Posted on 11/05/2008 8:30:36 AM PST by BGHater
Just in from a friend in England. To me, it makes a lot of sense:
An excellent response to the several points made on that website and thanks very much for sight of it. My view has also been for some time time now that the Republicans have failed to modernise their responses to various issues and, much as I’d have voted for Mr McCain, it was sadly clear how he had nothing much to say about economic issues et al. I felt his campaign hit the slides when the worldwide financial crisis came and, quite frankly, whilst I agree with most of what Sarah Palin says, she came over as a fish out of water on this side of the of the pond and a dangerous “finger on the button”. Add the plainly toxic effect that the Bush administration seems to have had on the country and here was an almost certain recipe for conservative political disaster at the polls.
As regards religion, I have none whatsoever but respect the views of those who do providing they respect mine. In short, I think the Republican party as a whole needs to take stock, ditch trying to impose their idiot moralistic ideals on everyone and get down to the serious business of sane economics, law and order and a less intrusive foreign policy. The America of today is nowhere near as conservative as it was when I first went to your country some 42 years ago but, after 4 years of Obama raising taxes and the cost of living to what I think may be an unprecedented level, the Republicans need to be ready in advancing their true cause of conservative finances/law and order which, at such a time, may well garner immense support that we would find difficult to believe possible today.
There is almost a parallel here between our Conservative Party and The Republicans - ours have had to adjust which is why they now stand a pretty good chance of succeeding at the next election. Much as I would wish for some more right wing policies from David Cameron and his bunch, I’d sure settle for them as they are in total preference to New Labour masquerading as pro capitalist.
Done - let me know if you think I am anywhere near?!!
I wish Pawlenty would gto away
“Side with more groups”?
Like NARAL? ACORN? AARP? CP-USA?
Conservatives are in for the fight of our lives, for the soul of the party. If Pawlenty gets his way, we’ll be a minority party until 2100.
The GOP can start by kicking each other in the nuts. That should focus their minds on the job
LLS
Neo-Ciceronian is where it’s at!
Seriously though, it’ll be nice just having the twin albatrosses of George Bush and John McCain released from around our necks.
In the Senate the fillibuster should be used selectively.
Filibuster anything that stifles individual rights, such as the Fairness Doctrine. Filibuster anything that promotes democrat funding of their core groups, like ACORN.
All other tax/spending plans, let it happen. Vote against it, but don’t stand in the way. Why allow this misery to happen? Because misery is going to happen anyway. If we filibuster the economic measures, we get blamed for the misery. If the measures pass, we can claim we opposed them and hang the blame on the party in power. With the msm carrying the water for the dems, we won’t win the propaganda battle on the economic front. Let it happen and in two years or four years let the people decide whose to blame.
That’s my take.
Duncan Hunter isn’t doing anything now. (Thank God his son got his seat) He could return to Washington and run a conservative boot camp and help the GOP find thier stones again.
I think after the leadership of the GOP shake out, we have to decide if we are republicans or not. I think that most of the people on this board are not true republicans. Especially not the kind of republican that has dominated our political leadership these last 10 years. Maybe it is time for a seismic shift to a third party. It may take a while but it may also be what is best for this Country. I for one am going to look at alternative parties and figure out if I really want to be a republican anymore.
There are some great conservative people in the republican ranks but they are outnumbered by this kind of republican-lite group that panders to socially liberal groups. I guess they think that they can poach liberal votes but it does not and has not worked.
Maybe if a large number of conservatives (socially and economically) shift away, the GOP will figure out where they need to make their stand. I am beginning to believe that there is no “center” in this country. Politicians that consider themselves “centrist” are either socially or economically liberal. That type of appeasement politician is not good for either side. Especially ours.
No backbone to fillibuster based on these comments from these Senators, where is the party leader to snap some people into action
I just looked at the vote totals from 2004. Bush got 62.039 million votes, just under 900K less than Obama this year. McCain (according to Drudge) got 55 mil and change. Had we just held serve from 2004, we probably would have won.
Regardless of the rhetoric on here, on Rush, and elsewhere about Republicans turning out to vote, they didn’t. I think the is the icing on the cake that conservatives stayed home and that nominating moderate candidates (especially when followed by governing like liberals) gets us a big, fat L.
We will not win any more Presidential elections unless we nominate conservative candidates and demand they behave like conservatives in office.
Rus
dy is toooooo funny. He is one of the reasons republican’s became damaged.
Filibuster anything that stifles individual rights, such as the Fairness Doctrine. Filibuster anything that promotes democrat funding of their core groups, like ACORN.
All other tax/spending plans, let it happen. Vote against it, but don’t stand in the way. Why allow this misery to happen? Because misery is going to happen anyway. If we filibuster the economic measures, we get blamed for the misery. If the measures pass, we can claim we opposed them and hang the blame on the party in power. With the msm carrying the water for the dems, we won’t win the propaganda battle on the economic front. Let it happen and in two years or four years let the people decide whose to blame.
That’s my take.
I agree. The coming economic hurricane will bury the RATS in the next election (assuming there is another election).
YES, they are called yonger voters. The GOP has forgotten about the youth. It's a party of OLD White men.
Rudy is toooo funny, he is one of the reasons the republicans damaged the brand.
Sure, low taxes, low and balanced budget, etc.
But, I’ve got to reject any Republican party that isn’t interested in the moral issues.
After that, Republicans need to fix their primary system so that there are no open primaries. Only Republicans should be allowed to vote in Republican primaries. And why do the most liberal states get to vote first? This is why we ended up with McCain.
If the so-called moderates think people are going to walk away from the pro-life issue, they are delusional.
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