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1. RE:

The GOP will find its fortunes reverse when it starts standing up and fighting for something. It’s not going anywhere with the current crop of limp-wrists.

Jun 27, 2008 - 4:34 am 2. freetoken:

Mr. Moran said: “the GOP is missing something else vital to winning political races: viable candidates.”

So the question is – why? Why does the GOP not have viable candidates?

Jun 27, 2008 - 5:12 am 3. TomJW:

Moderates leaving a party that’s too conservative? I wish.

The repubs stand for nothing right now. The RINOs and country club Repubs are fighting tooth and nail against the conservatives. That’s why they will lose seats. they have no ‘message’ and they stand for nothing except getting reelected.

It matters not if the Dem or Dem-lite candidate is elected. Either will have to work with a Dem congress. There goes the economy and foriegn policy.

Jun 27, 2008 - 5:24 am 4. ~Paules:

Fresh ideas? Why so? What’s wrong with limited government, strong national defense, and fiscal responsibility? Someone has to stand and make the case for our core principles. Maybe these ideas no longer resonate with the public. If so, we don’t need a Republican party any longer. We can divide congress between a moderate centrist party and another that is openly socialist.

But I don’t think so. Only 27% of voters identify themselves as Republican. I can assure you that one reason for the falling numbers is that conservatives like myself have left the party in protest. I never abandoned my conservative principles, but my party abandoned me. I expect my representatives to stand for something more than self-interest. The Republican party needs to understand that a conservative base still exists. They’ll get us back when they start representing our core principles.

The other hope is that the electorate might finally see the Democrats for the dishonest and self-serving careerists that they are. When you talk about viable Republican candidates, why not put up some men of genuine integrity against the likes of Harry Reid and Jack Murtha? The Republicans revealed themselves as corrupt and the public rightly turned them out. Well, the shoe fits equally well on the other foot. There’s a reason why congress has a 15% approval rating. It’s time we turned the bastards out en masse.

Jun 27, 2008 - 6:11 am 5. HOUSE GOP HEADED TO A PERMANENT MINORITY « Texas Hold ‘Em Blogger:

[...] Jump to Comments Writing at Pajamas Media, Rick Moran of Right Wing Nut House explains how the House Republicans are stumbling and bumbling toward the status of a permanent minority [...]

Jun 27, 2008 - 6:19 am 6. don:

The US was a great country, we are now a secound rate broke country.From global warming BS and fiscal tidal waves that are approaching our heads we will go down to a backwater secound tier country in mere decades.I think now that with government schools providing education that is pure facist socialism, the brains that we once nurtured to fruition. are now brainwashed to only vote for politicians that promise to pay for something in the future with no self sacrifice and always a new victim class to be paid.America gets what it deserves and thats as it should be.

Jun 27, 2008 - 6:22 am 7. Northern Light:

I always get a chuckle out of the idea that Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility. If the GOP is so good at handling the economy how is it that Republicans can run up bigger deficits than Democrats.

I am a Canadian. Here in Canada our government is running a surplus and has been for the past ten years. You guys haven’t had a balanced budget since there was a Democrat in the White House.

The Republican Party is a sinking ship. I don’t want to say Republicans are rats, but the analogy is right there. No plans except staying the course. No appeal except to the scared, the paranoid, and racists. The GOP has gutted the treasury and the constitution and people wonder why they are unpopular.

Go to Wikipedia and look up Kim Campbell and the Canadian election of 1993. That is the future of the Republican Party.

Jun 27, 2008 - 6:31 am 8. Green Mtn Punter:

The irony is that the GOP, were it prepared, could sweep back to the majority on a Newt-like “Contract” based on development of domestic energy reserves. That’s the only issue that counts and is just begging to be seized on. As Casey Stengel once exclaimed in exasperation about his lowly NY Mets: “Can’t anybody here play this game??!!”

Jun 27, 2008 - 6:52 am 9. Lynn:

RE: My thoughts exactly. Stop dodging the ball and swing!

Jun 27, 2008 - 6:53 am 10. JBR:

If McCain wins, the GOP won’t take the House back before 2014, and maybe later. If Obama wins, good chance the Republicans take it back in 2010. The American people like divided government, and they won’t like the Democrats’ controlling everything any more than they liked the Republicans’ controlling everything.

