Posted on 03/17/2012 8:34:10 PM PDT by true believer forever
Along with the realization that Conservatives can win in a Conservative-leaning country, comes the ugly truth that the “establishment” Republican apparatus is – just like the Chicago politician – more concerned with maintaining power and “selecting” candidates than doing the hard work of administering to a bottom-up organization – such as the Republican Party was chartered to be.
Today’s Republican establishment is, for all practical purposes, a mirror (or converse) image of the Democrat Party; an organization structured from the top-down. This power-hoarding of the hierarchy is evidenced by the ridiculous move to award convention delegates proportionately, a move more in line with the abolition of the Electoral College than with the preservation of the Republic.
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MasterGunner...Good post...
It took me a long time to realize (dah) the Republican elites were fighting conservativism/grassroots...I just didn’t get it because I was a Republican gal for years.
Thank God for Freepers who “educated” me and were patient as I asked questions and tried to understand why such annimosty toward the party.
Now I can explain to others in the party...and I do just that! Once they get it then they are all for this going to convention and see it as the last showdown. Win or loose we have to do this thing.....and may God raise Newt high....Gods never late when we give him room to act!
I don't think they would do that, at least that is what a freind told me, only that they may give him a crappy time slot. But here's the thing, the establishment has no idea of the power of Newt's speeches. No idea.
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GO Newt!
GO BROKERED!
“the moral conservatives will go to the Tea Party”
I don’t completely agree with this. I see some moral conservatives that are quite comfortable with programs like Social Security etc. Many conservative Catholics, for instance, adhere to “social justice” doctrine. Furthermore, I see a statist/nanny state streak among some conservatives ala Mike Huckabee. I don’t think it would be a 100% shift. Do you?
Before anyone jumps on me I mean no offense. Just making an observation. Not making judgements.
Newt is very surgically gifted, they'll bleed to death before they even notice he's sliced them. Some people need cannon balls, newt uses a scalpel. GO NEWT!
Oh my gosh what (days) are the convention? I haven’t paid attention! I think it’s right around my birthday....the 23rd. Well wouldn’t that be a great way to celebrate!!!!
I am going to yell this.....I DON’T CARE WHO IS ELECTED PRESIDENT, I WILL ONLY FOLLOW NEWT AND ONLY DO WHAT HE SAYS. HE IS THE ONLY ONE I WILL RECOGNIZE AND ACCEPT AS LEADER. SO HE HAS ALREADY WON IN MY BOOK!!!! GOD HAS SENT US NEWT, WE MUST FIGHT FOR HIM.
I can tell you that 3rd parties are relatively ineffective from personal experience onyx. Up here parties outside the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP have very little influence.
You’re right.
Oh, wow. sometimes I overflow with Newt, too! You are just making me grin and grin... God bless you! God bless America! God bless Newt!
I agree with both of you!
This is a safe link. This is for Newt supporters and common sense thinkers who want America back like she was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qNYOvWmnv8&feature=youtu.be
But what category would a primary challenge to a republican president in 2016 fall into? Would it be a 3rd party or a movement in the GOP? that is what's not clear to me..
Mark Levin said Reagan did this, but I didn't hear what President he went up against...
Some polls say that nearly a third of the “TEA Party” are Romney-bots. Maybe the TEA Party doesn’t really know where it stands —lacks basic knowledge.
SOLDIERS!
THANK YOU!
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August 27-30. I am sure most of the hotel rooms are gone by now, and everything is extremely overpriced. Most people don't know, but if you call a college campus, especially one that is not having a lot of summer sessions, they will rent you an empty dorm room for really reasonable prices. You can even buy a temporary meal card and eat some of their awful food rather than the high-priced restaurants(Shh.)
Bob Dole blocked Pat Buchanan from speaking, and Newton Gingrich was a Dole-man from the start.
I will also add...and I am not advocating because I don’t pretend to have all the answers...that years ago there was some success at moving the Conservatives to the right (although they are still far to the left of me). They had pretty much gone the way your Republicans are going now....they ran to the middle to try and splinter the left/appease the left whatever you want to call it. They were even called the Progressive Conservative party at one time. They were dreadful. Big government. Very liberal on social issues. Some years back the Reform Party (which arose out of the Social Credit Party) made big gains out west. They were grassroots conservative reformers. They eventually merged with the Progressive Conservatives to form the Conservative Party. It’s not what you or I would consider conservative, but it is more conservative than the old Progressive Conservative Party (a party which still exists to some extent btw).
I don't... but I do think people will be certainly far more serious about what side they do come down on just in the fact it's going to convention...not to mention how the delegates 'now' are looking at their role. It's going to get more than dicy in that respect.
Look already in Missouri, where one of the county's actually had to shut down the appointment of delegates..police were envolved!..... because Romney's people and Paulites were causing such a rucus....two Paulbites were arrested...and the Paulites actually stated thier goal/agenda was to "take charge" of these events..... In other words stack the deck with their delegates, even though the decisions had already been determined....and if not raise a rucus.....and they actually shut the process down! So now the appointment of delegates is more critical for every state and we'll hear of more fighting on that front......and the candidates know that's coming all too well.
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