Posted on 01/29/2013 5:49:48 AM PST by Kaslin
They said RIP DNC in 2004 and we all know how that turned out...unfortunately. I just think that a transition of the GOP to 100 percent conservative is our best option. Michele Bachmann/Rick Santorum in 2016 would guarantee our success. I am sure that I will get hate posts because some FREEPERS hate conservative good people like Bachmann/Santorum just as the GOP Elite does. UGH!!!!!
To me it is.
That is a truth that all too many Americans have forgotten! Americans need to hear that message.
I just think that a transition of the GOP to 100 percent conservative is our best option.
I agree with you. If republicans become like democrats then we will have no representation. Half the country seems to be liberal so let the democrats have them. The rest of us choose to be conservatives and we want representation.
Its hard to get positive coverage when the MSM has devolved into left wing propaganda organs and the commentators are Obama sycophants. Yet all the politically correct nonsense will not protect the American people from the disastrous economic and social policies the Left is implementing. Eventually the truth, however ugly, will win out.
Well, I love conservatives and have been a staunch one for 45 years. That being said, you are incorrect about Santorum. Excellent man, citizen, father and husband. Poor candidate. This is not “hate”. It is reality.
This is a basic Axelrod strategy. He and the Obama’s know that they cannot run on their dismal record so they demonize the opposition and do whatever they can to destroy it. The GOP has a huge target on its back. The tactic worked in 2012...they will renew it for 2014 and beyond.
very well said
There shall continue to be an entity called “the Republican party”, just as there is now an entity called “the United States of America”. Hollow shells of what they once were, and neither still guided by the principles for which they once stood. It got to be “impractical” to live by the percepts attributed to a “bunch of dead white men”, as this is an evolving world, doncha know.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, that taken at its flood, leads to fortune. But failure to take advantage of that tide leaves the vessel stranded upon mud flats, or dashed upon rocks that would otherwise would have been easily floated over.
We have seen opportunities afforded that have been lost by hesitation, or an effort to please others who do not have our best interests in mind.
Is it too late to consider the alternative of seceding from these now empty and unsatisfactory institutions? Neither seem good candidates for resuscitation.
I, for one, declare a nation of Self. On that remote island, I can play “John Galt”, beholden to none other, and treating all round me like a foreign land, which it has become. I can still negotiate diplomatically, but there is no such thing any more as an undying allegiance or unbreakable union.
Obama et al. are trying to divide/ destroy the GOP so that they can own the House in 2014. We need to FILL the House and the Senate. We must never, never, ever let THEM define US.
In before the DU trolls, Ron Paul kooks, the ‘Third Party Will Save Us’ cranks, faux conservative Concern Trolls, the Downfall of The Republic Chroniclers, and the I’ve Never Lifted A Finger To Get Involved Politically But I’m Going To Bitch Anyway And Justify It By Saying I’ve Gone Galt.
Oh wait, I’m too late. My how low the mighty Free Republic has fallen.
The Republican Party will continue on pretty much as it is for so long as the Democrat rulers feel they need a sham opposition. It is like Venezuela, now. The Left is not in complete control but close. The Republican Party is no more than the Designated Opposition Department of the Democrat Party.
BUMP.
The GOP is not dead. The action has just moved somewhere else. Those who claim to support the Constitution need to quit focusing on the Presidency and Washington DC and recognize that.
The States are the road to Liberty.
LOL!
There are still some good posters here, but there are a lot of people so negative and aggressive in attacking others that you’d think they’d been sent by DU to make conservatives look nutz and project the idea that there’s no hope. These people never offer any constructive solutions themselves, of course.
Reagan didn’t make conservatism a force by simply sniping from the sidelines and condemning everybody who didn’t agree with his every thought, but by offering his vision and inviting people to join it. He was quite firm in defending it, but very generous in sharing it. Jindal is right about the need for a serious change in our approach.
The GOP is a party, not a movement. The GOP has one focus, get elected, (or re-elected). Republicans are quite comfortable with the minority role. Their concern at this point is two fold.
1 - They realize being a permanent minority will lead to be gerrymandered to oblivion.
2 - They need to take a majority in the House to get the good committees.
That’s it. That’s their focus, and their concern. Yeah, they’re dead.
Did we suffer through the “don’t criticize the Democrats” era with Bush? It seems to me like they don’t get criticized enough, and if they do, it doesn’t seem like the Democrats aren’t penalized for their bad behavior, just swept under the rug. I feel if that happens more often, and they’re punished, then the behavior will stop or decline.
Am I wrong?
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