Norman, I am with you.
I am a conservative republican and have been since the day I could vote (1983). The fact of the matter is, we don’t always get the candidate we want — but, we have an “electible” candidate and that is the current issue.
I am as guilty as the a lot of conservatives for “letting the other guy,” worry about the issues while I was off attending to my kids after school events, standing watch while I was still on active duty, and generally speaking “assuming” that I had nothing to worry about and conservatism would always be around. I just needed to show up at the polling place and cast my ballot for the “R.”
I believed that American’s, true American Conservatives, the ones that go to church on Sunday, say grace at the dinner table, own guns, are opposed to higher taxes and abortion would always be out there fighting the fight.
Well, in the short time on FR I have discovered that I had been lulled to sleep.
I’m awake now, I still support John McCain 100% because the thought of obama just scares the liv’n s#@# out of me, I have a son on active duty now.
So, for the future, who is being groomed, who is being vetted — do we ever want to wait until two years before the next election to start pushing an electible candidate forward — the key word here is electible.
The fact of the matter is, the republican party has allowed the media to make being a republican conservative a dirty word. That has to change.
Well said, FRiend. You GET IT. Others aroung here just whine.
“The fact of the matter is, the republican party has allowed the media to make being a republican conservative a dirty word. That has to change.”
GOP and conservatives have come up really, really short on having good communicators lately.
GW Bush is supposed to be the chief spokesman and leader of his party.
There hasn’t been much “fight back” by him and other party leaders.
Gillespie was a good GOP leader. I can’t even tell you who holds that position, now. He is silent and ineffective.