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First, we were beaten by a skilled politician who is not a Marxist, not a Muslim, and not a danger to the country. It’s a good bet that he’ll win a second term if he is as good at running the government as he was at running his campaign. He did not get my vote but I wish him well as I do any new President. He will be my President come January.

Second, D.C. is not the center of the universe (despite what its denizens and courtiers believe) – it is only the seat of the federal government. We need to stop obsessing about D.C. and start building a ground game to win at the state and local levels on state and local issues. Do you believe in federalism or not? If we can’t win local elections in California, New York, or Illinois, then we are always going to have a small margin of error when it comes time to electing a President.

Third, as a party we should stop looking to elected federal officials to be our Presidential nominees. We should be looking for good, qualified people to send to D.C., not accept the ‘next in line’ old GOP custom that gets us a Bob Dole, John McCain, or even George H.W. Bush as our nominee. I’m not knocking them as men, they are fine men. None of them, though, believed that a good, bare knuckled election fight. They were too accustomed to the ways of Washington D.C.

For those folks that are spewing nonsense about moving more to the center I will point out a couple of cogent facts here.

The people that lost were primarily the moderate Republicans. Dole, Sununu, Shays, etc all got beat. The conservative Republicans generally kept their seats.

Many of the new Democrats are conservative Democrats. We have more “Blue Dogs” in Congress than we have seen in some time. The Democrats are finding more success being conservative than we are finding being moderate. They are beating us at our own game.

So for the folks that keep insisting we go more to the center, put that in your pipe and smoke it. If we would have stayed conservative instead of listening to you guys, we would still have a majority in Congress.

Hawthorne on November 6, 2008 at 1:44 AM

Agreed. Becoming more like the Democrats will not help politically. It will simply marginalize more and more conservative, common sense folks…

Tell me one ONE conservative issue that has worked in this country.

stefystef on November 5, 2008 at 8:26 PM

Besides the U.S. Constitution?

Easy. Tax cuts. Tax cuts bring in more revenue. The problem is spending…

Also, will Fox ever let an opposing view appear against Hiraldo’s rants on amnesty. He just shows up at times and starts.

Did you say Ann Coulter?

She is a goddess but, no, I mean someone with a lot of knowledge and depth.

IlikedAUH2O on November 6, 2008 at 6:58 AM

Well, Michelle Malkin, until Geraldo threatened her physically, and O’Reilly was to much of a punk to dress Geraldo down.
That should have shown everyone O’Reilly’s true colours.

Did you say Ann Coulter?

She is a goddess but, no, I mean someone with a lot of knowledge and depth.

Why didn’t the Republicans have President Bush do the “Concession Speech”? Obama never ran against McCain….

So far the best thing to come from this election is the freedom to walk away from the MSM and esp. those crusty old Fox allstars, like Mort and Fred. I thought I was going to barf watching them all patting themselves on the back last night- I guess Nina Easton has hated McCain ever since he beat Romney.

Actually some moronic people do-like the folks who protest at abortion clinics or my friend who is such a hard-up Christian that he had troubles voting for Romney simply because he had changed his position on social issues and was a “cultist” (Mormon)

That’s a part of the party that we will (unfortunately) need to cut loose from because they (single issue or primarily social voters) have become a baggage.

For example Bush’s push for the Defense of Marriage Act….or how about the Terri Schiavo fiasco that Congress got involved in?!

Again, I’m pro-life from conception until natural death but that was a personal issue that got insanely (and asininely) overplayed for ages! It is also our outgoing President’s biggest failure in my opinion…he focused way too much on this menial bullcrap that has next to nothing to do with the survival of our nation as an economic power

*He could have lifted the Executive Ban on Drilling Offshore post-Katrina but took until July of this year to do anything

*He could have (and should have) asked more people to join the military post 9/11….and once Iraq got put in the shitter (around mid 2004ish) started drafting folks and tossed Rumsfeld then. A lot and I mean a lot of good people would have probably not died had the strategic change occurred in 04 instead of 07

*Immigration Reform…don’t get me started. Just visit Michelle’s site for some info

*Rampant cronyism and utter cluelessness: Think “Good job Brownie” or “ICE Princess Juile Myers”

Finally….Thank you President George W Bush for completely and totally screwing over the Republican party and brand in a manner not seen since Richard M Nixon.

Now then “about-face!” on these RINO critters…hunt ‘em down and toss em out! The rest of us…”Forward March!” into the new, true, Federalist Conservative Republican Party

A Axe on November 6, 2008 at 1:33 AM

To put it another way, if we look at the % of people who went to vote and voted for President we get:

% of voters who voted for President

1996 90.2%
2000 93.7%
2004 96.0%

and, if one assumes a total 125 million votes cast for President this year (66 BHO, 59 McCain), and 137 million who voted

2008 91.2%

if you use the 148 million figure I got from somewhere for the total who voted this year, you get

2008 84.5%

But it doesn’t really matter for the 2008 stat, Presidential voting this year was either one of the lowest in history (with my 148 number) or just not very impressive and much lower than 2004 or 2000 (with the 137 total voter number) and, without any question, broke a trend of increasing Presidential participation by voters. Usually, trends like this that are broken merit some attention. This one probably goes right back to the shamnesty debacle.