Jun 27, 2008 - 7:43 am 11. Andrew Ian Dodge:

“Its energy stupid” should be the mantra for Republicans. They have an issue with which to nail the Dems and need to do it repeatedly.

Jun 27, 2008 - 7:43 am 12. TomJW:

Northern Light

We had the surplus back when the Congress just became Republican. The President isn’t the government, only part of it. His major job after a law comes into effect is to uphold the law properly.

Back when the Republican Congress had surplusses, Clinton vetoed the good spending bills so the MSM could blame the Republicans for shutting down the government. He didn’t sign the spending bills until they got beefed up substantially. That was the Dem contribution to our surplsses.

Jun 27, 2008 - 8:00 am 13. JimnCo:

The problem with the GOP is the RINO leadership that has been running it. John McCain is a big part of that problem, and he is the standard-bearer this year; it doesn’t bode well for the coming election. These slimeballs seem primarily interested in cutting deals to insure that they remain on Teddy Kennedy’s Christmas card list. The conservative base expects the party to FIGHT FOR CONSERVATIVE PRICIPLES, not cut deals. If you loose the battle, so be it; at least you have your integrity intact, AND an issue with which to appeal to the voters next time around. If Obama gets elected, the dem majority he will have in congress will rush headlong to lead the country over a Marxist cliff. Hopefully the country will wise up before they manage it and swing a CONSERVATIVE majority into Congress in 2010, IF the Repubs. are smart enough to assemble a good crop of candidates by then.

Jun 27, 2008 - 8:04 am 14. J.G.:

I just hope that the Democrats taking over the House have a social conscience and work for the Common Good. My fingers are crossed.

Jun 27, 2008 - 9:16 am 15. Yashmak:

If the GOP finds itself in a state of permanent minority status, we will see the end of the 2 party system within a decade or two.

Democratic party social programmes, at least those being pushed at present (especially universal healthcare and their lack of a coherent energy policy), will only exacerbate our country’s economic woes. Voters will become increasingly dissatisfied with the Democratic party. Either the GOP will have developed some sort of message with voter appeal by then, or more and more voters will begin to peel off and vote for 3rd parties. If that trend takes off, we may well see seats held by BOTH parties falling to Green, Constitutional, or Libertarian party candidates.

I don’t think a return to purely conservative values will work for the GOP. While that portion of the party’s support likes to make the claim that it’s the ‘core’ of the party, fact is, most Republican voters (just like most Democratic voters) tend more to the middle. . .like McCain. That’s one of the reasons he beat out some of his substantially more conservative rivals in the primary.

Jun 27, 2008 - 10:00 am 16. Mike S:

I love this idea that the Repubs should run on the energy issue to “nail the Democrats.” When your Texas oilman and the Republicans took power in 2000, oil was $30/barrel and gas was $1.50. After 7 years of Repub leadership oil is $140 and gas over $4.00. Quite a record for the Republicans to run on! You better hope the American public has amnesia.

Jun 27, 2008 - 10:18 am 17. Bob Thompson:

We must recognize a couple of things driving the current politics. One, and let me say that I have pretty much always supported republicans over democrats, the republican members of Congress have totally lost their bearings and deserve being turned out of office. This is a good thing. Two, much of our current voting eligible generation does not have the personal experience needed to gain an understanding of the deep meaning involved in the notions of personal productivity and self-reliance. They have little understanding of our distant history and the concept of individual liberty embodied in our founding. They are not knowledgeable regarding hardships and are accustomed to receiving beneficial treatment and advancement in our society, merited or not. This is frequently referred to as a sense of entitlement. All of these sensibilities will tend to lead these people to follow the democrat party philosophy which is largely premised on taking from those who have accumulated and/or produced and redistributing to those who are less so, resulting in more nearly equal outcomes. This is sometimes called taxation. This is not a good thing, but may be unavoidable in the short term. Only time will tell if the outcomes achieved by this direction will be negative enough to cause our people to take another look and realize what they have discarded.

More on the political parties. We really need to turn most of these people out because they suffer from the same sense of entitlement described above. If we cannot get representatives who will serve the people and the country instead of themselves, we have a lot more trouble ahead.

Jun 27, 2008 - 10:32 am 18. Former Belgian:

Mike S:

And that spiralling demand from China and India was driving up commodity prices (not just energy) worldwide is somehow the Republicans’ fault?!

