Posted on 08/25/2007 5:45:03 PM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance
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The GOP keeps tempting fate by jerking the base around and expecting us to come crawling back every time they threaten us with Hillary. They took a beating in the last election and apparently haven’t learned a thing.
Christians are to the Republican party as:
E) Bush is to the illegals
So you’re saying Christians, by enabling the Republican party, are destroying the culture/country?
Of course you could do nothing but sit at your computer and bitch about the Party. Just remember that splitting the Conservative vote will assure Hillary a win.
This may be very interesting for those who think that political action is the most effective way to invest their time and energies into community improvement. For those who find other activities more fruitful, it is a mere distraction.
As an ex-Democrat who has never been a Republican, I have no need to “leave the Republican party”. I tend to agree with the author on the futility of third party efforts, but mainly because I find most electoral enterprises low yield activities at best. Keeping voter registration current, voting in the primaries (where non-partisan registrants are permitted to do so), and voting in general elections is a sufficient level of involvement in electoral politics, provided one does not cast ballots for unknowns or “the least evil candidate”. Leaving some positions blank on the ballot is appropriate, especially for offices that would best be kept vacant (or abolished) in any case.
If Republicans can somehow, some way nab Senator Lieberman and convince him to formally switch parties, it would set the stage for a future Reaganesque party.
It would be distasteful to some, who do not agree with Senator Lieberman’s many liberal positions, but as a party-forming move it would rock the foundations of both parties.
I think we should make a serious, real effort to entice Senator Lieberman. Perhaps even offer him some senior position with the Bush administration to get the ball rolling...
Eric Sevareid said something interesting a long time ago: 3rd parties never make it to major parties — either they become major parties quickly or they remain 3rd parties for life. Similarly, major parties do not degenerate into 3rd parties....they die off quickly.
Obviously there is low sample size, along with ill-defined terms such as “quick.”
Besides, it's virtually impossible to create a new party because you have to have sufficient numbers to win an election. The only place the third-party believers have to go to get those potential voters is from the Republican party. The truth is, we need every R we can get to win an election.
Fight it out in the primaries but then we're united in our desire to keep RATS from ruining our lives.
It was John Kenneth Galbraith. He advocated nominating the "leftmost viable candidate."
YUP!!
I will be voting for a candidate who supports smaller, less intrusive government. If the Republicans do not run that candidate, they will not get my vote.
I hope, B).
I fear, D).
I'm ready to throw out the baby AND the bathwater and bring some new water in from the well.
Amnesty wouldn’t have been defeated if it weren’t for Repulblicans.
A winning conservative platform for 2008?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787224/posts
Posted on 02/19/2007 1:14:04 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Here’s a starter list and it’s open for discussion, cutting, consolidation, expansion and detailing:
1. Win the war!
2. Secure the nation!
3. Secure the borders!
4. Stop the illegal aliens!
5. Rebuild the military!
6. Deal with growing threats! Iran, Syria, North Korea, China, (and an increasingly Muslim Russia and Europe?)!
7. Cut government!
8. Cut spending!
9. Cut taxes!
10. Allow the free economy to expand!
11. Return control of states issues to the states!
12. Defend life, liberty, property and individual rights!
Rather than re-hash that debate, my point is we did it.
Time now to start marshaling the electoral organizations, forces, money and focus to elect our next President.
So you’re saying Christians, by enabling the Republican party, are destroying the culture/country?
LOL... I wasn't taking it that far, but sadly, the shoe does seem to fit.
Having said that, Christians should vote Republican, Bush is done, we're just anxiously waiting for him to leave.
Until we get a system for runoff elections, unless we want to keep surrendering to RATS, we must hang together. I despise RATS more than I despise any Republican.
Senator Lieberman champions partial birth abortion.
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