Posted on 01/08/2007 8:42:14 AM PST by jmaroneps37
I agree with majority of your post .. though I would change the "(mythical) Republican" part ...
There were many conservatives .. whether they were Constitutional Party, Libertarian Party, Reformer or Independents .. they were very influential to many of those "I feel" voters that you mentioned
Before the election I laughed them off and did not take their threat seriously
I can guarantee, I will not make that mistake again
Yeah, and voting in the big spending Democrats sure sent that message to the Republican party, didn't it? :::Sarc:::
Says the king of the "blame conservatives" crowd.
Right. That's precisely why this country had no business sending those troops to Iraq in the first place.
Here is the concluding paragraph of the article I referenced above:
In any event, a coalition’s strength is partly a function of the force and quality of its opposition. The fissures and conflicts within conservatism are getting so much attention now because conservatism is still, intellectually speaking, where the principal action remains. So long as the Democratic party continues down the road it has been following, led by its aging left-wing lions and lionesses, funded and directed by the most extreme and irresponsible elements in its ranks, and finding clarity only in discrediting George W. Bush and regaining office, conservatives will always have plenty to unify around. For their own part, so long as conservatives are able to remember Ronald Reagan as a leader who not only embodied the distinctive characteristics of American conservatism but who finessed its antinomies and persevered against the contempt and condescension of his own era—including among some of his allies—they can yet regain their bearings and prevail.
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The big tent of conservatives in the US has allowed much more independence of expression than the Dem party of lockstep speech. This election demonstrated the disillusion of enough people who had chosen, for whatever reason, to vote for the Republican in 2004, to let the Republican lose in 2006. Example: Webb beating Allen in Virginia.
My point is that we cannot persuade anyone to our perspective if we talk past each other with parallel languages.
What are you gonna do, dream up even harsher words to alienate them?
From November 2004 to present.
Wrong. We stayed steadfast for conservative principle and won every statewide and federal election in my state.
Let me make things perfectly clear, because you seem to be exceptionally refractory to reality:
HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
Amen to your post #58.
As the Emperor of the "true conservatives" states wearing no clothes.
(Try to say that quickly five times!)
Good post. If ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.’ Edmund Burke. While I appreciate some of our apprehension in supporting less than perfect conservatives, abstaining from voting is not the way to do it. Obviously, independents broke heavily for the Dems, but I think that the GOP could have done a better job getting out the base. I for one had the option of voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor. He wasn't my favorite ideology, but I voted for him anyway. Why? Because I support everything he's done? Absolutely not. But I supported him (as well as a less than perfectly conservative Republican member of Congress) because I know that the alternative, in this case Phil Angelides, was simply not an option. I also didn't vote for some hopeless independent candidate, either. Fortunately, in my case, both Arnold and our member of Congress won.
That's obvious, isn't it.
Hopefully you'll still be asking that on April 15th of next year. I fear you'll have your answer in black-and-white (or red-and-white).
I agree. And if you insult these "conservative useful idiots" long and hard enough, maybe they'll go away and get their own candidate like a Ross Perot. That'll show 'em! Keep up the insults, buddy!
Suddenly, he's a patriot?
Ingraham bashing the President non stop, other talk show hosts wanting to punish the President.
Faux patriots all.
Suddenly we are hearing how important it was to vote Republican???????????????????
I have one issue. Winning the WOT
Go right ahead. You'll spend the next forty years trying to get back into a majority just within the GOP, and the country will lurch so far to the left that you'll spend those years being regarded as escapees from the loony bin.
Mark Levin is a FReeper. Maybe you should ping him if you're going to trash talk him.
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