Posted on 10/22/2006 8:49:20 AM PDT by Conservative Goddess
I am your typical Republican "supervoter." .... But I'm seriously considering ending that streak this Nov. 7. ...
I'm also a contrarian -- a conservative with libertarian leanings. Combine all these characteristics, then mix in the aggregate Republican record, allow the ire it has created to rise and bake it for a few years and here's what comes out of the oven:
A party base that's mad as hell and no longer willing to rationalize GOP failures. It's a base whose crust grows darker and thicker -- i.e., angrier -- when prominent conservatives and Republicans -- politicians, pundits, radio talk-show hosts and think tankers sensing impending electoral doom -- pop out of their pumpkins and upbraid the watered-on for complaining about being wet.
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...Pay no attention to the recidivists behind the curtain who, once every two years or four or six, make grand promises of fealty to conservative and party principles only to repeatedly fail to deliver. ... What's the definition of insanity again? In this case it's constantly returning Republicans to power and having the audacity to expect different results. And what could be more stupid than that?
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Look, folks, it's time to take a stand. Returning this current crew of Republicans to power will only embolden them to spend more time, not less, off the conservative reservation. This is no time to dance the Rationalization Rumba. It is time for the GOP base to deliver a very big SMACK. It's the only way to start the process of true Republican/conservative reclamation.
Fellow Republicans and conservatives, do what you must on Nov. 7. But I, for one, refuse to yet again enter my polling place, vote for the usual GOP suspects...
It's time for the long-spanked to do some spanking.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Colin McNickle is the Trib's director of editorial pages [a paper owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, i.e., not a liberal rag]. Ring him at (412) 320-7836. E-mail him at: cmcnickle@tribweb.com.
Ping.
I'm not sure how electing a democratic congress strengthens the GOP.
No matter what, the media (which is the first draft of history) will write this as a victor for liberalism. They will spin the spanking as a repudiation of the war in Iraq and republican corruption, not as an attempt to purge big government leanings from the GOP.
Whatever but i will be voting straight GOP and encouraging others to do the same, if not speaker pelosi thnx you and thats not debateable
Problem is, the disaster which would ensue from any sort of a major demokkkrat electoral victory at this point would be non-survivable for the nation. I'm still voting against dems. I vote for whowever has the best mathematical shot at preventing the dem from holding the public office, which is usually a republican.
Reads like more "suppress the republican vote"
Look, I agree with allot of what he's saying, but he's an IDIOT if he'd rather have the DNC in power just ot teach a few RINO's a lesson.
"A party base that's mad as hell and no longer willing to rationalize GOP failures..."
So you don't vote, or vote third party, or what?
Let the democrats win so you can complain that the GOP should have done better?
This is an utter load of manure.
This is just brilliant. Giving control of the government to the Rats -- cutting off my head to spite my face -- helps me....how, exactly?
When was the last time you saw an article about liberal voters punishing the Democratic Party by letting the GOP take more power?
I hear Hillary is changing parties. Are you still sticking with that?
'I am your typical Republican "supervoter." .... ' who has never given a dime to the Party.
Being a curmudgeon is free.
As a conservative, who happens to be a registered republican, since the GOP relatively represents my principles, voting the "stupid party" out to let the "traitor party" into power would be smart for what reason????
My tagline says it all.
We shape the parties in the primaries, and give the parties power in the general election. It is far, far easier to shape the Pubbie party than to create and empower a new one from whole cloth.
If you can't shape the Republican Party in the primaries, it is ridiculous to think you would be able to empower a new party. Channel your frustration more productively into promoting libertarian and conservative ideals within the Party.
It's the Rats party that is having the far more serious problems addressed by this opinion piece.
The time to "take a stand" was during the prelude to the Republican primaries.
Now, that course of action is analogous to turning your daughter over to the Boston Strangler because her current boy friend got a tattoo, never takes a shower and spends too much time playing video games.
The next Congressional primaries are less than 2 years away. Hold your nose, vote AGAINST the greater evil in 2006 and start grooming better Republican candidates for the 2008 primaries NOW.
Now it's too late - the question is whether one wants to see a spendthrift Republican Congress or a completely socialist Democrat one.
Regards, Ivan
I'm as fed up with faux conservatism in the Republican Party as anyone, but as it was in 2002 and 2004 it is today: the WOT trumps everything. I won't send a protest vote with the Ls, I won't stay home, and I certain won't vote for "change."
Put the Democrats in congress and the senate and we're done in Iraq. And that sends the same message to our enemies as they received after the 1993 WTC bombing; the USS Cole et. al.
While the Republicans have done nothing significant to stop the growth of the size and scope of the federal government, we're still fighting a war.
If we give up now we will have lost.
It's time to "take a stand", burn down the 'Big Tent' and toss the 3rd party pukes out of the GOP. They have proven time and time again to be nothing more than tools of the left. Where was their urgency to elect conservatives in the PRIMARY???
This jerk needs to put his money where his mouth is. Instead of coming out just before an election and trying to get fed-up conservatives to sit it out, he should be working during the non-election years to seek out and promote those leaders with whom he agrees.
