How the GOP Got Here: A Symposium (Mark Steyn)

NRO ^ | 11/5/2008 | Mark Steyn and others

[mojito]

A long march indeed.

[Slapshot68]

The Republican Party isn’t dead...but it’s on life support awaiting a cure.

[Doohickey]

Depressing.

[danmyte]

Well, if the Republicans ever are to regin their status they will need to have spokespersons for the conservative values than the RINO’s. I was at least glad to see Shays get defeated.

[Mamzelle]

I’m picturing McCain back in the Senate...reaching across the aisle...for a handout.

[Christian4Bush]

mark

[alex]

If liberals can run a liberal state, be my guest let them run it, I do not care.

The problem is that brain-dead pinkos are incapable of running anything.

[NormsRevenge]

It took them awhile but the Chicago Machine did it again.

Slowly but steadily the left infiltrated and indoctrinated the masses, melding minds of the young and the ignorant to do their bidding.

Mao and Joe would be proud.

[gargoyle]

...Brain transplant...

[MHT]

Those buzz words are part of character education, a job parents used to do at home but now must be done by "educators"....

Everyone needs to see the movie "Idiocracy" Although vulgar in spots, it's about the people of the future who communicate through advertising slogans. "Branding", "logos", "buzz words"-- How about "retroactive tax increases", "redistribution of wealth", "the fairness doctrine"--I can figure those out in a hurry.

[Revolting cat!]

while Obama was bestriding the broader cultural space

True enough, but the 'broader cultural space' has become a field where halfwits play, and are easily seduced by single syllable words like 'hope' and 'change', incapable of considering their implications.

[aquila48]

Mark gets it.

When you surrender the schools, the media, the bureaucracies, entertainment, etc. to the other side you’re not left with a lot of ammunition with which to mount an attack.

Check this out for a wake up call...

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov

[kabar]

McCain will be back in the senate reaching across the aisle helping Obama enact an amnesty, which will destroy the GOP and the country with the stroke of a pen. Then McCain can go back home with a sense of satisfaction that he paid the Reps back for 2000. Johnny, we hardly knew ya.

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Republicans need to start their own long march back through all the institutions they ceded.”

And when they get done with that long march, they will find an America so radically reshaped by immigration that no one will understand their english.

[donna]

Christopher Shays lost? LOL!

Does his wife still have the job Clinton gave her?

[Major Matt Mason]

Republicans will make a comeback only after they return to their conservative roots. That process starts with the replacement, with principled conservatives, of all of the Republicans’ elected congressional leaders, as well as most members of the Republican National Committee and most state party officials. It’s time for new leaders, from top to bottom.

Agreed.

[mick]

Mark Steyn is a brilliant man. But America become America through trial and struggle not political action. And the American people became the American people not through some kind of long march through the institutions.But in rising to the battle for survival on this continent and against all kinds of ruthless enemies.The fat, soft, whinney people who now apparently represent over 50% of the nation will soon go the way of the goony bird. The institutions like public schools with their feel good pictures on the wall are relics of the past.The liberal,command economy created from the New Deal is dying before our eyes. A sterner, tougher American will be born because the old safety nets are failing. The old certainties are proving false. BO might just likely be an American Gorbachev spending his term trying to save a dying system. And like Gorby he will fail. BO is a loser and a delusional misfit who will go down in history as a fraud and a failure.
As the old saying goes......”Cowards will stay behind, and the weak will die on the way”

[arthurus]

All the spokesmen in the world will not counter the Left control of the education of the children. I think education is a lost cause. This regime will end homeschooling and will require a government curriculum and equal racial, sexual, and other “minority” representation in private and parochial schools .

[arthurus]

Cain will be effectively a Democrat from mow on.