Posted on 03/23/2014 5:34:26 AM PDT by Moseley
The danger is this: In the USAs upcoming 2014 elections, Republican elites assume that everyone all now agrees that conservatives must support non-conservative candidates to win more elections. The GOP is operating on the belief that everyone is on board, simply because insiders have officially decreed it to be so.
However, the grassroots in the USA remains unconvinced. Worse, the Republican establishment has no plan for truly healing the actual wounds. Elites want to avoid change more fervently than they do want to win elections. Elites violated trust by advancing liberal policies in the U.S. Congress, but they wont apologize or reform. The GOP will do anything to win elections except change.
It simply doesnt matter what you or I think. Activists are going to sit on their hands whether you like it or not, whether I like it or not, unless the GOP fields conservative nominees. Elites can denounce such thinking all day long, but that changes nothing. So the Republican Party is heading into the 2014 elections with the establishment deceiving itself into thinking that grassroots volunteers agree with Party plans.
Also, the grassroots acts independently in the US. Washington insiders suffer from the delusion that the tea party follows tea party leaders. But the tea party came first. Self-appointed leaders later on tried to rush in front of the parade. Many tea party leaders are cooperative this year. But that does not mean grassroots activists, donors, and voters will fall into line with Republican Party strategists.
The crucial debate threatening to tear the GOP apart is this: Ronald Reagan said: Somebody who agrees with you 80% of the time is an 80% friend not a 20% enemy. Therefore, conservatives must bite their tongue and support Republican candidates and office-holders who are not conservative. Thats the thesis.
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We should try.
I disagree: THey still get the 80% ACU rating. It's that the 20% always seems to be on the votes for which they are needed the most. McQueeg is like that...he rolls over for the Rats right when we need him the most. That's "betrayal." Flake the flake set himself upon that path the instant the vote count declared him the winner in the November.
Those who see voting as an obligation of good citizenship. Those who understand and practice the Buckley Rule. Those who appreciate and respect the rights they have as Americans.
If you don't count yourself in that number I will not insult you because of it. Go your own way, stay home. The Republic will survive without you.
>>There is a difference in fundamental beliefs in the two parties. <<
Oh really? I notice there is a strong push to repeal Obamacare and balance the budget. Actually both parties are against these issues, strongly against them. I laugh when McCain support Obama and FReepers get upset. Where’s the party line? According to McCain, Lindsey, Issa and Boehner it is across the aisle.
I went to the Independent side of the voting line years ago. Republicans don’t carry enough KY Jelly for me to withstand being cornholed twice weekly.
because the GOP is not an opposition party, but a red herring party intended to fool people into thinking that someone in the establishment still represents them. They'd like to keep up this illusion going until the fundamental transformation is complete.
If the "moderate" Republican uses that 20% opposing votes to:
You mean not wanting to support a pro-abortion candidate who gave America gay marriage, and who had been campaigning to homosexualize the military for almost 20 years, and who had refused to enlist and had dodged the draft as his father ran for president during wartime, claiming the military had "brainwashed him", and as a member of a family line who had never had a male serve our nation in uniform during it's entire 170 year history here, and who's own five sons were refusing to serve as he ran to be a wartime commander in chief himself?
The Buckley Rule; “support the rightwardmost viable candidate”
My candidate didn’t make it out of the primaries. In the General Election Romney was the rightwardmost viable candidate. And as distasteful as it was for me to vote for him, I took solace in knowing that it at least was a vote to deny Obama a second term. Staying home in righteous indignation would not have been. It would have accomplished nothing.
As opposed to the True Myth?
1) follow the fundamental laws set forth in the US Constitution.
2) fight tooth and nail to limit the size and scope of the Federal Government.
3) leave social issues up to state/local governments and wage the conservatives vs libertarians fight at that level.
4) if in doubt see #1.
If “conservatives” keep being distracted on the Federal level by trying to change the behavior and legislate the morality of the unwashed masses, we are going to lose this republic.
Some veterans would find fault with the way you chose to use their service to sell your pro-abortion, draft dodging, America hating guy.
Do you know how Mitt Romney reacted to Reagan’s ascendancy in the party and that wave of American patriotism and success?
What does it mean for someone to agree with you 80% of the time if you cannot trust the promises he or she makes to you?
That’s true with every politician. If that’s the case, you should never vote.
We could if we wanted to. Bottom line: You don’t want to.
I would be perfectly fine rounding up every illegal and sending all 20,000,000 back home. Common sense says that’s not going to happen.
Some veterans will find fault with any given thing on any given day. Just spend an afternoon at my VFW hall and you’d know what I mean.
As a veteran it is my personal belief that I should unleash the power of my right to vote every chance I get. I don’t have to like the choices in order to vote for who I think will do the least damage to my country.
As I see it, complaining about the unfairness of it all and staying home on Election Day is not a constructive exercise.
I’ve presented my point of view, my personal philosophy of voting, that’s all. Whether you approve of it or not is your choice, I’m not looking for converts.
I’ve certainly offered no plan for the Republican Party to attract conservative voters or strategy for conservatives to influence the GOP. That seems to be your passion, and I’ll leave you to it.
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