The GOP will have 2 years to fix the 'Rat feces in DC. If not, in 2012 a 3rd party WILL FINISH off BOTH parties. THE ERA OF BIG GOVERNMENT IS FINISHED.
Posted on 04/17/2010 10:37:25 AM PDT by K-oneTexas
The Republican Party cannot survive by being the lesser of two evils. Its own survival and likely the survival of the nation depend on it.
Recently there have been a number of questions raised by conservatives who have been questioning what the TEA Party organizations can actually accomplish. With a significant amount of conservative activists taking the position that we need to revitalize the Republican Party and restore it to its proper roots as Ronald Reagan advocated, the concern is whether or not this can bring about the results that the now-active center-right coalition desires. The answer is maybe.
When challenged on this subject Sean Hannity often refers to the how the Republican Party has voted recently on the health control bill, as well as its apparent unity on other issues of political importance of late. This may be a sign of one of two things; that the message has gotten through and the representatives have decided to respect their constituents, or fear that they will be fired come the next election. It is my belief that the latter has been more motivating than respect for the voter. That many of the incumbent Country Club Republicans intend to weather the storm, then return to their ways as big government advocates, only less intense than the Democrat Socialists with their "take over everything" agenda.
Some time ago this author suggested that John McCain was the weakest candidate in the field of Republicans who ran for the nomination in 2008. McCain was and is emblematic of the old guard Republican who should have got out of politics years ago. He is, in many respects, a Republican analog to Ted Kennedy; someone who sees his elective office as an entitlement, and who refuses to give it up because he can't stomach the idea of someone else holding it. Right now he appears willing to toe the party unity line, but in the past he has been all too willing to cross the aisle to the detriment of the national interest. While everyone agrees that he behaved heroically in Vietnam, his heroism appears to have been left behind when he was released from captivity. He refused to stand up to Barack Obama in the same way that he purportedly stood up to his North Vietnamese captors. His failure to move aside for new blood is further evidence of his unsuitability for the office he seeks to retain, and we must hope that the voters of Arizona will realize this.
But more to the point, one of the tenets behind the 1990's Contract With America that led Newt Gingrich to the leadership of the House of Representatives was that if they failed to do the job they should be voted out of office. It took a few years, but the voters did get around to firing a large number of Republicans who failed to stand up against George W. Bush's progressivism. Unfortunately, the result for the public was out of the frying pan and into the fire. They didn't replace the failed Republicans with new blood; they replaced them with radical Democrats, who have now placed the future of the nation in jeopardy. It was a horrible miscarriage of the political process.
Texas State Senator Dan Patrick, who represents the region northwest of Houston succinctly, stated on the evening of April 15 that the Republicans cannot run as the party of the lesser of two evils. Many critics of the Republicans have leveled this accusation at them for as long as I can remember. And they have been correct in this criticism. As so many have stated, both Parties were going in the same direction but one was going much faster than the other. It was that simple. It cannot continue.
The future of the United States of America depends today on the TEA Party activists finding, recruiting and helping to elect people who are not country club elites who forget what this nation is all about, sometimes even within the time it takes to recite their oath of office. We need candidates and office holders who represent the mainstream of America. It is all too easy for many people to forget to whom they owe a duty, and why they are in office. Meanwhile, the voters have been too forgiving and the Republicans have depended on that to remain a viable political entity.
This time around the voters are likely to go with the Republican candidates because there isn't any organized alternative. The result could put the Republican Party back in control of the House, and in a vastly strengthened position in the Senate. Dick Morris has stated that it is within the realm of possibility for them to take both houses, but that may be over-reaching. Either way, they have an opportunity. This opportunity must not be missed.
The USA is now and has always been a generally center-right country. The 2008 election was an anomaly caused by prior Republican failures combined with a possibly engineered economic recession. The only reason why the Democrats were so successful was because the public never believed that they would turn against the very people who elected them and attempt to set up a dictatorial system in the mold of Fascist Italy. Too late, they found out the truth. Now they are trying desperately to fix their error. The Republicans, if they do the right thing, and emulate the Reagan prescription for American success, could become a dominant party for decades. If not, they may take America down with them in what would be effectively an act of political murder-suicide.
