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I for one am so embarassed at how the republican party and it's supporters have handled our loss of power in this country. You would think we see the writing on the wall that Americans are tired of what we are living in and focus on ways to make our party a better party for America in 2012. But no, we are more focuses on throwing dirt around and digging into conspiracies about Ice Storm relief in Kentucky! Are we serious? Is this what our party has become? I go to my local republican breakfast and I see a bunch of old men who are grumpy and set in thier ways. They dont want to change...why? Lets look at the American people and find out what we need to do to become the great party we once were and not the whining, crying, sore losers we look like right now!
I for one am so embarassed at how the republican party and it's supporters have handled our loss of power in this country. You would think we see the writing on the wall that Americans are tired of what we are living in and focus on ways to make our party a better party for America in 2012. But no, we are more focuses on throwing dirt around and digging into conspiracies about Ice Storm relief in Kentucky! Are we serious? Is this what our party has become? I go to my local republican breakfast and I see a bunch of old men who are grumpy and set in thier ways. They dont want to change...why? Lets look at the American people and find out what we need to do to become the great party we once were and not the whining, crying, sore losers we look like right now!
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Is this what our party has become?
I'm afraid so. I think that like you, I was probably smug and complacent enough to believe that the leadership always knew best and pride myself on what team players we Republicans are. What a rude awakening to finally realize that the Party has been hijacked, right under our noses, by people who share no common values with either Party. Nonetheless, we must assume responsibility and work diligently to rebuild our former greatness, or capitulate and form a new Party, leaving the name that has always stood for the Party of Lincoln to your grumpy old men, conspiracy theorists, and whining, crying, sore losers. Any Party worthy of the name must be able to work with the Loyal Opposition, and these birds ain't it!
It's good to see people talking about the Loyal Opposition, b/c that's what it is, not the "enemy". Hopefully, time will heal some of the wounds and people can move forward.
To quote a great American... You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.
Rush's way is the old and failed way. Unless Republicans are content to descend into irrelavancy as the Party of the Confederacy, they need to break out of the old ways and find the new ones that will let the country work and move together as a whole. It isn't like there's nothing to do here that we have all this time for mindless sniping and bickering. Probably we should all try to set our sites a little higher than that...
Coming off a shellacking at the polls in November, the plurality of GOP voters (43%) say their party has been too moderate over the past eight years, and 55% think it should become more like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the future, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Site. (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/republicans_like_gop_s_conservative_direction_demo crats_don_t - broken link)
Coming off a shellacking at the polls in November, the plurality of GOP voters (43%) say their party has been too moderate over the past eight years, and55% think it should become more like Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in the future, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Site. (http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/republicans_like_gop_s_conservative_direction_demo crats_don_t - broken link)
Thats area I highlighted in red is what really scares me!
If I were a Republican it would terrify me. I would seriously start considering either forming a new party or trying to get the Democrats to move to the right, but staying in the Republican Party would be simply untenable.
But as a Democrat, I am sending a check to Palin's Pac in the hope that she will be the GOP nominee in 2012.
I for one am so embarassed at how the republican party and it's supporters have handled our loss of power in this country. You would think we see the writing on the wall that Americans are tired of what we are living in and focus on ways to make our party a better party for America in 2012. But no, we are more focuses on throwing dirt around and digging into conspiracies about Ice Storm relief in Kentucky! Are we serious? Is this what our party has become? I go to my local republican breakfast and I see a bunch of old men who are grumpy and set in thier ways. They dont want to change...why? Lets look at the American people and find out what we need to do to become the great party we once were and not the whining, crying, sore losers we look like right now!
It would appear that the Republicans are merely trying to copy the Democrats, because those childish tactics seemed to have worked well for them.
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