Posted on 10/24/2008 3:31:47 PM PDT by goldstategop
The Reagan revolution was about conservatism, not the continuation of the old country club republicans.
Reagan was fighting the same elitist republicans that we are now, Herbert walker Bush was his veep pick to placate them.
The economic “conservatives” that are single issue and know that the republican party is their best bet, have to decide if they can accept the rest of our conservatism or if their hatred for flesh and blood conservatives as represented by Sarah Palin is just too much for their sophisticated sensibilities.
There is this ninny who does a morning drive time talk show out of Philly who for years pushed the "big tent" theory and the "it's my party too" line. (a la our former gov Christie Whitless)So what happened when the party nominates a moderate like McCain? He jumps ship to the Obama camp in an attempt to land a TV gig at PMSNBC.
I am with most on this board- let the moderates go and please don't come back
Separating the wheat from the chaff, the dross from the gold, and the loyal from the traitors. This election cycle was good for something.
Well, count me out on my tax dollars going to feed the “abortion industry”, or “sex” education to teach my kids about the happy wedding day of Susie and Janie, or Dirk and Dieter.
I don’t think it was a plan that ‘backfired’. I think these jerks purposely gave us McCain to try to sabotage the party. They knew what they were doing all along. I’ve felt that way since the primaries began.
The Dubai ports deal was the right deal at the time and he was right on that. There are so many reasons that we SHOULD have done that deal.
Those skittishly railing against that were mostly irrationally scared children with no sense of the world realities, FACTS, or current situational awareness of the time. Those opposed also had NO grasp of our place in the world, and a small mindedness as to effect/counter effects of that deal.
The more of the SOBs that run for the door and vote for Obama is fine by me. We have identified the losers. Get the damned RINOs out of the Conservative party. Conservatives made this stinking party what it was, RINOs, moderates, liberals have destroyed it. Seems like these RINOs were liberal dimocrat plants, put here purposely to destroy the party from within. Colin Powell immediately comes to mind.
Ding, ding, ding!... Johnny, tell him what he has won!...
Good riddance to the moderates, I hope they all leave.
They are going to be sucking air on Nov 5 because McCain/Palin are going to win.
We could keep purging the Republican Party until we could hold our convention in a phone booth. Look at the Republican Primary; where was the money, volunteers, and enthusiasm for the true conservatives? Medved is right. Politics is always a compromise. I never get exactly what I want. Guess what? The Republican Party will be MORE LIBERAL in the future because some of the democrats and indies will decide to stay. If your tent is not big enough to win elections you have to sew on a new room. Internal fights are fine AFTER defeating Obama.
nycl wrote: “The way I understand Rush is that a person has to hold every single conservative position (in social, economic, patriotic, etc.) before he can be called ‘conservative’.”
Not a flame, but I think you misunderstand Rush. Not every single position a person has needs to be conservative, but the person should hold enough of them to still be a conservative.
A conservative politician can be for raising taxes in one special situation for that time only, but should be a tax-cutter at least 8 out of 10 times that the issue comes before him or her. Sarah Palin raised the production tax on the oil companies, but that doesn’t disqualify her from being a conservative, IMO. In every other situation that I know of, she cut taxes. Even when she raised the production tax (by 2.5%), at the same time she raised the tax break for exploration (by 10%).
Fred Thompson is an across-the-board conservative. He only had an 86% lifetime ACU rating, but he was a reliable conservative vote more than 8 times out of 10.
Even Ronald Reagan left the reservation on rare occasions...
bilhosty wrote: “About 35% of the people in this country classify themselves as Conservatives.”
Wrong. It’s been consistently 59% to 60% for a number of years now.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_biggest_missing_story_in_p.html
"I would love to promote the party ideals if we're going to live out the ideals, and allow other American voters to understand what the principles of our party are. We've gotta be assured we have enough people in the party who will live out those ideals as not just rhetoric, otherwise I'd be wasting my time. There are a lot of other things I would and should be doing."
IMHO, RINOs are best defined by their enemies. I'm unaware of Sarah Palin having actively attacked conservatives.
Uh, gee, thanks?!? However, my comment was about having the info for the whole country in one place.
Alas, all this shows just how dumb are Republican primary voters nationwide!
As Sid Sodnagel likes to say,
“Don’t let the screen door hit you in your entire self on the way out.”
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