Posted on 11/04/2008 11:42:58 PM PST by Stayfree
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. The GOP has become expert at this approach. We need to change the GOP approach. We need to select the best minds to start now and brainstorm everything we do wrong and everything the left does better...and change our approach to our future or we are doomed!
Please, no more RINOs!
Nope they are doomed unless we help them desroy us. Communism does not work. I for one am not going to commit Obamacide.
It’s the Mitts, Johns and Georges that have drug the party down. Who wants to recyle old garbage? The party needs a transfusion and not with old blood.
Slick Willard, the Socialist scum who REFUSED to call the Marxist tyrant-select a Socialist ? I expect he’ll be joining his cabinet so they can destroy the country together.
Enough with the Romney bashing. For goodness sakes, every Republican that gets any recognition at all drifts left, to appease their new-found leftist buddies in the MSM and DC.
Romney actually moved RIGHT. We should welcome this. Of course he switched his positions— but he switched towards us! And what’d we do? We trashed the guy and helped the media trash him.
I’m not saying Romney 2012. What I’m saying is— when RINO’s move RIGHT, we ought not berate them for having held previously moderate positions. We ought to welcome those who move in our direction.
Hard-a-Starboard!
I mean a serious study of our entire operation from top to bottom, e.g., does the RNC and each national and local campaign have a unified information collection & management system to monitor, evaluate and report on every news event, news tip, public suggestion, market detail analysis and correlation effort? In other words, do the most complex management consulting effort ever attempted on our own party and the Democrats and liberals involved with them to help us understand how to beat them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/833678/posts?page=9520#9520 “Zimbabwe on the Potomac” You know there were warning signs... I kept telling people when Bill Clinton slithered in to office, and clung to it, despite all the scandals, and Impeachment itself-- “He's just a symptom. Like a fever is of a disease- there's something wrong with America.” Like Popular Culture- look at the magazines-- I call it “thugs & jugs,” or “which Pop Tart is popping out whose baby this week?” Or Katrina- ever seen so many people milling around with their hands out, when they should have been helping themselves? We did it to ourselves, and The New, Improved Black Jesus is merely a symptom. All civilizations have a shelf life- once enough citizens figure out that by electing the “right” representatives, they can use the power of the government to pick the pockets of others, ...it's all over, except for the details. Well, we're in the “details,” now. Meanwhile, I have to figure out what Miss Emily and I do with what's left of our lives, and bush hog her Mom's old place in the country, because City Life isn't going to be worth living from here on out. I'll catch you all later... ...maybe... |
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Obviously I am wasting my time with the wrong audience. Good night!
No Republican with more than maybe 10 years in elected office should be considered as a GOP Presidential candiate, and no more Senators or Congressmen. Personally, I like Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. He has a wonderful personal story, and he seems to be a true conservative.
What the GOP needs is an enema.
The way I see it the party needs to move back toward Pat Buchanan’s positions. Basically talk about the American middle class and offer real solutions. Bringing actual manufacturing back to America, begin putting some restraints on immigration, talk about the declining culture and the fact that most kids don’t have two parent household anymore.
All McCain really said was “I’ll lower your taxes, that one named Senator Government over there will raise your taxes.” He didn’t really bring anything to the table other than Sarah Palin, and most Americans are dead set opposed to him on immigration/amnesty.
One of the things that abosolutely needs reforming is how the party picks its candidate (i.e. the primary system). It seems designed to allow moderates and democrats to outvote “the base”.
You are right for (1) we need to get ourselves a black man(2)get founded by a bunch of terrorist(3)raise taxes(4)hire the black panthers to stand outside polling places(5)start a voting fraud organization name moose (6) support gay rights (7)deny the lord jesus christ (8) kill unborn babies , before I’ll do this I would kill myself
No hell no. This calls for thinkers. Idea men with actual conservative philosophies underlying them.
I have said before and will say again that the GOP needed a “Committee of Correspondence” wherein great minds not only develop a “21st Century Republican party” but also strategies to push aside the old guard who wanted business as usual.
I think that among the names you want on there are Newt Gingrich (personal foibles aside, he’s an idea man), Thomas Sowell, John Bolton, Sarah Palin, Mark Sanford, and of course, several others.
they ought to be able to present to the party no later than January 1 2010 something that would totally rebrand the GOP...Goldwater/Reagan conservative philosophies applied to 21st century challenges (taxation, energy policy, foreign affairs, etc) and there should be NO sacred cows among what has passed for Republicanism the last 20 years.
We have to become energized, better organized, and bring vibrant and new faces to the forefront of our cause. We need to convince young people that we are the party of ideas...of staying true to our founding fathers sacred ideals of diligence...God...love of country...compassion...civic duty. We will seek to empower people...to improve their lives and that of their families through education and a staggering array of opportunity...and not merely patronize them with the promise of nothing more than a menial existence on welfare. We must reach out to Latino voters and convice them we have far more in common with them....work ethic, christian values, love of family, hope...then the Democrats who support abortion, gay marriage, and excessive taxing on those who dare to work hard and dream of a better tomorrow. We stay true to our core beliefs, but shape the message to reach new demographics by sounding relevant in an ever-changing and fickle world. We need to strengthen and rebuild our entire network...from rural America to inner cities to the limitless power of the internet. If we are determined, passionate, positive, and articulate, we can restore conservativism to the mainstream of a country which was so easily cajoled by an empty suit who is more concerned about a bankrupt, leftist ideology, than the soul and future of the greatest nation on earth! And when the word Republican is no longer a dirty word and instead one of great aptitude and bearing...then we will have once again filled the pews of progess with patriots who feel the burning of optimism in their blood, and not the gelid hand of intolerance...otherwise known as Liberal fascism. We are Americans...we do not not wade in the stagnant cesspool of socialism and communism...rather we baptize ourselves in the clear waters of reason and freedom! That journey begins now...who wants to join me?
J.C. Watts - or me.
I wouldn’t draw too many conclusions from this episode.
McCain was leading heading out from the Convention until the economic crisis hit and then there was no talking the electorate out of blaming the incumbent party for it.
That and Obama’s plan to accept hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal donations.
No Republican could have won this one. There was no amount of negative ads that could make up the difference this time. People didn’t care who Obama is. They just wanted us gone.
One big step in that would be to have the first primaries in places mike Missouri and Kentucky and Wyoming instead of Iowa and New Hampshire.
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