Posted on 05/16/2008 4:19:16 PM PDT by Bobkk47
Republicans are bracing for a political annihilation of epic proportions after losing a special election this week in a solidly conservative district in Mississippi — yes, Mississippi.
We can call this "a harbinger."
And Republicans not only deserve the flogging, they should be praying for more. We can call this "creative destruction."
When Democrats claim that Republican presidential candidate John McCain would mean a third term of the Bush presidency, they're not kidding. The GOP offers no coherent policy, no leadership, no imagination, no principles and, most important, it offers no choice.
The Democrat-run Congress now carries an approval rating of 18 percent — the lowest in history, according to Gallup. You may believe such mass discontent is fertile ground for a strong opposition party to emerge. You'd be wrong.
A betrayal of fiscal conservatism and limited government by George Bush has fractured the Republican Party, and mending it won't be easy. Certainly, co-opting liberal ideas and repackaging them for moderates has failed to elect a single Republican. You may wonder, then: Why does it remain the GOP game plan?
Exhibit One: Republican presidential hopeful McCain unveiled his plan to nationalize energy with a cap-and-trade system (among other nuggets). McCain, in a speech that could have easily have been delivered by Al Gore, bemoaned the "profit" motive and claimed his solutions were "market"-driven.
If you believe McCain's new, massive energy bureaucracy is essential, there is already a party out there that will undertake the task with gusto.
Exhibit Two: In a misguided effort of legacy-building (good luck with that), the Bush administration designated polar bears as a threatened species. Seems innocuous enough. Everyone loves polar bears; they're such cuddly creatures, after all.
The administration ignored the steady increase in the polar bear population and for the first time in history, a species was listed based not on evidence but on the prospective threat relayed to us by computer models used by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
This decision may relegate huge tracts of land unusable for the extraction of energy at the worst possible time. Additionally, anyone who has the audacity to emit carbon into the atmosphere is now partially responsible for threatening the polar bear. Wait until the lawyers get hold of this one.
If you believe polar bears need protection from theories, there is already a party for you.
Exhibit Three (the most egregious of all): The massive, $300 billion boondoggle farm bill was approved this week with a veto- proof margin. It features $25 billion in annual charity for farmers — a majority headed to commercial farms with an average income of $200,000 and a net worth of almost $2 million. A massive entitlement that drives up costs? What's not to like? (McCain opposes the bill.)
Bush has signed nearly every budget-busting spending proposal in existence — and constructed a few himself.
A veto here would be some small redemption. Allow Congress to override it and explain to the American people why, when food prices are rising precipitously, government is giving away billions in tax dollars.
Republicans, sadly, have offered little else. If they believe victory can be found in convincing voters that Barack Obama (or Hillary Clinton) is a traitor or that Iraq is worth 100 years, they will lose.
It's about time members of the GOP stopped being enablers. And a decisive defeat in November would be the perfect start.
“betrayal of fiscal conservatism and limited government”
A mention of amnesty for illegals rounds out the problem with the RNC.
Written like a true Democrat.
A Zombie country going through a Zombie election, to do more Zombie imitations of life.
There is one difference between this and a nightmare, After screaming, you wake up from a nightmare.
In this circumstance, the screaming just goes on and on, as my head explodes and blood shoots out my eyes and ears.
“The GOP offers no coherent policy, no leadership, no imagination, no principles and, most important, it offers no choice. ..............
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You may believe such mass discontent is fertile ground for a strong opposition party to emerge. You’d be wrong.
A betrayal of fiscal conservatism and limited government by George Bush has fractured the Republican Party, and mending it won’t be easy. Certainly, co-opting liberal ideas and repackaging them for moderates has failed to elect a single Republican. You may wonder, then: Why does it remain the GOP game plan? “
Sounds about right.
It makes no difference what party is in power. The government ruins everything touches.
Get rid of McAmnesty and you get rid of the problem. Since 2000 he’s been loco.
I am frustrated and I am sure I am not alone. That is why Republicans are being swept from office like wind blowing away topsoil during the great dust bowl. I will probably go vote this fall, but if the Democrats had run a moderate candidate, I would have stayed home. I hate what has happened to the conservative surge. I hate what is happening to our great nation.
