A Call For Unity at CPAC 2012; We All Must Find Common Ground
by Andrew Breitbart
The year 2011 was one of turmoil for the conservative movement, as we celebrated the success of 2010 but faced a divisive counter-revolution by the Democrats and the media.
The Republican establishment, together with social conservatives, libertarians and the Tea Party, waged war against the Obama administration, the public sector unions, the mainstream media, the Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Progressive movement, writ large. And simultaneously, in these terrible economic times and our new, challenging political reality, we were unfortunately, too often, fighting each other.
I have been a steadfast combatant in the trenches against the organized left, with the scalps and scars to prove it.
Yet the last year has had me often fighting our own. In the heat of the great battle over ideas, I argued with CPAC and the American Conservative Union on behalf of GOProud, and I argued against GOProud on behalf of privacy and civility.
I realize now, as the great debate of 2012 unfolds, that being MIA from the battlefield in the most important election of our lifetime is exactly the wrong decision.
Davids Brooks, David Gergen, and David Frum may “disagree.” But this David fights!
But we need to work with each other. Not against each other. [Frum, let's do lunch!] We need to communicate better. [Gergen, perhaps I could have said it better!] We cannot let internecine battles and pressures of high-stakes politics separate us at a time when unity is needed most. [Brooks, Obama does have a nice creased pant leg!]
I have decided to accept CPAC’s gracious offer to speak on the theme of unity and the GOP Big Tent. We need to unite in 2012. White, black, gay and straight. Tea Party, Social Conservatives, establishment types, Libertarians and Neo-Cons, alike. We all must find common ground. Not just for the sake of winning this monumental election. But to reclaim the Big Tent, Big Party mantle of the man who united us best, Ronald Reagan.
Yet I promise my speech won’t be all Kumbaya talk. No, sirree. I will step up to the podium and in no uncertain terms declare 2012 a call to arms. Patriots need to unite behind our candidate, behind the GOP, behind the conservative movement. Or else.
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I will never support Romney, Andrew. Ever.
And I wont support Newt ever! The Republicans fired him for good reason in the 90's.
CPAC is the perfect time to purge all RINOs from the Republican Party once and for all.
I will vote against Obama, no matter who the candidate is (it won't be Paul), and if we all show up and vote, then we'll get sixty five more congresspersons and perhaps 15 new senators this time (21 of 33 seats up this year are currently democrat) and we can shove whoever is president WAY to the right. Will of the people.
Unity it is. But first, a spirited primary in which we do not pick Romney.
A noble effort, Andrew, but no one that needs to hear your message and take it seriously is listening.
The schism has already occurred, and it hasn't been illustrated any clearer than during this current primary.
One by one the challengers to the establishment choice of nominee have been pounded into insignificance (and NO, they DIDN'T do it to themselves) in favor of Mitt Romney – a candidate that 80% of the GOP base finds unsuitable.
The "anti-populism" oozing from the head of the GOP body shows no interest in compromise, and until they do, neither do I. I've gone with what they thought best for far too long.
NOTHING will change "after the election." Only during elections do we hold any sway, and even now many of us are treated with disdain, contempt, disrespect, and are made to feel as though we're incapable of grasping what's required to change to change this, OUR nation.
I'm a thoroughly reasonable and open-minded person – so much so that I pride myself on it, and I haven't arrived at this position flippantly.
And so, unless you're suggesting something OTHER than settling on Mitt Romney as the GOP candidate, no dice.
We have to have a spirted debate on ideas especially to show the candidates not to the leadership what we want to stand for. Part of the mess we had this last year was that they were afraid to fight.
For example I thought give Obama his debt ceiling increase for the repeal of Obamacare. Instead we gave Obama his debt ceiling increase and we got nothing in return for it.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
The first two commenters are outliers whose vainglory refuses to let them vote so that our current president has only one term. I speak to others, not to them.
Liberty is the big tent, our primary unifier. Liberty–not special treatment for homosexuals, or Christians, or manufacturers.
