Posted on 05/19/2008 4:27:55 PM PDT by bstein80
The Republicans in Congress continue to baffle me. They are spending all of their time trying to use the marketing tool of “re-branding” the party, while at the same time they refuse to vote against terrible public policy. The most recent example is the disastrous farm bill that the Senate passed overwhelmingly. The House has already passed the bill, and although President Bush will veto it, Congress will likely override the veto.
As long as the Republicans in Congress pay lip service to conservatism while voting like liberals, they deserve to lose in November. Those leading the Republicans down the wrong path include Senator McConnell, Rep. Thad McCotter and Rep. Roy Blunt. They should be replaced by principled conservatives like Senator Jim DeMint, Rep. Paul Ryan and Rep. Jeb Hensarling. The party will lose 20 seats in the House, 6 in the Senate and the presidency if it continues to vote for liberal policies. Conservatives should put more pressure on the Republican leadership in Congress and not buy into all this “re-branding” talk until they actually begin to advance conservative ideas.
“As long as the Republicans in Congress pay lip service to conservatism while voting like liberals, they deserve to lose in November.”
Deserves repeating.
They get it all rigght. They got the message in Nov 2006. The Party is over.
As the recent outpouring of raw, naked outrage on the NRCC web site makes both manifest and plain: insofar as the voting conservative base is concerned, he demonstrably has not done so.
Responsibility for the adamant rejection of John McCain by the conservative voting bloc, therefore, rests ultimately with the unsatisfactory candidate, and he alone.
It does no good whatsoever to hop up and down like so many amphetamined spider monkeys, agitatedly shrilling "OBAMA! OBAMA! OBAMAOBAMAOBAMA!!!," as Barack Obama is not running as the Republican candidate for the presidency this year; McCain is. He either closes the deal himself, based on his ability to persuade conservatives what he himself has to offer them (if anything)... or: he does not.
I think that an argument can be made that McCain (and Arnold for that matter) are NOT RINOs. They ARE Republicans, that is, what the Republican party has become. Which means the party of the Center.
So the answer is for a new political party to form. Call it the Conservative Party, which will stand for:
1. Low Taxes
2. Secure the Borders
3. Strong Military.
4. Against same-sex marriage
5. Energy self-sufficiency (drill in ANWR, coastal, etc.)
Maybe by the next election, this will come to pass.
The only quibble you’ll get from me is that they’re several steps past the center.
Congress should run against Obama. Just replay Obama’s recent rant about the necessity of getting rid of SUV’s, not having the thermostat set at 72 and so forth. Heady and powerful stuff in certain Congressional districts.
Play up no drilling in Anwar, no nuclear power, no use of coal and so on down the line. Especially, in states where these issues count—Alaska, etc. Also, run against ethanol and earmarks with appropriate statements from RAT congress people.
Over 1,600 responses from angry conservatives at the NRCC blog.
LOL. Love it.
Are you Falconetti?
Just more evidence that the once-vaunted RINO Party still doesn't get it. The party of the big spending RINO's needs to douche its current crop of so called leader(less)s or simply rename their party as the official RINO Party, a division of the Socialist Democrat Party.
That’s a great one!
“Republicans know exactly what they are doing. Those who say the GOP doesn’t get it are the people who don’t understand. The GOP’s agenda is to expand it’s voter base by appeasing the socialist left and conservatives be damned.”
You have nailed it!
I agree. They are indeed to the left of the political center and are inching incrementally more so to that socialist left with each passing day. If they go any further they may as well drop the charade and just revert back to their former selves, as disgruntled Democrats. I mean that's all RINO's are anyway, former disgruntled Democrats who abandoned their sinking ship when it was sinking back in the 90's and it so chic to become a Republican in order to get elected.
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