And let’s not even get started on “no nukes” (that admired paragon of the “anointed”, France, actually gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear power — no reason why the US couldn’t do the same except “watermelons”), NIMBY-ism when it comes to offshore drilling or even that pet project of the “watermelons”, wind energy…

* watermelon: Russian slang word for enviromentalist. Green on the outside, red on the inside

Jun 27, 2008 - 10:34 am 19. Believer:

Whatever happens in November, fight with everything that’s in you to avoid our march toward socialism. Google: Canada Health Care Architect Ruin.

The very architect of their program has labeled it in “crisis.” He now advocates getting the private sector involved. And as the author points out, that’s a very big deal. If you haven’t heard some of their ‘horror’ stories, this will provide a few.

It’s an article worth reading, worth saving and worth sharing. Thank you Investors Business Daily.

Jun 27, 2008 - 10:40 am 20. Peter:

I am mystified about prognostications of coming election.  In my view, the republicans have an opportunity to crush democrats in this election. 

Iraq is now a tiny issue compared to gas prices. Every republican congressman should have a video 

“Do you like $4 gasoline, $6 or $12 gas. Well, the democrats said:

no drilling offshore in California
no drilling offshore in Florida
no drilling in Anwar
no drilling in Colorado

and, if you build a $3 billion refinery, you will jump through hoops you can’t even imagine, and then when it’s built, our policy will be to shut it down because we plan to use less oil than today, making it unnecessary.

Further, we are going to raise taxes on gasoline, so, if you like $6 or $12 gasoline, vote for favorite democrat congressman in again. “ 

If this message is hammered home by every republican congressman, the dems will be crushed. Some few care about Iraq, but everyone cares about gas.

However, it appears the republican leadership, says:

1. every man for himself in congressional election
2. let’s distance ourselves from Bush
3. we did bad regarding Katrina, never mention that the locals had/have greatest responsibility
4. don’t talk about gas prices

What wonderful leadership!

Jun 27, 2008 - 10:44 am 21. Bob Thompson:

Response to Peter,

Perhaps if republicans had any credibility themselves, the chorus about energy costs would work, but I don’t see it. And besides, many of the young people locked into the democrat party hype are not perceptive enough to identify their own self-interest (which happens to coincide with their collective interest, what a concept!)

Jun 27, 2008 - 11:04 am 22. Robert:

I just wish that ONE time someone would call Karl Rove on this. He’s sitting on Fox News as “the Architect.” He and Bush architected the Republicans right into obscurity with their big-government approach.

Idiots.

It’s a very serious blow to Hannity’s reputation that he has the guy who caused the Republican meltdown as a “conservative” news analyst on his show. “Architect” indeed.

Jun 27, 2008 - 12:04 pm 23. Clark:

Quote:

“What’s wrong with limited government, strong national defense, and fiscal responsibility?”

HA! Like the Congressional GOP has stood for any of those things (OK, maybe a strong nat’l defense). Go ahead, keep passing the pork, adding on the earmarks, passing the insanity of the farm and highway bills, etc etc.

Jun 27, 2008 - 12:07 pm 24. BeachBum:

The voters regard republicans like once trusted parents found passed out in a crack house after failing to get the kids to school. respect-gone. Trust-gone.

Dennis (”never miss a meal”)Hastert will go down as one of America’s most incompetent speakers. History will lacerate him as a prime enabler of the US decline in this period.

A prime cause of republican ruin and dmaage to the US. Hastert’s “reign”=graft, deficit spending, complete incompetence, and a tin ear for the electorate. Nice job Dennis: what a reason to vote republican! So when the ability to mediate graft is gone, so is Dennis. What issue did he ever push for the benefit of the US?

Sean Hannity: loyalty to “republicans” meant more than telling it straight. You should have been all over Hastert and you waited way to long to speak up.

“conservative academics” who feel writing articles for each other excuses them from supporting good candidates with money, volunteering etc., and they let the country club republicans assume actual control.

Businesspeople who ought to vote Republican but are political absentees: thanks for the help guys.

Bush–a disapointment but he’s not really the man at fault. He toughed it out abroad; he appointed Rumsfeld who was terrific initially; yes he has a tin ear- viewed Katrina from a jet, let Hastert run a graft factory: let himself be trapped in DC . But the Republicans in the senate and the hosue–you losers are responsibel for this more than anyone else. Nice job!