Economic Liberty–the dollar in my pocket is my dollar, completely. If I choose to live in America, I cede a small portion to the government for constitionally-supported activities, things that we the people cannot best do ourselves.
Religious Liberty–pursue my faith when and how I wish, in the public square or otherwise.
Political Liberty–I am free to speak and argue and to choose whomever I wish for public office, and the laws of the nation must support free and fair elections (think voter ID).
We have no candidate in 2012 that supports liberty, without some big-government tyrannical twist. If we win, and I no longer have any hope we will, though I, too, will fight, our president will be a holding pattern until we can nominate a conservative patriot in 2016. This is the reason I can vote for Romney, or Newt, or Santorum.
We must all vote against the Marxists running in the RINOpublican primary.
If we wind up with Romney and Obama in the general election WHAT CHOICE IS THERE? They're pretty much the same!
I agree in unity but not by sacrificing our core principles. The David Frums, the Ann Coulters, and the like are dead to me.
Why can't we seem to get the message out for smaller gov't with more freedom, lower taxes with a growing economy out? My answer:
We are spending all our oxygen railing on about social conservative issues.
consisting of the abortion and religous zealot freaks
Regrettably, many of the challengers DID do it to themselves, or at least helped do it to themselves. Rick Perry didn't have outside help in seeming to be a lightweight, and at times an airhead. Michelle Bachman would drone on and on, speechifying when answering the simplest question, far past the point of an adequate answer. People get tired of this stuff.
And now, the strongest vote-getter in S.C. turned out to be Newt Gingrich, meaning the #1 and #2 vote-getters are NEITHER ONE CONSERVATIVE. And I don't refer to a lack of social conservatism. Neither qualifies as even a fiscal conservative. And I'm saying this from the point of view that I don't give a rat sass whether the candidate is all that socially conservative, as long as this fiscal bleeding can be stopped, or even slowed.
I'd be just as happy with a brokered convention, where some strong conservative comes forward as a compromise nominee. I'd also like to think we can elect enough real conservatives to Congress to drag a centrist president (Gingrich or Romney, in particular) toward the right.
With so much evidence and material to use against Obama, even a mildly united effort should do. So when we all decide which one is going to be "our man", let us remember our true goal-GET OBAMA OUT OF THE PRESIDENCY! I don't know anybody personally that really likes any of the current candidates all that much. So when this battle is over, dust yourselves off and prepare to win the war.
Andrew, I agree.
This is not an election about who will be president, it is about who won't be.
I, being from a small state, will have no say in who the nominee is. I will support whomever is nominated in the fervent hope we can remove this threat to our republic before it is too late. The best men do not run, we are stuck with the rest.
Nobama 2012
We have no candidate in 2012 that supports liberty
Are you kidding? He's right in front of you.
http://www.ronpaul2012.com/
Whomever may be chosen, we need to get behind him and rally. The absolute bottom line here is that we must, must, must defeat chairman "o".
In my humble opinion, this will be our last free election if obama is the victor…….. stop the rhetoric and get everyone you know that agrees, or semi-agrees with and VOTE!
I'll vote for the current president before I vote for Mr. Paul. Excellent on domestic policy, rat-bait-insane regarding foreign policy, including America's place in the world.
Bless you for being such a staunch supporter of his.
"Davids Brooks, David Gergen, and David Frum may “disagree.” But this David fights!"
As a limo driver, I came across David Gergen last year. In the 3 or 4 years that I did that job, Gergen (liberal man of the people) was the most dismissive, elitist, obnoxious schmuck (including hundreds of Silicon Valley top drawer big shots) I ever came across!
I'm with Bumr50 on this, Andrew. At this intersection in the primary campaigns, anyone saying we have to settle for Romney is merely giving in to the pressure. No matter who it's coming from, the call for compromise makes me both weary and wary given the record of insincerity and political maneuvers. "Patriots need to unite behind our candidate, behind the GOP, behind the conservative movement. Or else." . Agreed, but let's get our candidate before we rally the masses. Clearly, the GOP is banking on Mitt whereas the conservatives and patriots may very well have someone else in mind. In other words, I'm listening very carefully.
