Posted on 08/03/2014 6:21:30 AM PDT by winner3000
Dear “Conservatives” and “Establishment Republicans,”
I write today in the hope you all can get over whatever anger, distrust or bruised egos this primary season and political year has caused you. We on the right need to unite and send a message to progressives by unambiguously retaking the U.S. Senate in November.
We all have some problem with what’s happened so far. Someone we liked lost a primary. Someone we didn’t won. Some piece of legislation we hate passed; some other piece we liked did not. No one is completely happy, but we all know things can get much worse – and will if we don’t put aside what divides and do what we must for the cause of liberty.
The political right has a habit of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. This is exemplified by libertarians, and it’s the fast track to political irrelevancy.
Libertarians will hate that I’ve placed them on the right of the political spectrum, and indeed many of today’s libertarians indeed have no political home and are all over the map. Today, the term covers everything from the great Reason Magazine to big-government, socialized medicine-loving Bill Maher. The present day “libertarian” label can mean anything, so it means nothing.
But I’m not talking about those libertarians. I’m talking about the Ron Paul libertarians who were quite comfortable in a Republican Party with which they agreed on a majority of issues.
Back then, libertarians put aside their differences with conservatives and Republicans to work for the defeat of liberals and progressives. All three groups thrived, as did the nation. But now too many focus on the disagreements, the differences, and the scars that come with fighting for what we believe, win or lose.
Both sides have scars, but too many of us...
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"Viable" is such a malleable word, ain't it?
It's so bendable it can even make you completely ignore reality!
I've got your back, Colonel!
We worked out posteriors to the bone to relect GW Bush and hand him a full GOP Congress. We worked around the clock to take control of the Senate in 2004. What was the result?
John Roberts confirmed, the justice that legitimized Obamacare as a tax.
Harriet Myers nominated for appointment as SC Justice.
Comprehensive Immigration Reform aka Amnesty that was fortunately defeated but caused the loss of Congress to the dems in 2006.
Enormous increases in spending with lax oversight of Wall St. and banking.
Medicare Part D....
Need I go on?
Taking control of the Senate with the likes of McConnell will not make your life better or expand or guaranty your freedoms.
Taking control of the Senate with RINOs is an allusion and you are their fool.
The allusion is the belief in the existence of two entities, republican and democrat. Keep believing it as that is by design, to fool as possible as many into believing it.
The demos and the gop establishment are bought and paid for by the same group of oilgarchs. They are owned. Ignore this and be forever their fool.
I don't think so. Be careful what you ask for.
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within feet of the river. Have been sitting here watching the border
patrol patrolling in their riverboats all night and all morning..."~Jim Robinson
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No doubt, you are right on every point. But the answer cannot be to vote for Democrats. I for one will never do this, as long as I still draw a breath. We’ve tried the third party route like Ross Perot and that hasn’t worked well either. The Democrats would love it if we just stayed away from the polls and I really hate doing things that meet with their approval.
The route that is open to us is to vote for conservative candidates at the local level and elect them to the state legislature and also at the city and county level, where possible. I will vote for Milton Wolf in the Kansas primary on Tuesday. Pat Roberts will probably still win and he will continue his GOPe behavior, alas. But, it will serve as a warning to other Kansas politicians and they are paying attention.
(What really is the strategy? I don’t get it. Teaching the GOPe some lessons is not a strategy. They will not get the lesson. They will not change their ways. They have to be replaced. And like it or not electing more Democrats by staying home this November will only move us further from that goal.)
What do you mean by “they will not get the lesson”? I may not like the GOPe, but I don’t think they are stupid, and I still believe that, just like other human beings, they react to incentives. What is the strategy? The ultimate goal is unity-whoever wins the primary is supported by a broad coalition on the right, whether the tea party or the GOPe wins the primary. The only way to do this is to not allow the GOPe to feel that the type of divisive tactics employed in Mississippi will be rewarded. If they lose that Senate seat (and maybe even other RINO senate seats) because of what they did in Mississippi, they will not even think of pulling this crap again. So even though we may lose a Senate seat in the short-run, it’s worth it for the long run if the GOPe stops taking tea party votes for granted.
Ever since the black vote has been automatically Democrat, the Democrat Party policies have been more and more damaging to blacks (amnesty, increase in the minimum wage, protecting teachers unions against school choice, etc.). We in the tea party will not make that mistake.
> “Teaching the GOPe some lessons is not a strategy. They will not get the lesson. They will not change their ways. They have to be replaced.”
WRONG!
Conservatives just showed how it is done with respect to border control in the House! And we need to do it over and over and over again until the GOP establishment stands down.
The GOP leadership is ready now and will be ready after November to go along with the democrats. The only thing stopping them are conservatives in the House and Senate, conservatives in the media and the grass roots melting down the Capitol Hill phone lines.
IT WILL DO ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD TO HOLD YOUR NOSE AND VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAT THAT WEARS AN ‘R’ BY THEIR NAME!
I disagree with very little that you posted. But, like all the others, you propose no viable strategy. Sitting out this election, refusing to vote for GOPe candidates leads us nowhere.
Youve defined the problem well. Now you need to outline a solution that is more than just witholding your vite. I will read it. I’m not happy with an incremental approach anymore than you are. I just don’t see an alternative.
As if folks who don’t even have the guts to do what’s right at the ballot box will have the kind of fortitude it would take to take up arms.
The only way to do this is to not allow the GOPe to feel that the type of divisive tactics employed in Mississippi will be rewarded. If they lose that Senate seat (and maybe even other RINO senate seats) because of what they did in Mississippi, they will not even think of pulling this crap again
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I too am mad as hell about what went down in Mississippi. But you are much more optimistic than cynical-me that the GOPe stripes will get rearranged even if Thad Cochran loses. I don’t think so. We need to get our act together and win the darn primaries. We can’t eliminate the GOPe but can, over time, make them the minority within the Republican Party.
“And in my view, a Republican, even if it is a GOP-E, is better than any Democrat. So actually, I’ll blame people like you, who, out of petulance, decided it would be better to lose that seat to a Democrat.”
You can blame whoever you want. I don’t care. The bottom line is that unity is a two-way street. I will no longer vote for the GOP-E candidate until I the Tea Party primary winners receive the same support from the GOP-E. I and thousand of Tea Partyers have listed the price for our vote. If the GOP wants it, they need to earn it. If not, go ahead, continue to blame us. Guilt tripping us will no longer work, so try something else, and you may stumble on the only thing that’s effective.
I used to be just like you. However Mississippi opened my eyes. If the GOP doesn’t get conservatives’ votes I predict they will jettison any semblance of conservative principles and compete with Democrats for the Marxist vote. Anything to stay in power. That’s what they did in Mississippi where they acted and talked exactly like Democrats. So you’re either with them with eyes wide open, or you just don’t want to see.
IT WILL DO ABSOLUTELY NO GOOD TO HOLD YOUR NOSE AND VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAT THAT WEARS AN ‘R’ BY THEIR NAME!
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Failing to do so is one more vote for the Democrat. So be it.That’s just not appealing to me. I want Ted Cruz to be Senate Majority Leader not Harry Reid.
The guilt trip won’t work on me any more. It worked in 2008 and in 2012. But 2012 was the last time.
“Quit giving aid and comfort to the enemy. “
This is what YOU are doing — helping Dems to get elected and rule the country, destroying it.
I don’t support liberals, no matter what letter is by their name.
Apparently you do.
So who is the problem exactly?
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