The Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party

The American Reformation Project ^ | July 10, 2002 | David T. Pyne

[rightwing2]

Great article here on some of the Bush betrayals of conservatism. The President's failure to take a firm stand for conservative champion, Sen. Robert Smith is most unfortunate, although I would like to emphasize to more moderate Bush loyalists on FR that Bush's endorsement of Smith for re-election has not been withdrawn. In any case, its high time for conservatives to take a stand and contact the White House and urge them to support conservatives for the House and Senate for a change if they want our votes in the 2004 Presidential primary. If conservatives stand together and work together as a united bloc, then we can and will effect positive conservative change in policy by the politically centrist and excessively liberal Democrap accomodating Bush Administration.

[rightwing2]

BUMP!

[Travelgirl]

Good post.

[Black Agnes]

Interesting read ping

[Don Myers]

bttt

[mafree]

Good article, though it did omit what was done to Schundler in NJ.

[Red Jones]

bump

[Black Agnes]

Sounds like the CA pubbies are selling out Simon like the NJ pubbies sold out Schundler. The dims stand behind their most repugnant candidates whether they like them or agree with them or not once they win the primary, why do pubbies insist on eating their own?

[DoSomethingAboutIt]

In any case, its high time for conservatives to take a stand and contact the White House and urge them to support conservatives for the House and Senate for a change if they want our votes in the 2004 Presidential primary.

It will never work because most everyone will vote republican no matter what. You have to be willing to let them actually lose an election before they will understand.

Its sad but true.

[NormsRevenge]

Parsky has stated that he will sit out the election even though Bill Simon is leading California’s vulnerable Governor Gray Davis by as much as nine percentage points in a state that has been morphed by illegal immigration into a Democrat electoral stronghold.

Rove and Parsky.. Bush Hit Men :-?

What about us poor citizens who can't afford to lobby from the country club?
DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists

GO SIMON

[Black Agnes]

OOP, you beat me to it! Good point. Schundler was hamstrung by the NJ pubbies. McGreedy has since blamed the pubbies for every possible evil in NJ, fired all of them he could legally, raised taxes/fees on the toll roads here(which he pledged to eliminate altogether in 7 years), and has proposed to raise business taxes in the *middle of a recession*. Yay, I'm so glad our ex PUBBIE Governor, Donnie D supported McGreedy in private and refused to publically endorse Schudler. Can you imagine any dim refusing to support another one in a gubernatorial race???. (yes, in fact he did, and his wife admitted voting for McGreedy)

[rightwing2]

Bump!

[rightwing2]

Actually, I am pretty much one of those who vote Republican no matter what. I believe that conservatives can make the most difference in the primaries where we can defeat moderates and nominate conservatives we like to take the places of the RINOs that we have had to hold our noses and vote for in the past.

[mafree]

Well I hope the NJ GOP has learned its lesson!

[RJCogburn]

now under the control of a man who has savaged all pro-life Republicans

There are more issues that make one a 'conservative' besides the abortion issue. This article seems concerned just with that one issue.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

You don't hafta live with party pronouncements passed down from above.
Getting involved at the grassroots can beat that back. Nothing is as compelling as success.

Read, review and add your own practical ideas to the tactics suggested on this other thread:

[Twodees]

I believe that conservatives can make the most difference in the primaries where we can defeat moderates and nominate conservatives we like to take the places of the RINOs

The primaries is where your conservative candidates get their final cheating. The Country Clubbers learned their lesson after Reagan's grassroots nullified their attempt to shut him out. Now you can count on falsified primary results. Chicanery there is most likely the reason the GOP won't confront democrat ballot fraud in elections. They know that they'd be subject to retaliatory accusations.

[sneakypete]

Why don't you read this and then try to claim I'm "to the far left of Bubba-2"?

[rodeocowboy]

I have said this over-and-over, but I will say it again. The only way to get the Republican leadership to recognize that their base is truly conservative, is to vote Libertarian in any race in which their is a RINO (Bush included) on the ticket. Their strategists will see where the votes went, after they lost the election, and will finally start pandering to the conservative base again. Bill Clinton fooled everybody up on Capitol Hill into believing the conservatism is dead, and that the only way to win is to lean towards the left. We must be willing to lose elections to the democraps in order to bring our house back in order; a giant, political, wake-up slap to the Republican party.

Libertarian party-the party of principle, freedom, and personal responsibility.

[sneakypete]

I don't know where Bubba-2 and his defenders get the idea he is a "moderate Republican". On his BEST day he's to the left of the average moderate Dim. He is a statist just like his loser father,and that's the best that can be said for him.