RNC Chairman’s Race Haunted by the Republicans’ Either/Or Problem
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To Shelby of WA
Shelby of WA,
Somehow I doubt seriously you are a moderate. Moderates are only democrats in disguise or disillusion. I can smell your alinsky-jujitsu, axlerod-astroturfing ways a mile-off.
Real, solid Christians are not judgmental and small-minded as you would like to think. Please do your soul a favor and do some homework on the basic tenets of Christianity.
The left are the intolerant among us.
Btw, the Lord gave man dominion over all creatures, great and small. Research the wolf culling program. The predated herds were under stress, fyi.
The campaign against Sarah continues in earnest. She must be doing something right.
She will have 2 possible paths to the White House is 2012. With the goings on in Chicago, Palin will be the change we are begging for in '12.
And you forget one critical element of the '08 campaign, Sarah was not allowed to be Sarah. In addition, many conservatives got fooled by barry or just stayed home this time around due to the top of the ticket dominated by Dem-Lite McCain.
Se y'all in '12. We will not be caught flat footed this time around.
Checkout TeamSarah.org
Palin/Jindal'12
Hey Roger
You'd better check Romney's "unblemished" track record again. do $50 co-pay abortions in massachusetts sound familiar? Oh wait, it's "unblemished" because he said he was against abortion when he was running for the nomination. that's not very conservative...and last i checked, the Republicans were the "conservative" party, even if they sold out this time. the religious (christian, not mormon) right will never go for aforementioned flip flopping, and that's why Romney will never place his hand on a bible and take the oath.
I'd personally rather have someone who's son would hang a dog than someone who would murder the unborn, wouldn't you?
GOP --Get Out and Push
Republicans are a party of rules. They like discipline and little dissent. That works when people are largely happy with the status quo. The Republicans were doomed from the start when Obama began picking up steam. People began throwing rules out the window and basically said "What the hell--let's throw long." And they elected Obama.
The GOP tried to intercept, surprising many by bucking their own rule of sticking to rules and putting up Sarah Palin as the VP candidate. Like Obama, no one ever heard of her. Her platform, however, was Old Shoe. Pro-gun, anti-abortion, and small-town, Christian values. The GOP basically regifted--take the same old product, but wrap it up in a new, pretty package.
Now they claim they have made a comeback by winning a seat in Georgia--the reliably red South--as well as Louisiana--to a corrupt Democrat. It seems now the strategy is to ride out the storm. Except they have no idea how bad the storm really is. The sun's gotta come out sometime, right?
THE PARTY'S TWO BIGGEST ROADBLOCKS
The first roadblock is having fundamental Christianity incorporated in its politics. Christianity is an upstanding religion, I'm a Christian myself, and proud of it. The problem lies with the growing ethnic diversity in this country. Many of these people are not Christian, and they have the right to practice the religion of their choice. It is not democratic to expect them to obey laws based on the Christian faith if those laws conflict with their own religious beliefs. And because the Christian base is largely fundamental, even fellow Christians - those who are moderate - shy away from the party.
The other roadblock is the radical right wing of the base. This faction has a reputation for attack dog politics and racism. 21st century American is tired of both, as this election clearly demonstrated. The extremely nasty rhetoric these people saturated online comment sections with will be remembered by the rest of the country, and the rest of the world, forever.
Both the fundamental Christians and the radical right are known for their extreme views and intolerance of views outside their own. This drives away the moderate and independent voters. [You can count me in this group of voters.]
To sum up, the Republican party needs to drop its current base entirely and establish a new one if it hopes to ever make a comeback.
We're poor little sheep,
Who have lost our way.
I think it's safe to say that the Bush/Reagan economic theories that you don't really have to pay taxes, and the corollary that arises from that that you don't have to limit spending, have been thoroughly discredited. Thus fiscal conservatives who were the traditional backbone of the party have switched to the more fiscally conservative Democratic party.
