- if he were to articulate his policy preferences, this crowd would find much to discuss.

Jaibones on November 11, 2008 at 12:54 PM

Help us out JB. What the heck are they, anyway?

We’d never lose again.

We hear people clamoring for the same MoveOn/Code Pink tactics rather than fixing our own house and offering a positive alternative to the liberal government we’ll endure for the next two years, at least.

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I don’t see those two activities as mutually exclusive.

Lehosh on November 11, 2008 at 12:35 PM

This is a good point. We need a Moveon-type organization, or complex of organizations. It should be well-funded and respond within hours to whatever inanity the Dims manage to come up with. It should create simple, powerful commercials that question what the they are doing or illustrate the consequences of what they do or attempt to do. They should do this relentlessly.

Let’s face it. The Code Pinkers are stupid, obnoxious and frankly, so ugly they’re scary. We need a group of people that are attractive and ‘hip’. They shouldn’t just be popping up and screaming. They should be doing actions that mock the Dims. (We all know they have no sense of humor). Make fun of them. Do political theater. Have them take actions that amuse and educate. Get people thinking.

We shouldn’t just copycat. We need to build a better mousetrap.

We have reached a point in the history of this country where the advocates of freedom and liberty may have to suffer a violent trial-by-fire unseen since the Civil War to right the sinking ship-of-state. Put yourself in the place of a liberty-loving German who just witnessed the election of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany in 1932. What would you do if the Reichstag was burning and Kristallnacht had just exploded? There are just two choices left to us now; submit or resist. And neither Gingrich nor Steele can be expected to do anything but meekly submit.

blackelkspeaks on November 11, 2008 at 2:38 PM
If Obama creates the ‘national security force’ yes it is a resist situation. There would be NO doubts what his intentions are. But, let’s give it our best shot to rebuild and do it right and be patient. Ignoring the communist connection, the next 4 years is the GOP’s “Long March”.

The solution is to do both. We need to be rebuilding a party that has a chance of at least controling the leftward drift, but at the same time being prepared to resist, no revolt is the word, if they make moves to get things far enough along to remove the means for resistance. If Obama builds his KGB, it will be too late. The revolution must come before they disarm us and and outnumber us. Armed men are citizens; disarmed men are subjects.

… how we’ll make their families more prosperous, their children better educated, their parents more secure, and all of us healthier, safer and stronger.

Unless that how is get the government the hell out of the way, this is just more of the same.

The Democrats believe in public housing for ALL. That way we’d all be equal.

The Democrats continue their tradition of slavery through social programs designed to take away a persons motivation to excel. The Master has been replaced by the social worker delving out the rations to 100 families at near or below poverty level, while driving a luxury car and living in a fine home.

Okay, I have. Believe me, you want that guy in charge of the RNC.

Newt will be of more value cranking out Contract with America-type solutions for clean energy, health care, education, and taxes.

We have reached a point in the history of this country where the advocates of freedom and liberty may have to suffer a violent trial-by-fire unseen since the Civil War to right the sinking ship-of-state. Put yourself in the place of a liberty-loving German who just witnessed the election of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany in 1932. What would you do if the Reichstag was burning and Kristallnacht had just exploded? There are just two choices left to us now; submit or resist. And neither Gingrich nor Steele can be expected to do anything but meekly submit.

blackelkspeaks on November 11, 2008 at 2:38 PM

If Obama creates the ‘national security force’ yes it is a resist situation. There would be NO doubts what his intentions are. But, let’s give it our best shot to rebuild and do it right and be patient. Ignoring the communist connection, the next 4 years is the GOP’s “Long March”.

Please, you Gingrich people, get with the program. Michael Steele would make a magnificent GOP Chairman. He’s right on the issues, very libertarian. But more importantly, he’s got the right image, which Gingrich does not.

If this election taught us Rightwingers (conservatives and libertarians), anything, it’s that image does matter!

We need to desperately “hip-ize” the GOP. And Steele is the perfect choice to do this.

ericdondero on November 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM

I agree. However, I want Gingrich in there off the camera working with others on policy formation. We need both of these guys.

He does seem to evoke the qualities of Ronald Reagan.

“hip-ize” the GOP.
ericdondero on November 11, 2008 at 12:25 PM

LOL. Irony.

I like Mr. Steele who ran a good and innovative campaign in MD that I got to see from the VA side of things. He has a good, basic message and the party will have to find one and *stick to it*. May I suggest that trying ‘reformer’ this last campaign and running a fixture of DC at the top of the ticket really didn’t say ‘reform’? The R party has a number of good people out in the States and if it wants to offer a non-DC oriented position to start cutting back on government, then that basic message needs to be the lead. If you believe that the States really are the best place to figure things out, then getting abortion back to the States and trying to fix things *there* and keep it out of the hands of a SCOTUS that will be more liberal after 4 years is something you will *want* to do. If you do believe that local communities are set up better to handle education, then getting federal rules and regulations *out* of that is necessary. And maybe, just maybe, getting a party that agrees that its elected members will push for a 5 day workweek for *itself* in elected office, might just start to demonstrate some of those ‘conservative values’ that always seem to wind up in only one or two topics? Because the current Congress gets 4 day weekends… plus long vacations, and that is neither conservative nor representative of the American people. It stinks of acquiescent elitism.

That sort of agenda requires hard work and thought to carry through and make sure that a lean, basic and sturdy party platform that *every* candidate will run on is put forward. And mean it. If I want to vote for slackers, I will vote the D party, thanks… I’ve run out of parties to vote for and very few people that I can support politically. It can’t be done in two years… but in four you can have a very good contrast with the way things will have been run for four years and give an idea that you just might have an alternative to more, bigger, fatter and more powerful government.

We must articulate a positive vision for America’s future that speaks to Americans’ hopes, concerns and needs.

“‘e’s a liberal!!! he didn’t say nothin’ about god or the amero in there!!!!”