 | | | Rebuilding The Republican Party
Asked Feb 5, 2009, 08:35 AM
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25 Answers The Republican party lost so badly because they have betrayed their traditional small-government conservatism. They need to return to the Eisenhower era Republicans who were fiscally responsible, socially moderate and multilateral on foreign policy. The party is now controlled by big-government spenders, foreign policy hawks and the religious right factions of the party and they won't win elections until they return to their roots. Thread Summary |
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Feb 17, 2009, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by 450donn ... He got where he is by joining the right groups, smoozing with the right people, going to the right schools, kissing the right rear ends in the Chicago political scene.... | Exactly right; Obama is a smooth talking, unknown; like Jimmy Carter. We call'em 'catfish': all mouth and no brains. I watched just a few minutes of Jim Cramer on some special show (CNBC); he was musing about whether or not he still has a job with the network. When boobs such as Cramer, who are smart financially but dim-witted in politics, wake up and realize how much the federal government has cost them, there's going to be Hell to pay out in the land of the free, home of the brave. I can hardly wait. | | |  | Expert | |
Feb 18, 2009, 06:14 AM
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Originally Posted by earl237 The Republican party lost so badly because they have betrayed their traditional small-government conservatism. | Hello again, righty's:
Let me see if I can dispose of the MYTH of "traditional small government conservatism".
Righty's believe in small government unless it involves your PERSONAL life.. Then NO government program is TOO big, for example the DEA. They're nothing but a HUGE government bureaucracy with a social agenda who enforces its rule with guns. What could be more liberal than THAT?
You righty's are silly.
excon | | |  | Ultra Member | |
Feb 18, 2009, 07:08 AM
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Originally Posted by excon Hello again, righty's:
Let me see if I can dispose of the MYTH of "traditional small government conservatism".
You righty's are silly.
excon | Here's what one thoughtful 'righty' had to say on medical marijuana: "William F. Buckley is one thoughtful conservative who became convinced Marijuana Prohibition was a total failure in the early 1970s, and he has maintained that position throughout his illustrious career as an author and television personality." http://sendtherightmessage.com/schol...f._buckley,_jr. | | |  | Ultra Member | |
Feb 19, 2009, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by George_1950 ...When boobs such as Cramer, who are smart financially but dim-witted in politics, wake up and realize how much the federal government has cost them, there's going to be Hell to pay out in the land of the free, home of the brave. I can hardly wait. | Perhaps Chicago will sponsor the next Tea Party; bwe he he: Video - CNBC.com | | |  | Ultra Member | |
Feb 24, 2009, 10:39 AM
| | | Looking back: "In the face of all of this Goldwater meets the press a few days after the election. On November 15, chatting with reporters over a beer in Montego Bay. Calmly he says that it's time to change the two-party system as it is currently structured (in 1964). America needs, he says, "two new teams" called liberals and conservatives. There must be recognition of two vastly different approaches to America's problems. Focusing on the election returns that had him winning only six states, Goldwater says that "this year, obviously, millions of Republicans decided socialism and central-decided socialized government is all right. I want to find out why this, all of a sudden, has been embraced by so many." He goes on to say flatly that he believes "the time has come for a real realignment of the two parties." The American Spectator : The Goldwater Lesson | | |  | Expert | |
Feb 28, 2009, 06:38 AM
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The Republican party is destined for the dustbin of history, as long as it continues to have dufus's as its leaders... I'm talking about people who don't know that referring to apes or watermelons in the context of black people is offensive.
I don't know WHY they don't know that, but they don't. Really! They don't know that. Or they're liars. Which one is it? From a leadership point of view, does it matter?
Me? I don't think ANYBODY is that stupid.
excon | | |  | Ultra Member | |
Feb 28, 2009, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by excon ... I don't think ANYBODY is that stupid.
excon | Again, you jest. Is Congress too stupid, or just too stupid to read what they are voting on? Or just too stupid to see what a wreck it has made with the U.S. Economy? Btw: that's the same crowd that says marijuana is illegal; ain't that stupid? | | |  | New Member | |
Mar 17, 2009, 03:20 AM
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Originally Posted by George_1950 Again, you jest. Is Congress too stupid, or just too stupid to read what they are voting on? Or just too stupid to see what a wreck it has made with the U.S. Economy? Btw: that's the same crowd that says marijuana is illegal; ain't that stupid? | Your god raygun started this whole finanical mess with his trickle down my leg to the little people policies, you repukes didn't have a word to say about how George the stupid ran the country into the ground the last 8 years, why is that? | | |  | New Member | |
Mar 17, 2009, 03:28 AM
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Originally Posted by George_1950 Exactly right; Obama is a smooth talking, unknown; like Jimmy Carter. We call'em 'catfish': all mouth and no brains. I watched just a few minutes of Jim Cramer on some special show (CNBC); he was musing about whether or not he still has a job with the network. When boobs such as Cramer, who are smart financially but dim-witted in politics, wake up and realize how much the federal government has cost them, there's going to be Hell to pay out in the land of the free, home of the brave. I can hardly wait. | Tell me somethimg great raygun did ever Oh, I know he had the most people in his administration convicted of felonys, 109 of them. | | |  | Ultra Member | |
Mar 17, 2009, 04:27 AM
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Tell me somethimg great raygun did ever
| Besides ending the cold war and starting the longest peacetime economic expansion in history that yes.... trickled down to all people regardless of "class" ?
Now here is a constitutional question for you . Which President gave the biggest tax cut to the rich ?
Answer .... No President ....President's do not have taxing authority;Congress does.
Here's another one. When corporations pay taxes who really pays them ? I bet you thought of a corporation as some kind of individual paying taxes. This is not true .People pay taxes . So who in reality is paying those taxes charged to "big business" ? Stock holders .... Those people who's pension funds and 401Ks have corporate stock in the portfolio pay the corporate tax in reduced profits. Business customers pay those corporate taxes in increased prices for goods and services. The people who lose jobs because taxes increase the the costs of doing business which makes the business less competitive . They pay the price of corporate taxes. | | | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | Add your answer here.
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