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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I agree with you as can see from my posts on this thread. As a group we are definitely in a Foot Shooting Mood.
What happened the last time the GOP controlled the House, Senate, and presidency?
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We didn’t pass Obamacare.
Thad Cochran. Ken Cuccinelli
That's "conservative speak" for go F*** yourself.
The RINOs will lie, cheat, steal, and even stack the courts to deprive conservative candidates. Even when we win anyway, they then undermine conservative nominees and even give overt support to Democrats. Conservatives have NEVER done the same to the "moderates." The worst we've done is to stay home and even then the RINOs didn't get the hint.
Cucchinelli-Virginia, Bevin-Kentucky, McDaniel-Mississippi.
'nuff said.
Go to hell, GOP-E.
The word is a lie. "ELECTABLE" has come to mean RINOs only.
If you could first know where you are and whither you are tending, you could better judge what to do and how to do it. You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
The question today is either the opponents of statism will arrest the further spread of it and place it on course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become permanent.
Have you no tendency to the latter condition?
Let anyone who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece of machinery, so to speak — compounded of the Republican Party hands-across-the-aisle doctrine and the dreadful actions among statism's chief architects.
Stop taking the conservative vote for granted.
Can you say "Jumping Jim Jeffords"? That's what happens. The RINOs would rather support a Democrat agenda to keep the K-Street Kapital flowing than to adhere to the principles of their own party platform.
The senate will remain D even if GOP-e takes over and the house will remain GOP-e.
And Obama ain't going nowhere.
Umm, it depends.
I am going to have no problem this fall voting for Terry Lynn Land this fall even though she is exhibiting high RINO risk factors. She was a competent SOS.
If I lived in Mississippi however, I would not vote for Cochran. He flat out stabbed the Republican base in the back. There is no room for that.
McConnell? Ehhh... I might be able to hold my nose but I would feel very dirty afterward.
The children ARE the point. Will they be a nation of free men deciding their own course and taking responsibility for their actions?
Or will they be helpless serf's enslaved under tyranny? Someone else's dupes in a game ruled by the hereditary aristocracy and the Machiavellian despots?
As Reagan said, "This is the last stand on earth. If liberty dies here, there is no place else."
They did. And the House could defund it but they are a bunch of spineless crack monkeys addicted to President Obama’s mom jean's scent.
The establishment Republicans get to mingle with the movers and shakers; they get to accumulate fortunes running campaigns; the Democrats' lip service that it's a two-party system waters establishment Republicans' ego, never mind what the fluid really is; establishment Republicans get government offices next to Democrats; MSM employees attack them as interfering with the Democrats. All the trappings but no real power and that's okay.
Not to mention the fact that today's lovely GOPe is the party of the Chamber of Commerce.
How else is it that a RINO will become an "unelectable candidate"? We've done the "support the nominee" routine for sixty years. The RINOs have not changed. They still actively screw conservative nominees regularly. Incrementalism is nice pleasant strategy. The problem with it is that once in the majority the RINO/Crat party forces "moderate progressive" policies that produce a declining culture that results in a ruined economy... with "Republicans" taking the blame. Look at what was done to California. That strategy produces Democrats. That is the future of your strategy.
Amen, bro.
Whether it's a Soetoro or a Romney, government gets bigger and has more control of their lives.
VERY well said OP. This “open letter” borders on the offensive. It is the same old “just hold your nose and vote” BS that has put us where we are.
I’m going to say what I think (sadly for my wife never a problem lol). I do NOT care if the Dims keep the Senate if it gets rid of the GOPe. I unabashedly root for McConnell and Cochran to lose. If that means a Dim takes the seat, then so be it.
We are WAY past the Dim-inspired kumbaya lets just vote for any ole GOPer that we give you so we can say in power. We, the Tea Party, the Tea Bags, whatever you want to call us (I embrace all names including the pejorative) are in this for the LONG hall. It’s the long con. We are patient. We are determined to have a Conservative government for all America to raise her from the ashes and be that “beacon of light”. And that is NOT going to happen by the GOPe continuing to play us as suckers.
THAT is my open letter to the author. No. Ain’t gonna happen. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Niely put. Simple, and to the point!
These slaves to fear always drag us down. What is that quote, the one about trading liberty for security deserve neither? Well the Establishment have made a career of it, failing to fight in every situation to protect themselves.
It's far more important that we not lose the Senate. Because if that happens, Obama will have nobody to prevent his seating some far leftie onto the Supreme Court. Then it won't matter if the Senate is filled with Tea Partiers from later elections. Whatever legislation they come up with could be easily overturned by, that one person who'll be on that court for life.
I'd have preferred to see McDaniels to have won, but we have to play the cards we're dealt, even if they came from a stacked deck.
If the seat is lost, blame the GOP-E, not the Tea Party.
It's a big mistake to allow perfection to be the enemy of the good enough. 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.
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