Jun 27, 2008 - 12:38 pm 25. Daily Pundit » Explosive Numbers:

[...] Pajamas Media » Congressional Pensioners Making GOP a Permanent Minority The Republicans have only $6.7 million on hand. And beyond that, 26 of those members not returning to Congress next year had political action committees that raised money for other Republican candidates. When you lose around $17 million in potential contributions to challengers in tight races, you know you’re in trouble. [...]

Jun 27, 2008 - 12:45 pm 26. Buckeye Tom:

Northern Light,

“I always get a chuckle out of the idea that Republicans are the party of fiscal responsibility. If the GOP is so good at handling the economy how is it that Republicans can run up bigger deficits than Democrats.

I am a Canadian. Here in Canada our government is running a surplus and has been for the past ten years. You guys haven’t had a balanced budget since there was a Democrat in the White House.”

I always get a chuckle when I hear liberal Canadians bragging how their government takes in more money than they spend. Especially considering your socialized health care, where patients are put on long waiting lists, just to see a specialist. That’s why your country runs surpluses. Your government taxes you for health care, then doesn’t give it to you.

I’d tell you to Wikipedia how more and more Canadians are coming to the United States to get the health care their own country doesn’t provide (again even though the government taxes them for it), but since you are Canadian, I’m sure you already know.

But other than your socialized health care (or rather, lack of health care, thanks to liberals), and no freedom of speech (see Human Rights Commission, again thanks to liberals), I think you guys have a cute little country up there.

Jun 27, 2008 - 12:46 pm 27. Joe:

It’s a little like watching the sun set and believing that it will be dark forever.

Not too long ago, no one though that the Democrats would ever lose the majority. Immediately after the 1994 elections, there were a slew of articles explaining why they were going to become a permanent minority party. Many of them making the same points people are now saying about Republicans.

Twelve years later, both houses change hands and the it’s the Republicans’ turn.

The one thing we know is that we don’t know.

Jun 27, 2008 - 12:51 pm 28. ZEITGEIST:

[...] RICK MORAN: House GOP Retiring Themselves Into a Permanent Minority. [...]

Jun 27, 2008 - 12:55 pm 29. paul a'barge:

I’ve got my trail mix and my camping gear packed. Off to the wilderness for the symbolic 40 days and 40 nights.

See y’all ’round the campfire. We can chat more then.

Jun 27, 2008 - 12:55 pm 30. Sam:

I’m very concerned because the modern Democratic Party is nothing like the old. There is a very radical element that is hostile to the very nature of America and they are determined to remake it into something more palatable for themselves.

I think they are planning to do things that will be very difficult to reverse.

Jun 27, 2008 - 1:19 pm 31. RE:

The sun may rise again. Or it may not.

Look what’s happened to Britain. I don’t think it’s ever coming back from what Labour has done to it. Today’s Dems seem every bit as destructive as Labour. While today’s GOP seems every bit as feckless as the Tories.

Jun 27, 2008 - 1:33 pm 32. Agoraphobic Plumber:

It was possible to argue that the Reagan govt ran deficits to “starve” the Dem congress in order to shrink government, or to do the defense buildup that did in the Soviets.

It’s possible to argue that the Repubs were actually the good guys in the 90s and Clinton was the bad guy, and the “surplus” at the end of the 90s was more due to the Repubs than Clinton.

It is NOT possible to deflect valid criticism of what happened when the Repubs had both houses of congress plus the presidency. It was pathetic. I am a Bush supporter in most ways, but his spending was and is INSANE. It’s like he only realized after 2006 that he had the right to veto stuff. And the Repub congress just kept feeding him bigger and bigger bills to sign.

Party of limited government? They had their shot. They added NCLB and a gigantic prescription drug boondoggle on top of an already gigantic network of federal bureaucracies, and did it in record time. Here’s a couple of revealing questions: 1) How many new federal programs and budgets were created during the Repub reign? 2) How many were eliminated?

The Repubs, at least congressional ones, DESERVE a stay in the wilderness. They got elected on a very few simple messages, and failed spectacularly to deliver.

The Dems will be just as bad and with no hope of improvement, but I hold out hope that a new generation of Repubs could develop that might go back to something resembling the Gingrich template for spending. When they do, I’ll be one of their biggest cheerleaders again. But not until.

Jun 27, 2008 - 1:36 pm 33. sestamibi:

As a party office-holder I’ll be the first to admit the impending implosion of the GOP. It is getting harder to find people to run for and win the lower level offices from which candidates for Congress are recruited–and this is in a solidly Republican county!

