Posted on 01/10/2010 6:21:56 PM PST by SmartInsight
Taking back the House and perhaps the Senate in 2010 - not just doing well - will require winning back trust lost between 2000 and 2006. Here are the top 10 things the GOP must do in 2010:
1) Take a lesson from Ronald Reagan and emphasize that your programs are based on consistent principles leading to a hopeful future for all Americans. Reclaim the party's franchise for economic growth, entrepreneurship, personal liberty, and spending restraint. This is the route to a big victory in November - and a true service to the nation.
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7) Fight for spending cuts now. The congressional GOP’s nearly united front against the stimulus bill and complete unity against the health-care overhaul were good initial steps. More is needed. The GOP should resist increases in domestic spending on every parliamentary front. Great gestures matter. As part of this resistance, Republicans should renounce earmarks. They shouldn’t wait for Democrats to go along. The House and Senate GOP caucuses should walk away from earmarks, leaving Democrats alone to defend this symbol of D.C.’s degeneracy.
The electorate must feel, and for valid reasons, that its NOT that the GOP has mended its ways and we should just trust them [again], but rather that its the electorate’s taking back the GOP that is responsible for the surge at hand.
The GOP has a real chance — hope they won’t blow it.
They need a leader, like Newt was in 1994, to unite them over a national conservative platform.
Such a leader would be as revolutionary today as were the Founders in 1776, because Americans are faced with the same tyranny and oppression the colonists endured at the hand of a powerful tyrannical government and ruler.
For the first time in America's history, the oppressive hand has become so visible, so tyrannical, so apparently out of touch with the people, that citizens may, once again, be able to exercise the power left to them by their Constitution.
But, they'd better hear a clear trumpet call from a leader who is genuine, devoted to principle, and an authentic patriot for the cause of liberty! Else, this moment may never return.
GOP, are you listening?
Visit this site to obtain a volume whose title essay contains these words from Justice Story's "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," as follows:
Joseph Story (1779–1845)
"If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the union, then they will have accomplished all that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them."
JOSEPH STORY, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," 2d ed., vol. 2, chapter 45, p. 617 (1851). This passage was not in the first edition, but in all later editions.
Does not his last sentence seem familiar in 2010?
Yes, good points.
Unfortunately, if the GOP acted upon them, they would cease to be the GOP, for these points are diametrically opposed to their current values.
The Normal American electorate has to see all the flip flop, go along, get along, elite country club RINO parasites, KICKED OUT of the GOP entirely to trust the party with a vote or a dime.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a half dozen times and you are so far out of backstabbing distance that you'll never fool anyone again.
Jeeze, 1994 Newt had great men like Dick Armey and John Kasich and others. These republicans are the big spending losers that lost congress. I think Steele was right when he said ‘Republicans are not ready to lead.’ One thing he got right. They are mad he pointed it out.
I have asked this before, but I keep wondering: are American conservatives ready to elect someone like Guido Westerwelle, a German politician who is a staunch free-market defender, but is also an openly gay?
To answer your last question, no, probably not. I’d guess sodomy is not considered normal behavior among many (most?) Republican voters.
“are American conservatives ready to elect someone like Guido Westerwelle, a German politician who is a staunch free-market defender, but is also an openly gay? “
No, I am not “ready.” And no amount of “enlightenment” is going to get me “ready.”
Not a word mentioned about term limits. The only way to ensure that the corruption doesn’t set in with newly-elected legislators is to term limit them from the start.
As for the social issues, you elect enough fiscal conservatives and the social issues will take care of themselves.
Only 2 tips needed—— FIRE STEELE——INSTALL CARL ROVE= Win Congress in November !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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