Posted on 02/11/2013 4:20:00 AM PST by Kaslin
The United States, from day one, was a project about principles and ideals.
The super power that emerged and grew from the handful of colonists that began settling here was not the product of where those colonists happened to land, but the ideals and principles in their head and heart – applied in how they lived their lives.
The Republican Party was founded in 1854 to address one great blot on the nation’s founding legacy – the existence of slavery in a nation founded under the ideal of freedom under God.
Runaway slave and self-educated abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass said “I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”
Douglass called Abraham Lincoln, America’s first Republican president, “emphatically the black man’s president.”
When some thirty years ago I told the welfare officer to not bother showing up again at my home – when I decided that my own future would be based on the values of scripture, work, and personal responsibility - there was no doubt in my mind what party would become my political home.
The party of “freedom and progress,” the party of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.
But, as longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer once observed, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.”
It‘s no mystery why the Republican Party is having a hard time today. No matter how hard you squint and try to discern the values of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, or any values for that matter, in those now wielding the money and power at the top of the party, they’ve disappeared.
These establishment Republican leaders and operatives are not about ideals and values but business – their own business.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the latest estimate from the Congressional Budget Office is that unemployment will “remain above 7.5 percent through next year. That would make 2014 the sixth consecutive year with a jobless rate that high, the longest stretch of such elevated unemployment in 70 years.”
Yet the Republican presidential candidate in 2012 could not defeat the current occupant of the White House.
In the party that is supposed to be about freedom and personal responsibility, party operatives want to blame everyone else for their own failures.
Worse, they want to pin it on candidates who actually take seriously the traditional values of their party.
Karl Rove would like to weed out candidates like former Missouri congressman Todd Akin.
Akin, who was defeated by Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill in the Senate race in Missouri, was a six term Republican congressman with a flawless conservative record.
For most of 2012 he was ahead of McCaskill in the polls. Then, in August, he expressed himself poorly in an interview about abortion. Despite his apologies and efforts to clarify himself, his own party abandoned him.
McCaskill ran ads, over and over, showing the Republican’s own candidate Mitt Romney questioning Akin’s qualifications. This race could have been saved. But the party elite wasted not a second to dump Akin because they were not comfortable with his conservative values to begin with.
We’re living in a deeply troubled country today. Americans are looking for answers, not a political class feathering its own nest.
There are tens of millions of conservative American patriots who seek an opposition party to represent their conviction that America will not get back on the path to strength and prosperity without restoration of freedom, limited government, free markets, and traditional values.
Today’s big question is whether the Republican Party is going to be that opposition party.
If not, it is not conservative values and convictions that will be abandoned. It will be the Republican Party.
Of course we do, but we need to seriously stop picking crappy candidates like Romney. Romney EASILY was the biggest loser candidate in the history of the Republican Party. Anyone with any sense warned a disaster picking this liberal Republican. Nobody believed the sane Conservatives though.
bump
Not if Karl Rove is steering the ship.
What we need to do is unite. Fighting among us and bashing candidates does us no good. Any of our candidates was better that that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Look what is happening now. The other nations are building their military up and the idiots in DC are cutting ours
1.Which Congressional or Senate candidate did Rove support last time that he should not have? Rubio? Cruz? Who?
2.http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/temporary-majority_700500.html
NO
I dont see it.
The “establishment” is too well established. Besides, a good percntage of them are leftist plants.
This last election was stolen and until we stand up and fight, put the guilty in prison all the way up, we will have tainted elections. The Republic is doomed unless we get those conspiring against our interest out of power and into jail. All parties are guilty.
This last election was stolen and until we stand up and fight, put the guilty in prison all the way up, we will have tainted elections. The Republic is doomed unless we get those conspiring against our interest out of power and into jail. All parties are guilty.
BTTT
The GOP has a future in more localized and statewide races. They’re well-represented in gubernatorial and state legislatures, and of course the U.S. House. They may have a slight chance of retaking the Senate if enough truly pissed-off voters stream to the polls in 2014.
But as for winning the White House? We’ll never again see it. The populace in this country has swung too far to the political left. It’s out of reach.
I have voted for a more conservative candidate than the Republicans put up in three of the last four elections, persuading more and more Christian conservatives to join me each time.
Collapse and civil war is better than what the Republican Party is offering - even if I and my children die in it.
We are to that point.
Bohner is the best your party can do.
The very best.
No thanks.
Plus the fact the country has drifted significantly leftward. In the last election the party breakdown of voters was D+6. By 2016, with millions of brainwashed young progressives out there, look for it to go to D+8.
As long as we are divided, I don’t see it either. I have never seen that much division, which BTW played right into the rats playbook, as in the last election. We had better candidates that would have made better presidents then that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Wow, did he ever. But he was SOOOO convinced in his analytical engineer mind, the odds favored him because he only erred that one time. Akin never could reconcile himself with the truth that adage, "One aw-sh*t moment will wipe out a thousand 'attaboys.'" The selfish POS should've immediately swallowed his pride and stepped out of the race, making room for a more viable candidate.
And for Richard Mourdock to deep-six his candidacy a couple months later by blurting out a similar gaffe -- inexcusable.
The Pretorian Media will take one ‘gaffe’ and harp on it over and over and over, drowing out any other positive messages our side has.
McKaskill and her staff must have been orgasmic when they heard Akin’s interview.
the only solution is to STOP TALKING TO LIBTARD MEDIA!
You can talk to them, but they MUST remember three things:
1. Message control
2. Message control
3. Message control
I did some media training when I was in the Air Force, and the key tactic for senior leaders (applies to candidates) is to control your themes and messages. The correct response for ANY question about rape is: "Sexual assault is a horrific and heinous crime, and must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." Period.
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