Watching the Daily Show ain't gonna cut it.
Government workers and those on poverty assistance have the Dems. Wall Street and Hollywood support the Dems. The corporatist wing of the GOP looks after corporate interests at the expense of the interests of the middle class (ammnesty, H-1B visas, lack of regulation of financial markets and commodities exchanges). Both sides don't give a fig about our interests because we don't scare them, because most of the middle class doesn't pay attention to politics - and the hard-core liberals would like nothing better than our economic destruction so we have to move from the suburbs back to cities. So we have tolerated policies that are against our interests - and we now have been set up for the kill.
Two entities may well go extinct over the next 10 years - the GOP, or the middle class. If the middle class doesn't get its act together and function cohesively as a political entity, inflation from spending and printing money will kill it off, along with job losses. If the middle class DOES get its act together and the GOP ignores the middle class interests and instead continues to promote those of the corporatists, the GOP will die and be replaced with something else. But the GOP will continue to be beholden to the corporatist wing until the middle class rises up.
It's beyond the annoyance factor of the last 20 years of Clinton corruption and GOP spending that motivated us activists. It's now about the very survival of the middle class in America, because we are getting set up for an Argentian-style destruction of such due to past apathy. We have at most four years to halt it. And we have to start by articulating ideas that learn from the failings of the last few years - such as the fact that we do need some level of regulation of the financial sector - and show how growth in government has created a huge, voracious monster in government employees who expect to be paid better than the private sector that supports them. That IMO is the only limited government message that resonates.
So tell the Tea Party types to get onto school boards. Cut the bloated administrator layers that consume massive amounts of property taxes. Fight to get the state legislatures to cut state employees and overhead. And then turn on the federal behemoth by supporting candidates who adhere to shrinking the fedgov, not out of abstract principles, but in confronting the bugetary abyss that faces us.
Something that true FReeper conservatives have been doing all along, to the dismay of RINO"S, Bushbots and RNCbots, here and everywhere.
Republicans, go back to Reagan's big tent, don't pretend that he would come to yours.
Right on the mark.
NO MORE BUSHES!!
And NO MORE of those flawed policies of his or the "big TENT garbage!!!
And no more liberal tripe!
I got a solicitation from the Republican National Committee.
I quote:
“Dear Friend,
Please don’t tell me you have given up...that you have abandoned the Republican Party....
But as Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, I’m concerned that we have not received your 2009 RNC membership renewal.
....But we have not heard from you since October 24, 2008 — and I hpoe you haven’t deserted our Party.
...The only thing standing in the way of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Democrats’ fulfilling their reckless spending, record deficits and higher taxes agenda are you and the RNC.
....urgently need you to renew....with a contribution...”
the above paragraph should have read:
“The only thing standing in the way of the BUSH43/Obama/Pelosi/Reid Democrats’and Republicans’ fulfilling their reckless spending, record deficits and higher taxes agenda are you and the (we need a new) Party.”
I just don’t know where to begin. Bush 43 got some things right. But fiscal responsibility and limited government were not part of his program. Nor the Republican Party.
Now the assault on Sarah Palin from the Republican Party is the end for me. I cannot forgive this.
Republicans are moving toward DEATH and TAXES and GOVERNMENT. We must understand that.
Libertarians seemed too kookie but maybe that’s all we have.
Is there any other way?
These should be easy times for the GOP and conservatives with this target rich environment. Our side should be pounding away at the libtards mnarch to socialism but every time the right question is teed up for them they give a political answer. Two examples: O’Reilly flat out asked Bush’s former directer of communications if she felt safe under Obama and she thought for a couple of seconds and answered “yes...so far”
O’Reilly asked a republican representative (I can’t Remember his name)if Pelosi was lying about her knowledge of the enhanced interrogations and he once again thought for a second and said something to the affect that she really doesn’t know what she believes.
Both of these are examples of cowardice of the republicans.
Better a poor plan executed energetically than a perfect plan executed too late. Go for it.
I'm not lost. I know exactly what I believe in and I know with reasonable clarity what I expect our leadership to be doing.
Democrats won’t let go of the so-called “torture memos” and the possibility that Bush administration officials might be prosecuted for authorizing the alleged abuse of terrorist detainees.
Thats why on that subject we need to attack, attack, attack. Admit no wrong-doing, none at all, because there was no wrong-doing to admit to.
The GOP is not a "conservative" party. It only adopted that label for a short while due to the expedience of Reagan's undeniable personal popularity (note who the party tapped as his successor and running mate). Reagan was an abherration to the GOP, and Newt's congress rode that pony to get into office, then reverted to form. When JB says "it's time to move past Reagan", he means the "conservative" label has played out its usefulness for the GOP, and it's time to admit what the party really is. The "middle" is where GOP power base has always been.
One more time: The GOP is no place for conservatives. We aren't going to change it.