Most of us agree that we need more real conservatives in office but it does not make sense to throw out the rinos unless we have someone viable to take their places. That means putting our money and efforts behind those who can make a difference. It does not mean waiting until it's too late and whining about it.
So Colin fugures we will be better off governed by the hard charging Marxists of the Pelosi party?????
I could not agree more.
This Country DESERVES another LIBERAL on the Supreme Court
This Country DESERVES to Cut and Run from Iraq
This Country DESERVES have AMNESTY GRANTED to 15 million illegals
This Country DESERVES to have late term abortions made legal again
This Country DESERVES gun contol.
DAMN THOSE REPUBLICANS............IT'S THEIR FAULT!
Another DemonRat in the pro terrorist MSM destroying democracy.
I've heard this lie before, but I guess if you repeat it long enough it must be true....NOT!
This clown McNickle needs to read the Seattle Times story several posts above this one about how Pelosi swore to "take him down", meaning Bush, regardless of the consequences. We don't need that Shiite in Washington running things.
Well, too late for me to "send the GOP a message". I already voted for them, straight GOP ticket. I've got a governor's race here in Ohio that's TOO DARNED IMPORTANT to me to vote for retreat-and-defeat DemocRATS. If conservatives would have gotten off their collective butts and campaigned in the primaries against these RINO's that let us down, we may have saw some change and this "deliver a spanking" crap would be moot.
Since that didn't happen, I'm not for handing this country over to the DemocRATS who will do far worse. Now, more than ever, too much is at stake and I'm not willing to turn this country into the hands of hateful, "no-plan-except-cut-and-run", embolden the terrorists, DemocRATS.
Do what you think you've got to do. I already did what I had to do.
I am your typical Republican "supervoter." .... But I'm seriously considering ending that streak this Nov. 7. ...
I'm also a contrarian -- a conservative with libertarian leanings. Combine all these characteristics.........
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And you get a Ross Perot voter.
It is a STUPID MOVE
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CUT OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE!!!
If you're going to call me a liar then you'd better be able to back it up. Where have the Republicans reduced the size and scope of the federal government?
There, hopefully you've been sufficiently boogeymanned. Now go vote GOP like a good boy.
So by making Nancy Pelosi speaker, we somehow advance the conservative cause? What if the Dems return to power and we can't get it back for another 40 years? I'll be 70 by then.
So much of what you say about the "off the reservation" mentality and actions of this so-called Republican crew is true. On the other hand, my fear for the country in the hands of the Democrats outweighs my disgust with the Republican leadership. If, per chance, we retain the House and Senate, the so-called Leadership should resgin those roles and take a seat for someone who has the courage of his convictions.
The LIE was "the Republicans have done nothing significant", not "the Republicans have not reduced the size of government."
I can think of two.
1. Allowing the RATS back in power.
2. Allowing the leftstream Media to manipulate us into sitting out this election.
The general election is not the place for this crap. Punish the bastards in the primary elections. Have you ever heard the phrase "cut off your nose to spite your face"?
This whole approach by cut and run "conservatives" is insanity.
It's saying to Repubs "I'm not voting for you, but my not voting will by default enable DemocRATS to win the election
WHO HAVE OBSTRUCTED OUR AGENDA OF COURT APPOINTMENTS,
WHO WILL RAISE OUR TAXES,
WHO HAVE SOLD OUT OUR NATIONAL SECURITY WITH LEAKS,
WHO HAVE PUSHED FOR THEIR AL QUEDA BILL OF RIGHTS,
WHO HAVE SOUGHT TO CRIMINALIZE CONSERVATISM WITH TRUMPED UP CHARGES...
ETC. ETC. ETC.
Is this what you people want???
My view of you type of people is that YOU are the ones needing a spanking. Not to mention a serious brain transplant. May God of heaven save us from idiots like you.
The ideological puritans remind me of why the Libertarian party left me. They also remind me of the lunatic fringe on the left. Not with their idea of government, but the farther they go from the center, the less likely they are to ever be electable.
Vote with the Republicans, but hold their feet to the fire when they swing too far to the center.
Yes, I agree. But as you can see, the majority of posters here do not agree. The country was born in Pennsylvania, it will be reborn in Pennsylvania. The day of reckoning is November 7th. Those of us who've worked tirelessly to move the party to the right, only to find ourselves "watered upon" have absolutely had it. As Colin said, we're mad as "h-e-double toothpicks" and we're not going to take it anymore.
YES! Thank you! That was the time to "clean house" and "deliver the spanking".
"Our choice is between a publically immoral, Christian persecuting, traitorous, thieving Democrat or a privately immoral, Christian using, traitorous, thieving Republican."
That's a pretty broad brush you are painting with there.
This is just stupid. Why do so many Republicans have such difficulty with simple logic and comprehension? I swear sometimes I have to wonder if they are thinkers or parrots.
The GOP is far from perfect but let us list some facts:
1. It freed two countries from oppression and has aggressively took on terrorists around the world.
2. The mastermind who planned 9-11 was captured and countless other terrorists have been killed through the aggressive approach of the GOP and President Bush.