However, the Dems have no reason to gloat, for their implosion is not too far behind. For years they’ve papered over their fissures on race and culture by pointing to common bogeymen: “Rambo Ray-Guns”, “Chimpy Bushitler McHalliburton”, etc. Once those are dispatched all those animosities will surface and the Dems will too become history.

What will emerge is anyone’s guess, but I will say that as much as I believe in a two-party system, I have never felt they had to be D’s and R’s.

Jun 27, 2008 - 1:43 pm 34. Believer:

It baffles me why McCain isn’t reminding voters he’s been the guy fighting pork over the years. It’s his strong suit.

And going along with the Dems and spending like one has been Bush’s biggest problem.

This is the issue McCain can separate himself from Bush on. Promise to veto bills with pork and cut spending in Washington. Show the voters the money that’s been wasted. They’re huge numbers. Tell them how it will affect their pocketbooks.

And it sure as heck sets him above Obama. About the only thing that guy has done as US Senator is bring home the dough to his wife. That million dollar earmark for the hospital on whose board she sat coincided quite nicely with the hefty bump in her annual salary from over $100K to over $300K. Well, he took care of Father Pfleger too — another $220K.

Surely this is something that would make conservatives happy.

Jun 27, 2008 - 1:59 pm 35. Eric R.:

If the Democrats gain the type of majority that Rick claims, then the Republicans will never, ever gain power.

This is because the absolute Democrat totalitarian control of the country — they already have dictatorial control over the news media, entertainment, publishing, universities and the public schools, will be used to utterly crush, demonize and dehumanize the Republicans.

This demonization will be done so completely that fewy will complain when they are silenced into oblivion by reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine and enactment of Euro-Canadian style hate speech laws which will crush any dissent against the plunge of this country into a Marxist, Multiculti hell.

We will become the USASSR (United States of American Soviet Socialist Republics).

At that point, only a secessionist movement by Red State America will save at least part of the country.

Jun 27, 2008 - 3:25 pm 36. Smarty:

We need the graybeards of the GOP to retire. Retire and shut the hell up (you too Jimmy Carter). The GOP needs conservatives, not a bunch of entrenched RINOs.

Jun 27, 2008 - 3:45 pm 37. Jim,MtnViewCA,USA:

Mike S said:
“When your Texas oilman and the Republicans took power in 2000, oil was $30/barrel and gas was $1.50. After 7 years of Repub leadership oil is $140 and gas over $4.00.”
Yeah, but the bulk of the change happened after the Dems took over Congress in ‘06. this is not just a quibble, the Dems won’t allow drilling or ANWR or nuclear or even wind-power near Ted Kennedy’s home. and it doesn’t help that Dem hedge fund managers and gov’t employee union pension funds got into the speculation that drove prices higher.

Jun 27, 2008 - 3:52 pm 38. cubanbob:

Harry S. Truman once said if you give the voters a choice between a Republican and a Republican, the voters will always pick the real Republican.
Although I’m voting for McCain, in all honesty what are the Republicans offering other than Lite Democrat?

Until such time that the hacks and the RINO’s are kicked to the curb,the party has no chance.
The first Republican who comes out full bore with the message its time to dismantle the FDR/LBJ welfare state in all of its manifestations, that candidate will galvanize the public. Until then it will always be a choice between and worse.

Jun 27, 2008 - 4:15 pm 39. JimDesu:

The Republicans have chucked everything they believed in except for moral orthodoxy and have run everyone who won’t kowtow to the theocrats out of their party — they’re going back to the minority they were before Reagan and will stay their until they remember that Reagan coalition wasn’t a purity contest.

Jun 27, 2008 - 4:49 pm 40. Max:

Sometimes all that’s left is to throw the bums out. That’s what will happen to the Republicans.

The independent voters did not desert the GOP. The GOP took them for granted and took them for and took them for a ride. It’s time to throw the bums out.

Are the Democrats a bad choice? Yes. But to vote for bad Republicans because the Democrats are worse is to accept the status of a battered wife. If you vote for the GOP you are their bitch.

So, first order of business is throw out the Republicans.

