TRENDING: Bennett: Republicans need to present more ideas

Republican Sen. Bob Bennett – the first incumbent senator this cycle to fall victim to a primary challenge – says his party isn't doing a good job of advancing substantive ideas.

"As I look out at the political landscape now, I find plenty of slogans on the Republican side, but not very many ideas," Bennett told The Ripon Society, a Republican think tank in Washington.

"The concern I have is that ideology and a demand for absolute party purity endangers our ability to govern once we get into office," Bennett also said in his speech Wednesday.

Facing significant anger aimed at Washington and at some of his past votes, the three-term senator was eliminated last month from seeking re-election to a fourth term, becoming the first incumbent to fall victim to the growing anti-Washington mood ahead of the 2010 mid-term elections.

See, here's what Bennett doesn't get. Conservatives are tired of Republicans working with Democrats, making liberal legislation slightly-less liberal and then saying you fought against liberalism, and accepting the Democrat's premises on everything. Not to mention fighting on their terms.

It's not purity when conservative voters want Republicans to adhere to principle. Just how in Hell does voting for bailouts and excessive spending helps the Republicans? All it does is blur the lines between the two parties. Conservative voters get discouraged and stay home and vote 3rd party; liberal voters will always vote for Democrats.

Why is this so hard for Bennett to understand? I don't want Republicans to "work" with Democrats in the spirit of "bipartisanship." I guarantee you if the Republicans win back Congress, you're going to hear stories from Democrats on how the nation needs to "heal" and how Republicans need to be "inclusive" and all this other crap.

Here’s a notion: that the next Republican candidate for president call for the States to convene a constitutional convention, to put the federal government back in order.

“If elected, I propose that the federal government just provide stable management, while the States decide how to reduce the federal government in size and scope, reduce or renounce its debt, and make adjustments to the constitution that have been needed since its very founding.

“I propose this because the elected and appointed officials of the US government, the three branches of government, and the political parties are incapable of correcting the federal government from within the government.

“A constitutional convention of the individual States is properly how this problem is addressed. So I ask that the State legislatures debate among themselves, and discuss what needs to be done with delegations sent and received from other States. To minimize confusion, at least 38 States should be in agreement as to what should be done even before the convention is called. This will avoid much of the delay once the convention is seated.

“A constitutional convention is not unthinkable, and it will not be controlled by radicals. To suggest so is false.

“Finally, once the new constitution has been ratified, as president I will promise to carry out all changes directed by the States, faithfully, and with no intention to evade or even avoid what has been directed.

“By doing so, our nation will soon be on its feet again, with prospects for a better future restored, with declining or diminished national debt, and with optimism that our republic may thrive and prosper into the foreseeable future.”

“”The concern I have is that ideology and a demand for absolute party purity endangers our ability to govern once we get into office,” Bennett also said...”

The idiot RINO is clueless, dumb, stupid and without an ounce of common sense.

Thanks to you people who threw this me-me-me slob out of office.

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