Posted on 08/27/2010 9:50:21 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Well, after I yelled at people and defended them and trusted them, huh?
This is my personal Rubicon. Either we have a democracy or we do not. If we do not have a democracy, I won't be forced to choose between one party's anti-democratic leaders and another's.
Lisa Murkowski, in all likelihood, lost. That is how we score things in America. We take our cases to the people, who are, supposedly, sovereign.
If the NRSC continues attempting to thwart the sovereignty of the people, I'm personally out, and I don't care anymore if Obama's Democrats win. I really don't, and I'm not being ironic. This isn't a parody post: This is real.
It's not that I'm so personally invested in Joe Miller. I am, but not that much. He came on my radar late.
It's that I'm personally invested in democracy. 90% of the reason I am anti-liberal is that they are anti-democratic. I fled the insanity of liberal tyranny for the conservative movement for this reason, first among all others (and all others aren't very close).
If the Republican Party is a royalist party, then I flee them as well, and I confess my error: The more radical elements of the Tea Party are right, third party is the only way possible, even if it means living under socialist rule for a generation.
Lisa Murkowski is attempting to run as a representative of a different party. She is not then a Republican. Helping her is thus contrary to the NRSC's mission. She can either attempt to capture the Republican Party's nomination through recounts and such, and swear in a written document to not pursue another party's nomination, or she can stop using the services and influence of the NRSC.
She cannot do both. Either she seeks the Republican nomination, in which case she will abide by the will of the Republican voters, or she can seek another party's nomination, in which case she is not entitled to any assistance from a party she has departed and declared to be her opponent.
John Cornyn represents a red state, a state whose voters generally want more, not less, conservative politicians in other states.
Would his voters in Texas like to know that his primary goal is not the furtherance of the conservative movement but defeating the Jim DeMint conservative faction? Would his supposed constituents in Texas like to know he's really more concerned with maintaining a block of like-minded Senators in Maine and Alaska than furthering the goals of most of the people he supposedly represents?
Congratulations. You win the "most clueless post of the month" award for August.
Mind-boggling, ain’t it...? ;)
Just for drill, go back and count the number of times that word appears in the piece in question then get back to me!
See post #10.
We are not a pure democracy. A republic is a form of democracy none the less. It is no more true to say we are not a democracy than to say we are. The United States has a democratic form of government where the ultimate power resides in the voters which is the basis for any democratic form of government.
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There. Now Bigun's post is accurate. :-)
I’m under the desk. Let me know when its over.
Better idea: you go back and actually read the article in its entirety -- with an eye on its actual topic, mind, and NOT (as you pettishly persist in doing, for whatever bizarre, emotionally stunted reasons) mindlessly counting the number of times the word "democracy" appears therein -- and then get back to me, champ.
*snort*
We are not a pure democracy. A republic is a form of democracy none the less. It is no more true to say we are not a democracy than to say we are. The United States has a democratic form of government where the ultimate power resides in the voters which is the basis for any democratic form of government.
The idea being floated is that the existing (L) candidate would resign and Lisa could then be the ‘replacment’ for the (L) party. A legal way to sidestep the will the of the people.
You are correct about the “My ego is bigger than the party” law.
It helps that every group, newspaper, organization and homeless person who counted the votes, had to admit Bush won.
Apparently, he has reasons to believe that when she loses, she intends to make a third party run to try spoil Joe Miller’s chance in the general election.”
Before long, this will be known as the Lieberman/Crist maneuver.
First time for everything. ;)
If Miller wins you can bet he will suddenly understand the reasoning behind the NRSC’s function to support incumbents.
#53.
We're a Democratic Republic. Ultimately all the laws of the land, up to and including the Constitution, may be modified by 'we the people'. The ultimate power lies with the people, all of whom are enfranchised.
We are not an "Aristocratic Republic", as Rome was, for instnace.
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