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Except that the IRS exonerated him 3 years later……
DOWN with the Elitest Establishment, both Democrat and Republican. That includes Coulter, Krauthammer, Rove, Malkin, Hannity, O'Reilly and ALL the talking heads on Fox News.
I for one am not getting a tingle in my leg from any of the candidates……BUT when put up against the current occupant that is either through ignorance, or malevolence, wrecking this nation, …well … what choice do any of us conservative/libertarians have?
I'll certainly work for anyone the GOP puts up as the alternative is too scary to contemplate – since given 4 more years America will beyond salvation.
ANYONE BUT OBAMA, ANYONE!!!
"Patriots need to unite behind our candidate, behind the GOP, behind the conservative movement. Or else."
Truer words have never been spoken Andrew…
vaya con Dios
We all have taken a good look at Romney's past but we really need to take a good look at Newt's. It's scary! Trust me the Dems are loving this and we need to look at the end game of making O a one termer. Whoever is the nominee can't have huge ethics issues.
Or else.
Or else what, Andrew?
Your despicable treatment of us Paul supporters has virtually eliminated any support for conservative unity you might have gotten out of us. You sat there and not only allowed to lies about the newsletter scandal and his supposed racism to go on, you actually encouraged it. We are constantly called "Paulbots", "Ronulans", "Paulistinians" and other names by people who are at least mostly supposed to be on our side. That is behavior that I've always thought only liberals did. Conservatives were supposed to be the ones who discussed the issues in a civil manner. Reality says something different, it seems.
I don't consider myself a libertarian (I guess "conservatarian" is more like it), but the GOP is pushing me more in their direction every day. I can't take much more of the hypocrisy and stupidity from this party (and even the "conservative movement" in general). I think you can forget about libertarians coming back to the GOP, at least for a very long time.
You don't really want our support or any sort of "unity", anyway. You only want our votes and then when the GOP is back in power you will throw us out the back door, at least until next election when you will try to sweet talk us back into your ranks.
Mark Steyn on Mitt the Squish: The finely calibrated inoffensiveness is kind of offensive.
See? We can't help it, Mr. Breitbart. His campaign needed killin'.
Andrew, I'm excited to hear your call to arms. I realized this week that what I really want in the Conservative/Republican leadership are champions. People who fight for what they believe in, not negotiate for what they believe in. Diplomacy is what we do after the victory is won and we're just working out the details.
The first two posts are all you need to know about why we are in for 4 more years of Barack Hussein Obama. God help us.
On the contrary, he's the only sane one there is. All the rest are calling for keeping the status quo with regards to foreign policy, and all that has done is cause us problems. This country is weaker because of our foreign policy, not stronger.
I guess you really don't want liberty if you'll vote for a guy like Obama before you vote for the Constitutionalist, Ron Paul. .
Ditto. If we really are a "Big Tent" then stop marginalizing the Paul supporters because you don't agree with one or two things.
Reign in your trolls.
Ditto. If the GOP really is a "Big Tent" then stop marginalizing the Paul supporters because you don't agree with one or two things.
Call off your trolls. Debate is appropriate, ridicule is not.
I hope to see more civility on the BIG sites now, but I won't hold my breath.
I've come to a similar conclusion hp. We can all assign blame as we see fit. Personally, I'm fed up with the establishment GOP. But we still wind up at the same place no matter who you blame.We may be going into the most critical election of our lives, if not the life of the republic, and our potential nominees, in my view, have little conservative core. They strike me more as closet progs who know how to read polls.
Where does that leave us? We have to make do with what we have, and like you said, elect enough real conservatives to Congress to drag these disappointingly progressive-minded nominees to the right.
We don't get to walk away and sit this one out. If we do there may not be "another one" later.