3. The deficit has been cut by more than half.
4. The economy is booming due to the Bush tax cuts.
5. We have two new conservative supreme court Judges and countless other appellate judges throughout the nation appointed by President Bush.
6. They did pass a border control fence and provided new funding for border protection.
7. They are not Democrats.
If you are disappointed with the GOP you need to take a moment to think about what the Democrats would do better and I would venture there is not one thing they would've done better. Not one. So grow up and quit acting like this is a perfect world. I get frustrated like all of us do. I would've bomb the hell out of North Korea after they set off that Nuke test but we can't even get our current Administration to speak strongly to the little dictator. If some disappointed Republicans and conservatives want to go back to giving out signed basketballs to leaders of oppressed nations and terrorist states then by all means vote Democrat and give the GOP a spanking. The RHINOs will just use it to try to fragment the party and really demean the conservatives. Show them the power of faith and win this election! Not for the GOP but for our soldiers and our country!
She obviously hasn't read some of the threads on FR. I haven't seen this many apologists since Neville Chamberlain's family reunion.
You're too lazy to do your own research? Or do you enjoy spreading the DNC propaganda?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1701411/posts
If Conservatives are taken for granted (no where else to vote) then they are finished. Who cares how the media portrays the outcome: the message is to the GOP lest they take us for granted.
Anybody who is madder at repubs than they are at democrats - has rocks for brains.
The dems have been trying to undermine their very own president and their very own country - because they are so power hungry they will do ANYTHING to get their power back.
Dems have VOTED AGAINST every national security issue - they gleefully chided "WE KILLED THE PATRIOT ACT" - the very laws which gave our police the tools necessary to stop terrorism. It has proven itself very effective - along with the NSA progam which the liberals labeled - A DOMESTIC SPYING PROGRAM - which was of course a BIG FAT LIE.
And .. the democrats want America's Constitutional laws to apply to people who want to murder us - and they aren't even citizens - so they are not entitled to any of those protections.
Why is it people expect the repubs to be PERFECT - but excuse and ignore all the horrible and dangerous and despicable things the democrats have done to President Bush and every other repub on the planet.
And .. just who in hell is going to get a spanking if people won't vote .. WE - THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - WE'RE THE ONES WHO WILL SUFFER - NOT THE POLITICIANS. Anybody who can't see this is totally ignorant.
"Spanking" the repubs is really sending ALL OF AMERICA to hell. We have to put up with all the gross legislation the democrats are going to try to foist upon us. THEY ALREADY HAVE THE LEGISLATION WRITTEN - THEY'RE JUST WAITING - TO GET BACK IN POWER.
FIRST UP - They are going to allow the tax cuts to EXPIRE - I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT INCREASING MY TAXES BY 58% IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT I WANT FOR MYSELF OR ANYBODY IN AMERICA. Those tax cuts have spured the economy and when they are removed - our economy is going to start tanking - CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME WHO THE HELL WILL GET SPANKED - IT ISN'T THE POLITICIANS.
The next two items in the democrats' agenda is - DEFUNDING THE WAR - RANGEL ALREADY HAS THE LEGISLATION WRITTEN. He's also already written a bill to force military service on all those 18-42 years of age. We don't need that - military recruiting levels are above recruiting goals.
The next little package of joy is THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT BUSH and VP CHENEY. Why - so PELOSI WILL BECOME PRESIDENT - OR WHOEVER THE DEMS CHOOSE TO TAKE THAT SPOT. Do people even know that the 3rd person in line for the WH is the Speaking of the House ..??
Are people that ignorant and really stupid to want this to happen ..?? DID THE POLITICIANS GET HURT BY ANY OF THAT LEGISLATION .. NO THEY DIDN'T .. YOU AND I GET HURT THE MOST - SO THANK YOU TO ALL YOU NON-VOTERS FOR SPITTING IN MY FACE UNDER THE GUISE OF PUNISHING THE POLITICIANS. [YES, I'M YELLING - and if you don't like it - then the shoe must fit you.]
I intend to stop the democrats from returning to power - and I will crawl over broken glass to vote to KEEP THEM OUT OF CONGRESS AND THE WH.
LET'S ROLL!!!
Actually, the party in PA, with the help of the national party, quashed all attempts to hold real primaries in several races; not the least of which was the Senate Race in 2004....and most recently, the Governors race. The Republican controlled state legislature also worked hand in glove with the Democratic Gov to pass an absolutely egregious payraise for state government...making PA pols the second highest paid in the nation, but in the aggregate, the most expensive legislature in the nation.
The Republican party, particularly in the state of PA, is filthy, rotten, putrid to the core. We can't wait to clean this mess up.
Until such time as the party machine at the local, state and national levels learns to keep their grubby mits off the primary, the general must be fair game. We will do what we have to do even if it's in the general.
And I'm not sure having a GOP that's only marginally better than the Dems is good for the country.
Ditto that!
I am sick of this effin ignorance... "I'm not gonna vote. That will show them!"
A non vote for a republican is a vote for a democrat. Unless there is a libertarian that has a chance of winning, I would rather a republican than a democrat any day. How is putting a democrat into office and screwing yourself going to 'get them?'
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