Now is the time for Republicans & conservatives to act.
It's time for Republicans to get over their bickering and unite for the future of a free America.
When Democrats are talking about nationalizing health care and energy, renogotiating free trade pacts and surrendering in the War on Terror, Republicans must get it together.
The Anchoress had this to say today:
Especially now that Nancy Pelosi - as incompetent a House Speaker as has ever held the post - has decided that Congress does not even have to send the president whole and complete bills (staggering arrogance!), if the GOP does not find the gumption to first DEMAND a revote and then do a 180 and represent the will of the people over their own fat, they deserve to lose everything, for the foreseeable future.There's more at The Anchoress.
Ed Morrissey explains it better than I can.
It seems to me that McCain and the GOP can pull out a last-minute rehabilitation of themselves before the election if they take a few really sensible steps:
1) Start demanding that America drill, process and refine her own energy resources (and consider serious alternatives and nuclear power) instead of being held hostage to foreign governments while China drills 75 miles off our shores.
2) Start making serious noise about the do-nothing, obstructionist congress that is completely out-of-order under Speak Pelosi. It wasn’t great before she got in; it is now a parody of our legislative branch.
3) Get in front of the cameras and start taking back a few narratives. Refuse to join in Obama Hosannas. Start talking about the scientists who are debunking global warming. Start to talk victory against terrorism and in Iraq and even (gasp!) take some credit and give the troops and president some credit for it too. After all, the Dems see the writing on the wall; they’re beginning to take some - they ain’t shy!
Thanks Larwyn
Related... It looks like John McCain is losing some conservative support.
We have one better than that one, I think.
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The GOP has turned their backs as Conservatism, plain and simple.
The GOP is too stupid (or lazy) to do anything like what's suggested by pretty much their whole base.
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be a slaughter in Nov.
The problem with this recommendation is that many have been doing just these recommendations for several years now yet every time we say something politicians such as John McCain publically state how either stupid, or bigoted or uncaring are those who say such things.
ReplyDeleteI fully support Conservatism, unfortunately the majority of politicians in the Republican Party care more about Centrism.
Have you noticed lately that the Republican Party is more interested in getting the Centrist vote by offering liberal policies rather than persuading Centrist voters that COnservativsm works.
This is the problem with the moderate, middle of the road voters; they never know where they are at at any given moment.
And when they get all confused and such they blame the Conservative for being stupid or bigoted or uncaring.
Please suggest ways to get McCain to follow these recommendations.
I appreciate the efforts however these recommendations should have been brought up way before McCain received the nomination.
ReplyDeleteMcCain and the Centrists are the one trashing Bush, trashing these recommendations ie his talk about lazy Americans as the reason we need Federally-funded, Catholic Church-defended illegal slave trade, embracing fraudulent Global Warming, trashing corporations for their 'greedy' profiteering.
How will you get McCain and his Republican Party to take up these recommendations?
Now that it is too late the Centrist Republican is now just beginning to realize what has happened?
Meanwhile Pelosi is filling up her Congress with COnservative Democrats who by the way for the Anchoress, offered platforms against illegal immigration whaich was further to the right than the COnservative position all the while the Anchoress was accusing Conservatives as bigots and racists.
Unbelievable.
You know at a certain point we have to stop with the myth that George Bush was a conservative or that McCain is ignoring conservatives in Congress or in the public at large.
ReplyDeleteUnless I missed the memo the wellspring that all Conservative thought springs from is fiscal restraint and a small government bias. Adhere to those principles and every other attribute of conservative thought becomes possible. Without those guiding lights all else is accidental.
But that said where are these supposed conservatives? Are these the conservatives in the House and Senate that just passed the farm bill? The same that lined up for the immigration policy? Or perhaps they are the ones at the earmark trough these last eight years?
Suffice is to say that there really aren't very many except in name and coincidence. Yes Bush has done some very important conservative things, but he is not a conservative. This is myth making at its best.
