The last of the primary elections took place yesterday and the mood of the electorate still seems to be holding. Mike Castle (RINO-DE) was soundly defeated despite the crude attempts of the entrenched Republican Old Tuskers (ROT) to discredit her. It seems that folks are seriously disgusted with the direction of government. The cult of personality in which elected officials subjugate the will of the people to their own career preservation is both apparent and triggering voter revulsion.
Long ago, in terms of American political memory, we had a President who likened America to a golden city on a hill. He had pride in his country, even before they voted for him, and he believed in our principles and uniqueness. We could and would prevail against those who would bring us down not simply because we were stronger but because we were better.
He firmly espoused a core principle and enunciated it as the Eleventh Commandment, "Never speak ill about a fellow-Republican." In so many races across the country we have seen that elemental principle abandoned as career politicians discredit and attempt to destroy primary opponents. They seldom talk about the issues, they run from their record and they resort to the most base lies and innuendo.
But, the time are changing.
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The brown-shoe RNC just doesn't get it anymore. (It's been 50 years since a democrat did: JFK.)
I think it is time for a _national_ Conservative Party. The 'Tea Party' sympathizers have their intellects in the right place - but except for Palin, there are a bunch of 'political elites' jockeying to claim power, prestige, and most of all, privilege - by trying to claim leadership positions in a 'Tea' political Party that doesn't exist.
Here in 'Note Cahlinah', I saw our first real 'throw the bums out' TV ad yesterday; the target? Long-time Congressman democrat Bob Etheridge, who has been on the right side of SOME issues (e.g. - military support) for a long time . . . but became one of the Marxist Collaborators under Chairman Obama's thumb: voting for all of his wealth-redistribution/ big government bills in the middle of the night, without reading any of them.
(Etheridge got a little bit of national exposure recently, by throwing a filmed beating on a college-aged reporter for asking 'Did you read the Bill?' )
I couldn't agree more, Dweezil. Here's hoping the trend continues.
Due to the Electoral College system no third party has a chance of having a presidential nomination win.
As for a third part ofr Congress, it isnt necessary, vote out the RINO's and any non-conservative old guard and the Republican Part becomes the perfect party.
Immagikman -
Under normal circumstances, I'd agree that the Electoral College situation would prevent a third-party win - especially with the hodge-podge of different state laws governing who an elector should/must/may vote for.
However, these times aren't normal; America is under attack from a domestic enemy - one that is far more dangerous to us than 1.2 billion fired-up Islamics.
Imagine that it is 2012; Obama has been totally marginalized (if not impeached); what do we have? Hillary and some ribbon-cutter for the Dems; and whichever of the old-school RINOs whose turn it is, plus a dog-washer.
Most of today's American voters wouldn't cast a ballot for either team.
They would need a third party - and all that its candidates would need to win the job(s) is a rigidly conservative respect for the Constitution, (as written); a knowledge and belief in the principles of the Declaration of Independence; and fiscal restraint.
I would prefer to see a lengthy and unwavering conservative record in office - but Reagan's been dead a number of years, so I guess we'd have to settle for a short record, or even a truly-conservative novice at politics, without the bad habits.
While a staunch Libertarian might come close, all of the ones I've seen so far felt the need to bow to the radical anarchists and druggies that infest an otherwise-sound political movement.
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