Oh, and what did we get from the GOP elite for our pains to elect a GOP House?
Respect? Unity? A sympathetic ear?
Eff the GOP. My plan is to use them to defeat Obama and then kick THEM to the curb.
That's a huge overstatement. Romney would have approved the pipeline and authorized drilling rather than halting it. He would have the budget balanced and would have cut spending. Let's not exaggerate our own side's weaknesses and overlook the HUGE differences that would make any of our candidates drastically better than Obama!
Fox News: The Manchurian Network
Sarah Palin is the last speaker at CPAC. I don't think her's will be a kumbaya speech either. Stand by, folks.
You are aware that , An analysis of the Top 20 Richest People in America (from Forbes Top 100) reveals that a full 60% are actually Democrats. Furthermore, if you eliminate the duplication caused by people from the same family being included in that Top 20 list (Wal-Mart & Koch) that ratio widens even further to: 25% Republican / 75% Democrat.
Not only are there more Democrats in the Top 20 list, but those Democrats are a lot more stingy with their money. Republicans coughed up $5.2 million while Democrats squirted out only $2.1 Million for charity.
Lest we not forget, Democrats outweigh Republicans. Not only in terms of the number of uber-millionaires, but also with their net worth. In this Top 20 group, Democrats have a combined net worth of $263.1 billion dollars while the Republicans have a combined net worth of only $143.9 billion dollars – almost half that of Democrats.
Preach it, Sister!!
Have you noticed that almost all of Romney's support is borne of desperation, rather than positives?
BTW, it hasnt been stated yet (I think). The IRS are loathe to exonerate anyone.
Agreed. And it's not just this site. Talk radio is just as guilty. I remember early 2011, Hannity kept talking about his "libertarian streak" and there seemed to be some kind of push to attract libertarian voters to the GOP. But once Paul started making news, the knives came out.
Like I said, Andrew Breitbart, talk radio, and the "conservative movement" in general is not concerned with unity. They only want the libertarians and libertarian-leaning conservatives for their votes, and once the election is over they'll pretend like they don't know us.
Reason will prevail but right now the mood is much more a need for a fight. If you try to quash that, or temper it before it's had its run, you run the risk of neutering the chance for any lasting legacy. The geldings grow fat, after all.
No, this is more the pulse of the electorate:
Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,
That he which hath no stomach to this fight,
Let him depart; his passport shall be made,
And crowns for convoy put into his purse;
We would not die in that man's company
That fears his fellowship to die with us.
Which is exactly why they support a progressive income tax. It prevents us, the riff raff, from ever making our way up into their ranks. The more you make, the more they'll take.
The most important votes cast in November will be those that turn out Progressive Democrats & REPUBLICANS in the House and Senate. A POTUS can have their wings clipped and budgets slashed by a CONSERVATIVE CONGRESS. How would Barack Hussein Obama do with an 80% cut to the White House budget and the grounding of Air Force and Marine 1???
It's been published, just not by the liberal media outlets….
"Of course in Gingrich's case, the media have been particularly sloppy and unfair, Bozell observed, citing NBC's Lisa Myers who insisted Gingrich "shut down the government" when in fact it was a Clinton veto of spending bills that did that. What's more, the media have often raised a long-settled IRS investigation of Gingrich, without mentioning that the investigation cleared him of wrongdoing (video follows page break):
Here's a number for you. It was exactly 4,691 days ago that the IRS came out with this result and it completely vindicated him of everything…. Trivia: how long has it been since ABC, NBC or CBS reported that fact? Answer? Four thousand six hundred ninety-one days. "
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2011/12/09/...
Not that I'm throwing my support behind Newt or any candidate yet, I just hate seeing people tarred by misinformation
Yes, indeed I witnessed that back in the Malaise of Jimmy Carter. The Fair tax is my preferable route. One day maybe we will be able to starve the beast before it starves US!
Good to hear from you Andrew!!!
