Posted on 03/09/2015 5:04:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
I don't buy this conclusion at all. In fact, I'd say the GOP is more liberal than at any time since Reagan was elected. That said, I do agree we should not give up the fight and the primaries is where the battle will be fought. However, if Jeb Bush is the nominee I have no intention of voting for him.
Calling me stupid is not the way to convince me.
Neither do I. He's trying to talk all hard-core SpecOps Ranger, but the truth is, he's delusional.
“I’m a military guy, so I deal with the facts as they are, whether I like them or not. And here are the facts:
1. We conservatives have made huge, undeniable strides since 2010. There are more conservatives at every level of government except the presidency than there have been in a century. That’s tangible progress we can’t just fritter away.”
One: The military, as the premier PC group of my life time and for most of my lifetime isn’t the most impressive citation for “seeing the facts as they are”
Two: “Fritter” is EXACTLY what the GOP has been doing since they racked up all of those impressive wins everyone is always talking about. They got what they wanted; they got into office. They haven’t “punched” anyone back.
Amen brother. Amen
You are telling like it is. Unfortunately many conservatives are of the mind set to ignore your wisdom and continue on a course of division that will elect Hillary
Good article.
“But the alternative is to cede the country to the liberal fascists who want to force us to live in carbon-free huts, steal our sacred Constitutional rights, and peer into our bedrooms lest we commit felony cisnormativism.”
So how do we fix it? Hey,here is an idea. Let’s nominate a liberal Republican who will be loved by the media until he gets the nomination and during the general will be labeled to the right of Ted Cruz.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Fact is, the RINO’s haven’t learned while the Conservatives warned them.
“Unfortunately many conservatives are of the mind set to ignore your wisdom and continue on a course of division that will elect Hillary”
Please clarify. Do you mean we shouldn’t hold our newly elected real conservatives’ feet to the fire—or that they should just suck it up and go along with bonehead and mcconnel?
The purely political fight is over, at least the traditional politics. The fight now, if it is still to be fought is in the States and for the Article 5 Convention. If enough states call for the Convention then the real fight begins because the FedGov will move to stop the convention and then the Constitution will be at least in hiatus as everything we have thought of as being Constitutional and Legal will be cast aside. Then we either fight or prostrate.
Regardless of how many conservatives are in the government, or even if the President will be conservative, if the balls cannot be mustered to eliminate most of the government agencies and briefly increase the unemployment rate by a couple of million government workers, we will have gained nothing but the concentrated power that exists now in the system. We will have merely changed the gang that rules albeit to a more friendly-to-our-side gang.
He means get up and get busy - really busy, not just peck, peck on the keyboard busy. If you don’t know how to work a campaign, find out. If your precinct chairs are worthless, run against one of them.
We haven't won every battle yet, but surely we've won enough to keep us on the field!
Yes. I liked the article, too.
Every time Boehner or McConnell or Roberts caves it's a little like deja vu. I can't help but wonder what the other side has on them.
Sorry but my opinion is that the best way to let the left have their way is to give blind allegiance to the Republican establishment.
And the fight will NEVER begin.
The GOP is dead, Jim.
This from a person (K.S.)who supports Homosexuality in the U.S. military.
The fact is we have a majority in both houses of congress, but our senate majority has enough quislings to make that point moot.
We HAVE to have a conservative POTUS in 2016 to undo the damage of the past 6 years. If we lose then it will be all over, because we would lose the senate at the same time.
The statement had more to do with the conservative masses than elected representatives.
The representatives will be encouraged to act to obtain the most conservative outcome possible. Politics is the art of the possible.
Regarding the national, the presidential race, there is tendency to demand a degree of conservative purity that is probably impossible to obtain in a national candidate. Ted Cruz is has wonderful conservative credentials but is lagging the field. There is a tendency to gut good conservatives like Scott Walker and Dr Ben Carson simply because they do not conform 100% with the idealized candidate.
Since there is not total conformance with the standard these candidates are bitterly attacked in attempt to promote the perfect candidate that is lagging.
Then, they abandon all because what is perceived as purity is lacking. Rather than play, they take their ball and go home sulking all the way
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