Can anyone name a solid GOP nominee for
President? After 8 years of liberal free-spending from the White House,
it might be time to think about a real GOP candidate for once.
Unfortunately, it seems that all of the candidates are just plain wrong
on at least one major issue or another. We’re not talking about
splitting hairs here, these are big issues. Abortion is just fine with
Rudy. Romney will pander to any voter block by supporting gay marriage,
among other things. You’d have to blame the US for the terror threats
against us to truly support Ron Paul (although eliminating the IRS
isn’t a bad option). McCain doesn’t even begin to approach any
semblance of Conservative thought.
What we need is a Republican revival.
Let’s lay some ground rules:
1) Use common sense.
2) Don’t betray basic party doctrine to try to win votes…jackasses do that.
That’s it. Game on.
President Reagan is often cited by Republican candidates who want to
be like him or by many of us who miss the likes of him in the White
House, but we need to remember that Reagan wasn’t great because he
talked like someone else. He was unique, and charismatic. Reagan
typified the patriotic American, and he did so because he just felt it
was right. He might have been an actor, but he wasn’t playing Reagan.
He was just being himself.
As a Conservative party, it is against our very nature to seek to
change. We’re more comfortable with tradition, values, and oftentimes
replicating successes of the past. Although we have many lessons to
draw upon from the past, it will be a new way of Conservative thinking
that pushes us back to victory in 2008 and beyond. This medium of
online discussion negates the old era of soundbite politics. The
liberal media establishment can no longer act as gatekeepers. Talk
radio revolutionized politics in decades past, and Republicans do so
well with that medium because you have to hold your own argument, and
have something intelligent to say. Emotional rhetoric requires the
liberal gatekeeper to give you the best edited soundbite, which only
works well on television. The internet will prove to work more
favorably for those of us who read between the lines. Discerning
Conservatives will once again show great promise.
I laugh at the media establishment that seems to take pleasure in
promoting the President’s low approval ratings (29%!). You’d think they
truly believe 71% of the American public is a card carrying member of
the Democrat party! When a pollster asks me, a Conservative Republican,
if I approve of the way President Bush is handling the war in Iraq, or
the nation’s direction, and I say “No,” it doesn’t mean he’s not being
liberal enough…he’s not being Conservative enough. Put 500,000 troops
in Iraq, secure the border with Iran, bomb the hell out of Tehran if
they don’t stop threatening to produce nuclear “fuel” (what sense does
it make for an oil rich nation to produce nuclear “energy?”…seriously,
think that one through). Cut taxes, eliminate the IRS and go with a
Fair Tax (it would be a nice change of pace), and don’t be afraid to
say “Jesus” every now and then (don’t think we forgot about the
“Holiday” Tree). Give Libby a full pardon, and criticize an overzealous
news media and a prosecutor out on a witch hunt. Those are the things
that would change my “no” to a “yes.”
We stand for self-reliance, independence, patriotic devotion to our
nation, traditional family values, and God. That’s our party, and
that’s how we roll. Let’s clean up the mess. When 96% of incumbants are
successful in re-elections, something is wrong. There should be some
real challenges to many of the national (and state) seats for our
party, even with a Republican in office.
It’s time to clean house. The primaries are where we will do it.
Game on. Let’s show up this time.
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