Posted on 09/04/2009 8:06:05 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
Up until this point I was impressed. McNuggets wasn't hard right, the so-called hard right had to vote for him- they had no other choice.(some stayed home) The Republicans may have a lot of purging to do, but they are still the best choice for electing someone that Indies and dis-affecteds would be comfortable with.
I say that as I feel there'll be changes in who gets to put an R next to their name real soon. Rinos are going to need more than a flu shot to make it past 2010.
Ever notice how the Left never critizes Obama and his extra-legal manuvuers around the Constitution that ultimately lead to bigger government? The media? Anybody?
I would suggest joining the Tea Party movement, taking stock of its leadership, and if you think you can do a better job, take up your staff (figuratively) and launch your candidacy for office.
Change starts at the bottom.
That is so vague that it is meaningless of course but the way you are avoiding explaining about our most conservative voters, the social conservatives, I get the impression that is is basically the Libertarian party.
Identify your core principles and the name will follow.
If limited government and strict fiscal conservatism are your core principles, doesn't the Libertarian Party already embrace them as its core principles?
I think social conservatism is also a natural center of gravity that could pull a large number of people together--and not just disaffected Republicans but also many Independents and some Democrats (including Blacks and Hispanics).
It should not be named after ANY individual... why would we want to be a part of the cult of personality like Obama?
The Whigs has as a mascot the Raccoon.
I suggested the Armadillo for Ross Perot’s Reform Party
Animals that could be used, A Stag, A Lion, A bear, a Rattle Snake, a horse, a Bat, a frog, a Bull Moose.
Symbols that could be used: A Liberty Bell, A Musket, a Feather Pen, a lantern, a torch, a Liberty cap, Miss Liberty, Mt. Rushmore,
People who could be used as a symbol: George Washington, Tom Jefferson, George Patton, Andy Jackson, Herbert Hoover, Howard Huges, Robert E. Lee, Oliver North.
According to Shelby Foote, the mascot of the Whig Party was a bulldog guarding a strongbox.
Whig Party leader Henry Clay's nickname was "The Old Coon", so maybe that's where you got the raccoon.
Love it... history... something not being taught today in the schools.
A movement that teaches the people of the USA what and where we came from.. the good the bad the ugly... somehow in totality our history is something we can and should be proud of... that is what I would love to see espoused by those who aspire to lead.
Mugwumps?
People need to make up their own names for all the third party talk, they can’t just keep using the names of the most popular leaders of the GOP in their conversations and pitches.
“we had such a thing in the 1980s, when a third party of sorts, called The Reagan Republicans elected the President of the United States. He had long coat tails too. Anyone who was similar in ideology to him was successfully elected to office too, up to and including 1994.”
That’s right. That little crazy man Perot could have become president. He didn’t really want it—that’s why he pulled out of the running when he was leading in the polls, then jumped back in. He was there to make sure BushI didn’t win. It’s possible in this cult of personality to run someone who could win the presidency. But I think work needs to be done from the bottom up. As others have said here, vote out RINO’s, incumbents who have been in office forever, liberals, etc. We need some real Constitutional conservatives (citizen statesmen) in Congress! And term limits!
Love your morphed image of the GOP elephant. Strangely it truly does represent the mainstream party leaders we currently have, so hardly a good mascot who oppose the RINO’s in charge today.
Excellent!
Thanks, A Bull Dog is a good symbol. I still read it was a wise Raccoon for the Whigs. I will have to check my sources.
I just don’t want the current Republicans to “Rename” the party and continue on with their lame ideas.
Yeah, how about the Grassroots Party or the Free Republic Party.
Ok, I went back and re-read your article to hone in on your basic strategy, and I do see the angle you're driving at.
It appears that you're proposing that current Republican politicians and voters sign onto a new third party that more closely represents what they stand for, and hopefully other politicians and voters will cross over and join them.
There may be some hope for that, and it could be argued that something on that order is already occurring. There's no doubt that there is a fast-building patriot movement in America. The many tea parties and attendance at town halls this August attest to that.
The Republican party should be closely aligning themselves with this eruption of fervor amongst their natural constituency at this pivotal moment, and in some ways they're trying. The party should also recognize that if they fail to convince the voters that they are consciously and deliberately making real efforts to re-dedicate themselves to conservative principles, and are elevating and recruiting strong conservatives within their ranks, that the people will continue to drift away from them, and toward independent voter status.
Perhaps we'll see a new political party form spontaneously from the grass-roots, due to the quickly evolving conditions in the country.
I've said many times that I've come to a point in my life where party identification has become far less important to me than Founding Principles. I've taken to simply calling myself an American, instead of a Republican. At the end of the day, that's all that I really am, though an appropriate label would help to define my views. That label should by all rights be "Republican". That is, in fact, what I believe in, though the label has been tarnished by those who've lost sight of what republican principles are.
My desire is that we patriots simply oust the squishy, professional politicos from OUR party, and move forward in re-taking our country.
All that aside, politics are about to take a back seat to the fight to restore the republic. When the dust settles, I think we'll see a lot more people who come to embrace Founding Principles to a much deeper degree than party identification.
In my view, all conservatives tend toward these same considerations. At heart, what we all want is for our country to be guided by, and to adhere to the form of government and cultural traditions that made us the greatest nation the world has ever known.
It's very simple, when you get right down to it.
Oh, I know. Let’s start another anti-American, free traitor party with female relatives of corporates, government managers and academics as leaders.
Nonpolitical politics is the way to go, until the globalist house of cards has fallen.
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