are now free of Bushism (and McCainism) and can look for some real, conservative leaders.
In the meantime, we lead the opposition. As dark as the early Clinton days seemed at first, they were soon followed by some very heady days: Dan’s Bake Sale, the tomato-pelting of the “Health Care Express” buses, the Republican tsunami of 1994; here in my town and state, takeovers of the school board, the state legislature, and more; the explosion of talk radio and conservative publishing houses. Am I the only one who lived for the next issue of National Review, American Spectator, and (pre-internet) the Conservative Chronicle back in the day? Thos publications are not the same when they are half consumed with making excuses for an inadequate administration.
History is made when ideology and ambition clash with the great events of our time. I do not see Obama as a great man or a great leader. Who knows what events are in store? It is certain that he wants to implement socialism, but there is no guarantee that he will succeed, and every reason to believe that he will fail, and fail miserably. History, on its own, may stop him. But sometimes history needs a little push. That’s our job.
And on top of all that, for anybody who even so much as uses the word “racism,” we can now point to the White House and say, “Racism? That is so last century! Welcome to the 21st, caveman.”
Buck up, “my friends!” This is OUR time! President-elect Obama may not know that, but he soon will!
* Yes, I know, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
So help me God, if anyone else suggests that Jeb Bush run for anything at all, I am gonna scream! I support the Constitution of the United States, after that, Sarah Palin, after that, Bobby Jindal, after that, no-one.
Rick Perry-Gov. TX. You’re going to hear his name thrown around.
I’m not advocating one way or the other. Just a hunch.
“Whether it’s Palin, Jindahl, Joe The Plumber or someone as yet unknown, we have to be focused on reforming the decrepit GOP.”
Amen.
It is going to happen.
Time to get the conservative house in order and then payback time.
And I LIKE Sarah Palin.
We need to back conservatives, they need to get out there, be known, campaign for other conservatives and be known to the public.
Get them into the election hopper so they are there to vote for when we need them.
This had to happen anyways, but I expect now people will be much more motivated to make it happen.