Things have gone to far now for half measures. Because of the national debt situation and the excessive intrusion of regulation and invasion of privacy the people of America will have to count on the party that has as good as betrayed them in the past. We can only hope that the Republicans have learned their lesson.
Hopeless? Other than being bereft of guts and original ideas, they’re a fine organization.
My thought before I read the article.
It has been said for years and years that the US has no ‘statesmen’ like we did in the past (say 30’s thru 60’s).
Now it seems we have no leaders either of the caliber of leader of days gone by. In the National GOP it is abundantly clear this is so.
The GOP will have 2 years to fix the 'Rat feces in DC. If not, in 2012 a 3rd party WILL FINISH off BOTH parties. THE ERA OF BIG GOVERNMENT IS FINISHED.
True. I thought the GOP was hopeless in 2001 and became a Blue Dog Democrat after 30 years in the GOP.
The Republicans need a philosophical leader, to put into focus conservative ideas as opposed to libertarian ideas. The ideal should be limited government, not NO government. What scares me is the current purge mentality which seems to be aggravating the economic libertarian takeover of the GOP. Outside of being wrong, it is going to have horrible political consequences considering the changing demographics.
The GOP just missed their chance to steal the financial reform issue. Obama and the democrats were busy ducking and covering on health care issue, and here was this big juicy plum just waiting for the plucking. It would have been both the right thing to do, and the popular thing to do, and now the GOP misses it, and in fact is lining up on the wrong side of the issue if trends continue.
parsy, who is praying for a conservative messiah.
Working “within” the party is a surefire way to dilute and neutralize conservatives. We should have been working at the lowest levels from school boards to county commissions and gradually upwards from at least since 1980. The more conservative a population, however, the less time it has to invest in political organizing. Conservatives work for a living. Politics is not their heart and soul.To liberals politics is the be-all and end-all of life because they are all about designing a utopia they can run so that they don’t have to work. They will always have the advantage in the political arena . If we would make a difference quickly, and there is no time now for gradualism and solid construction, then it has to be from outside the Republican party. In the meantime we need to be building still from the ground up as much as possible for the next round if we win this one. It never ends.
The pervasive regulation of everything guarantees that whoever we elect will become Country Club Republicans in a fairly short time. Too much money comes to them directly and indirectly because of their power to help or hurt companies so that their futures depend on swaying the regulators, the ultimate regulators bring the Congressmen. We have to have a real Cleaning of House, a massive elimination of the regulatory lead weight on the economy and it must occur in the two year span a congressman’s first term or it will not occur at all and we will be back to fixing every problem with new regulations and new agencies. It would require an all new Congress and a new Conservative stalwart President and must start on his Inauguration Day. The revolution we need would be all negative- removing most of the existing government rules and and regulators and enforcers. We would have to add many hundreds of thousands of government employees to the unemployment rolls. Chances??
They don’t get it, they just don’t get it!
There are only 4 (Four) little
things wrong... minutia really ...with the GOP:
(1:) We have NO PLAN.
(2:) We have NO PROGRAM.
(3:) We have NO LEADER TO PLAN A PROGRAM AND IMPLEMENT IT.
(4:) Our beloved GOP HAS NO CLUE.
Now cheer up. We have John McCain. We have Orly Taitz. We have Mr. Huckabee. We have Mitt Romney (cool nickname!) We have a Newt. We're going to get lots of House seats next fall ... maybe even a big majority. That will give us more than ample time to work on those four(4) little problem areas. Meantime, our GOP can make lots of way cool (bi-partisan) deals with those Democrats across the aisle. They're not such bad fellows, really, and we certainly worked well with them before!
Come on. Don't you feel a bit better now? That's it. Smile. That's what Barack Obama does!
O gee, I forgot Mike Steele! Hey, parsy, this is really turning into a laff-riot. What? Me? Worry?
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