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News Flash to RNC Candidates: It’s Not Your Gipper’s GOP Anymore
North Star Writers Group ^ | January 8, 2009 | Bob Maistros

Posted on 01/08/2009 4:58:10 AM PST by Invisigoth

News flash to the six guys running for chairman of the Republican National Committee: Ronald Reagan is dead. The Gipper’s last campaign is now a full generation ago. (I would know. I was chief writer.)

News flash two: Your party’s on life support. You got your heads handed to you by a first-term senator who out-messaged you, out-organized you, ran roughshod in your once-red states, stole all your issues and made you come across as a combination of big-business apologists, oil company and lobbyist stooges, tax-hikers, foreign policy Wrong-Way Corrigans and racist, Christian Right kooks. And that was on your good days.

News flash three: The 1980s are over. Shouting from the soap box about tax and spending cuts won’t cut it anymore. Both sides of the aisle are about to engage in an orgy of extravagance that will make Caligula look like a monk. And The Rookie is about to pull the tax-cut rug out from under you by making real, live taxpayers a permanent minority (almost like Republicans).

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TOPICS: Government; Politics
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1 posted on 01/08/2009 4:58:12 AM PST by Invisigoth
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To: Invisigoth
In the last eight, you took a budget in surplus, an economy headed for mild recession but fundamentally sound, and a nation at peace . . . and left trillion-dollar plus deficits, the longest recession in 76 years, and a divisive war that took five years to get right.

Fortunately, some of the rest of the author's analysis is a little better than the above. 9/11 - which had the potential to completely destroy our economy and plunge us into a world war - seems to have vanished from the minds of people like the writer. Bush got us through it so successfully that most people have even forgotten that it happened. And as for the war, he obviously did take out a couple of big terrorist sponsors (although I think he should have gone on to Iran) and on the whole, we have been more secure from Muslim attacks than any other country.

I'm certainly not defending some of the stupid overspending that he engaged in subsequently, but nothing like 9/11 happened on the watch of any other president except, perhaps, FDR.

2 posted on 01/08/2009 5:06:23 AM PST by livius
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To: Invisigoth

It hasn’t been my GOP since ‘read my lips’ no new taxes Bush ........


3 posted on 01/08/2009 5:08:31 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Invisigoth
News Flash to Bob: Becoming Democrat-lite is NOT the solution, but getting back to the GOPs Conservative roots is.

Loser.

4 posted on 01/08/2009 5:09:17 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: livius
A couple other minor things... The Clinton ‘surplus’ was fake, the dot com bust was real (clinton recession) then 9/11, then 6 years of the best economy ever, then the dems took over, and we totter on the brink of complete economic meltdown.
5 posted on 01/08/2009 5:13:21 AM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Invisigoth

6 posted on 01/08/2009 5:13:23 AM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

These idiot RINOs are going to lose more elections before they finally realize that they would be happier with the democrats.

As I predicted, they accept no blame and learn no lessons.


7 posted on 01/08/2009 5:14:10 AM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Invisigoth

News flash five (or six, I lost count): It is NOT government’s job to provide affordable health care, keep our air clean and keep gas under $4.00 a gallon.

Government’s job is to preserve and proytect. PERIOD! That means military, justice and safety. It is beyond stupid to send tax money from local to state to federal bureaucries only to do it again in reverse.

The sooner everybody gets off this bandwagon of government doing everything for everybody all the time, the sooner sanity will return.


8 posted on 01/08/2009 5:15:13 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners.)
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To: Invisigoth

Well if actual taxpayers are a minority,,,It is truly over with. I doubt if the moocher tax taking slobs will ever vote away their largess.


9 posted on 01/08/2009 5:17:06 AM PST by screaminsunshine (.)
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To: Invisigoth
“In the last eight, you took a budget in surplus, an economy headed for mild recession but fundamentally sound, and a nation at peace . . . and left trillion-dollar plus deficits, the longest recession in 76 years, and a divisive war that took five years to get right.”

This reduces to the bumper sticker: “Why have peace and prosperity when you can have Bush.”

It is leftist BS.

Clinton's ‘prosperity’ was the derivative of Reagenomics. Clinton inherited a sound economy, spent wildly, propped up the economy by SLASHING THE HELL OUT OF THE MILITARY. He ignored 11 major Islamofascist attacks on US interests. His attack on MicroSoft helped to reduce CV funding which encouraged the tech bubble to deflate. Some economists estimate that this alone took 6 trillion dollars out of the economy.

