The Republicans deserve to lose because “they forgot who brung them to the dance”. It wasn’t the Neo-cons (the extreme Religious Right), it certainly wasn’t the Neo-Libs (the extreme Socialist Left), it may have been some of the classical Libs, but not many. It was the everyday conservative (classic) man and woman, whom they came to ignore.
The vast majority of Americans are conservative, hard-working everyday people. They want to pursue Live, Liberty, and Happiness and be left alone. They believe that government has little to do with there everyday lives, especially the Feds, and should let them keep most of their hard earned money, and reduce the size of government at all levels.
The Republicans came to power in 1996 for the first time in over 70 years. The public felt that after all that time they might finally get a reprieve for the oppressive federal government, and in the beginning it looked promising.
Then they let Newt Gingrich be fed to the wolves with absurd trumped up charges and lost his stabilizing voice (though I know some of you will howl at this one). Then they worried so damn much about where Bill Clinton put his penis, they totally got off track and looked like blithering idiots.
Then to placate the howling left, they “reached across the aisle” until they could no longer be recognized as conservatives, let alone Republicans. For the past eight years, the Federal government has grown 40%, and intrudes more and more into our private lives.
They promoted and passed the most vile and intrusive legislation ever to see the light of day, The Patriot Act, which threw Freedom and Liberty right out of the window under the auspices of “fighting terror”. Our millions who died for these rights, most assuredly are tossing and turning in their graves.
They continued to allow “earmarks” and other nefarious liberal tactics, and worse than that, they began to use them too.
They tossed out any vision of ethics and a lot of them did what they felt like, not what was proper, and ended in trouble and out of office. There is no way they could lay any claim to “the high road”.
If they continue to court the Religious Right and sleep with the Liberals, they have no business in government.
Our founding fathers envisioned this when they wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. To by-pass any and all roadblocks to our Pursuit of the intended goal, they added a ton of additional amendments (not all worthy) and have even called for Constitutional Conventions for such ill-conceived topics as Marriage and Flag Burning. Where in our Constitutional history is any of this even discussed?
The 10th amendment addresses all of it. Anything not specifically discussed in the Constitution is the purview of the individual states.
Not only didn’t we get rid of the intrusive Housing and Education departments, we got a new one, a Terrorism Czar (note the Czar part).
Give me a break. Throw them out and get four years of Socialism and maybe the public will come to their senses. Of course, you know the old axiom, “You can never go broke underestimating the public”.
That is why we need leaders who will lead and not read the poll numbers each morning at breakfast; who will be concerned about us and not their campaign benefactors; who will be true Americans and put the public good first. We have not had that in 24 years in the Presidency, and almost never in the Legislative or Judicial branches. We need it and deserve it more than ever, and right now the Republicans can not or will not do it, they need to answer for their neglect.
Alright, take your shots at me, all of you,
The Hammer
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Comments: 31
While I do not agree with everything you have to say, I am on board with this
Leadership is not about appeasing the majority, it is about persuading the majority to go where you want to take them.
Good post. I would only add that the last 8 years were not brought to you by bipartisanship with the left it was brought about despite of partisanship from the left. None of the programs passed, the war and it's execution can be called 'liberal' in any way.
I disagree that we deserve anything other than what we get. We deserve a smarter electorate who will hold polls accountable.
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i just can't see anything conservative about the last 8 years. Maybe people calling themselves conservatives caused a lot of problems, but believe me, I disavow most of what happened.
Even when something such as the war was necessary and just, it was stupidly handled by Rummy and the rest.
Thank god, we got rid of Ashcroft early in the game. It just was not early enough. I rank him down there with the likes of Carl Sagan as evil and detrimental to society and morality in general.
Thanks, good buddy, you made my day, and continually prove my points. Cowards always strike in the darkness.
I have to disagree about the war in Iraq it was not just. We should have been smart and gone after the people who attacked us on 911...that was not Iraq. We could have had a very grand coalition to really tackle radical islam...we botched it.
I do agree that the last 8 years have not been conservative. They've been disastrous.
Why do you care?
Anytime I see someone bitch about DB 1's, I always leave a 1.
In your case I will make an exception, the article is good, though I do not agree with much of it.
I believe it was a sound, moral, and just thing to do, but the timing and everything else sucked.
I believe we should be more involved in Africa. Does that make make me a War-monger or just someone that gives a crap about innocent people dying.
