Posted on 11/12/2008 8:31:15 PM PST by SecAmndmt
(CNN) -- The questions now being asked are: Where to go from here and who's to blame for the downfall of the Republican Party?
Too bad the concern for the future of the Republican Party had not been seriously addressed in the year 2000 when the Republicans gained control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency.
Now, in light of the election, many are asking: What is the future of the Republican Party?
But that is the wrong question. The proper question should be: Where is our country heading? There's no doubt that a large majority of Americans believe we're on the wrong track. That's why the candidate demanding "change" won the election. It mattered not that the change offered was no change at all, only a change in the engineer of a runaway train.
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And how many times did Bush use that veto pen of his again? [sarcasm]
Thank you!
Great article!
And you’re not including all of the obligations he’s rung up that aren’t in that debt (e.g., promised veterans benefits, etc.)
The GOP has shot them through the roof, too!
Someone should ask Ron Paul why he hasn’t given the mall Santa Claus his eyebrows back.
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Are you writing about Thomas Jefferson, who couldn’t get Congressional approval, so he didn’t attack the Barbary Pirates without it? It wasn’t until Congress agreed that we went in and cleared up the problem.
I voted for Paul in the primaries, would do it again in an instant, and agree that he would have been a great nominee with a terrific chance of winning. I just wish he was younger so he could give it another shot in 2012.
Me too.
This wasn’t any funnier on DU than it is here.
“I just wish he was younger so he could give it another shot in 2012.”
Wasn’t he on the ballot in most states this time around? How many votes did he get?
Considering the total media blackout he was up against, not to mention having zero support from the GOP on a national level, he did pretty well. I’m convinced that if he was backed by the GOP and its infrastructure that he would have beaten Hussein quite handily.
“being on the front line AGAINST Obama’s unconstitutional power grabs “
You may appreciate his vote against the original Patriot Act soon enough.
“P!ssing and moaning about the GOP’s actions in 2001 (Bush was not seated until Jan 20, 2000 and by September 2001 had been distracted) is not going to keep our airwaves free of government intrusion, our nation safe from a nationalized police force, or gun owners safe from being put on a list.”
History is what got us to where we are at today. If we don’t plan on learning from it, nothing will change. Paul has been trying to warn the American people about what we face today, for a very long time. I suggest you read his original Congressional farewell speech ca. 1984. Nothing has changed in the 24 years since then.
Incidentally, do you find it curious that no one in the Republican leadership is demanding that Obama produce a birth certificate? Is it not of critical legal importance?
And, Look what I found.
“Ron Paul didn’t win because he wasn’t allowed to win.”
Let me guess...Lord Zod, right?
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“GOP on a national level, he did pretty well. “
Maybe I am wrong, but didn’t he get like 1% of the vote.
Something in his message was not good enough for the voting public.
Yeah, because everyone went for McCain on the grounds that he was ‘electable’.
I guess we found out how electable McCain was-loses in a landslide to a far left inexperienced Dem with terrorist connections! That’s really electable right there, aren’t you all glad you voted for McCain or some other party hack!
Republican solutions:
Foreign policy: Mercilessly slaughter our Islamofascist enemies.
Abortion: SCOTUS must recognize personhood for the unborn under the 14th Amendment and then apply the equal protection clause to stop the states from preserving the likes of NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago as Meccas of babykilling. If you ban abortion in Nebraska or Mississippi but let it flourish in pro-abort venues, then you don't ban abortion effectively. You slice a small number off the death toll. Each life is worth saving. Nonetheless, you cannot morally pick and choose and effectively give the OK to the vast numbers of abortions that would be preserved by a "federalist" answer that does not really care what happens to or for the babies so long as it happens under state jurisdiction. This is a matter of substance and not of mere procedure.
As to the party: Excommunicate (politically)the paleos, purge Paulie, resist any attempt to have a "big tent" that welcomes pro-aborts and lavender queens and you can recognize the "big tent" motive whenever the David Brooks or other elitist footstools start whining about stripping the GOP of social issues in favor of an exclusive and elitist single-minded agenda of upper-bracket tax cutting and business, business, business. God, guns, babies, marriage, killing our nation's enemies, de-funding and abolition of gummint skewels, cutting the payroll taxes of those of modest means (Reagan Democrats) and many other issues should come first.
Ron Paul lost because he garnered a pathetic handful of votes and was rightfully repudiated by the overwhelming majority of Republicans. If somehow his supporters got him nominated, he would have gotten routed and there would have been a real third party. Fortunately that was quite unnecessary. Unfortunately, the Demonrats nominated and elected another Al Qaeda answer man in B. Hussein Obama. Fortunately, elections have not been abolished yet and Obama, Reid and Pelosi are not likely to have an easy time of it hereafter. Nor will it be an easy time for the Paulistinian fringenuts and spaghetti spines. America will likely come back but the Paulistinians won't.
Our country is out of the meaningful foreign policy business for the next four years. Bibi Netanyahu will have to be elected in Israel and will have to do what we should have done.
Yawn. Don’t you have some kittens to drown or something?
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