Posted on 07/29/2006 11:39:40 AM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
Judging by some of the things Alexander himself has written, one might dispute whether he's a "real Republican" or a Dixiecrat. In any event, I wouldn't take his opinions as the undisputed truth.
A lot depends on what the test issues are. If you make foreign policy the main issue, you'll find yourself supporting people whose views on social and moral issues are quite different from your own. Make those social and cultural issues the key, and you alienate some who'd agree with you on economic questions and vice versa.
One can't get elected with 20%-30% of the vote.
We need more Boltons
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Who was responsible for him getting the position? Who wanted Harriet Meirs on the SP?
Your post is dead nuts on the mark. If I may, let me add that (6) there is no leadership in either the House or Senate; and, (7) the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats in Congress are truly both moral and intellectual midgets. I really think that the bulk or our elected officials in DC are stupid wrt how the world actually works!
They've forgot what the root word is for their party as in "republic" or in other words 'constitutionally limited republic'......every time they open their yaps about this great democracy we have, they should be slapped upside the head.
The problem isn't that we have too many moderates, in fact we have far less than we have ever had. The problem is that many of our Republican Congressman and Senators are entrenched. They have been there so long they have lost touch with the voters, and have forgotten their principles. It happens both to Conservatives and Liberals alike. We need Term Limits.
Well said.
Thanks for the additions
[Torie] That is rather cynical.
Not really. Rockefeller Republicans like Jake "Lefty" Javits and, of course, Rockefeller himself, back when real conservatives referred to them as "me-too'ers", went along with a lot of social-liberal programs wanted by Democrats like Harry Truman, Hubert Humphrey, and Lyndon Johnson.
That's why triple-dipped, case-hardened Kennedyphile journo Theodore White, in his Making of the President 1964, waxed all glowy over business-wing Republicans and called them "best of breed" or "best of their kind" or some such tripe, while spitting on conservatives as "primitives" throughout his book -- he must have used "primitives" at least 100 times -- and referring to conservative issues as "emotions" and "emotional reactions", implying that conservatives were incapable of rational thought.
Keep in mind that he was also talking about Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley when he spat on the Right, two men who didn't lack for engaged mental capacity. Both of them ate guys like White for breakfast as the occasion arose. But nothing has ever stopped liberals from vilifying a real conservative, something business-wing RiNO's seem to get a pass on from the LSM.
Too, I seem to remember Jonathan Alter, in 1995, writing an essay of instruction to Bush-wing GOP'ers, informing them that in order that liberals -- er, "moderates" -- continue to take them seriously, they would have to redeem the odium brought down on the GOP by Newt Gingrich (referring to the LSM's months-long, gloves-off hate-a-thon against the House Republicans and the Contract with America) by ensuring the nomination of Bob Dole in 1996. Unlike Newt and the conservatives, you see, Bob Dole and his fellow RiNO's had gravitas. Yeah, right.
Of course, Alter couldn't possibly have had access to Dick Morris's under-the-radar polling (with Chinese reptile money) that showed Bill Clinton's best matchup in 1996 would be.......Bob Dole.
What is wrong with my Republican party?
One RINO is too many and it is loaded with them. RINO's and dems are the enemy within.
What is wrong with my Republican party?
One RINO is too many and it is loaded with them. RINO's and dems are the enemy within.
Good question. Back in the Gilded Age, which I suppose you could call the acme of old-style Republicanism, the GOP was protectionist on manufactures, but free-traders on labor. Witness the big ships that J.P. Morgan had White Star Line build to haul immigrants to the New World, to people and fructify the land-grant acres his railroads held in the West.
Immigration control has always been a Democratic and Know-Nothing issue. The Whigs and Republicans were very pro-immigration.
But NAFTA is free trade, which was hidebound National Democracy politics.
Unless it's not really free trade, but another co-hong, another merchant conspiracy of some kind, in drag.
Now "fructify" is a word I don't see often. Well done.
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