I'm disgusted with Bush for his betrayal of the conservative base and especially his spending, which can be described as nothing less than socialism.

But Bush inherited an Islamofascist enemy that was pumped up and encouraged by 8 years of appeasement and buy-offs, a STRONG recession (and remember how the media scolded him for mentioning the recession during the 2000 debates, that he was talking down the economy and would cause a recession, compare that to the behavior of the MSM during 2008 elections and how they helped manufacture the mother of all October surprises, the ‘economic crisis of 2008’), and a decimated military.

Considering that Bush had to rebuild the military, fought two wars, and dealt successfully with the recession by a series of good tax cuts (not the pretend kind that Obama is talking about, a rebate is not a tax cut), the economy could be a lot worse than it is. Don't get me wrong, I think it is only going to get worse—because of Bush and the Democrats’ socialist approach to the economy.

But trying to use Bush's term to make Clinton's sound like paradise is just more of the same propaganda they've been cramming down our throats for 8 years.

10 posted on 01/08/2009 5:17:34 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Abortion has become little more than the New Left's execution of political prisoners.)
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To: NTHockey

You are correct. Except you should say wasn’t the governments job. Obviously the majority now thinks it IS the job of government. We are lost.


11 posted on 01/08/2009 5:20:00 AM PST by screaminsunshine (.)
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To: NTHockey

From your keyboard to God’s inbox...

Sadly, though, it doesn’t appear that we are likely to see significant improvement as long as the DhimmiRats and RINO’s are in charge, and the sheeple continue to vote them into office.


12 posted on 01/08/2009 5:20:07 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Maistros and the other RiNO's pushing this line to Main Street Republicans have to explain why they are so solidly supported in their "take" on "what's best for the GOP going forward" by such guys as Mark Shields and E. J. Dionne.

Fact is, the Bidness Wing RiNO's know that the Bush Administration wore out the "economic conservatives'" (economic royalists'/social liberals') welcome with the country. They've no future. The RiNO's are just trying to cling to the command structure of the GOP now and clutch at power they no longer deserve.

First strong conservative to come along -- Sarah, Bobby Jindal, Fred -- hands them their papers permanently. That's why the RiNO punditocracy are jumping ship and swimming over to the Democrats. "Take 100 jars of oil, and write 60," that kind of street-smart self-ingratiation.

13 posted on 01/08/2009 5:20:46 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: Invisigoth
What planet is this writer living on? News flash two: Your party’s on life support. You got your heads handed to you by a first-term senator who out-messaged you, out-organized you, ran roughshod in your once-red states, stole all your issues and made you come across as a combination of big-business apologists, oil company and lobbyist stooges, tax-hikers, foreign policy Wrong-Way Corrigans and racist, Christian Right kooks. And that was on your good days. OBviously not the one most of us are on.

The MSM chose our "candidate" but he chose an unknown, Gov. Sarah Palin, for a running mate and she spurred on the GOP and drew larger crowds than their GOP Presidential choice. Gov. Palin infused the GOP with fresh faces of younger Republicans. We can at least thank the MSM and McCain for that.
14 posted on 01/08/2009 5:21:57 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated (YOU can get your own Bail Out . . .Dec 18 post at http://auntiecoosa.blogspot.com)
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To: Invisigoth

I love how he says “For better or worse, America knows how Barack Obama plans to try to do all those things.”

Does he know something I don’t know? I haven’t heard that horse’s patootie say anything relevant as to how he plans on doing ANYTHING!


15 posted on 01/08/2009 5:23:16 AM PST by woweeitsme
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To: Invisigoth
News flash two: Your party’s on life support. You got your heads handed to you by a first-term senator who out-messaged you, out-organized you, ran roughshod in your once-red states, stole all your issues and made you come across as a combination of big-business apologists, oil company and lobbyist stooges, tax-hikers, foreign policy Wrong-Way Corrigans and racist, Christian Right kooks. And that was on your good days.

What a load of BS. Domestic policy was handed over to the liberal means and methods, just so President Bush could keep funded that war against terrorist in their own sand pits. Lord McCain has pounded conservatives at every opportunity over these past dozen years. Now how exactly did he get that nomination?

