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An open letter to the political right
Townhall.com ^ | Aug 3, 2014 | Derek Hunter

Posted on 08/03/2014 6:21:30 AM PDT by winner3000

Dear “Conservatives” and “Establishment Republicans,”

I write today in the hope you all can get over whatever anger, distrust or bruised egos this primary season and political year has caused you. We on the right need to unite and send a message to progressives by unambiguously retaking the U.S. Senate in November.

We all have some problem with what’s happened so far. Someone we liked lost a primary. Someone we didn’t won. Some piece of legislation we hate passed; some other piece we liked did not. No one is completely happy, but we all know things can get much worse – and will if we don’t put aside what divides and do what we must for the cause of liberty.

The political right has a habit of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. This is exemplified by libertarians, and it’s the fast track to political irrelevancy.

Libertarians will hate that I’ve placed them on the right of the political spectrum, and indeed many of today’s libertarians indeed have no political home and are all over the map. Today, the term covers everything from the great Reason Magazine to big-government, socialized medicine-loving Bill Maher. The present day “libertarian” label can mean anything, so it means nothing.

But I’m not talking about those libertarians. I’m talking about the Ron Paul libertarians who were quite comfortable in a Republican Party with which they agreed on a majority of issues.

Back then, libertarians put aside their differences with conservatives and Republicans to work for the defeat of liberals and progressives. All three groups thrived, as did the nation. But now too many focus on the disagreements, the differences, and the scars that come with fighting for what we believe, win or lose.

Both sides have scars, but too many of us...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: backstabbing; conservatives; elections; libertarians; libtardians; republicanparty; rino; teaparty
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To: centurion316

I agree with you as can see from my posts on this thread. As a group we are definitely in a Foot Shooting Mood.


61 posted on 08/03/2014 7:38:46 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: wolf24

What happened the last time the GOP controlled the House, Senate, and presidency?
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We didn’t pass Obamacare.


62 posted on 08/03/2014 7:40:28 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Remember Mississippi)
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To: winner3000
I write today in the hope you all can get over whatever anger, distrust or bruised egos this primary season and political year has caused you.

Thad Cochran. Ken Cuccinelli

That's "conservative speak" for go F*** yourself.

The RINOs will lie, cheat, steal, and even stack the courts to deprive conservative candidates. Even when we win anyway, they then undermine conservative nominees and even give overt support to Democrats. Conservatives have NEVER done the same to the "moderates." The worst we've done is to stay home and even then the RINOs didn't get the hint.

63 posted on 08/03/2014 7:42:43 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: winner3000
NO!

Cucchinelli-Virginia, Bevin-Kentucky, McDaniel-Mississippi.

'nuff said.

Go to hell, GOP-E.

64 posted on 08/03/2014 7:42:48 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Innovative
One key word: ELECTABLE. The GOP/tea-party/conservatives need to nominate someone who is electable in the general election. This key point seems to be ignored, resulting in a Dem win and Dem control.

The word is a lie. "ELECTABLE" has come to mean RINOs only.

65 posted on 08/03/2014 7:44:40 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: winner3000
Abe says it best what I tried to say above. The fault is ours. Abe will explain from "the other side."

If you could first know where you are and whither you are tending, you could better judge what to do and how to do it. You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

The question today is either the opponents of statism will arrest the further spread of it and place it on course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become permanent.

Have you no tendency to the latter condition?

Let anyone who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece of machinery, so to speak — compounded of the Republican Party hands-across-the-aisle doctrine and the dreadful actions among statism's chief architects.


66 posted on 08/03/2014 7:45:31 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: winner3000

Stop taking the conservative vote for granted.


67 posted on 08/03/2014 7:45:43 AM PDT by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: Innovative
“I’d rather lose that seat “ .. what if that seat makes the difference between R or D control?

Can you say "Jumping Jim Jeffords"? That's what happens. The RINOs would rather support a Democrat agenda to keep the K-Street Kapital flowing than to adhere to the principles of their own party platform.

68 posted on 08/03/2014 7:47:04 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: Innovative
there is no difference between D and Gop-e, so to vote only conservatives or not at all makes no difference.

The senate will remain D even if GOP-e takes over and the house will remain GOP-e.

And Obama ain't going nowhere.

69 posted on 08/03/2014 7:47:27 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: winner3000

Umm, it depends.

I am going to have no problem this fall voting for Terry Lynn Land this fall even though she is exhibiting high RINO risk factors. She was a competent SOS.

If I lived in Mississippi however, I would not vote for Cochran. He flat out stabbed the Republican base in the back. There is no room for that.

McConnell? Ehhh... I might be able to hold my nose but I would feel very dirty afterward.