I'll vote for McCain, not because he is a conservative but because he is not the leftist that Obama is.
While we all sit around figuring out what to do, with editorials littering the landscape with idle solutions, I put this to you.
Had the repubs these last eight years balanced the budget and shamed earmark writers in the public square would they have lost seats in 06 and be facing the prospect of a veto proof Dem congress?
Instead they chose to ride the bridge to nowhere.
Considering that the Bush administration and some members of the GOP can't get it together to call a muslim terrorist a muslim terrorist its no wonder the Republicans aren't stepping up...
ReplyDeleteI have had it with the GOP they have turned into what the dems were 20 years ago it is time for a new party of true conservatism or we may just have to have a revalution to put the gov back to what our forfathers started
ReplyDeleteIf you can stand having a little support from a centrist, I'm with Fred and Michael S. Steele because these are people who express sanity.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at who the Democrats have been running, and winning with, in the House races. The leadership of the Democratic party is trying hard to jerk the country from the center to the left, and the country is resisting. There is an opportunity, here, for the Republican party.
Valerie
This is from the recent Mississippi elections:
ReplyDelete"Democrats pulled off the win by smartly nominating a conservative, Travis Childers, from a rural swing part of the district who disavowed Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and hit Mr. Davis from the right."
Democrats are filling the Congress with Conservative candidates while the Republicans are losing with Centrist candidates.
The GOP believes Centrism is the way to win elections however Democrats are winning by running Conservatives.
Thompson is sane and understands this yet only now the Center is catching on after they nominated a Centrist presidential candidate.
When I spent the time GOTV for Fred Thompson the Centrist was nowhere to be found; they were behind McCain becasue they thought he was the only one who would fight the war in Iraq properly.
Well, while McCain was saying he would win the war in Iraq, Gen. Petreaus was busy winning the war in Iraq.
Now, Republicans are stuck with basically a Liberal Hawk who trashes Conservatives yet boasting just how wonderfully bi-partisan he is since the Center is so important.
Conservatives, meanwhile, are voting for congressional Conservatives into the Democrat Party.
How will we be able to get McCain to believe Thompson, when McCain believes the Centrist voter?
Republicans have completely lost their way after being led for 8 years by a simpleton named Bush. A man who has a total inability to articulate his position on affairs.
ReplyDeleteImagine Reagan's speaking ability, and now imagine Bush stumbling through a simple speech, makes me sick to my stomach.
With that said, the only entity on earth that has a lower rating than Bush does, is the Democratic led congress, filled with the most pathetic humans in the U.S.
Face it everyone, both parties have collectively led us down the road to serfdom.
Seriously, the "conservative" presidential candidate has already shilled for "La Raza" AND, worst of all, Anthropogenic Global Warming!!!
We're about a decade away from a 1 world government consisting of all developed nations. Get ready, they'll be coming for the guns right off the bat.
"Republicans have completely lost their way after being led for 8 years by a simpleton named Bush. A man who has a total inability to articulate his position on affairs."
ReplyDeleteRight it's all Bush's fault, sure; nothing about the sabotage by Democrats.
The needs repeating here: "I'll tell you my impression. We really in this last election, when I say we...the Democrats, That if we won the Congressional elections, we could stop the war. Now anybody was a good student of Government would know that wasn't true. But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress, we sort of stretched the facts...and people ate it up." Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-PA)
Now who is the simpleton?
"...Now who is the simpleton?..."
ReplyDeleteI didn't vote for a democrat.
Apparantly you missed the point; if Bush had any speaking capabilities the Repubs would have won this information war a long time ago, but he didn't, so they lost.
"Apparantly you missed the point; if Bush had any speaking capabilities the Repubs would have won this information war a long time ago, but he didn't, so they lost."
ReplyDeleteApparently, you still don't understand.
Directly after 9/11/2001 I understood Bush perfectly as long as I actually listened to what he said in his speeches instead of getting my information from revisionist MSM.