One has to question whether the religious right and the First Amendment are compatible. Packing the Supreme Court with Catholics hardly seems a "conservative" goal, but more like an attempt to force dogma on the general public. If there is a conflict between the teachings of the Supreme Court and Rome, which should take priority? I don't see too much hope for the future of a sort of Evangelical Christian Republican party combining church and state, but seeing what progress Bush has made in weakening the Bill of Rights and the apathy of the sheeple, I suppose some sort of a hybrid theocracy is possible.
Then there are the Bush wars, strongly supported by John McCain. Since Bush seems incapable of ever admitting any errors, the unpopularity of Bush warmongering and Republican support therefore will tarnish Republican image for a long time, except among a small base of neoIsraelicons, which brings up another issue of dual loyalties.
I think the strategy of the Republicans can only be to loot the treasury of about $15 trillion ($15,000 billion) and have this money held in trust by loyal Republican Wall Street bankers, so that Obama and the Democrats will by totally hamstrung by lack of funds when they come in. Their unpopularity will be so great by 2010, the Republicans will sweep back in.
The blinding of the Conservative
This is the continued mantra of the Big Government push to hide their true identity and to dance on the true conservative agenda, again.
Truth be told, the majority of Americans are social conservative. The problem is the continued dividing by the Elitist in Washington of the People. The left promises to give the working class the upper hand if they are in power. The right promises moral attributes while at the same time burying the working class from any assembelance of political authority over promoting a true free enterprize playing field. What a con it all is.
God & Country responds
Don L writes:
The idea that religious conservatives can't also be economically conservative is ludicrous.
Of course it's ludicrous. Mike Huckabee's got a populist streak, but he'd certainly call himself an economic conservative. Sarah Palin, comparing Barack Obama's tax plan to communism, would properly be called a religious conservative.
But I never said that religious conservatives can't also be economic conservatives. I said that no figure has emerged in the GOP that can bridge those two camps, who can appeal both to social and economic conservatives. Huckabee didn't. Palin didn't. McCain didn't. Giulaini didn't. Am I leaving somebody out?
Huckabee leads with Vertical Politics
Governor Mike Huckabee, is leading the GOP pack with his "Vertical Politics" drive. He's determined to lead this country "up", not to just the "right" or just to the "left".
This man has character, determination and has more love for his country and those on main street than any other candidate in the last 50 years.
http://www.freewebs.com/huckapedia
Don't let the liberal media spin doctors trick you into something. Take their opinion with a grain of salt. They are reporting their "agenda" not the real "news" that you can decide.
Visit the Mike Huckabee 2012 Offical Fan Club. 46 States of networking Huckabee Fans working day and night for the next 4 years to elect President Elect Mike Huckabee as our 45th President of the United States of America.
It's time to stop "window shopping" for your candidates and come on in and join the force. 4 years is required to set the groundwork and every Huckabee fan is needed.
It's time those that live on "Main Street" decide the future of America not those that live just on "Wall Street" that tanked the economy into depression.
Governor Huckabee is from you not above you. Take for example, his humbleness as Governor of Arkansas for 10.5 years. Each week he had a picture of a everyday ordinary citizen posted in the Arkansas capitol for his staff and everyone to see. Not his picture, but those on Main Street. He always told his staff, we must never forget who the real boss is. That's you!
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Correction to my previous post...
Correction to my 18:08 post:
Palin mocks her "friendship to ALL creatures large and small" by jabbing the guy next to her just as she says those words:
See this at 00:38 into the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0r7TJUTn1c
Sarah, we DON'T WANT YOU! You are simply too COLD and too INCOMPETENT TO EVER BE OUR PRESIDENT!
To: tahDeetz of GA -- PART 2
You write:
"The Rinos have a no real clue who Sarah is. She does not demand religious acquiescence, far from it."
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You betcha she DOESN'T! Look at Sarah's family dynamics-Sarah was preggers before wedding as is her teenage daughter! Can't you just see her under these embarrassing "circumstances" demanding that everyone else abides by a religious standard of family morals/values????!!! Uh, don't think so!