There's NO way any candidate is going to escape the RINO label so long as conservatives slap that label on all candidates (except their favorite.). All the candidates have done something "RINO" because they have all been in politics a long time.Dealt with hundreds of issues.
But this is about arriving at a TICKET (TWO CANDIDATES!) and further from critical perfection, Senate and House members, too!
2012 is not a conclusion. 2012 is another step in a work in progress! Toward less Left wing policy and practices. Toward less comfort for RINOs who think compromising with the left is "fighting" the left,as they take "credit" for compromising and getting beat up!
It is time for the GOP to get unified as a TICKET emerges–for better for worse.We need more inspiration and less tear down! Changing the make up of the House and Senate further toward conservative will fight the leftists and a real fight it will be!
But I got to admit… the job all the Republican candidates have done thus far has made the MSM out to be bigger and bigger fools! Now on to bigger things! It's time to unify.And deal the leftists another blow! And beyond that–another!
This interparty fight was and is absolutely necessary. People that want all of us to get along all the time are asking for what we have, ie, out of control government. The interparty fighting is what brought the conversation of limited government to the table. Before it was a given that government would be ever expanding. The sleeping giant has woken and smaller government is going to happen. It is not going to happen with one or a handful of elections. This beast has been growing for decades. So those who refuse to play because their guy didn't get in aren't serious about solving this crisis. Not voting for the Republican candidate is a vote for Obama. The Democrats think long term and unless you want their boot on your neck, you better start thinking long term too.
and you will never be considered a partriot.
Right on Andrew
We must beat OBama and take both Houses.
We must win
No excuses
and you as well will never be considered a patriot. to vote dem is a traitorous act in this election.
As Glenn Beck says….when it comes to Obuma or shoe….I will vote for shoe.
Wanna talk scary the dem's are running obama.
I am watching and waiting until my state's primary. Yawn. But I like you, want fairness and undemocratic practices observed.
I see I got down ticked so I will edit
want fairness and undemocratic (party) practices observed.
Then you doom all of us to 4 more years of O'Bambi, (and my kids and their kids to economic slavery).
I'm no Mitten's guy by a long shot.
In the immortal words of "The Great One", Prof. Levine, "I'd vote for an orange juice can, to be rid of Obama."
Me too!
Not Over.
True… the IRS are loathe to exonerate anyone. And the LSM were loathe to report it.
The only reason I found out about the IRS exoneration was because I saw it on the RNC website. I collected elephants at the time, and the RNC is a great place to find elephants. I went there looking to see if they had anything new, and there it was… the report that the IRS had found Newt's taxes perfectly in order.
It was only a couple of YEARS late that they finally got around to auditing him. :/
Paul conditions the USA to become pacifist cowards. Besides possessing a sefl-rightous, personal point of view, the only other possibility is that he is a coward.
Don't go weak in the knees. The Dems ARE NOT loving the possibility of Newt, they are scared out of their pants. All this stuff about their fear of Romney is just that a bunch of hooey. Newt will shred them like he's been taking MSM skalps. They know that Newt is the only one that will hit back and hit back hard and once he lands a few punches, the libs are going to realize that this is no longer a one way fight to their advantage. Bullies don't like it when the adversary exercises their "vote" and in politics like war, the other guy clearly has a vote. Up until now, Republicans have just rolled over, with Newt, we have a fighter and one not afraid to bare knuckle with the libs.
You can call it what you will but he was still fired by his own party. He has a checkered past loaded with vulnerabilities that will be used against him. Don’t get me wrong, I will vote for the republican nominee but he has to be the easiest for the Dems to take because he's just not believable! No matter how hard I try to like this guy, I just cringe knowing.
Obama's got the money, and will buy another FOUR MOURN YEARS. That should be the meme.
Wait, didn't Breitbart say he wouldn't attend CPAC if GOProud was excluded? Yep, he did.