Ideas here:

1.) Close the primaries….period! You must be registered Republican no earlier than 30 days prior to the primary in your state….kapeesh?

2.) Put Iowa…..well somewhere in the middle for the love of God! I mean honestly it’s caucuses are a joke and if the Huck-a-shmuck can pull out a win there simply by saying “Yea I believe in Jesus yall!” then you know something’s gotta change!

3.) All of the social cons are going to HATE me for this one but here goes: take abortion, gay marriage, and other personal moral choices OUT of the national political scene and return them to the states (where they belong) for Chrissake. Note the passage of California’s gay marriage ban for a good example.

If you really and truly believe in SMALL CONSERVATIVE FEDERALISTIC GOVERNMENT than you will admit (however belatedly) that it should have zero and I mean zero business telling you what you can or can’t eat, produce, purchase, smoke, ingest, do sexually, etc at the Federal level.

I am a strong Catholic and believe that both abortion and homosexuality are morally wrong. But I also believe (and freely acknowledge) that God gave us free will for a reason: namely that we would in the end chose His side for Good rather then the other for Evil. So I say very simply leave Gay Marriage in the hands of the States (where it belongs), return Abortion to the States (where it belongs), do the same for (brace yourselves here) marijuana, school choice, vouchers, and a whole host of other issues.

Allow folks to exercise their free will to give the legalization (and degree of) abortion, homosexual behaviors, drug use, school choice, vouchers, etc a simple up or down vote via referendum, initiative or State Constitutional Amendment…and then if you don’t like it…..

DRUMROLL PLEASE

MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE!

People (and businesses) already move into/ or out of areas that have higher taxes, better schools, more or less crime, etc etc. What is so hard about coming to grips with the fact that if you don’t like abortion or don’t want your offspring to get one simply move to another state that is more in line with your values. Hell, the taxes will probably be lower and schools better too

SgtSVJones on November 5, 2008 at 11:02 PM

I’m with you, Sarge. Especially point number 3.

FED-ER-AL-ISM!

Learn it, know it, live it.

Does anybody actually believe that overturning Roe will actually wipe out abortion in all 50 states? It won’t, but that was never the point of overturning Roe, the point of overturning Roe is to return the legislation regarding abortion back to the States, rather than having them imposed upon the entire nation via judicial fiat.

Gay marriage, civil unions, what ever: Matter for the individual states. And y’know what? The States, have a pretty good track record there! The only States where you have same sex marriage are in states where it was imposed by the State Supreme Courts.

Most stuff is a matter for the individual states. By contrast there are very few things the federal government should be concerning itself with. Some regulation of buisness and trade is required. That’s something for the federal government to do. National Security: The Federal Government’s primary role as far as I’m concerned. Issuing currency: definately. Interstate Law Enforcement: most certainly! Interstate highways and their maitinence: absolutely! Immigration control: Should be an intrinsic part of National Security!…just to name a few on the short list. There’s obviously more that the fed should be responsible for, but never should it be in any area that the Constitution specifically relegated authority to The States.

Fiscal conservatism, a strong national defense, and a truck load of Federalism!

That’s the party we NEED to be.

That’s the party people will vote for because deep down that’s the type of government most people WANT.

Hawthorne on November 6, 2008 at 1:44 AM

Excellent points!!! This is the exact reason why we true conservatives didn’t want to support a RINO in McCain. Well, we tried it their way and we now get Obama and possibly 3 liberal justices on the supreme court that will skew our country to the left for 20+ years. Never again! We will reject the RINO’s and only support real conservatives. We will start this process by excoriating McCain until he leaves office. Along with him, we will expose his staffers so they will never again have an influence in a republican campaign.

The people that lost were primarily the moderate Republicans. Dole, Sununu, Shays, etc all got beat. The conservative Republicans generally kept their seats.

Many of the new Democrats are conservative Democrats. We have more “Blue Dogs” in Congress than we have seen in some time. The Democrats are finding more success being conservative than we are finding being moderate. They are beating us at our own game.

So for the folks that keep insisting we go more to the center, put that in your pipe and smoke it. If we would have stayed conservative instead of listening to you guys, we would still have a majority in Congress.

A Axe on November 6, 2008 at 1:33 AM

The increases in Pres vote totals from election to election are:

1996-2000 10%
2000-2004 16%
2004-2008 3.5% (and that’s adding 4 million to the total now)

Yeah, I can see the explosive growth in total Presidential votes. Very impressive.

That is a gain of 3.5 million votes.

I don’t quite remember how the liberals liked to do it, but calculating the cost to the world of BHO’s election seems to be running around 5 or 6 trillion, already – given our BHO drop, today, and asia’s fall down the well, tonight. That’s one big bill … just for the appetizer. I can’t wait until he starts articulating his great new tax ideas and restraints on our productivity. That shouldn’t cost more than 8 trillion when he says it …