The battle for the GOP begins now…
It is of course a great thing that we are (it seems pretty certain) electing a black President. It’s just a crying shame it had to be this shallow, empty man, who has never shown a flicker of interest in wealth creation, whose head is stuffed with all the vapid nostrums of 1980s student leftism, and who seems – putting the most charitable construction on it – not to mind the brazenly thuggish tactics of his supporters.
Malkin agrees that the battle begins now:
This disastrous defeat can and will be laid at the feet of the Big Government corporate Republicans, who abandoned the Reagan Coalition, massively expanded government, and ignored the needs and values of regular, grassroots Americans. They protected Wall Street and K Street and forgot about Main Street.
Republicans will make a comeback only after they return to their conservative roots. That process starts with the replacement, with principled conservatives, of all of the Republicans’ elected Congressional leaders, as well as most members of the Republican National Committee and most state party officials. It’s time for new leaders, from top to bottom.
The battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party begins now.
My thoughts exactly.
The resistance starts now. No honeymoon, no compromise, no empty bipartisanship, only a complete commitment to sabotaging everything the democrats try to do.
Good heavens. That doesn’t sound very patriotic.
Perhaps if you all allowed the pro-life lunatics to fade into (richly deserved) obscurity, your party might be worthy of a little respect. I mean, it would clearly be for selfish, power-grasping reasons, and therefore unworthy of much respect, but it would be a start.
As it is, sucking up to every racist, misogynist, superstitious, bigoted cretin who can write an ‘X’ is making you ALL look…well. I’ll just say that anyone allowing a hoodless Klansman to scream “kill him” at his rally doesn’t have much room to whine about the “thugs” on the other side.
Good luck.
We need to bash Osama Nobama every day right into the ground.
Thats what the Dems did to Bush for 8 years.
I think its our patriotic duty.
I will not submit to a Marxist govt running the US.
Cara is right, but it will be hard. Many moderate conservatives and libertarians are long gone; independents (like me) are alienated. What’s left it the “rump”, represented by Paul: bitter, convinced that Democrats are anti-American communists, obsessed by social issues. Far from wanting small government, they want to use coercive power to control people’s private parts and to make the country more religious.
If the Republicans choose not to reform, but to stay as the party of white, rural, religious folks, they will remain an irrelevant minority on the national level longer than the Tories (14 years and counting). The Democrats have a chance to peel away pro-business and even neocons if they can fix the economy, avoid bloating government and taxes, and not make foreign policy blunders.
This is life or death for Republicans – I hope they make the right choice because we need a two-party dialogue, but right now it looks like they are choosing to go with Palin, “Into the Wild”. That story didn’t have a happy ending (sorry to spoil those who haven’t read the book or seen the movie!).