What these election wraps tell me is that no-way, no-how did the ass-whipping in 2006 and 2008 create consensus on the right.
Each sub-group within the right is still convinced that "the other guys" are the problem.
And there is plenty of smug ITYS attitude among Rinos/CINOs and conservapurists to keep us in the Marxist wilderness permanently.
Useful idiots the lot of us.
Consider me a useful idiot. I don’t care.
The republicans and their recent campaign make me sick.
Operation Chaos II:
All GOP elected officials join the DNC, all Republicans register as Democrats.
Imagine the ensuing chaos in the drive-by media!
A very successful party needs only ONE plank in its platform: Rein in government.
Yeah, I think that you've hit the nail on the head there. All I can do right now is shake my head in wonder, this is not brain surgery. I have never seen so much appeasement going on, which only leads to slavery in some form or another.
Others have said, as well as myself "TO ARMS, TO ARMS!" but on second blush, all that is needed is to shut down free discourse (talk radio, about the only thing left) and dampen the same on the internet in order to isolate people from sharing like-minded opinions and banding together. Once isolated, they are far less likely to organize into any effective resistance movement and that is what we will see happen, I'm sure plans are already being made for just that.
Folks keep talking about the protection of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, what a crock. That stuff can be ignored once these people are in total power, they are reduced to powerless pieces of paper.
“.....conservapurists.....”
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Which fundamental, core belief would you suggest we “give” on:
- Pro-life?
- Cultural main-lining of homosexuality?
- Second Amendment Rights?
It is not an ITYS with me. However, without foundational, bedrock beliefs, what are we anyway?
The mid term losses were due to public dissatifaction with a war that seemed to be going nowhere, the gerneal incompetence of the Bush bunch nearly everywhere and Bush’s arrogant failure to protect the Mexican border from invaders.
The 2008 defeat was a compound of those factors, McCain’s inappropriateness as a Republican Presidential candidate, his own poor performance and the miserable campaign he ran, as well as the economic collapse.
It had NOTHING to do with social issues - NADA., except Bush’s failure to adhere to them.