The truth hurts. The GOP stinks.
BTTT,
One only needs to look at the attack posts here day in and day out, some of the posters for the republican party would do those clowns over at DU proud.
Liberals already have a party in this election and they are not likely to switch to McCain - try as he might to appeal to them. After November ‘08 there will be a conservative remnant and a liberal government and may McCain nevermore rear his maverick and pandering for media attention head.
Again running on the platform of the 'other guy is worse than me', has ran its course. Why did the GOP got out of Bush's way as he plunged to disapproval depths and are now drawing empty? You can't beat something with nothing.
Which means it has nothing to offer as do the Democrats. That is what makes the general election in the fall a sort of super run-off for the Democrat nomination. The only choices being youth versus age and pacifism versus pro-war. McCain is nothing more than a pro-war Democrat who is giving rumblings he is about to change his position on abortion.
“betrayal of fiscal conservatism and limited government”
A mention of amnesty for illegals rounds out the problem with the RNC.”
Don’t forget the global warming koolaid.
If he changes his position on abortion that’s it, I’m staying home. There is no clothespin strong enough.
>> McCain is nothing more than a pro-war Democrat who is giving rumblings he is about to change his position on abortion.
Well, I’ll go out on a limb and predict that before November, in response to negative poll numbers, John McCain will soften his stance on the WOT... thus removing even the pro-war difference.
Should that happen, it’ll be interesting to see the mccainiacs and party-line pubbies in this forum spin it into a positive.
“giving rumblings he is about to change his position on abortion”
What kind of rumblings? Source would tell us a lot. Rumors or some trial balloons from a mccain supporter?
There have been problems and mistakes,no doubt. However in light of those problems arising from the muslim jhadist desires to dominate the world, and willing to shed innocent blood to do it; let it be remembered that we have not had a terrorist attack since 2001. I don’t expect that to last, since we have had this problem overseas for more than twenty years. Our special forces (top secret warfare) have been fighting this cause all along until it became so great it was inevitable to come here. I don’t like war, but we were about to be annihilated if they could have grouped enough jhadists together, and emassed enough weapons and illegal or legal entry here to do it.
I hear all the whining about what is wrong with this Admin and I think God must be grieved. We live in luxury compared to most other nations, and we are upset that others want what we have...now they should come legally...I believe in deporting illegal aliens. However I do understand why they want to be here. It is an almost impossible problem, and if you think a fence will keep them out, then you are naive. I agree that something has to be done, but with the democratic congress unwilling to come to the table on the solution; just forget it. These people are about making US a marxist/atheist/muslim county...that’s what they want.
Good times come and good times go, and people get in trouble financially whether it is good economy or bad. I don’t believe one man (Bush) can be responsible for other people’s poor spending habits. We have had some terrible things to deal with, and any other man without any cahunas would have folded.
If you think there were no WMD,s, then think again. There were satellite pics on TV of trucks going across the Syrian Border, because we gave Sadaam 6 months notice we were coming. What do you think were in those trucks? toys? I felt the notice was a mistake, and we should have just surprised everyone, but the UN is like the media let’s just advertise what we are doing..instead of a “need to know” basis.
Hating what is happening to your nation, and refusing to acknowledge the good being done is wrong. Yes, we will have bad politicians both republican and democrat..however wanting the republicans out of office just means a quicker destruction of America. The very goal of the dems, whether they know it or not, because they believe that crap they are spewing. I am not trying to insult anyone, and we all see problems. And in considering the choices of the last two elections (Gore and Kerry), it appears to me we have been spared for eight years.
We are in spiritual warfare, not just a physical war. God told the Israelites that the reason they wandered forty years in the desert and did NOT enter the promised land was because of their murmuring and complaining. I didn’t mean to offend you but it sounded like the other side.
I never cared for Nicholson...much like Pelosi.
So vote for Obama, and then you can be a muslim.
Thanks.
Maybe I will, half of FR voted for Hillary!
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