Posted on 07/03/2011 3:10:42 PM PDT by NYer
I used to work for the Republican Party. I was a member of the Fairfax County Republican Committee for several years and a precinct chairman. When I moved to Woodstock I joined the Republican Women of Shenandoah Country and was Secretary. I quit when the executive board decided we had to support a woman who supported liberal positions spending initiative because she was a Republican woman. Apparently, what you stand for means nothing as long as you call yourself Republican.
So when I read the American Thinker article, The Need For A Militant Conservative Movement, it struck a chord. Read it and, if you're a conservative, see if it resonates with you as well:
Late last week, the New York State Senate voted to legalize homosexual marriage, giving equality with heterosexual marriage, the foundational unit of every single human society in the last 5,000 years of recorded history.Yup, the Republican Party has betrayed us. Party politics trumps the truth almost every time. Consider Rick Santorum supporting Arlen Specter in PA and Newt Gingrich supporting Dede Scozzafava in NY. Both Specter and Scozzafava were RINOs as liberal as any Democrat, but Santorum passed up a pro-life candidate and Newt just counted Republican seats -- as if those folks can be counted on to vote traditional values. And the Republican leadership concedes to the left every time. So my strategy these days is VOTE CONSERVATIVE. If a Republican is liberal no amount of scare mongering by the leadership will get me to support him (or her). Did Scott Brown stop Obamacare? No! But he was our savior! In reality, he's one more so-called conservative supporting the radical homosexual agenda. He helped repeal Don't Ask Don't Tell and invited a hard-core "gay" activist to the bill signing. What did pro-family folks gain with Brown? A kick in the teeth.
This is an enormous victory for the gay rights movement and for the American left. Like most of the left's victories in recent years, it could not have happened without the support of the Republican Party (which controls the New York State Senate). Republican fingerprints are all over Roe v. Wade, No Child Left Behind, affirmative action, amnesty for illegals, and the expansion of Medicare. Indeed, gay marriage failed in New York when the Democrats controlled the State Senate in 2009.
It's time for conservatives to face the truth: there is no conservative party in the United States. There is a leftist party, and a slightly-less-leftist party.
Forty percent of Americans self-identify as conservatives. Yet conservatives could not muster enough political support to defend traditional, heterosexual marriage against homosexuals, who comprise less than five percent of the population. But the gays -- whose campaign in New York was fronted by the circus freak Lady Gaga -- have been everywhere, French-kissing on the steps of state capitols from Sacramento to Albany, marching through the streets of San Francisco in bondage leather, throwing condoms and hosts at priests celebrating Mass in New York City, running television ads advocating gay marriage, donating pro bono legal representation to their cause, and enacting vendettas, protests, and boycotts against anyone who disagrees with them.
Gays, a tiny fraction of the population, have been organized and militant. This is true of the left in general....
The combined numbers of gays, blacks, unions, and other groups comprising the left fail to outnumber conservatives. Yet conservatives have suffered defeat after defeat on almost every major issue for decades. Conservatives have been disorganized and passive, while leftists have been militant and united in their fifty-year quest to destroy every single traditional, bourgeois norm and value in American life -- while smugly enjoying the security and economic prosperity that was created by those very same bourgeois norms and values. (Read entire article here.)
I gave up on the Republican party when they acknowledged Michael Bloomberg. Puhlease!
‘twarn’t no Republican party out there in the Shenandoah 40 years ago. It was all Democrats and their KuKluxer cousinfolk.
Tea Party Nation is where it’s at for me.
I gave up on the Republican party when they acknowledged Michael Bloomberg. Puhlease!
I would say I did it even earlier with Giuliani, and all his baggage.
I quit calling myself a Republican long ago. I may VOTE that way, but I’m not one.
And if someone calls me one, I tell them I’m insulted.
When the Republicans send me a request for money, it usually starts with “Dear Fellow Conservative...” My stock answer is not great literature, but I hope it gets the point across:
I’m not just a “Fellow Conservative”; I’m an American. Patriot. Constitutionalist. If you want support from me, it’s time for YOU to show me something. No more go-along-and-get-along. I want to take our once proud Republic back from the communists and socialists. I’m doing my part. It’s time for you to do something.
Me too out of Obamanoia but I sure want another option besides the Libertarians. Solution. Do not give any money to RNC. Only your preferred candidate.
The Elite Rulers laugh at us as they play Democrat-Republican and tell each other, “Look at those Rubes lap it up, like rooters for two football teams.”
>>Do not give any money to RNC. Only your preferred candidate.<<
EXACTLY!
I’m in the same boat. Not even insulted if they call me a Pubbie’ but as long as they don’t call me a liberal, Obama ass-kissing hopeychangey jackass, I’m cool with it.
We must fight two battles. First in the GOP to gain a beachead then in the general for the Executive Branch. The key is the Presidency.
bump
We all know the feeling.
Oh, please. Work for the candidates that are Conservative. Give to conservative candidates, there are many of them. That’s how we’re going to move the party right. It’s not rocket science. You never hear Democrats whining like this because they know you have to have the power to get anything done. And we have to have the power..now get back to work! Just know that your experience in NY is not the norm. It’s a product of living in NY. That’s why I left 25 years ago!
communist party spokesperson...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48nip0Rcm7I&feature=player_embedded
Let’s take back the GOP from the left - that’s what the Tea Party is doing!
Many pro-life, conservatives are contributing to individual candidates, rather than the Republican Party.
3rd party gave us Clinton, which is why we need to be as pragmatic as the Tea Party.
nice handle.
tomorrow is your day!
We've got big work to do, but I'm going to write checks only to those I personally back. The Republican Party is not convulsing in grief over that news, since I am not in the same money class with George Soros. But if enough Americans clamp their purses closed until they see evidence of real conservatism, I think the Republican Good Old Boys Club may stroll off the links and pay attention.
Independent conservative bump!
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