Posted on 03/29/2014 8:02:51 AM PDT by shuck and yall
March 29, 2014 4:00 AM Which Side Are You On? If you don’t care whether Republicans win, care that Democrats lose.
By Kevin D. Williamson
For conservatives, the story of the Obama years has been the depressing spectacle of Republicans fighting a rearguard action covering their retreat from a Democratic agenda backed by superior numbers. Republicans began the Obama administration with effectively no leverage: Barack Obama in the White House, Nancy Pelosi in the speaker’s chair, and Harry Reid running the Senate. The outcome of that was the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the worst domestic defeat for the cause of limited government in a generation. The 2010 congressional elections gave Republicans some relief... .
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That's the same question I ask of GOPe collaborators like McConnell, McCain and Boehner every day. Their harshest words are unleashed upon "fellow" Conservatives, and their actions indicate that their side is not ours.
I think you're being facetious...That's interesting to ponder, but it raises another, bigger question: Do we want Supreme Court decisions based on political strategy, or do we want them based on what's in the Constitution?
We can’t fight a war against the evil Democrats when all our generals are double agents. The first war we must win is the one against the NWO, crony capitalist,big government, anti constitutionalists that run the GOP.
Oh please. I notice he didn't name one.
Our Generals... are not Politicians
Our Generals are “the common man”
We The People will WIn The Battle and the War, if We The People understand that
No. We will not play the Ostrich again. Either the Republicans are ProLife, Anti-Gay, Pro-Borders, Anti-Spending or not.
When the GOP had the White House, the Senate and the House for 6 years, they couldn’t even build a dam fence. They couldn’t beat a bunch of ragheaded terrorist that had no navy no airforce no tanks in Afghanistan while using the most powerful Military in History.
Nope the GOP, if not controlled by the Tea Party is a ship that has no course, no objective, and just continues to bounce around the political sea, bragging about its ability to stay afloat. The only place it takes you is to the cleaners.
You go to war with the army you have....or you can sit home, pout and say how you’re too tough to fight.
good list
Jim Jeffords jumped before the Patriot Act passed, so Democrats held the Senate at that time.
Made no difference, as it passed 98-0
That is what makes the Tea Party so interesting as an American political phenomena - really its only precedent was the ‘Know Nothings’ as far as starting to create a structure outside the control of the ‘insiders’ who more or less run both parties.
Exactly the same dynamics as on the left. There are those who will stay home if the candidate is not ideologically pure enough and the pragmatists who regard even the worst sell out as being better than the other side winning.
A lot of people on both the left and right believe -with good reason- that there is a cabal of super rich and super connected individuals for whom the letter after the person’s name means nothing.
there are more Democrats, but Republicans vote in higher numbers. If the Democrats get out the vote, they win, barring an exceptional communicator like Ronald Reagan or an extremely poor one like Jimmy Carter.
Fall in love vs fall in line, as my old prof said.
But then I’m a cynic; I trained and worked as a pollster and view the whole thing through the spectrum of game theory rather than ideology. I’m a conservative in the sense that the Constitution is a well designed set of procedures for bringing the greatest good to the greatest number at the lowest cost by limiting government, government being inherently immoral and inefficient. But when polling season rolled around I was going to do the most accurate work for whoever would pay me best; ideology not mattering - only how accurately you nail the numbers.
I do think Texas is a great microcosm of the problem.
Our senators are Cornyn and Cruz.
There is no doubt in my mind who is the stronger senator in that pair. However, I would never prefer Cecil Richards or Wendy Davis in order to spite a Republican candidate.
People need to elect as conservative person as possible at all times. Surveys of the public show it is more conservative than at any time in the past 50 years.
But refusing to show up because the Republican candidate is a mild alternative to anti-conservative hatred offered by the democratic party is difficult to understand.
I also believe the idea that Republican control of government has made no difference in the past is one of the most farcical treasures of the current conservative movement.
Republican leadership has been empirically better on poverty, debt reduction, and unemployment without question! Conservatives ought to admit this.
Stop playing the bipartisan game taught to you by an intellectual elite that seek to divide and conquer you.
/bingo
Correct. National Review is just another RINO loving GOPe loving rag.
The evil RINOs are once again beginning the campaign to brainwash Conservatives into believing that ANY Republican is better having a RAT in office. I beg to differ.
A very simple example will prove the disgusting RINO lovers at NR wrong. Take the anti-Tea Party, very anti-Conservative fraud know as Boehner. In the fall elections there is an extremely high probability of the Republicans retaining the House.
If Boehner is reelected his #1 priority will be the destruction of the Tea Party and illegal immigration Amnesty. Given his seat is 100.00% safe, if by some miracle Conservatives and other Americans in his district would vote for his unknown RAT opponent it would be a great victory for Conservatives.
By defeating Boehner with a RAT, at least there is a 100% certainty he will be gone from the House. The unknown RAT will likely be flushed in two years.
Washington and others railed again political parties. I am sick and tired of Rove, the idiots at the NR and others saying that "any" R is better than any RAT.
Somehow these hard-core Statist RINOs must be destroyed politically.
If one contemplates only the example of Boehner losing to a RAT one can see in the big scheme that it would be a good thing. We need new blood in Washington, we need the RINO political class destroyed politically.
For those who think it's nut's for Boehner to lose to a RAT, please bookmark this thread. Then come back around June of 2015 and let's reflect on the damage done by Boehner to our Republic from this day to then.
Totally tagable... OK? Thanks...
A good point
Are you a GOPe puke? Is that you Karl Rove? What a ridiculous and patronizing view.
2012 was the very last time I will EVER cast a vote for a RINO.
The likes of Boehner, McConnel, Cantor are doing great damage to our Republic.
Your view that it's R or nothing is sickening. It's like the zero tolerance left. It requires no thinking.
One day you will wake up and realize just how utterly evil are many in the Republican party.
Do you not understand that Boehner's desired legislative position on Amnesty will doom our Republic to destruction? Levin has highlighted at length the utterly evil and devious steps Boehner has taken to crush the Conservative efforts in the House.
If I was in Boehner's district I would gladly vote for a RAT over this traitor. An unknown RAT would do much less damage than retaining Boehner.
If the Republicans are liberal then I don’t really care
GOPe are on their way out. Conservatives are taking over the party slowly, but surely.
They will kick and scream and whine...but die they will.
Nothing but agitprop.
your list is a joke if it doesn’t include Boehner, McCain and McConnel. Nice try Rove.
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