Akzed on May 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM

Perhaps you don’t realize it… but the Republican party is hemorrhaging members to Independents and losing donations BECAUSE it isn’t acting in the interests of the majority of its base, who are strongly conservative.

You cannot successfully legislate morality, so teach it to your kids and leave it out of the courts and law books.

Spiritk9 on May 4, 2009 at 10:50 PM

You DO realize that laws attempt to legislate morality. You know… the whole do not murder, do not lie, do not steal type stuff.

Or maybe you don’t…

So Christopher Buckley admires someone who he claims is going to bring the country to its knees. I must ask why? What is to admire??

Dollayo on May 5, 2009 at 2:51 AM

I agree with your assessment. This is akin to admiring a serial killer for his/her cleverness.

spending will bring this country to its knees.

Which explains why Barney Frank is such a supporter…

The One pays lip service to grandma and white people generally while holding a man crush on America haters — even in other nations.

We value allies who stand with us. Look at the conclusions shown in the apology tour.

We value democracy. Look at Acorn. Is it any surprise that he has no problem glad handing dictators who have destroyed free elections?

We value our Constitution. Look at the next Justice.

No, that’s not what I’m saying. Why not a party that “Reagan” Dems could join? What about all those Dems who won “conservative” districts. Why not a selection of parties that many current independents would feel comfortable joining versus boycotting the current duopoly?

Fragmented third party efforts are doomed to fail BUT a consortium of folks from a selection of niche parties banding together to heavily fight the duopoly with TV ads, etc to let our countrymen know that they are fighting to provide true political choice and to do battle to break the rules and laws that were created for a single purpose — maintaining the status quo.

if the party would content itself with that all-important goal, and not instead fight doomed skirmishes over gay marriage, stem-cell research, abortion and creationism, Ten Commandments in the courtroom, and other such issues that the country has by and large already decided upon.

Knucklehead Buckley

What I want to know Mr. Hack, is why did YOU fail to content YOURself with that all important goal?

F’n cocktail elitist hypocrite.

conservative talk show hosts branded John McCain a RINO for objecting to torture or advocating campaign finance reform

Mark Salter

This is a hack job on the reasons McCain is a RINO.

If you need to do this in order to support your argument, you haven’t one.

From what little historical political discourse I know, there was always a good measure of vitriol — so I ignore the likes of MSNBC and I don’t watch. That handles my present revusion. But my conclusion is that it is inadequate to merely change the channel from a network with pathetic ratings. That network, and the entire biased media are symptoms.

Any serious observer can see that the groupthink of our universities and pop culture have landed a generation of opinion makers whose formative evaluations inclued axiomatic conclusions about the evil of white Christian civilization and the concomitant victimhood of anyone representing oppositional influences. This has been growing and developing for decades.

The only hope of the conservative movement at his bleak juncture is a transformational event involves the failure of the latest collection of liberal programs and a political climate where conservatives will have the opportunity to exploit it, much like the democrats exploited the great depression.

Does anyone here believe that meetings in pizza shops in Northern Virginia can stem the movement that is persistently supported by opinion makers and every growing demographic group in the country? The fromidible troika of class envy, categorizations of victimhood for ever growning numbers of groups and the demonization of American economic or military achievement is the future program of the left. The way to stop it is to move opinion to a respect for our historical success. And even if this is achieved, pulling the nation from the morass after assuming power will be no mean feat.

crashland on May 5, 2009 at 7:13 AM

“Let’s chop the Republican Party into five little pieces, none of which could ever win a majority anywhere.”

That’s what you’re really saying, though you don’t mean to.

His bowling average and IQ would have immediately been compared in Twitter messages demanding his resignation.

You mean they’re NOT the same?

His bowling average and IQ would have immediately been compared in Twitter messages demanding his resignation.”

You mean they’re NOT the same?

Cindy Munford on May 5,2009 at 6:42AM.

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deployed,but,I couldn’t remember when!

Thank-You for posting it!:)

…as long as Obama was in charge, and the nation were on it’s knees before him, in his world all would then be right.

JellyToast on May 5, 2009 at 7:34 AM

As long as Obama was in charge, and the nation were on it’s knees before him, they (MSM, pols, Hollywood, etc.) would tell us it’s the necessary growing pain of their Utopia in the making, and be grateful for it.

What we have today is a President who pandered to the left while lying to gain the moderates. This is one reason many Democrats participated in the TEA parties.

If we had parties that actually stood for something rather than trying to wiggle and squirm to accommodate the broadest number of voters, it would allow all of us to make better choices.

I’m a Republican, always have been but not necessarily forever, but no more money to the party. Not a dime to the party that supported Specter. As I’ve stated in another thread, I’ll give money to candidates but never again to one of the parties.

If you go into a fight without hope of victory, your death is assured.

Without a big tent the Progressive Party you mentioned would run over everyone else. Because, being progressive is their religion, it is their political ideology, and it is their social status. It is all of those things to them…so while everyone else is going off in their diverse directions with their pet causes all they care about, the Progressive Party will run everything and everyone.

