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To: Morgan in Denver
The only real difference is that Carter slowly worked his destructive ways. Carter also had a demoralized Republican party which showed little resistance, and it took the entire 4 years for the public to say "Enough!"

Obama is moving at a much faster pace. This may be because he realizes he needs to get his plans accomplished before 2010, or it may be (a depressing thought) that he has lots more plans that we haven't yet discovered.

I have been thinking about this a lot lately. We need to remain calm and focused. As we can see, they have a plan of throwing up so many things so quickly that our resistance becomes divided and ineffective.

I am not an experienced strategist, but it seems to me that the Republicans need to choose 3 big things (such as Reagan did) and focus all of our attention on those. I would suggest choosing the three things which cannot be reversed when Obama leaves office. Taxes can be lowered again, spending can be cut back, guidelines on the environment and education can be redone.

Here are the 3 things I think we need to stand firm on, no matter what: 1. A strong military. Weakening the military leaves us prey to terrorist attacks, foreign policy blunders, and perhaps even a military action by China or Russia. Lives would be lost, and our nation weakened for a very long time. We should push on all efforts to defund the military and undermine military effectiveness through interference by legalisms. 2. Support for allies and keeping our word. We cannot allow Obama to abrograte treaties, dodge commitments previous administrations have made, or drastically reduce support for countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel. If he gets away with that, no country will ever believe our word. 3. Interference in the census and elections. The democrats only hold power because they run large cities like robber barons, and completely control the election process, switching states from Republican to Democrat by inflated and fraudulent vote numbers in the cities. (Chicago controls Illinois, even though down state is mostly Republican.) We must, at every opportunity, resist the White House efforts to control the census and thus reapportionment, and we must have an effective counter to ACORN and their thuggish tactics. If we fail in this, we will always be the minority, because the democrats will have control of voting for the forseeable future.

Sorry to have taken so much time, but I am really worried we are going to be foundering around when 2010 comes, and that is our ONLY chance to stop some of this stuff.

41 posted on 04/12/2009 7:23:21 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple
Reposting the last part of previous post because (ugh) I forgot to format:

Here are the 3 things I think we need to stand firm on, no matter what:

1. A strong military. Weakening the military leaves us prey to terrorist attacks, foreign policy blunders, and perhaps even a military action by China or Russia. Lives would be lost, and our nation weakened for a very long time. We should push on all efforts to defund the military and undermine military effectiveness through interference by legalisms.

2. Support for allies and keeping our word. We cannot allow Obama to abrograte treaties, dodge commitments previous administrations have made, or drastically reduce support for countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel. If he gets away with that, no country will ever believe our word.

3. Interference in the census and elections. The democrats only hold power because they run large cities like robber barons, and completely control the election process, switching states from Republican to Democrat by inflated and fraudulent vote numbers in the cities. (Chicago controls Illinois, even though down state is mostly Republican.) We must, at every opportunity, resist the White House efforts to control the census and thus reapportionment, and we must have an effective counter to ACORN and their thuggish tactics. If we fail in this, we will always be the minority, because the democrats will have control of voting for the forseeable future.

44 posted on 04/12/2009 7:26:58 AM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: Miss Marple

Of these, interference with elections and the census seems most important. I also think the judicial selections have to be fought as much as possible when someone really far left is nominated. The courts can be a long term problem, as we’ve found out.

Educating voters seems to be the number one activity grass roots activists need to concentrate on. Rush, Hannity and others are doing good work on that but the rest of us can do more as time goes on. Just a thought.


52 posted on 04/12/2009 7:35:30 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver (Barack Hussein Obama: More corrupt than Clinton, more inept than Carter.)
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To: Miss Marple; All
Brilliant post and to say that barky is moving at warp speed is a vast understatement.

This guy hs no concern for the country and its citizens at all. It's full bore socialsm/communism all the way. And you are absolutely correct that every week he will throw another tree in the road that we have to swerve around just to keep track of how much more money he has spent and how many more of out rights have disappeared.

This is an all out assault on free market captialism and democracy.

Most don't even know what is going on but as his poll numbers drop so will his effectiveness. Let's just hope there is some semblance of a free country left when he is finally stopped.

64 posted on 04/12/2009 7:51:34 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Miss Marple
Once again, your insight and articulate summary of what needs to be done, is sooo good...it needs to be reposted and given a bit more "emphasis" - Thank Goodness for You - Have a Blessed Easter, Miss M...

1. A strong military. Weakening the military leaves us prey to terrorist attacks, foreign policy blunders, and perhaps even a military action by China or Russia. Lives would be lost, and our nation weakened for a very long time. We should push on all efforts to defund the military and undermine military effectiveness through interference by legalisms. 2. Support for allies and keeping our word. We cannot allow Obama to abrograte treaties, dodge commitments previous administrations have made, or drastically reduce support for countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel. If he gets away with that, no country will ever believe our word. 3. Interference in the census and elections. The democrats only hold power because they run large cities like robber barons, and completely control the election process, switching states from Republican to Democrat by inflated and fraudulent vote numbers in the cities. (Chicago controls Illinois, even though down state is mostly Republican.) We must, at every opportunity, resist the White House efforts to control the census and thus reapportionment, and we must have an effective counter to ACORN and their thuggish tactics. If we fail in this, we will always be the minority, because the democrats will have control of voting for the forseeable future.

101 posted on 04/12/2009 8:37:59 AM PDT by NordP (CONSERVATIVE AGAIN IN 2010 ..... Now, is it 2012 yet ???)
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