Romney was the governor of a left wing dominated state (Taxachusetts). If he ever so much as sneezed in the general direction of the oil companies, he would have been savaged by the environmentalists. And thanks to Romneycare, Taxachusett's budget is out of control. So don't say he'd balance the budget.
I bet you just wish Hitler, Stalin, or Pol Pot where here to support you leftist murderer loving troll…..
We have done that for 40 years, only to have the RINOpublican party time after time nominate losers who either are Marxists or just let the Marxists win by default.
We need another Reagan. Now.
I feel like many in the Republican party are quite content for larger government, as long as it's the "right kind" of large government. The word "conservative" has become so diluted, of late, that it means almost nothing.
Fiscal conservatives want smaller, less intrusive government.
Social conservatives want government that will enforce their values, even if it intrudes a bit into our private lives.
Libertarians want government slashed and burned.
Compassionate conservatives want to embrace social programs, but with a "conservative" bent.
Establishment conservatives want political power, and are looking to do whatever they think will get non-base voters to vote for them.
Somehow, I see issues arising when we seek common ground.
We have been asleep. Our kids have been educated by marxists and we let that happen. We can't expect a new Reagan to do for us what we must do ourselves. We tolerate a public sector union in our city halls and courthouses. We watch a plethora of reality shows, but the reality is we have not made our voices heard by our local television stations. In short, if some have worked for 40 years then we ALL need to work and finish the job.
The Republicans fired him because he was found guilty in the court of public opinion. We seem to see that happen to the Republicans way more then the Democrats.
I still don't want to support him. He is a progressive.
This is Ron Paul's famous Predictions speech from April 24, 2002. This is the original video compiling recent images and video to give his speech a chilling effect.
"I have no timetable for these predictions, but just in case, keep them around and look at them in 5-10 years. Let's hope and pray that I'm wrong on all accounts. If so, I will be very pleased. " Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGDisyWkIBM&fe...
The only one showing any gonads to fight is Mr. Gingrich. Much more than a fight, this is a war. The meme now is that Newt is an angry old man, screaming screeds at the #MainstremSocialistMedia, and daring to confront them for the enemy that they are.. Scream as they may, Newt knows how to win.
Republicans have but two choices. Pick up the sword of reform, or pull away the bailout plug and allow a fully free market. NOTHING IN BETWEEN. Newt's hint of "New York Elites", in his victory speach, opened the door to the former. He's been trying to make bones of Romney's simplistic views toward capitalism, and will be the one to succeed, or fail, in getting traction. He's no less a Moderate, where Romney's fallacy is in supporting the current state we're in. He's a protector of wealth by any means. It all gets back to my first sentence, political labels be damned.
Nothing, NOTHING is more important that getting Obama out of the white house in 2012! Four more years is the end of America.
I don't care if it's Ron Paul, I will vote for the republican. Too much is at stake.
I prefer it to get us all on the same page. To remove Obama from office.
nothing you have said negates my point. you insinuate you won't vote for the repub if it isn't who you want…which means you'll either be giving your support to obuma by voting for him….or giving your support to obuma by not voting for anyone…..should you decide to vote 3rd party it's the same as option #2…..you can't have it both ways my friend….personally i'm feeling a little beaten down by my friends on the right….regardless of who the nominee is anyone NOT voting republican is in fact supporting the most traitorous president this country has ever elected…..btw….do you plan on caucusing on your state? I'm voting RS but i'll support the nominee regardless.
I'm sorry, I just can't do it.
Strike while the iron is hot. Seize the moment. A thunderous conservative hammer was ready to crash down the walls of progressivism
Instead the milqtoast GOP establishment has done everything in their power to not undo the socialist march, but instead worked to undermine the conservative tidalwave. Now, they us offer moderate democrats, progressives, and statists as the change agents to save the country. The GOP establishment is fighting for one thing, to protect the status quo. And the status quo has decided that America is to be a socialist democracy run by crony capitalism. They proved this in 2006, 2008, and even worked against the tea party in 2010. Do you really think all those attacks on Palin, Bachman, and the TP was just coming from democrats?