And, I once used to be one of those 'brain-dead' liberals who used to believe that 'Rush Limbaugh was a right-wing nut case out to destroy America' without ever hearing one of his radio shows.
Newflash: contrary to what you hear Bush is not a dictator and does not control journalists or the Democrat Party's news organizations (you know NY TImes, LA times, Boston Globe, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS and Jon Stewarts "News Hour".)
Journalists and news organizations, however, are dictating the narrative hence the reason why Obama, possibly the most inept and deceitful candidate running, is America's Messiah!
How obvious does it need to be?
Well, if conservatives do not back McCain, then what is the alternative - Hillary or Obama - Good Gracious me; talk about cutting off one's nose to spite your face.
ReplyDelete"...Newflash: contrary to what you hear Bush is not a dictator and does not control journalists or the Democrat Party's news organizations..."
ReplyDeleteYou're preaching to the converted and you're completely missing my point.
The MSM hated Reagan more than anyone, but none of that mattered because he was "the great communicator". Reagan was a genius at getting his point across. He explained his position and people listened and believed.
Bush is a horrific speaker and it really hurt his cause, that's my point.
Let's get some facts straight. George W. Bush is NOT an horrific speaker. He has given some of the BEST state of the Union speeches (and others) I have EVER heard in my 53 years.
ReplyDeleteThe media did not have Reagan derangement syndrome. There was no "net" and none of the rude, crude global socialists banding together through the web. The clinton syndicate was just in its infancy and all in all there just wasn't the incredible shamelessness of the media in the '80's. How did conservatives get into the White House at all?
The compassionate conservative, GWB, got them there. And, the images of Newt Gingrich almost kept us OUT of the White House in '00.
And frankly, I still have not received an answer as to why a pure conservative did not run in '08? No money? No votes? No backers?
Or was it that the internal polls said something different?
Comimg in second in November is meaningless. So Mr. Hawkins, if republicans lose in November, you will have to explain to my children and grandchildren why you sabatoged their futures by allowing the Black Liberation Theologists and radicals/millitants to get into our House. Dispicable.
I have never seen a greedier bunch in my life.. except for the global socialist dems. Same coin, just the opposite side, imho. Disgusting. It is immoral to allow the democrat nominee into the White House,imho, Mr. Hawkins.
The problem for the Republicans is that the Bush administration is driving the economy into the toilet. Their blundering and arrogant foreign policy has turned the Middle East into a nest of vipers, and cost hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars. People are turning of the GOPs message becuase they have eight years of failure. Give the Dems a chance. They can't be any worse than the current dunce in the Whitehouse.
ReplyDeleteBush wrecked the economy? When the Democrats took control of the Congress in 06 they told a lot of lies...among them being the lie that they would bring down gas prices. Thus far, gas has doubled along with oil since Nov 2006. The economy was growing at over 3%, now it is less than half that.
ReplyDeleteSo it seems to me that the Democrats had their chance and blew it.
And if John Hawkins wants to sit home and pout in November he can, but I won't. I will vote for McCain and if some of these cry babies on the right don't like that choice then maybe they should have worked harder at coming up with a viable alternative.
anonymous:
ReplyDeleteWhat a charming name you have. What hundreds of thousands of lives? Are you referring to the debunked Lancet Report? That is propaganda.
And the truth is the Mid East was always a haven for vipers. And now there are few less of them...Saddam and his psycho offspring and Zarqawi being among the ones the world is better off without.
"Bush wrecked the economy?"
ReplyDeleteYes. It's called cutting taxes while in a time of war. Not clever.
"What hundreds of thousands of lives?"
The hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis as a result of the invasion. You may need to switch off FPX to hear about them.
Are you referring to the debunked Lancet Report?
I had no specific report in mind. It is a common assessment that hundreds of thousands of people have died. Again, you may need to switch off FOX to hear about them.
If you know of a report that states the death toll is significanltly lower than that, please produce it. I will wait for you to do so.