Monday, June 09, 2008
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Tom DeLay
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DeLay warns GOP faces long rebuilding process Aims to get conservative groups to collaborate
Stephen Dinan
Monday, June 9, 2008
Two years after he resigned from the House, former Republican leader Tom DeLay says conservatives haven't bottomed out from their 2006 election losses, Democrats are "cleaning their clock," and it will take years before the Republican Party can compete with the operation Democrats have built.
The conservatives refuse to accept that the left is cleaning their clock, and until you hit some bottom, wherever that is, to where it says, 'Well, maybe we ought to do something different,' little or nothing's going to change," Mr. DeLay told editors and reporters at The Washington Times last week.
"I think it's going to take years to rebuild the party," he said. "It is a party that will try to find itself as to what kind of party it is, and it will depend on what kind of leadership emerges from this rebuilding, as to what it ultimately is."
The Texas Republican resigned from the House effective two years ago Monday, months after he gave up his position as House majority leader - a move he was forced to make after he was indicted in Texas on various campaign-finance and money-laundering charges. Some of those charges were thrown out in pre-trial appeals, and Mr. DeLay still has not gone to trial on the remaining ones.
He has spent the time since his resignation studying the way the liberal movement operates, and says it is far more adept under the new campaign-finance rules enacted in 2002, and championed by Sen. John McCain, the Republican's presumptive presidential candidate.
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This is why we don't like you as a politician, my friend.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
We KNOW there is something wrong with the REPUBLICAN pary. Conservatism isn't the problem. The problem lies in the lap of the RINOs. We know that. You can write as many articles as your middle-of-the-road fingers can type but it won't change the facts.
We need to move to the right. Period.
I live in AZ. I'm not going to vote for McShame. Trust me, world - that would be a mistake. Come live here and see for yourself. Heck, I'm mad at Kyl for his Shamnesty support and the form letter he sent me in response to my complaint.
You new-day democrats are never going to earn the support of the base - the folks that actually go out and vote in primaries. It's never going to happen, try as you might.
Are Republicans going to lose more? Of course. For some of us, it's part of the rebuilding plan. We know that. I'll take this a step further and tell you know, if you continue down this RINO course, we WILL create a new party. Probably something along the lines of a Nationalist party. From that point forward, Republicans will never win an election. It's just common sense. |
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Tom writes:
He has spent the time since his resignation studying the way the liberal movement operates, and says it is far more adept under the new campaign-finance rules enacted in 2002, and championed by Sen. John McCain, the Republican's presumptive presidential candidate.
And Yet you are telling us conservatives and former Republicans to vote for McShamnesty, who is obviously another democrat. Actually I wonder if you realize it but we are already in a dictatorship American style. We have no choice from the two parties right now but the media keeps everyone brainwashed into thinking that they do. It is all a staged show put on for the benefit of making it seem like we are still a free Republic. |
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When Stephen Colbert asked George Will point-blank the difference between conservatives and liberals, Will instantly replied, "Freedom vs. Egalitarianism. Conservatives value freedom more in the sense of allowing some people to rise above others in the free market. Liberals want to level the playing field."
I've also just finished reading a book review in The Nation (a liberal mag) that says about the same thing, but their take on it is that, for Conservatism to be viable, Joe Sixpack has to be persuaded over and over again that allowing the rich to get richer is in his best interests. Fits their point of view perfectly, doesn't it?
So here's my humble suggestion for the road back to power for the conservative movement:
Continue to hammer away at the blessings of freedom and the dangers of mindless egalitarianism. The difference is, this time, allow that some rich people have very little going for them ethically, and that it is up to the Republicans/conservatives to make sure that the rich don't get so much power that their natural greed overwhelms the simple notions of justice and fairness in the real world. Republicans must say, "We will police our own," and then DO IT. |
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