Compromise? sure, they can change their ways and work with us anytime they chose.
I will fight tooth and nail to stop Romney from getting the nomination, but if he does become the GOP candidate, I will vote for him to rid the USA of the ObamAA+ Presidency.
The problem with you Paul supporters is that it isn't about the ideas. It's all about Paul. You guys tend to care more about the guy than the ideas.
I've noticed in my travels throughout the country, there are people who have said many of the same ideas that Paul claims to represent but when their names enter the fold you guys yell out so much hate toward that person all in the name of Ron Paul.
I may agree with Paul. I may not. But at the end of the day my vote counts just as much as yours has and you've not won me over. It's easy to blame Breitbart or fellow conservatives because you think you've done it all. You haven't.
And getting pissy with me because I don't have the same POV that you do isn't going to win me over either.
Once a nominee has been selected, then yes, we must all unite around them.
Until then it's RINO season !
HE WAS NEVER FIRED>>>>>>Maybe you should do some reading before you start talking about stuff you know nothing about.
Debate mania has shifted the focus away from the economy. The candidates (and the primary voters) have been duped and manipulated. The MSM has succeeded in fracturing the party.
But the kingmakers haven't exactly given us A-game players to begin with.
All the old media has done is turn one candidate after another into a lightning rod while marginalizing the Tea Party.
New Media is the answer; we've just screwed up on the first attempt. Time will tell if we can salvage this thing, but Obama is in for a rough ride.
Even if Romney wins it, we'll be a step closer to righting this leaning ship.
NOPE. http://www.factcheck.org/2011/12/newts-erroneous-...
I agree there must be common ground. However, THIS TIME it is the Establishment GOP who have to "hold their noses" and vote for something other than generally want. It is the progressives among the "we" who have, for too long, bullied the rest of the non democrats into voting with them who have to stand aside this election and come to realize that it is their turn to support the Liberty Movement.
We supported them, right down to stomaching the Mark Kirk's of the world just to get the (R) in place. We want our just deserts in this election cycle. We watched as the CRs went through and the Democrats were let off the hook for refusing to pass a budget. We waited for Citations of Constitutional Authority for bills passed that have never come. We watched as spending continued to grow even after electing a House Majority to STOP IT.
We have waited patiently for the GunWalker Scandal to be broken wide open. We have witnessed the ugliness of this administration literally bowing to foreign powers.
Enough is enough, RINOs. This time, it is you who have to join the rest of us in the defense of Liberty, rather than party political power. If you do not, you will be the cause of this election loss. You will be responsible for what happens afterward.
We demand that the Unconstitutional garbage be stopped dead in its tracks, right here and right now. We want candidates VETTED 100%. We want truth to be told, whatever that is and we want those held accountable for their actions. We want SERIOUS taxation reform, and no, not some tiny adjustment within the ridiculous tax code. Fundamental reform on the baseline level that finally ends, once and for all, the punitive use of the tax code against us.
We want the race card, the fear card, the class warfare card and the bipartisan card removed from the deck – leaving only a playing of the hand honestly with cards of true substance.
We want those who claim to be our leaders to stand up and tell the truth, especially to media lackeys and about media lackeys. NO SUBJECTS are off limits and no more political correctness. We want CORRECTNESS itself, stand alone.
No more foolishness, no more pandering, no more lies and half truths.
This election has to be about Citizens and their Liberty versus Subjects and government controlled allowances. It is time to choose Freedom or government dependence.
I choose Freedom and refuse fully to support those who favor government control over it.
How about you?
You're right, but that Conservative Congress is of limited benefit if the speaker has no nuts or guts….Boehner, who I had high hopes for, has been a disappointment and has to go.
Thank you for your heartfelt, true-conservative words. My favorite line: "We don't get to walk away and sit this one out. If we do there may not be 'another one' later."
