Posted on 11/05/2008 8:32:54 AM PST by NormsRevenge
I don't know what is going to happen tomorrow, but, should a miracle occur, and Republicans avert the impending debacle that many of the polls now predict, we should recognize that such a victory would be a divine gift, and not the result of any thing we have done to deserve the respect and support of the American people.
We deserve to lose, because we have not been who we say we are.
We have spent so much time worrying about how we market ourselves that we have forgotten to worry about doing the right thing.
The most unfortunate thing about that sad state of affairs is we know what the right thing to do is, and people know we know.
We promise to shrink government, to cut taxes, to eliminate government control of peoples lives, to restore liberty and true equality, to eliminate government power, and to make government less of influence in people's lives.
People entrusted us with power to do just that. We didn't.
We played politics with our principles. More important, after people took power away from us for not living up to our promises, we still played politics with our principles.
The most recent bail out of the financial markets for their bad investments is just another example of how we have played politics and forgotten our principles.
Worse than all of this, the conservative movement, as a movement, both in California and nationwide, has been hijacked by people who use the principles of the movement to advance their personal interests.
I am the first to say that conservatives need an infrastructure of strategists, thinkers, and activists who make a living at politics, organizing the volunteers, doing the day to day work of the movement, including finding and advancing candidates who will do the right thing when elected.
The only problem is many in the conservative movement become more interested in making sure they are the ones running the movement, so that they make the money off of the movement, than they are in advancing the principles of the movement.
California has had its share of internal conservative fights that become personal vendettas rather than disagreements over the principles of the movement, or the direction the movement should take.
Many so-called conservative leaders have become more focused on destroying the reputations of other conservative leaders to protect or advance their personal financial interests or to protect their "turf" in the party, than actually using their positions of power and influence in the party to advance the movement.
The purpose of political action is to promote persuade people to entrust the leader with political power.
That is done by persuading people that the leader has a set of guiding political principles, and, once power is obtained, that leader maintains and expands his or her power by using that power to advance the principles he or she advocates.
Republicans in Congress, and many conservatives in California, have used their positions of power and influence to promote their personal agenda of power or money, and not to advance the principles they claimed they had when they were entrusted with that power.
Until we as a movement and a Party become true to our principles, regardless of the personal cost, we deserve to lose. Right now, we deserve to lose.
Hopefully, it may get more views now. ;-)
Tell it to the unborn
Tell it to the troops
Tell it to our allies
Today’s California doesn’t deserve a man like Ray or Tom as Gubinor... but it sure could use one.
2010 maybe he will get a fair shot.
In the mean time, tell Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, back a real conservative for a change and mean it and there may be light at the end of the tunnel yet.
Tap that emotion and make a difference.
For the sake of the unborn, we conservatives need to get our act together.
And, ultimately, the unborn are in G-d’s Hand.
and a belated Welcome to FR. :-)
You are so right about Conservs attacking other Conservs.
Now look what we got!
Some (shallow thinkers, IMO) blame the loss on Bush but the approval rating of Dem led Congress is lower than Bush's and more congressional and senate Dems were elected!
How does one make any sense of this mess?
The problem lies with many American citizens in that they have no idea what real adversity is and that life already has built in adversity. Instead liberals blame white conservatives for what little adversity comes their way.
We need to punch each other in the head until we forget McCain/Palin and think of a better strategy!
A lot of it, I think, is the media. I watch little TV but was always hearing how unpopular Bush is. If it weren't for FR, I might not even know about Congress's lower rating.
POW!
Okay, thanks. I needed that. Now that I've forgotten about yesterday, we don't have to go any further.
;^)
here’s the problem: events get in the way sometimes.. The Banking Meltdown was the main event that turned the election. I firmly believe McCain would have won, had it not been for that..
bad luck... very bad luck that it happened in October..
oh well, life moves foward..
I highly suggest we find some solace in song. I’m listening to one song in particular this morning : “Come to Jesus” by Mindy Smith.
we lost because we put up a lousy candidate that’s why. and we bear the responsibility for that loss.
next time we need a strong candidate, not someone whose turn has come.
next time we need a strong candidate, not someone whose turn has come.
Yep.
McCain was revived from his coma too late.
I'm looking directly at Ted Stevens, for starters.
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