Regardless, my first point is the most important. If you want unity, you'd better tell your buddies to work hard to support tea party candidates when they win primaries. Otherwise, we will treat your wing of the GOP as the enemy (the same as the Democrats), the same way they have treated us (and continue to do so). I used to see a huge difference between the parties. Mississippi opened my eyes and reminded me of past backstabbings. Well, no more.
Though Derek addresses his letter to “conservatives” and “establishment Republicans”, from his examples, he obviously is representing Establishment Republicans and does not take them to task for anything. The default is that he is targeting the rest, i.e. libertarians and tea party people.
“But you need to realize your vote could be crucial to keeping Harry Reid as Senate Majority Leader. Oh, and that your obstinance gave the most radical leftist progressives ever to occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., a freer hand to replace however many Supreme Court justices retire or die in the next two years with like- minded progressive activists uninterested in the Constitution.”
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.
It ain't that we lost a primary in Mississippi - it's the corrupt, despicable approach the GOP-e took to eke out a tainted win. So get over yourself. I'd rather lose that seat in MS than to validate the GOP-E's methods in that runoff.
AMEN!
Reasonable response.
From your article:
Were John McCain or Mitt Romney the “next Reagan?” Absolutely not! But, even with their imperfections being considered, they’re both Godfather 2 compared to the Sharknado 2 currently occupying the White House.
That's the whole problem. Agreed, a McCain or a Romney administration would have been less corrupt than Soetoro's but the cause of Progressivism would still have been advanced.
Do you think McCain or Romney would've vetoed Socialized Medicine? Hell no.
Do you think McCain or Romney would've cut spending? Hell no.
Do you think McCain or Romney would've protected the border? Hell no.
Also from the article:
It’s time to decide: Are you going to be ruled by your scars, or are you going to learn from them?
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.
Somebody ping Thad Cochran. Lisa Murkowski. Scott Brown. Arlene Sphincter. Eric Cantor (has he called to congratulate Brat yet?).
Dear derek,
bite me
Thad Cochran, Lisa Murkowski, Scott Brown, Eric Cantor (has he called Brat to congratulate him yet?), Haley Barbour are just a few examples.
I could list more but I haven't had my cup of coffee yet.
Dear Townhall.com,
Which is worse, a Democrat radical leftist “progressive” actively working to destroy America; or a “progressive” liberal Republican utterly beholden to multinational corporations who want to destroy America “enough” so that they can make enormous profits from a dying nation?
In both cases, they despise our nation, our history, our liberty and our freedom; they seek to impoverish and despoil our land; they seek to reduce us to the poverty level of “the rest of the world”; that our nation stops being a nation and just becomes a ‘district’ in a socialist economic bloc.
In either case, if their perfect world is a communist Hell they call utopia; or a corporatocracy; or just a dictatorship, they do not care, because they imagine themselves in charge of it. Their attitude:
“Here at least
We shall be free; th’ Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.”
— Satan, from Paradise Lost, but also the platform of the Democrat party, as well as the ambition of the billionaire overlords of the RINOs.
Any questions, RINOs? If you are still to stupid to.know what I'm saying GET LOST!!!!#
Now the GOP agrees more with the DNC than the Libertarians aka Constitutionalists.
Póg Mo Thóin
“Where liberty dwells, there is my country." –Benjamin Franklin
Nice try, but I’m not holding my nose and voting for Dem Lite™.
Request denied.Hugs and Kisses,
Laz
To: Monsieur Le Derek Hunter
Get the GOP ‘establishment’ to address truthfully and completely two matters:
* Mississippi
* Mark Mayfield
Until that is done, tell them to go F themselves.
Derek,
If you want conservative support, quit attacking conservatives. If you want conservative support, quit embracing the immoral. If you want conservative support, grow a spine and stand up for what is right and traditionally American.
No more brave new world stuff, bub.
I like to believe in cycles and that our nation's overall politics and morality move like a pendulum, back and forth between the left and the right, but always American, per the Constitution, one nation indivisible.
Something has changed that dynamic and roped the pendulum, pulled it to one side and tied it down.
Reagan called our attention to it when he said that he didn't leave the Democrat party, it left him.
The same is true now with the Republican party. It, too, has left us and followed after the demonrats.
In WWII and the cold war that immediately followed, we appeared to be much more aligned under one philosophical banner against the opposing philosophies of the marxists, communists, fascists, etc.
At some point, the demonrat party fully embraced the opposing philosophies we once were united to fight against for our very survival.
This was where the Democrat party was headed when Reagan said it left him and that train has arrived at its destination.
The GOPe train, too, has left us at the station, going down the same tracks the former Democratic party took.
The GOPe should have ripped up those rails instead, that would have united the party and country, but they didn't.
They took the train.
Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer said, "We had to destroy Barry Goldwater as a member of the human race."Mitt Romney's father among scores of establishment Republicans publicly condemned us as "purveyors of hate."
A good start would be for the establishment Republicans to say we reject such language -- from now on we will respect our differences. We differ with the Tea Party but we will respect their opinions.
Fat chance.