Jun 27, 2008 - 5:11 pm 41. Eric:

The GOP needs to do something (I only say that b/c the right answer eludes me) about public education. The Dems have an advantage b/c they control public education which today is more interested in PC BS and promoting a cult like following for multiculturalism than it is in educating our children about our Constitution and democracy. The ignorance of kids and young adults today is mind boggling. When feelings triumph over reason we are all doomed to socialism and control by an imperial elite.

Jun 27, 2008 - 6:44 pm 42. Believer:

Oh, Max. First order of business is to stay alive.

Don’t do anything that would compromise that. Consider the consequences of an emotional reaction. Isn’t that really what it would be?

Jun 27, 2008 - 7:35 pm 43. Willys:

Here’s my take on it…

Congress… 535 reasons to support term limits. NEVER vote for an incumbent. Drain the swamp in D.C.

Jun 27, 2008 - 7:48 pm 44. John Samford:

It wasn’t the war, but the ‘Culture of Corruption’ that won the Donks Congress in ‘06.
The Republicans went on orgy of crime and corruption. EVERYBODY was stealing anything that wasn’t nailed down. That is where Delay got his moniker of “The Hammer”. He knew how to get the nails out.
The Dems are just as bad. “Dirty Harry” earned his nick name. Fancy Nancy got caught doing the same thing Delay did, only it’s not illegal in California. The list goes on, with EVERY Republican congresscrook having a Democratic counterpart.
The difference is the media has been on a mono-maniacal crusade to ‘get’ President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Karl Rove. They ignored anything that didn’t advance their cause.
The 4th estate has suffered immensely during their crusade. Approval ratings are even lower then those of Congress. Mothers are telling their children that being a child molester or an arsonist is not good, but better then a journalist.
President Bush will be gone soon enough. He will be back on his Ranch and out of reach of the foaming at the mouth, bi-coastal editors of the MSM. So those fine moonbats will have to find another target. Corruption sells newpapers.
John Q. Public loves to see the high and mighty perp walk to that van with the wire windows.
Politics is cyclic. I am old enough to remember Republicans going on about it being a new day and how the Dems were finished as a political party.
What goes around, comes around.

The real problem is the culture of corruption that exists in Washington. The Dems used it as a political tool, but it didn’t go away.
If the Republicans clean their ranks of crooks, they will do fine in the ‘12 election.
If the Union can survive 4 years of Jimma ‘peanut’ Carter then it will survive 4 years of Ohhhhhh……BAAMA. After all, the moonbats are starting to quiver already. They know that big screwing is coming as their messiah flip flops on just about everything EXCEPT destroying the economy. Socialists MUST destroy the economy to make voters dependent on them.

Jun 27, 2008 - 8:01 pm 45. Tennwriter:

The R’s need to hit the full gauntlet…start with abortion (its a winner, and is moral), move on to immigration (likewise), then on to allowing federalism in education boards aka as supporting folks who want to teach ID to do so, and then on to ending pork barrelling, and then on to lowering taxes, and on to drilling in ANWR, and on to kicking out corrupt members, and on to nuclear power plants.

Some of this has to be done in the right order. Let people know you’re going to support fighting abortion, and they’ll believe you when you say you’re against corruption because only principled people are against abortion and willing to fight it. Thus you prove your bonafides. You prove you’re not a RINO by going socon. Later in the day, once you’ve proven yourself, and built up some victories you come out for nuke power plants. Once you’ve got some muscle, you take out the big stick and whack any bad congressmen who haven’t already rebelled–of course, any that rebel, you whack them hard then and there even if you’re in the midst of another project.

I won’t say the worst problem the R’s have is bigotry against socons, but it ranks up there. The R’s are about toast, and we still have people trying to jab socons instead of saying ‘let’s all help out each other’ against the RINO’s, the Dems, and the MSM. The whole, ‘let’s try to skewer the socons so we look reasonable to the MSM’ is just the thin opening wedge of RINO-ism. It needs to stop.

Jun 27, 2008 - 10:10 pm 46. American Street » Blog Archive » Lemme Get This Straight:

[...] else to make up the difference — giving what’s left of the Republicans in Congress (the few, the proud, the very afraid) a legitimate means of distancing themselves from Still POTUS [...]

Jun 27, 2008 - 10:33 pm 47. mwl:

Oh, I dunno. Two years of President Obama (shudder) and the Reid/Pelosi monkey factory might lead to dramatic changes. It’ll be like 1994 all over again!

