Posted on 04/24/2009 11:02:22 PM PDT by neverdem
At core, Republicans believe in human beings.
That's a definite conflict, but otherwise it's a pretty good essay and plan. If he said you can be a pro gun control pubbie, I wouldn't have posted it.
The problem with Republicans is, it’s utterly impossible to even picture what Republicans stand for.
They don’t stand for anything.
They’re not for anything. They’re not against anything.
They’re for all intents and purposes - useless.
The Republicans need three pillars to stay up, social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and defense conservatives. They’ve been lackluster on the first two ever since Clinton left office (though I’ll give Bush credit for putting two conservatives on the Supreme Court).
The problem with Republicans is George W. Bush checkmated the party in his last 3 months. We can’t say that we’re against the bailouts/nationalization/government power-grab because it can correctly be pointed out that it was a Republican president who started it.
There is something very fishy about the whole thing. In Bush’s final months, suddenly out of nowhere the government urgently needs to seize control over banks and financial institutions and shovel trillions of Americans’ dollars to them. I’m not real big on the whole New World Order run by international bankers conspiracy theory, but it is certainly looking far more plausible these days. It certainly looks like the government-banking complex just sheered America, with help from two presidents and both parties.
These resurgencies represent a submerged base, but the populist ocean that supports liberalism has really got more than it bargained for this time around, I do believe ... just wait!
I'm a conservative Christian and I have to vote my conscience, not the lesser of 2 evils.
I did that with dubya 4 times and look what that got us.
“The problem with Republicans is George W. Bush checkmated the party in his last 3 months. “
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In his last 3 months??
Bush was magnificent, standing with his arm around the firefighter at ground zero, proclaiming through the bullhorn to shouts of “USA, USA, USA” that the b*stards who did this will hear from all of us.
But then what happened?
Suddenly those of us who would appreciate an actual border, were “vigilantes”?
Border guards were thrown in prison for doing their job - and Bush acted as if they deserved it?
Just once, could the GOP please find a candidate who will do what’s right. And keep doing it??
Liberals aren’t winning.
The GOP is surrendering.
You're writing the article, shouldn't you put in the effort to look up these facts?
I don't know that it's even relevant, joining up is all what they're about on the 'rat side - you know "yes, we can", "it takes a village" - all that collectivist crap. Conservatives have always been about respecting people as individuals and not according to some group identity. I've never been a Republican a day in my life and I see no reason to sign up now - just don't expect to see me voting for the socialist 'rat party anytime soon.
You skipped over the obvious. If name-calling is the name of the game, then Conservatives are going to have to get dirty. RATs are Communists, call them out. RATs hate America, call them out. RATs have no policies, give America policies.
Scholarly ads won’t get it; the mentality of the average voter retains bumper stickers and shock ads. Pictures of starving Communist people followed by “Democrats plan for your future”. NEVER, NEVER aopologize for anything; accuse them of being anti-liberty.
His creative idea of 1-minute ads telling a Republican success story is good...count me in on making some of those. I think it’s just as important to contrast those 1-minute success stories with 1-minute warning stories about giving up one’s liberty to government. A “What We Stand For” vs. a “What They Stand For” could be very effective.
The important thing is for the conservative wing of the GOP to win elections, not necessarily to become the majority party. The demRats have been a majority party for a long time, yet they've lost many elections.
Nice job.
...is that they're not republicans.
Republicans think people want to be reasoned with.
Some conservatives do, in fact, prefer reason.
The overlooked fact however, which Republicans for some reason think has changed now - disregarding 200 years of heated American political discourse:
MOST Americans respond best to passion.
The problem with Republicans is that they STILL - - even in this day of a thriving new media and a fast-dying newspaper industry - - run scared from the hectoring of the scumbag Democrat newsrooms. Not until Republicans pull their heads out of their rear ends and hear the cheers they get from normal, decent Americans for laughing at the scumbag Democrat newsrooms and telling them to go play in the street will they be successful as a party again.
The problem with Republicans is cowardice, pure and simple.
I'd like to see some of these on bumper stickers, screen savers, et cetera.
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