Just look how the GOP lead by lord McCain treated Sarah, and liberals inside the belt know there is little difference in the majority of the GOP and the DNC. How many times did lord McCain lead a filibuster against the evil of government spending he ran his campaign upon, 'earmarks'. The majority of the under 40 college educated crowd probably thought he was against multiple body piercing. Oh, but he did make a name for himself in leading the charge against making those tax cuts permanent. And lord McCain was not a politician enough to keep his mouth shut when he announced to the world he did not know economy.

And without lord McCain fixing of campaign financing that unknown senator would not have had the multiple vehicles funding his campaign, from big-business (wall street), unions, and his grass-rooted government and church funded activists filling up the voter rolls.

16 posted on 01/08/2009 5:26:31 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Isa.3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
When Bush 2 threw Ashcroft under the bus because Ashcroft brought up the ‘wall memo’ at the 911 Commission hearings — to defend Bush, he lost me.

Talk about gratitude.

My opinion of Bush 2 began to go south after that, and in his 2nd term, he didn't to much to dissuade my opinion of him.

His continuous pushing for amnesty. His trying to appoint Harriet Miers. His telling us in the early spring of 08 that the economy was fine, sound, good, no problems — then the housing loan crisis followed by the AIG failure, followed by banking and finance failures, etc., as the economic house of cards crashed.

Had Bush 2 managed to hold the economy together a few months until his term ended, he might have eeked out a so-so legacy. Now, he will replace Hoover as the worse Republican in history and possibly replace Carter as one of the worst presidents in history.

17 posted on 01/08/2009 5:26:39 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Invisigoth

A tad overwrought and not terribly helpful. Sure, GWB failed to rein in the RINOs in Congress (though, whether he could have succeeded we’ll never know, since he didn’t try). He’s got some black marks on his ledger but also some gold stars.

Sure, the Republican Party is in trouble and has been for a long time, being a fragile coalition.

But the more fundamental problem, 100 years in the making, is the increasingly demagoguery-ripe populace and the demagogic politicians since FDR and the demagogic press. When the culture as a whole is increasingly less capable of critical evaluation of information that comes at them (critical evaluation once was provided by the filter of intermediate instances: churches, locally-governed schools, local civic leaders in a relatively homogenous culture), a message of traditional values becomes unpersuasive.

Still, a partial message of traditional values was succeeding, despite all the obstacles, thanks to Palin, until the (partially manufactured?) “panic” hit—a demagoguery-ripe event if there ever was one.

The author’s shrill ranting doesn’t help anyone. A 100-years-in-the-making crisis can’t be solved by chief speech writers. The problem is in the culture as a whole and at its heart lies the long march through the institutions, esp. the public schools.

There are no quick fixes. Home-schooling is producing cadres of people capable of critical thinking, but at the point that the movement becomes large enough to threaten the public school monopoly, it will be viciously attacked and an attempt made to totally suppress it.

But the solution has to involve sticking with “perennnial truths” not whoring after Leftist-Lite slogans. Sticking with perennial truths may lead ultimately to persecution and suppression, but at least we leave behind a witness to truth. Without that, all is lost forever.


18 posted on 01/08/2009 5:34:08 AM PST by Houghton M.
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To: livius
We are stuck in a time when the worst of what both parties have to offer seems to be the result of decisions made at all levels of government, regardless of who is in power. If common sense doesn't prevail, what's left of our Country will be a fragile skeleton of what it used to be.
19 posted on 01/08/2009 5:35:02 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: xcamel
The Clinton ‘surplus’ was fake, the dot com bust was real (clinton recession) then 9/11, then 6 years of the best economy ever, then the dems took over, and we totter on the brink of complete economic meltdown.

If you are going to blame a president, be consistent. If you are going to blame Congress, be consistent.

First, the Clinton bust was real, but it pales in comparison to the next big bust.

Second, the next 6 years of the best economy ever apparently was fake, too. It sure has fallen apart in the last 6 months. In fact, the $Trillions in loses tower over the now-small-peanuts -- Enron and World Global. [One news report tallies all the recent bailout at nearing $8 Trillion. Where is that coming from? From the money the Treasury is printing by indebting future generations.]

If Clinton is to blame for the economy at the end of his term, then Bush 2 is to blame for the economy at the end of his.

If you blame Congress (Dems) because they control Congress now, you have to blame Congress (Pubbies) during the Clinton years and most of the Bush 2 years.

Picking and choosing based on party is nothing but partisan bias. We get enough of that via the MSM.


20 posted on 01/08/2009 5:37:54 AM PST by TomGuy
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