Jun 28, 2008 - 1:01 am 48. John Samford:

RE:

The sun may rise again. Or it may not. ”

Wanna bet? I’m taking ‘will rise again’ for as much as you care to lose. There are things in nature that politics cannot affect.

Jun 28, 2008 - 4:42 am 49. ReCon USMC:

To Northern Light .
I was President of Sealy of Canada in Toronto up until 1993 serving there 9 years .15 YEARS AGO THERE NO GANGS …..TODAY THEY ARE ALL OVER CANADA WITH YOUR THEIR JOKE-ABLE LOOSE LAWS .
I am also and American thank God .The Taxes In Canada are huge on everything , health care is a Joke, In Fact all top Canadians get their serious Surgeries in America .The Government is one GIANT RED TAPE MACHINE …..UNIONS ARE A NIGHT MARE TO DEAL WITH .
YOU LIKE SOCIALISM …….. AMERICA LOVES CAPITALISM !
STAY NORTH WE WILL STILL PROTEST CANADA !
HERE IS ONE GOOD THING ABOUT CANADA …..YOUR EDUCATION SYSTEM IS FAR BETTER THAN AMERICA’S .

Jun 28, 2008 - 6:10 am 50. pashley:

How can anyone be so pessimistic? The list of Republican-plus issues are endless, if they want to use them. Abortion, emigration, energy, fiscal responsibility, security, smaller government, families. But if the Republicans go left on these issues, why not just vote for the real thing?

Republicans will get a well-deserved ass-kicking this election cycle because they’ve earned it.

Jun 28, 2008 - 8:58 am 51. Believer:

Just read these are the issues (in importance) to American voters:

1-energy/gas prices
2-economy
3-situation in iraq
4-healthcare
5-terrorism
6-taxes
7-moral issues
8-illegal immigration

Perceptions are that Obama would be better on issues 1,2,4 and 6. Yet voters prefer the solutions McCain proposes on some of these.

All four of these could be argued to benefit McCain.

Republicans running for office should pound away at the Dems’ weakness on these issues as well.

Jun 28, 2008 - 12:39 pm 52. Canadian Student:

I’m a Canadian attending University in your country, and yes you do have the best universities in the world and yes you do have one of the poorer 1-12 school systems. You also have the best medical care in the world for those who can afford it and are not dropped from plans because of an illness or lost their job and medical insurance. There are canadians who come to the US for surgeries, you have very good specialists but these are wealthy people, there’s also people who come from around the world for surgeries in Canada. America also has some of the worst statistics on health care of any industrialized nation also pays the most $6500.00 per citizen and that includes the uninsured every other industrialized country has universal health care. If it was only the insured it would be $7800.00 per person, the $6500.00 is twice as much as any county in the world pays, Canadians pay about $3500.00 for example. Yes there are problems in the Canadian system, there is some waiting times for non-life threatening surgeries, but it has been improving 1/3 of the nations surplus{yes Canada’s national debt has gone down over the past 10 years}has gone to health care. I don’t think most Americans want a system where you have to decide either to lose their home or a loved one who is ill. Or have a mother or baby die because they couldn’t afford proper pre-birth care, or have a parent die of cancer or heart disease because they didn’t go to the doctor when they should have. And ReCon {writes like that and claims to have been CEO of Sealy} yes there are problems but there is with all governments and large corporations. Canada’s health care has improved a lot over the past decade. I can’t see how any party could be against healthcare for all it’s people. I love America and it’s politics,if you think you have to much government take a look at Canada, but not this, there could be nothing more American. I’m sure the country who put a man on the moon and saved the world a couple times can figure out how to care for All it’s people {remember We the people} that means everyone not just those who can afford it. And as for believer, Energy, not a lot can be done on prices, need more alternative idea’s. No need to drill in ANWR not totally against it, it would take 8-10 years, save as a reserve. Build more nuclear plants, run cars on electric {France has tons of them if they can do it safely anyone can}. There’s not alot goverment can do as far as the economy other than to cut out the pork and make sure the playing field is level and companies are fair and honestly run and then let the business people do there thing. Iraq, was for it now against it {cost to much in treasure, and more importantly American life’s}. End it as quick as possible and leave a somewhat stable government. Terrorism give them a fair and open trial if possible, then execute the evil bastards. Taxes, don’t raise on personal of corporate except for people making over $250,000.00, middle class and low income are hurting more percentage wise because of higher prices of gas, food etc. Morals, All major religions believe in the same god, Muslims, Jew’s and Christians, I’m a christian my views on everything are seen through this prism. But I believe in separation of church and state, just look at countries that don’t, Iran, Saudi Arabia etc. Immigration build a fence, make it hard to work and live in US without ID then find some humane and fair way to allow the undocumented to stay in this country. Yes I know they broke the law but they were virtually encouraged to come and work in the fields and hotels and other low paying jobs. And just imagine trying to kick them out, it would be impossible and immoral. Pay a fine and go to the back of the line. So there’s a Canadians long winded view a bit Democrat and bit Republican. And believer, about 50% and a little more at this time believe just as strongly that those Democrat weaknesses are not weaknesses but strong points.

