Adjust, HELL! Rush is right: liberals have not made the political gains they have made by “adjusting”, they’ve stuck to their guns and worn down the weak-kneed Republican establishment. If the Republican leadership keeps doing what it’s doing (giving in), it will keep getting what it’s getting!
——the left doubles down on its ideology and dares opponents to prove them wrong at the ballot box.-——
They were proved wrong at the ballot box.
The Republicans have a commanding mandate in the House of Representatives. The people spoke....... take control of taxes and spending.
The Senate and the President must now accept or reject the will of the people expressed by the House.
Conservatives did not lose. There are many, enough , in the House to strongly effect policy. The unelected vice president candidate has a big seat in the House of Representatives.
social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, libertarians all need to adjust...
we all need to accept the fact that each of our issues are not deal killers..
some are non negotiable, but there are different solutions to the problems other than the ones embedded in each of our heads..
in other words, start to respect the others positions, listen a little more and talk a little less...
stop openly attacking those that are actually your allies, and listen..
when I was a shop foreman, I learned that you can learn from the old guy with many years of experience, but the new guy, looking at it from a different perspective can teach you something too....
the adjustment that needs to be made is to stop bickering and start debating (just like this forum used to be)..
oh, and stop being a republican and start being a conservative..
The election was stolen by enemies both foreign and domestic.
Since that is the point against what to stand for then we should not be part of the Republic.
Secession actions have indeed stirred up the hornets nest, without the full country under their control they will face a collapse in short order, anyone remember The Berlin Wall?
Strong majorities oppose amnesty. If we’re going to start backpedaling better to do it on issues that won’t give us 15 million more Democrat voters. Maybe we need to think about the least popular issue embraced by the right, so-called free trade, which wrecked the rust belt, the very place where Romney was crushed. Reagan protected the auto industry with quotas and it didn’t hurt him in 1984.
Then there are the issues that contradict each other. Do we want a robust war on terror and the capability to fight and occupy in three theatres at once or do we want fiscal restraint?
If House Republicans agreed to a deficit reduction deal where they allowed more defense cuts it wouldn’t cost them much politically. But that would require coming to terms with the fact that we’re flat out broke, something neither side wants to acknowledge.
When Fred Barnes was promoting big government “conservatism” to enable massive overseas nation building projects he neglected the problem of paying for it all if domestic spending not only continued unabated, but grew even faster as Bush doubled down with more Medicare goodies.
Now we reap the harvest, politically as a party and fiscally as a nation.
You cannot beat systemic cheating by the Liberals.
Conservatives must clean up the voter rolls & change the multiple ways that voter fraud stole the election.
Telling yourself that it didn’t happen is the worst kind of ‘head in the sand’ behavior.
The entire GOP leadership needs flushed since these are the type of questions they keep asking. Since they don’t know why are they in leadership positions?