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I think the GOP would be smart to listen to the advice of McCain's campaign manager. He did such a great job.
(Note: If it's not blatantly obvious, I'm being extremely sarcastic.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_188354.html
"Speaking publicly for one of the first times since the end of the presidential campaign, John McCain's campaign manager Steve Schmidt painted a dire portrait of the state of the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP has largely been co-opted by its religious elements."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_188388.html
"Rush Limbaugh read the torture memos and got inspired to perform a brief act of self-torture and strenuous exercise, just like the old-timey radio pornographers used to do back in the Roaring Twenties! It sounded exactly as dirty as this:"
LIMBAUGH: *SLAP* I just slapped myself! *SLAP* *SLAP* *SLAP* I'm torturing myself, right now! That's torture! *SLAP* According to these people. *SLAP* If there is another hit...ahhhhh - ahhhh - *sigh*...welllll *SLAP* *sigh* UHHHHHHB....wooooofff.
OK, so I'm definitely taking that whole section out of context. But, hey, at least I'm aware that the approved torture techniques went way beyond slapping.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_188235.html
"It's been two days now since angry conservatives hosted a series of tea parties across the country, and the fallout has some Republicans nervous.
While the anti-tax sentiment of the protests may have been sincere, the images pulled from the events have often been offensive, embarrassing, or politically problematic."
I guess Sarah may be their best bet.
I think the GOP would be smart to listen to the advice of McCain's campaign manager. He did such a great job.
(Note: If it's not blatantly obvious, I'm being extremely sarcastic.)
Someone should point out lots of folks didn't vote for McCain because he's a RINO. The Republican party is stumbling because so many of the folks in D.C., like McCain, Kay Bailey, Cornyn, etc. all have an (R) next to their name but spend like liberals. And let's not even touch on W's free spending...
The Republican party will be just fine if it gets back to fiscal conservativism.
That's Sarah Palin!! You betcha!!
you conservatives are hilarious!! when were they ever fiscally conservative??
After the conservatives converted to Cold War liberalism, they kinda lost their way. They had a real Taft-style Republican last year, but they didn't vote for him.
I've seen McDonalds managers run a better campaign than these bafoons.
I don't entirely blame them though, their candidate was a loser too.
...and I guess Hutchinson got the message that she would never be V.P.....
It didn't matter since the people were ready for a change from the republican way of doing things.
What part did they change Joe? remind me again?
From the war in Iraq to the economy to healthcare and World leadership.
McCain supported to continue Dubya's War in Iraq.....Dubya was a worse spender than McCain, despite the RINO rhetoric from the right, McCain supported the expansion of the largest gov'ment 'socialist' program since FDR...
Why won't Rush run for office? He'd be great for the base.
It'd be a paycut.
Hey I gotta this bridge in brooklyn, you could make a killing with this thing I tell you what I'm kinda down on my luck right now I'd be willing to sell it to you cheap.Whatta ya say.
Prosopopeia.
Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1561:
"We vnderstand these things to be spoken by a figure called Prosopopeia: that is, by the fayning of a person."
(J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 91)
natuarlly. He wouldn't be true conservative if he didn't value money over a brief stint serving his country.
Without the harness of power or an external enemy to unite them, conservatives never have been very congruous. Being out of power tends to accentuate the fault lines. The advantage in phony consensus being so greatly diminished in the minority, stifled grievances tend to come to the fore.
Last edited by Winehole23; 04-17-2009 at 11:44 PM.
It has already imploded. They are trying to find a voice again. The Republican leaders will now try to find a way to capitalize on the fiscal conservatism expressed in the tea parties without actually becoming fiscally conservative.
What needs to happen is libertarianism needs to fill the hole so neo-conservatism can die.
The GOP isn't the opposite of the left. Right now it is just a religious platform. Both the right and left spend us into deeper debt.
What is more likely to happen is the above... the GOP will claim to embrace libertarian ideals but just stay the same.
You coopt the ideology in order to screw the voter.
Translation: "He wouldn't be able to be a complete idiot and get away with it."
If you're a liberal and/or Democrat, then you should be ing in your pants over the state of the GOP. Besides, be happy and don't . Your guy won. No one likes a sore winner.
I didn't really take the time to read the posts her, however, by le...
The need to implode, dammit!
They have deviated from the idea of "The Republic." They have become a lite version of democrats and their socialism. If we are going to have socialism, then say lets have democrats and have it done quickly, and die quickly, rather than a slow death by having the same policies implemented slower.
I actually think that the current process will make political Republicans take a and look, and become what they once were. Conservatives. If that doesn't happen, then I say screw them and let the republican party die.
Where as democrats tend to look for an internal enemy and pit American against American.
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