Herman Cain calls for the creation of third party

im going to post something i put on QOTD, so, excuse me

“The most depressing thing about this election is seeing the squabbling amongst conservatives in its aftermath. People calling others “SoCons!” Others calling their fellow conservatives “RINOS!” It is distressing. The collapse of confidence and utter despair I see in the movement is the most distressing part of this entire debacle.

Over the next few weeks, people across the conservative movement are going to prescribe their solutions to the disaster that was last night. Most of it will be white noise.

The biggest take away for me is that we all need to get along. Some of us don’t like abortion. Some of us don’t want taxpayers to pay for it. Some don’t care at all. A good portion of us are okay with homos getting married (that includes me but, frankly, it isn’t anywhere near a top priority for me when we have 16 trillion in debt). Some are not okay with it one bit.

Regardless of our differences, it truly is time to come together. We are up against the wall. Stop blaming one another. We fought a good fight. God-fearing Americans donated money and time; not so religious conservatives did the same. Conservatives who believe in traditional marriage fought in this election, as did those who see gay marriage as acceptable.

We did a good job, but we couldn’t top the machine.

The postulations and suggestions in relation to the “Where do we go from here?” question will be numerous, and at times nauseating. During this time, let’s keep the following in perspective:

1) Although we lost, SIXTY MILLION of us voted for sanity. Until that number is 15, 25 million, I refuse to believe that this country is lost.

2) Obama has twice run on lowering taxes and the deficit. He continually runs as a moderate. That points to the fact that the majority of this country is centrist. We are not a socialist nation (in terms of ideology).

3) We own the House. I understand that John BONER inspires very little confidence (I have a hard [hehe pun] time getting excited [there I go again] over Boehner). With that said, they want to beat the Democrats in 2014. They will stifle him in many aspects of his agenda.

4) The honeymoons don’t last in second terms. Name me more than three presidents in the last fifty years that ended up with a better approval rating the second time around.

5) The Affordable Health Care act is still unpopular. As it becomes implemented, it will become even more unpopular.

6) The economy will not improve, and people will see this. I know many people here think that the Democrats have some sort of permanent majority, and that the electorate shift we have witnessed is insurmountable. Those people should know better. Nothing is ever a guarantee in politics. We should stop giving ourselves unnecessary agita over this election. It was bad, but not “career-ending,” if you will.

7) We should not engage in the burning of moderates, nor should we engage in the pillaging of social conservatives. We need both. To form a broad, national coalition, we NEED moderates in states that only moderates can win, and we need the strong conservatives to pull the herd (look at how Nancy Pelosi got things done with Blue Dogs vis a vis the HellCare Bill). In addition, we should welcome social conservatives, and not ostracize them. Black Democrats hate gays, and Latinos aren’t that into abortion, so let’s stop kidding ourselves that gay marriage and abortion are just game enders for the GOP. Tailor the message to the times, of course, but with that said, ridding ourselves of SoCons is a stupid, potentially costly idea.

The road to victory lies in a broad coalition that understands its commonality. The road to victory lies in shedding ourselves of the “Fifty plus one” strategy advocated by Karl Rove. Over the last thirteen years, the GOP has fallen back to its “Alamo”: the South and Midwest. We need to engage in every state, even if we lose. New York state went from having an actual presence in in the late 90′s/early 2000′s (with over 12 congressmen), to barely a whimper today (with less than half of the people we had back in the aforementioned time). We must fight the Democrats in every arena, even if we know we will lose. That is messaging.

The solutions to what we face are complicated, but they aren’t hard. I just hope that we can stick together and fight for this country. We have faced many bad things in our time; Hitler, civil war, a depression, the USSR, etc. If we come together, if we have principled leaders that also retain political finesse, we can get done what we need to do.

In the next four years, our times of scarcity will become even more severe, and that scarcity will have to be met with words of substance.

America has chosen another empty host to guide her through malaise. She will be incredibly chastened over the next two to four years. It is up to us to be there, waiting.

Walk away, or stay.”

blatantblue on November 8, 2012 at 12:23 AM