We as a truly powerful and kind nation have to be prepared to help others, or let someone else do it. Maybe Russia?
I'm not bitching, just laughing. I find it amusing and childish.
I left you a 7, good article, but I only agree with 30% of it.
All input appreciated. If we all agreed all of the time, life would indeed be boring.
Lately, I realized that if my party wins the white house they will not go through the soul searching they need to go through. They will go back to what they do, and comes next elections, they will cook up some negative ads and try to win again.
I think when a party does not deliver they deserve to lose. If that party does not they will not change anything.
I am with you on all counts including the patriot act. My fellow republicans don't seem to realize what our party has done lately. They deserve a big spanking. And if the democrats come in and do the same thing, they deserve a spanking too.
I am voting against every incumbent. And I am thinking of voting against McCain. You vote for them and they will think they can roll over us for 4 years and come with TV ads to govern again.
Reagan started the gig government movement not the democratic party and Bush Sr. continued it on and Jr. Bush the deserter made an attempt at fascist dictatorship and the 60% figure is how much these laughable republican conservatives have raised big government.
Clinton left office with a surplus of money. What Clinton did with Lewinsky did not get more than one and a half million innocent Iraqi people murdered. Clinton kept the no fly zone open in Iraq like he was supposed to do and didn't look for excuses to cover his tracks for selling Hussein WMD technology and the chemicals to make them like the neocon gang did.
You neocon supporters rant and rave all you want to but the only think you will ever see from the republican party is big government and crooked insider trading with the stock market.
Everything you get from the government is from a democratic program starting with S.S. and moving on.
You neocons propagandists do not know the meaning of freedom or independent thought because you have sucked up to much propaganda.
You republicans yak like McCain campaigns which is nothing but a lying disgrace.
I can't vote for Obama because he is the epitome of the Neo-Libs (Mod Socialists) and thoroughly unqualified, but then again, I am having an extremely difficult voting for the other Liberal, McCain.
Guess I'm in a little quandary, eh?
You can't be talking about me, or haven't read anything I've written.
BTW, Big government started with FDR, not Reagan. and was totally grown under the FDR want-to-be LBJ. It's 3rd largest expansion was over the past 8 years. And. that is as Liberal as you can get, And I don't care which party you talk about. My point exactly.
Again I have to explain to you that fascism is by definition, government control of private business, not exactly a classic conservative tenet. Do I have to say who advocates that?
Calm down before you blow a fuse. Discussion is one, thing ranting and raving is another.
Even so, you're welcome here anytime.
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We have that in George W. Bush. I think most American's like pandering politicians.
How can anyone with any sense say such an outrageous statement?
Newsflash...wake up, Bush and co. has beat them to it.
The Repubs are supposed to be Fiscally conservatives, we are in debt up the Ying yang.
The Family Values party, scandals upon scandals.
You can scarcely make sense of them as they feed from the pork barrel and complain about pork.
I don't care how you feel and call me a rant Bert its just more neocon attacks on anyone that will disagree with you.
Bush, Cheney and their gang of neocons have shown all the signs of corporate fascism and the facts do not change just because their followers refuse to see the real world around them.
McCain is far from left and more like a Bush clone that would finish where Bush left off.
Maybe FDR created more government but he did it for the public he served not to rape the American public of its wealth through wars based on nothing but lies.
Want to stand up for the neocons show me where the billions of dollars supposedly sent to Iraq reconstruction and can't be accounted for have gone.
The republicans were in control and their speculation with nothing to show for it caused the 192 crash and then stood back and did nothing to bring the economy back to life and their doing it again today with their phony political bull. The only thing conservative about a republican politician is with their own bank accounts.
The republican party does not believe in capitalism but they do believe in corporate welfare paid for over and over again with working peoples tax money.
I do not care how much you rant about Obama hes the only chance we have left to recover what the republican party has done to america again.
I actually agree with many things you say.
How you can accuse me of being a Neo-con is beyond my comprehension, especially when I stated clearly that they have hijacked the republican party and deserve to lose.
And, I am about as anti-corporation as anyone can be. I believe the Corporate Act of 1898 and subsequent legislation brought about many more problems than it helped.
The can not be by definition "Corporate Fascism" unless corporations can regulate themselves through government???
Currently, you are absolutely correct that no one in government cares about capitalism or the free market which is one of the reasons we are having such drastic price fluctuations.