70 posted on 08/03/2014 7:48:54 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: Innovative
One key word: ELECTABLE. The GOP/tea-party/conservatives need to nominate someone who is electable in the general election. This key point seems to be ignored, resulting in a Dem win and Dem control.


71 posted on 08/03/2014 7:52:07 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: Texas Eagle
Dude, I've got room for more scars if necessary. Bring 'em on. It's not about me. It's about my children and grandchildren and their children.

The children ARE the point. Will they be a nation of free men deciding their own course and taking responsibility for their actions?

Or will they be helpless serf's enslaved under tyranny? Someone else's dupes in a game ruled by the hereditary aristocracy and the Machiavellian despots?

As Reagan said, "This is the last stand on earth. If liberty dies here, there is no place else."

72 posted on 08/03/2014 7:52:09 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: InterceptPoint
We didn't pass Obamacare.

They did. And the House could defund it but they are a bunch of spineless crack monkeys addicted to President Obama’s mom jean's scent.

73 posted on 08/03/2014 7:54:17 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
I agree with the position that the establishment Republicans are perfectly happy being Democratic Party whores (battered wifes?) who react to defend Democrats from extremist conservatives.

The establishment Republicans get to mingle with the movers and shakers; they get to accumulate fortunes running campaigns; the Democrats' lip service that it's a two-party system waters establishment Republicans' ego, never mind what the fluid really is; establishment Republicans get government offices next to Democrats; MSM employees attack them as interfering with the Democrats. All the trappings but no real power and that's okay.

Not to mention the fact that today's lovely GOPe is the party of the Chamber of Commerce.


74 posted on 08/03/2014 7:57:42 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: InterceptPoint
I agree with you as can see from my posts on this thread. As a group we are definitely in a Foot Shooting Mood.

How else is it that a RINO will become an "unelectable candidate"? We've done the "support the nominee" routine for sixty years. The RINOs have not changed. They still actively screw conservative nominees regularly. Incrementalism is nice pleasant strategy. The problem with it is that once in the majority the RINO/Crat party forces "moderate progressive" policies that produce a declining culture that results in a ruined economy... with "Republicans" taking the blame. Look at what was done to California. That strategy produces Democrats. That is the future of your strategy.

75 posted on 08/03/2014 7:58:08 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Shwarzenkaiser: fasionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: LucianOfSamasota
The children ARE the point. Will they be a nation of free men deciding their own course and taking responsibility for their actions? Or will they be helpless serf's enslaved under tyranny?

Amen, bro.

Whether it's a Soetoro or a Romney, government gets bigger and has more control of their lives.

76 posted on 08/03/2014 7:59:58 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: winner3000

VERY well said OP. This “open letter” borders on the offensive. It is the same old “just hold your nose and vote” BS that has put us where we are.

I’m going to say what I think (sadly for my wife never a problem lol). I do NOT care if the Dims keep the Senate if it gets rid of the GOPe. I unabashedly root for McConnell and Cochran to lose. If that means a Dim takes the seat, then so be it.

We are WAY past the Dim-inspired kumbaya lets just vote for any ole GOPer that we give you so we can say in power. We, the Tea Party, the Tea Bags, whatever you want to call us (I embrace all names including the pejorative) are in this for the LONG hall. It’s the long con. We are patient. We are determined to have a Conservative government for all America to raise her from the ashes and be that “beacon of light”. And that is NOT going to happen by the GOPe continuing to play us as suckers.

THAT is my open letter to the author. No. Ain’t gonna happen. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.


77 posted on 08/03/2014 8:03:21 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Texas Eagle

Niely put. Simple, and to the point!

These slaves to fear always drag us down. What is that quote, the one about trading liberty for security deserve neither? Well the Establishment have made a career of it, failing to fight in every situation to protect themselves.


78 posted on 08/03/2014 8:07:36 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: dirtboy
Then so be it. It is far more important that the GOP-E’s actions in the Mississippi runoff not bear fruit, lest we see them repeated against Tea Party candidates in later elections.

It's far more important that we not lose the Senate. Because if that happens, Obama will have nobody to prevent his seating some far leftie onto the Supreme Court. Then it won't matter if the Senate is filled with Tea Partiers from later elections. Whatever legislation they come up with could be easily overturned by, that one person who'll be on that court for life.

I'd have preferred to see McDaniels to have won, but we have to play the cards we're dealt, even if they came from a stacked deck.

If the seat is lost, blame the GOP-E, not the Tea Party.

It's a big mistake to allow perfection to be the enemy of the good enough. And in my view, a Republican, even if it is a GOP-E, is better than any Democrat. So actually, I'll blame people like you, who, out of petulance, decided it would be better to lose that seat to a Democrat.

80 posted on 08/03/2014 8:12:50 AM PDT by raisetheroof ("To become Red is to become dead --- gradually." Alexander Solzhenitsyn)
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