Why doesn't the GOP-e just join the Democratic Party? They are Both the Party of Government!
Posted on 03/04/2013 5:01:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What happens at CPAC 2013 will divide the past from the future. Conservatives will chose between nostalgic pleasantries or a dynamic horizon. Conservatives will consolidate one way or another. In my view, conservatives will choose the future and they will choose Ted Cruz and Sarah Palin.
There is a division today in what is called conservatism, although it should be called something else. It has been forming for several years and will come to clarity and decision in CPAC 2013. The new directions — states’ rights, sound money and constitutional government — of what might be called the gnarly conservatives will come to clash with traditional or what might be called "nice" conservatives (“the establishment”). The nice: Jeb Bush, Chris Christie and Dr. Ben Carson. The gnarly: Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent.
Since last week, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has moved from participant to key speaker at the CPAC conference. Cruz will take leadership, and a rising conservative movement will begin to form and will run the century.
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin writes this morning: “The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is taking a lot of guff, rightly so, I think, from conservatives over excluding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and groups like GOProud from its gathering. When the newest conservative hero, Dr. Ben Carson, tells you you’ve screwed up, maybe it is time to rethink the strategy of systematically shrinking the tent.”
And there you have it in a nutshell...
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Because where they are now, they serve the Democrat Party's purpose perfectly in the destruction of the GOP.
I have yet to see a conservative, at least what I consider a conservative not what the dems consider a conservative say that Chris Christie should be at CPAC. Or GOP proud for that matter. Most conservative I know find it distressing that a group like GOP Proud should have a special place in the party. Last I knew conservatives see all people equally and not by sexual preference.
Why doesn't the GOP-e just join the Democratic Party? They are Both the Party of Government!
Why doesn't the GOP-e just join the Democratic Party? They are Both the Party of Government!
I’m for shrinking the tent.
Problem is, I’m for shrinking it in the opposite direction.
Wake up people. We have just lost two elections running in the middle. People do not vote for a candidate in the middle.
For crying out loud.
The GOP loses b/c it puts up lilly-livered RINOs, and the voting public can't see a difference with the Marxists promoted by the ‘RATS. Millions of conservatives sat on their hands in the 2012 election cycle; no way were they going to vote for a Massachusetts liberal masquerading as a conservative.
Bold colors, not pastels. Win the argument, then the vote.
NAILED IT!
If the Gays want to come and support CPAC, fine.
Just don't bring your obnoxious Balkanizing Political Group with you!
It's the democrats who divide people up into groups and pander, we are suppose to about principles, if the Gays have our principles than they should want to part of us, and NOT let their preferences get in the way.
If they want to moderate us that bad, go moderate the party that actually needs it.
Either the R’s win the house or the country is GONE. Simple as that.
Since 1928 the GOP hasn't won a Presidential Election unless Richard Nixon or George Bush has been on the ticket.
Think about that for a second.
Post office box
Other than that it is the same bunch of frat-boys and sorority-sisters playing out their consulting dreams. Uck!
Didn't we go down this road last year with Mitt? Aren't we supposed to be looking for something more than just having an "R" tattooed on their butt? I dunno, like CONSERVATIVE VALUES?
Other than that it is the same bunch of frat-boys and sorority-sisters playing out their consulting dreams. Uck!
Did you mean Fey-boys and scissor-sisters?
Will Sarah be attending CPAC 2013, and if so, will she be speaking?
And I'll add that in the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, there have been exactly TWO authentic Conservatives ascending to the presidency from the GOP:
Calvin Coolidge
Ronald Reagan
All the others (and yes, that includes Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover along with the rest) have had strains of liberalism marring their administrations. Now, more than ever, it's time for Sarah Palin to help take America back!
You should probably spend a little more time on research.
/bingo
Eisenhower/Nixon 1952 and 1956
Nixon/Agnew 1968 and 1972
Reagan/Bush 1980 and 1984
Bush/Quayle 1988
Bush/Cheney 2000 and 2004
Goldwater/Miller '64,Ford/Dole '76,Bush/Quayle '92 (yeah they lost), Dole/Kemp '96, McPain/Palin '08 :(, Romney/Ryan '12. all Looses
Seems like the Elite's like their Bushes and Nixons
'32 Hoover/Curtis, '36 Landon/Knox, '40 Willkie/McNary, '44 Dewey/Bricker, '48 Dewey/Warren
No Nixon's or Bushes, but most if not all Big Government Republicans.
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