Oh yes, this is just what I want to see first thing in the morning, post-long cold night of unsettling dreams featuring the Hilldebeest making out with Ahmadinejad under a conference table, and pre-coffee.
Here’s something we don’t hear every day in Washington: Ronald Reagan‘s dead, get over it. That’s a blunt paraphrase about conservatives and GOP traditionalists who want to relive the good old days from a senior Republican senator, speaking on background. “Ronald Reagan ran in the 1970s. That was a long time ago,” says the senator, a member of the GOP message team. His point: The party has to reach past its traditional base and especially to younger and Hispanic voters. “It’s about survival,” he tells us.
Oh, that is SO going to piss off Mister Liberty Girl.
Senator, ALL of you are dead. Dead in the brain, dead in the heart, dead in the soul. Is it any wonder conservatives and near-conservatives (like the Liberty Family here) lionize Reagan? He’s the last one of you to show any guts, to have any vision whatsoever for the future. You speak of “survival”…that is truly your guiding star at this point. Not interested in principles or core values, just keep that gravy train rolling, RAWHIDE!
I’m done with the lot of you. If any of you truly care about the Republican party’s survival, we won’t see snippet one of your pallid, wizened faces in the next Presidential cycle. It will instead be represented by the firebrands, the Palins and the Jindals. The people who still have hope and dreams for the future. Citizens, we can still have the Shining City that Reagan envisioned, but we need to be MUCH more careful to whom we entrust its stewardship.
And Michael Steele is not going to save the Party. He’s a DC tool.
Ted Nugent says we should get in peoples’ faces. I’ve started with the DC crowd. I’ve been emailing and commnenting at every opportunity. They’re the ones who need to hear it more than anyone. If we all did this, it would make it harder for them to dismiss us as nutroots.
Joan of Argghh!
November 21st, 2008
I left the republican party after the primary this year, and haven’t looked back. I’m leaning toward the Constitution Party, but I’m not sure about their states’ rights position yet.
The republican party is done for, they just haven’t admitted it yet.
D.W.
November 21st, 2008
Head. Exploding…. Hate. Blurring. Vision.
God, I fucking HATE the Republican party. If they would preach Conservatism and free market (and mean it!) we wouldn’t have to pander to individual groups like “youth” or “black” or “hispanic”…
jana
November 21st, 2008
Hey, LG:
I just read the entire entry you linked to, and the “GOP” senator was never named. Plus, the “get over it” part wasn’t a quote, it was a “paraphrase”. The only words that were actually quoted were things that were true and very easily taken out of context. Like, McCain was a bad messenger for the GOP message. That’s true enough, so perhaps the Senator was just saying what we’ve been saying: That McCain was a crappy candidate for Conservatives. All of the insulting stuff was not in quotes, just summations from the writer.
All of that put together makes me veeeeeerry suspicious that this Senator is not named because his words were so twisted that he could sue for libel, or the Senator may not even exist at all. It sounds like maybe the media whore writing that entry was trying to twist things around to convince people that the GOP is dead and will never be anything better than Democrat Lite. Which is, of couse, the meme of the entire MSM.
Sorry for the length of this, but I really think this could be a case of media propaganda, meant to demoralize us.
jana
November 21st, 2008
@jana: I am aware of that, yes, I thought the quote I picked was pretty clear it was hearsay. Still doesn’t preclude the fact, based on a great deal of other empirical evidence, that the GOP is on life support if not actually already in the hearse on the way to the cemetary.
But I’m happy to be the cynic in the room, I find optimism just so tiring. You do it for me.
Liberty Girl
November 21st, 2008
LG:
The GOP is on life support, it’s true. But only because leeches like McCain and criminals like Stevens have sucked all of the life out of it. All we need is a good dose of Jindal/Palin (or Palin/Jindal.. whatev…) to get things jump started again.
My point is that this media moron is doing what the media does best — make shit up and hope that people believe it. The problem is that it works on stupid people (i.e. Obama voters who believed the media assertions that he is, in fact, the Messiah), but it’s not quite as effective when aimed at people with brains (i.e. people who are conservative because we don’t NEED the government or the media telling us what the think).
So, long story short… I’m cynical, too. I just hope that there are still more of “US” than there are of “THEM”. The good news is that “US” is armed.
jana
November 21st, 2008
@jana:
Well, by that light we’re utterly fucked, because we know there’s more idiots in this world than there are not-idiots.
Liberty Girl
November 21st, 2008
I certified the time of death for the GOP on the morning of Nov 5th, but diagnosed the patient long before. It’s been brain-dead for years and this latest defeat is the mercy killing its needed.
This one “concern troll” article really doesn’t change it.
Street-level GOPers are alive and numerous, but the NRC crowd is as tone-deaf as Roseanne Barr.
Joan of Argghh!
November 21st, 2008