Posted on 07/20/2008 9:24:35 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Almost anything can happen in an election year, but among conservatives, almost everyone seems to agree that no matter who captures the White House in November, the movement that has ruled the Republican Party since the 1960s and mostly dominated American politics since 1980 has lost its way. Across the spectrum of the right, writers and thinkers have turned their relentless analysis inward, a kind of political EST seminar aimed at self-transformation.
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people are confusing conservatism and the GOP. The GOP has all but abandoned conservatism. On a few issues, we are still on track, but government is growing and expanding out of control, regardless of which of the two parties is in charge.
The sad part for us, SC, is that I see no leadership in the horizon to bring us together. I thought that Huck might have been the one who would do it for us, but frankly, his a**-kissing of MaCaca showed me he is not the one.
Bump to #2.
It’s up to us normal people to hound our Republican lawmakers with letters and phone calls to call them back to conservative principles. We will have to do a lot of letter writing.
I think that the majority of republican politicians are conservative, but too many are moderate or liberal. My congressman, Mark Kirk (of IL), says that he’s a Republican, but he’s pro-spending increases, pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay marriage, pro-illegal alien, and anti-Iraq surge. I emailed him four times, and I asked why he’s a Republican. I didn’t receive a response. I emailed three of his aides and asked why he’s a Republican, but I didn’t receive a response.
The conservatives we sent to Washington DC in 1994 betrayed the cause.
They are conservative until tempted by lobbiest dollars or constituents demanding handouts for re-election. They’re like the husband who is faithful until his coworkers drag him into a strip bar.
It takes more than conservative beliefs and principles, it takes strength of will, which most politicians lack.
Leave it to some foreign know-nothing to write this kind of blather about “transformation”. Conservatives may need to refine their strategies but their ideals and principles remain the same.
Then, we see which Republican is man enough to defeat Obama's proposals, bork his nominees, and ensure that his presidency is a miserable failure. That man becomes our champion in 2012.
Obama cannot possibly deliver all things to all the people who think his version of change will be exactly what they need. The ultra left has been out of power for a very long time now (they didn't really regard Carter and Clinton as 'pure' enough) and they will be extremely impatient with Obama if he doesn't propose the most socialistic ideas and freedom-destroying judges. The clown will find himself under siege both from our side, and from the crybabies on the left.
Sometimes you gotta go through a Jimmy Carter to get to a Ronald Reagan.
And regardless of political party, we now have “elected Rulers” and not leaders. So far from what our Founding Fathers intended.
That's a waste of time for the vast majority of them because a large number of them run as conservatives and them become infected with D.C. Swamp bug called power and exposed them for what they are: RINO's
Voting them out of a job is the only way to bring back conservative principles
That's the corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" that have the sheeple conditioned that they must vote in it.
There.
Fixed it for the doofus columnist.
Some people can't seem to see the difference.
I consider myself a conservative, and my direction has always been unwavering.
Just saying.
Sometimes you gotta go through a Jimmy Carter to get to a Ronald Reagan.
WRONG!!! WRONG!!! WRONG!!!
This "12th Imamism Mentality" is absolutely ridiculous. The Stealth muslim candidate the dnc is nominating would destroy this nation. An your strategy is absolute complicity.
obama is distancing himself from his farrakhan roots for self-preservation. those lunatics can't wait to shoot each other. elijah muhammed, malcolm x, and all these other noi people, CAN NOT STAND any other one being the HNC. jesse jackson's actions spoke volumes more than his words.
For some? LOL
Its become crystal clear in these last eight years. When it comes to conservatism within the GOP, there have been two distinct groups of Republicans. One group, the true blue, real deal conservative. The other group comprised of liberal and moderate Republicans who stood with Reagan in the 1980`s and Newt in the 1990`s --- and who now can be seen for what they really were. Shifting political centrists who rode the wave of a popular conservative agenda. Now that the GOP has fallen on hard times, its time for these wishy-washy centrists to abandon conservatism in favor of policies that more closely mirror the loyal oppositions leftwing agenda.
So be it.
Fact is, conservatism is not dead. The conservative movement is alive and well. The GOP is down and out, and for good reason.
Conservatives don’t find or look for new directions. Article is bogus.
Find a leader; the rest will follow.
Hmmm...
Political system is corrupt. Term limits need too be set at the ballot box if the polidiots that have infested DC and each state, county and city won’t.
Stick too your guns, vote with your dollars and never re-elect anyone based on promises. Vote based on their records and accomplishments if at all possible.
Just my opinion !
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