Posted on 12/01/2008 2:03:30 PM PST by nateriver
This site may have been posted somewhere else but I missed it. Came across this the other day on Twitter and saved it.
We can sit back and say we were cheated and the media was unfair and we can blame it on an uneducated, self-indulging , pop-oriented electorate, whatever.
But we need to start rebuilding and here are two people who jumped on it right away
their site: http://rebuildtheparty.com/
This is not a bad idea, but in the literature I’ve seen so far, the focus is almost entirely on the “two I’s,” the internet and party infrastructure.
Again, that’s not bad, but the true problem the Republican party had in 2008 — and indeed as far back as 1996 — is that they have drifted away from the Conservative agenda. In fact, they shifted decisively since 2002, which is what cost them so dearly.
All the “plan’s” in the world to expand internet outreach, to rebuild and reform the party, are meaningless if those who make up the “grassroots” see no “repentance” and return to Conservative Principles. All this plan could conceivably be a collossal waste of time if Republicans nominate another McCain, or Bush, or Dole...
Just my $ .02.
The GOP has been subverted by the Liberals..I left the party this month..as I now feel it cannot reform itself and does not want to..we need a new conservative party and those claiming to be conservatives in the Senate and House need to quit the GOP and support the new party..no other fix will work.
There’s nothing in there about education of the young, of creating an Energy Mandate power base in some other place besides DC.
Nothing in there that addresses the fatal blow of the MSM in painting all of the varied “individualists” with one racist, obnoxious word, “STUPID”. Anyone calling themselves Pubbies will be seen as a drooling moron. Even here at FR one group is scared of being seen with another.
And no FREE programs in the community. Fuggeddaboudit.
GOP is dead....and 3rd parties were never alive. I fear it’s over....
What happens when the entire truth comes about Palin’s heretical church in Wasilla? I’m surprised it didn’t come up in the last election cycle. Of course, I was a little pre-occupied the past few months. I’m not sure it the MSM ever picked up on it.
Democrats were in the exact same boat years ago!
Yes it came up right after the pregnant daughter and the wardrobe.
Blogs won’t get it done. All politics is local. Start with the House of Representatives 2010.
Things are quite different now. Obama will appoint hundreds of liberal judges to vacancies that the Dems have held up for months-years; he will have all the votes in Congress he needs; they have even greater reach in the media, Hollywood, unions, all minority groups, foreign influences, and K-college.
No, if the R party (of which I've been a lifetime member) every makes a comeback, it will take a miracle. And, Obama and his minions will wreak havoc over the next 8 years.
I remember that well. I never understood it. Republicans simply do not know how to wield power, and so......they've lost it.
The whole Latter Rain, Rick Joyner Apostolic/Prophetic, “Jesus Camp” connections? We better figure it out and get it right now instead of waiting until 2012.
It did come up. The fruits at MSNBC flogged the story for weeks.
It’s a non-issue because no one cares, and her church is normal when compared to Jeremiah Wright’s congregation.
Oh, to answer your question, nothing will happen.
Blogs won’t get it done, but they can be an integral part. Moveon.org raised millions and networked activists all over the country. The conservative movement would do well to copy some of these tactics.
No church is “normal” if it is caught up in the Rick Joyner Phony Prophet/Toronto Blessing “Holy Laughter” movement. I would seriously question the judgment of any officeholder if they were affiliated with such lunacy. Hopefully, she can show that she has made a break with churches that actually think they are going to be part of a supernatural end-times army that enforces God’s rule upon the world (Google “manifest sons of God” and “Joel’s Army”).
Unfortunately, that doesn’t appear to be the case as she is still affiliated with them.
Dam, we have to take them out in the Primary.... http://www.primarychallenge.org/PrimaryChallenge2009-10.html
A quote and book by a famous Dem. All Politics is local.
Oh! how so true.
But use local message boards also or start one.
I have heard some talk about tightening up primary policies since some states allow democrats and independents to vote in the republican primaries. This is really dumb. Why should we let people outside of the party dilute our choices. I think the rinos probably secretly welcome this as it is a way of culling out the real conservatives at the primary level.
Has anyone heard about whether the party will start keeping out dems and independents from voting in our primaries.
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