No where is corporate welfare more evident than in farm subsidies such as the boondoggle that just passed with "bipartisan" support. I could not believe that even Bush could sign off on that.
Please do not confuse conservative with what is going on now. There are so few conservative voices in government now, that you can't hear them. The Neo-cons, & Neo-libs are all that is heard. These are people at the opposite fringes of the ideology spectrum that believe that only government can make our decisions and control our lives. If the government would let us, and the markets alone, things would correct themselves.
You have never heard me rant about anything or anyone. And as far as this election is concerned, either candidate (I still believe they are both Liberals) won't change anything.
BTW, what do you think of Obama's choice of Joe Biden? Interesting.
I as well as many don’t want to see a President or a Congress that spends my taxes on programs in their home state just to get elected.
However, I would like to see one that will reduce the extraordinarily large spending on programs that aren’t needed, and to be good enough to raise the taxes in order to get the necessary revenue so the government is adequately funded.
The republican party has broken our economy and all they can do is try and lay the blame on the democrat party.
The republican party has been in control since Reagan right up to Clinton was elected and have been in control for the last eight years.
Clinton may not have been the best president but he didn't deliberately destroy our economy and he left us with a surplus of money. Everything Clinton accomplished Bush worked at destroying including the promise we would not put missiles on Russian borders.
Obama may not be the best choice but he is the only choice the way I see it, if their were better choices in the democratic party none o them stepped forward to campaign.
McCain and his whole campaign is based on the fact that he is a military veteran and his talk does not match his military record and does not qualify him any more than my military service qualifies me as having any more experience to be president than Obama.
Its true the democrats raise taxes but its also true that its always to payoff republican big spending.
Bidden is not a favorite of mine but I think of all the choices he had on his short list he made the right choice. It could have been Hillary lol and that would have been a disaster for sure. Bidden has a lot of experience on the Armed Services committee and other committees relating to the military and I believe that is why he was picked. I also think Obama realises where he is weak and will try to fill his offices with experience as much as he can and I also believe he will listen to that experience.
I think we are all conservative at heart once the political nonsense gets over but it will not work as long as the republican party fills their seats with the conman that control the party now.
I also think the pork has to stop on both sides and that federal tax money should not be spent on any project that does not benefit the entire population.
Neither party is clean and never will be until the public stops following party lines just because they belong to that party. The only way we will clean up government is to stop electing the same corrupt politicians over and over again.
As far as corporations governing themselves it happened with the secret meetings in Cheney's bomb shelter when he allowed the energy companies as well as the drug makers to write their own legislation.
Fascism is a dirty thing that should never be allowed to take root. Bush in his Inaugural speech stated " the job ahead would be much better accomplished by a dictator as long as i'm the dictator." I think that pretty much showed from the start that bush does not believe in our freedom or constitution. The Patriot act is nothing but an outright attack on our bill of rights and another move that only a wannabe dictator would make. The congress on both sides are just as guilty for passing such a bill without even reading or discussing it. Politicians talk big but are easy to control out of fear and so is the public so we have to start electing political leaders that have the country's interest at heart and believe in our constitution rather than keep electing politicians that think of nothing but their own personal gain.
I looked it up on Wiki-
Neoconservatism is a political philosophy that emerged in the United States from the rejection of the social liberalism, moral relativism, and New Left counterculture of the 1960s. It influenced the presidential administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, representing a realignment in American politics, and the transition of some liberals to the right of the political spectrum; hence the term, which refers to being 'new' conservatives. Neoconservatism emphasizes foreign policy as the paramount responsibility of government, maintaining that America's role as the world's sole superpower is indispensable to establishing and maintaining global order.
The term neoconservative was originally used as a criticism against liberals who had "moved to the right".Michael Harrington, a democratic socialist, coined the usage of neoconservative in a 1973 Dissent magazine article concerning welfare policy. According to E. J. Dionne, the nascent neoconservatives were driven by "the notion that liberalism" had failed and "no longer knew what it was talking about."
If that's the definition, then yes, I am a neocon. I used to be a liberal. If wanting to keep my money out of the hands of those who have not earned it means "I moved to the right" then yes, I moved to the right. But I'd hardly qualify for "Extreme religious right." Trust me on that.
The housing market coupled with relatively high energy prices is the issue -- and local governement that overspent during the housing bubble. It's not Bush. All things being equal, our government takes in more than enough income to handle the outrageous spending they've done these past seven years.