Jun 28, 2008 - 8:47 pm 53. MlR:

As an operating philosophy, I see nothing wrong with limited Constitutional government, free-markets, and an America-first foreign policy not beholden to the transnational progressives.

In the medium/long run, however, I don’t know how Conservatives can compete with an opposition that has control of the media, Hollywood/pop culture, and schools, as well as the ability to dilute the old American electorate with millions of immigrants coming from countries with no history or understanding of limited government.

Frankly, I think we’re going down, hard. The big question is what happens after the fiscal bank breaks due to the upcoming entitlement disasters.

Jun 29, 2008 - 8:55 pm 54. MlR:

Unfortunately, I don’t think there’s going to be enough undiluted Conservatives/Libertarians left by that point to even understand what happened. It feels likes an Ayn Rand novel.

Jun 29, 2008 - 8:58 pm 55. Believer:

Canadian Student: I appreciate your kind words about our country. I have visited the beauty of yours on a number of occasions.

Perhaps you didn’t notice the first comment I posted. It encouraged a reading of an article by a doctor licensed both here and in Canada. In it, he stated that the “Father” of Canada’s socialized healthcare system has admitted it is now in “crisis.” I know personally of horror stories from both the UK and New Zealand with their socialized care.

It is not the answer to our problems here. And it’s the issue both Dem nominees spent the first half of their contest touting their own versions of. It’s an issue I think Obama can’t flip on, as he has on so many others, and this admission by Canada’s plan’s architect shows what a lousy idea it is.

There are two reasons our system is in trouble: lawyers (John Edwards comes to mind) and illegal immigrants. I trust America will find ways to work through our problems without resorting to government intervention. (I should add here I just learned that Obama’s plan would give 15million illegals free healthcare – Dick Morris thinks this will crush O. and McCain should point it out.)

You mentioned energy. And drilling. Nuclear is okay. It’s insanity that we haven’t become energy independent by now. We’re at war. And sending a fortune to our enemy. The case should have been made right after 9/11 that we needed independence. Drill here. Drill now.

We can thank the Dems who are beholden to the environuts. This is something else voters should be reminded of at every opportunity. So long as they’re in Congress to fight it, we won’t get it done. This should be Reason One to make sure they don’t return to Washington anytime soon. The ramifications of not being independent go far beyond economics.

About the only thing conservative in your comments is cutting pork. Obama will destroy our economy. The voter has to be educated as to why. If you think agreeing with McCain on some things (immigration?) means you are a “bit Republican,” well, conservatives would disagree. McCain, to many, is just another Democrat. But he’s a heck of a lot better than the other Dems.

No, I don’t think you can convince me a Democrat has any strong point. And certainly not “strong points.”

But you seem like a nice neighbor. Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Jun 29, 2008 - 9:43 pm 56. DrKrbyLuv:

It should be very scary for any American when Congress is dominated by either political party. In this environment, there is less debate and restraint. The intended checks and balances diminish making corruption more likely.

Rick Moran’s article carefully builds the case that not only is this likely, but it may be extreme.

To be sure, the Republicans have largely earned the rebuke that may be coming their way. The Bush Presidency will go down in history as being incompetent and criminal. But, that’s their biggest problem in moving forward.

The big problem, mentioned in the article is the lack of good candidates and nowhere is that more evident than with their “presumed” candidate for president. McCain lacks a support base, has little campaign money (comparatively) and is running a terrible campaign.

McCain should be dumped as the GOP candidate. A viable candidate with a conservative agenda would instantly invigorate the party with excitement and enthusiasm. I’m not sure how this would be accomplished but count me in if you have a plan.

Jun 30, 2008 - 12:32 pm 57. Lemme Get This Straight | E Pluribus Unum:

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