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Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:35:47 +0000

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By: sinz54

sinz54 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:55:36 +0000

The poll is irrelevant, and I wish David Frum had not even mentioned it.

The policy and structural problems of the GOP need to be dealt with in any case.

The groundwork for the Dems’ comeback started in 1985, just after Reagan had won a landslide re-election victory. That was when the Democratic Leadership Council was formed, to take the Dems to the right, abandoning the Mondale-Wellstone type of rhetoric.

The GOP is wasting precious time by imagining that all they have to do is recycle Reagan speeches and everything will be fine.

By: bryandhair

bryandhair — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:49:54 +0000

I feel that the main problem the Republican party is facing at this time is a general identity crisis. Our anger and frustration has clouded our way of thinking much like the way the extreme left felt the final six years of the Bush presidency. The two parties, when not in control, act like small children that are told that they can go into the candy store but they can’t have anything. Although not in control right now, the GOP needs to start acting in a manner that shows that they are ready to govern when given the opportunity.

President Obama and the democrats were elected on the platform of change. So far, we have gotten exactly what they said..change. I am reminded of a statement that Rudy Giuliana made following the Presidential debate between then Sen. Obama and Sen. Mccain..”Of course we all want change, but what kind of change are we going to get..good change or bad change.” At this time, we are witnessing the return of big goverment with talks of another stimulus, national health care coupled with out of control spending from a congress that seems to be more concerned with re-election rather than being fiscally responsible.

The members of Congress that we see on TV and hear on the radio from the GOP are not doing us any favors by speaking nothing other than talking points that we can get off of any right-wing website. What the public needs to hear from the right is not only a sense of frustration, but a sense of direction. Solutions to problems should be offered as well as new legislation that could put a freeze on unnecessary spending (which essentially is over 90% of what this congress has spent) until we get ourselves in a spot where we are not turning the government into the same mess as the mortgage crisis.

Some politicians are saying that the reason we are in this mess is because people lived above their means for too long. I feel that this congress is spending in the same manner. The only diference is, more than a house can be lost if this wreckless behavior continues.

If conservatives want to be back at the head of the table, we must start now while we are sitting at the kids table.

By: brutus1791

brutus1791 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:20:47 +0000

US: The sun will come up… tomorrow!

FRUM: No it won’t, technically we are rotating into the sun so it’s not coming ‘up’ at all.

His logic:
The sun will rise again.
The sun does not “rise” because we spin on an axis.
Therefor: There will be no sun.

By: ottovbvs

ottovbvs — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:03:05 +0000

As an interesting commentary on the tendency of conservatives to hunker down and become more conservative than ever I attach a link to a piece in this week’s National Review that used to be regarded as the holy of holies when it came to conservative thinking and idea generation. So this is not some freak on one of the more crazy blogs like Red Republic it’s from a supposedly serious conservative at the most serious of venues. Quite extraordinary really.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDE3MmE5MDVmMGM1YjQ2NmVhMjJkN2I2ZTcxMzhlNjU=&w=MA==