Posted on 12/22/2007 12:46:07 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Of course, Always Right is correct in pointing out...
Gridlock is better than the crap that went on when the GOP was in the majority.
Somehow, though, I don't want to hope for a GOP minority...I'd rather a re-energized conservative GOP, one that fights against neoconsocialism and returns us to a government that does what it needs to do or should do, not what it can or could do.
wolfpat pointed out:
I think we all are [annoyed at GOP majority lack of progress], and that's why in 2006 enough people voted with their butts to let the RATS in.
Do we think that the GOP got the right message from it all? At what point do we stop believing the "I'm conservative" mantra that is often unfulfilled once the candidate gets into office?
“Or you bump up against the American penchant for supporting “the underdog”..even if he’s dispicable.’
Yeah...
What he said..
I think the same elites are in charge.
beltway insiders doing business as usual.
Bingo.
Good post, Gondring. If only we could get as organized and energized behind a good conservative candidate (there are only 2, Hunter and Thompson) as we did to stop the MexicoAnnexationOfAmerica bill pushed by McCain, Kennedy and Bush.
If only.
I'd add Paul to that...maybe he's too conservative for most, but he seems to have the understanding of limited government better than the others.
It's nice to hear Sen. Thompson making Federalism the spearhead of his campaign...I just wish it were already a given!
The problem isn’t so much getting a good conservative in the White House as it is finding some for the House of Representatives and the Senate. If we have good people there, the President is almost irrelevant.
There are probably good people out there, but who in his/her right mind would want to undergo what Rush calls the Media Anal Exam that every candidate goes through.
None of these were as big as the Dems wanted. Our guys avoided back lash while passing good legislation like the Partial birth abortion ban.
Perhaps the GOP wouldn’t have lost the majority in 2006 if they had “gone nuclear” in the Senate and if they’d refused to make deals and pass legislation. However, if the Dems had the ability to break filibuster in the Senate with a majority vote - this year would have been disastrous.
What I want is the majority back - with a conservative prolife,profamily and proborders Republican in the White House. How are we going to do that?
I agree, wholeheartedly.
You hit it right on the head-the cRATS are ALWAYS on the offensive, the Repugnants ALWAYS on the defensive. Look at the SCHIP fight. They lose, bill gets vetoed, they don’t have the votes to override-do they give up? No. They re-introduce the bill. And run millions of dollars worth of ‘republicans kill children’ ads. And it’ll be back, too, because they want it bad. You’d think the GOP would have learned by now, but they never do.
In the majority, each Party realizes that it is a coalition. The leadership can only get the minority of the minority to go along if it is able to give them more than the minority party.
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