Unless there is a coalition on the other side. And that coalition would be a big tent party.

Andrew Ward, “Right now, the Republican Party is the party of Southern white males, and that is a shrinking group. You are never going to win elections if you cannot compete north of the Mason-Dixon line or west of the Rockies.”

That’s the enemy speaking. He’s giving us advice. Let’s listen.

Were I in charge of the Republican Party, I would send out a coded text message saying: REMAIN CALM. SHUT UP. THIS IS GOING TO BLOW UP IN THEIR FACES.

So, Christopher Buckley, admitted spoiled brat who bit the hand that’s fed you all along, STFU. Take your own medicine.

White Americans remained the silent majority, and look what that begat. After throwing up in OUR face, Chris wants us to get down on all fours, or Cinco de Quatro, and let Obama-Pelosi-Reid continue mounting and raping us. This bastard reminds me of the advice given to girls in the 1970′s from Democrat dads; if you’re being raped, relax and enjoy it.

Christopher smug-butt prejudiced antagonist just loves to hate Southern white men, selecting them for public ridicule because its the fashion, always has been in New England.

Given that the GOP is the big tent, we’re not making Southern whites second class citizens in order to placate New England that never fought the South in order to free slaves, but in order to enslave the whites as well as the blacks.

All those Republicans in fly-over America, we just don’t count enough to even be recognized, let alone abused by Christopher. So according to him, we should shut up and be glad that it’s the South being attacked, again.

Social Conservatives, you’ve had your turn in the front seat driving. Now put on your fiscal conservative uniform and dig in for united battle against Socialism.

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That does not mean they should turn their back on everything else, but the message that the country can not support this kind of open ended spending is a good one. That is something all sorts of people can relate to.

Our current major parties are two sides of the same damn coin. A pox on both their houses. How they hell did they end up with a monopoly on political power?

Why not an Evangelical party that focuses on issues like gay marriage, abortion, evolution etc? Those who hold those issues as paramount have the right to have those views represented.

Add to that a new Liberty party (the current libertarian party seems to have been taken over by kooks) which fights for personal liberty issues like ending the failed war on drugs, allowing free people to make their own choices over who to marry, standing up against oppressive police actions etc etc etc

Toss into the mix a Conservative party which is intent on reducing the size and associated cost of big government.

Finally a Progressive party, I think we all know what that means.

Why bother with a big tent that tries to accommodate everybody? On specific issues where the goals of these parties overlap coalitions would be formed to get the legislation through.

One of the oldest rules in politics is: If your opponent is committing suicide, don’t interfere. So were I in charge of the Republican Party, I would send out a coded text message saying: REMAIN CALM. SHUT UP. THIS IS GOING TO BLOW UP IN THEIR FACES.

From a guy who voted Democrat we should take advice?

It is going to blow up in their faces, but be quiet?

No. Let them know who is on the right side- constantly.

My brother in law went to work for the Justice Dept right out of Grad school. He spent several places in lovely places like Columbia and Guatemala. He does not deserve to be purged. He has done his job, no matter who was in the White House and he has done it well.

Obama will wreck the country and people who love confrontation and thrive on it, do not want it to end.

But I do think that one reason we don’t see more people getting involved in politics and political discussions is because of that need to be confrontational. In fact one of the things that bothered Republicans about Bush was his refusal to roll around in that gutter. He just would not do it.

There are a lot of regular, normal people who want no part of all that.

It seems to me that California’s economic and fiscal disaster should be providing a teachable moment for the country: Don’t be like California.

Loxodonta on May 5, 2009 at 1:49 AM

Your point is right on target……..

…….. but just like the problem of illegal aliens on our economy, schools, health care system, and political demographics, we have been screaming at the top of our lungs for years for help,

……….. never to come, even with President Bush and a Republican held Congress after 9/11.

It is going to take so much more, a total cleansing of not only the political class, but the bureaucrats, the media, the unions, what is taught in our schools, the ability to farm our own energy resources, putting to rest this total hoax of climate change, I mean the whole ball of wax…….

…… we can not wait any longer.

Seven Percent Solution on May 5, 2009 at 2:44 AM

“never to come, even with President Bush and a Republican held Congress after 9/11.”

Actually, all the more likely to come, precisely because it is what WE WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, SURVIVAL ON BOARD THE CONSTITUTION.

We acknowledge our past wrongs and have refined our platform to minimal government and maximum Constitution urtext.

WE have every right to our own rebirth. No naysayer is going to deprive us of our Rights because we weren’t perfect. We ARE holding our elected officials accountable now. THAT is why Specter fled. THAT is why the progressive Lefists in both parties are pointing their corrupt, intolerant and hypocritical fingers at us, blaming us for their own faults. We ARE the big tent moderate conservative Reagan Constitutional GOP; just listen to everyone having their say for proof.