Posted by
On the Right on Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:09:26 PM
From the web;
The
liberal Republicans have taken over the party. They have nominated
somebody that goes out and says things like they say, gets along with
Democrats, they're all one big happy family so all the liberal
Republicans in New York and California can get along with all the
liberal Democrats in New York and California, our candidate gets beat
by 150 electoral votes, anywhere from 50 to 150. We have a 70-seat
deficit in the House of Representatives, perhaps a ten- to 12-seat
deficit in the Senate, and at that point we start rebuilding the
Republican Party because those who have taken over and have decided
this is the way to win get shellacked and lose big time. Now, this is
going to end up being a major rebuilding effort.
If McCain wins, then the liberal Rockefeller type Republicans, the
country club blue-blooders are going to point their fingers at all of
us, and they're going to say see? See? This is how you win. You win
by being a big tent. You win by welcoming independents and Democrats,
and they're going to say this party was never conservative, Reagan was
an aberration; Reagan wasn't even conservative. This is how you do
it. And so we're going to have to say, "Well, you guys, you think you
won, but you didn't. You won with Democrats crossing over as Democrats
into your party. If you guys think you won, you guys need to leave the
Republican Party and join the Democrat Party." If anybody wants to say
what really needs to happen to free up the Republican Party, all these
liberal Republicans who are having a bang-up good time over the fact
that they're broadening the tent and they're bringing in all these
liberal Democrats and independents, just go join the Democrat Party! I
mean, if you're going to suggest that McCain put a Democrat on his
ticket; if you're going to suggest that he espouse liberal policies in
domestic issues, why are you staying in the Republican Party? Just go
join the Democrats, and we'll take care of the Republican Party.
We
also know that Obama is as left-wing as anyone who have ever had
running for president in this country which makes a victory for him a
very troubling prospect for us. Let's face it.
So these people
want to really be behind the Republican nominee 'cause they're so
afraid of Obama. "Obama is the most liberal guy that's ever run. Oh,
we can't have that! So by fiat, just automatic, we gotta vote for
McCain." But they know that he's terribly flawed. They're going to
vote for him, and they'll defend him if he's attacked. But they're
worried about him, too. So they attack the party, or they attack the
movement. Elections are the means by which we correct these things.
The Republicans could have nominated a conservative, but the field was
quite weak. The open primary process in the early states played into
the hands of non-conservatives, mostly McCain. So the party is merely
the instrument through which we offer our positions and seek votes and
then move those ideas into reality. The party is what we make it.
After
eight years of moderate Republicanism with no genuine conservative
leadership, the party will now stand for four years of liberal
Republicanism. So we've gone... What is by definition not conservative
is going to be liberal. So from a moderate Republican, compassionate
conservative kind (that's moderate Republicanism), now we've gone to
liberal Republicanism. We're going to have that for the next four
years. I mean, you put aside Iraq for the moment; that's not an
ideological matter. At the same time third- and fourth-tier
pseudoconservatives who have no influence in the grassroots or, for
that matter, with most conservative intellectuals, are seizing the
moment to claim that their supposed brand of conservative is on the
ascendancy. Liberalism is what's on the ascendancy in the Republican
Party, and that will led to defeat eventually, and that's when we
rebuild it.