Now is the begining for the true conservative's
What is done is done, but i do not believe that means there should not be some finger pointing.
First:I believe that we did not have a chance with Mccain as our standard bearer, he was and is a blue blood republican not a conservative and because of that we did not have a chance.
Second: In the last thirty years the only times the GOP has had large victories is when they had and supported conservative idea's (80 reagan,94 contract with America, 2000 Bush) ask yourself what was the one thing that truly difined these victories.. Tax cuts and smaller goverment.) now granted Bush then went on to spend like a democrate but the first election was about tax cuts. This is our winning issue. Hell Obama used that tactic against us "95% of american's will get a tax cut".
Third: I can not beleive that our country wants to go into a western European model of socialism. As a party we did a miserable job of contrasting ourselves, it took a plumber in Ohio to even bring the topic up. Why did this happen?
1. we have forgotten the faces of our fathers the founding father's that is. we have forgotten they lessons they taught us. we no longer teach there words or promote their idea's
2. It is politically easier to spend taxpayers money, then to tell the american's that we are out of money and need to tighten our belts, we have lacked the political courage to address the tough issues.
3. we thought that we could bring Democrats to our side, and that we did not need our base
In short we forgot who we are, we can not win as the party that will spend less than the democrat's and expand goverment less than the democracts. that is a recipe for being the loyal minority.
Untill we remember who we are we will not win again. Now is the time to find the conservative canidate in our states support them fund them,Blog for them. It is time to start over and we need to be the vocal supporters for conservatism.
On this dark night watch these vidio and get your spirit back so that tommorow we can fight again. That is what Reagan would do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynQSSNlYuY&feature=related
Just remember it is darkest before the dawn, and now is the time to get off our butts and spead the conservative idea's they are winning idea's.
First:I believe that we did not have a chance with Mccain as our standard bearer, he was and is a blue blood republican not a conservative and because of that we did not have a chance.
Second: In the last thirty years the only times the GOP has had large victories is when they had and supported conservative idea's (80 reagan,94 contract with America, 2000 Bush) ask yourself what was the one thing that truly difined these victories.. Tax cuts and smaller goverment.) now granted Bush then went on to spend like a democrate but the first election was about tax cuts. This is our winning issue. Hell Obama used that tactic against us "95% of american's will get a tax cut".
Third: I can not beleive that our country wants to go into a western European model of socialism. As a party we did a miserable job of contrasting ourselves, it took a plumber in Ohio to even bring the topic up. Why did this happen?
1. we have forgotten the faces of our fathers the founding father's that is. we have forgotten they lessons they taught us. we no longer teach there words or promote their idea's
2. It is politically easier to spend taxpayers money, then to tell the american's that we are out of money and need to tighten our belts, we have lacked the political courage to address the tough issues.
3. we thought that we could bring Democrats to our side, and that we did not need our base
In short we forgot who we are, we can not win as the party that will spend less than the democrat's and expand goverment less than the democracts. that is a recipe for being the loyal minority.
Untill we remember who we are we will not win again. Now is the time to find the conservative canidate in our states support them fund them,Blog for them. It is time to start over and we need to be the vocal supporters for conservatism.
On this dark night watch these vidio and get your spirit back so that tommorow we can fight again. That is what Reagan would do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xynQSSNlYuY&feature=related
Just remember it is darkest before the dawn, and now is the time to get off our butts and spead the conservative idea's they are winning idea's.
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Permalink Reply by christo on -
my opinion:
first: McCain lost because he mooved too much to the base with Sarah Palin and the base is small, unlike the center.
second: I didn't see any tax cut from George Bush for the last 8 years and his presidency widened the gap between rich and poor putting me into the struggling side of the equation, hence, republican ideas didn't work for me.
third: I was born in a East European country! Do you have any idea what are you talking about?
and last: I don't htink having some goverment security is bad, for example having basic services guranteed like helath and education will give more people peace of mind and free them to take risks and create businesses.
I don't wan't to annoy anybody with my opinion, it is just that the more I try to understand the concervatives the more I disagree. Feel free to ban me from this forum, as I think I have become a liberal.
best
christo
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Permalink Reply by Scott A on -
Christo, we should never ban someone who disagres. Disagrement is what America is about and we should cherish it. a couple things that i have to disagree with you on:
1. history shows that the republican's do not win with out there base. the exit polls from the election show that almost 40% of the people consider themselves conservative. no matter what the MSM says America is still a right center country, and mccain had no shot to win with out the base.
2.one of the first things that George Bush did as president in 2001 was an across the board tax cut. top rate went from 39 to 37 and the lowest rate went from 20% to 15%. he also cut capital gains tax and eliminated the death tax.
3. by the western european socialism i mean countries like France, UK , Germany, were they have universal health care, and such. America was founded on the ideas that the government MUST be limited.. as Ben Franklin said " a government that can give you everything, can also take it away.
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