A proggie-lib would say you're being overly dramatic, or that your thinking is evidence of a conspiratorial bent. I say this: Likeminded people, such as proggie-libs, don't have to form a conspiracy. Each of them can see exactly how they should act to destroy this country, and that's just proggie-libs being proggie-libs.
But you're 100% correct: This is a time of great danger. We must do all that we can, even if that is the good that falls short of the perfect. There is a saying in AA (I'm not a member, but a loved one of mine is) — "Don't sacrifice the good for the perfect." If we do this, our country might never come back. It will probably, in real terms, the terms that matter most, cease to exist.
First things first —– get Obama the hell out of Washington.
I concur and will celebrate when Horrible Harry gets the boot as well.
And Romney would have nominated Sonya and Elana just the same as Barry did.
And that right there is why Romney is a NONSTARTER. Period.
We change Presidents back and forth and things only get worse.
We change Congress, even in historical flips with historical numbers and things only get worse.
It is time to FOCUS on the Judiciary, most especially the Supreme Court, and make that NUMBER ONE issue of this campaign. Media can whine "economy" all they want to, we have to stick to our guns.
So wrong. Paul, the man, has such a loyal following because he is someone we can believe in and trust. He is a man of conviction. He's honest. He's unique. His ideas are unique. He has changed the debate in this country.
Because of him we are talking about the federal reserve and ending the epa, dept. of education, etc. On foreign policy, which neo-cons claim to hate, he has Rick Perry using terms like "military adventurism."
Ron Paul has changed the debate in this country and is the most influential right-winger of this generation. He'll never be President. And that doesn't matter. His ideas will live on. Establishment conservatives write him off as being supported by the young. The way I see it, the future is looking bright.
It's amazing that we can't even unify and get the Republicans to vote on auditing the Federal Reserve.
The confusion is because the progressives, using Marxist theory, have so dominated all of the mechanism whereby language is acquired, that they have become the definers of our political vocabulary. They control the language, which means they control the thoughts that can be expressed to such an extent that is guides the very thoughts that we can think. If one uses a Marxist vocabulary, one is constrained to working within a Marxist world-view. E.g. that whole left-right dichotomy is a fabrication of Marxist. With all of the focus on false dichotomies and invalid equivalencies, ( amplified by the Marxist penchant for stealing terms, twisting their meaning, like what they did to the word liberal) the real issues become obfuscated. Keep in mind, that up until very recently, the only people who were allowed to have a public voice, where those who the Marxist manipulating our media, allowed to have a public voice, and at that they filtered that voice to only allow through that which they decided. In this way they were able to virtually redefine the GOP during the 80's. Thank G*D for AM Talk and Rush, else all would have been lost.
I wholeheartedly agree Andrew it's time we stop bickering and unite against America's true enemy-Barack Huessein Obama and the whole rotten Chicago bunch around him.He and the Democrat party are the scourge of the nation!
The preview of BO's SOTU speech is enough to make me ill. He is doubling down on all of his hideous policys – from green energy to giving money to the states to keep teachers and safety people employeed. This scumbag is still buying votes with our tax $$.
NOBAMA 2012!!!!!!!
Just like Grassley gave in to appointments and didn't get the information he was "promised" regarding GunWalker. Heck we have a Silent Speaker who won't even talk about it, much less do anything about it.
I disagree on one point though, Walter, it is not afraid to fight, it is a lack of desire to do so because too many of 'us" are not among the "We" – no – they claim to be but in reality they are wolves in sheep's clothing imposters.
"We" will only shoot ourselves in the foot if we are not honest, especially with ourselves and among ourselves, about "us" and "them"…….
I don't support candidates only by supperimposing ideology on them. For example, I know the utility industry quite well, and have my own opinion on cost / benefit of some of the EPA regulations. It doesn't keep me from being Republican. I don't watch debates for their Jerry Springer elements, either. That evidentally means a lot to some people.
I see a lot of fraud, from my fortunate perch in life. I see a lot of wrong, that has no rule to chase after it, or worse where rules USED to be and who unwound them. I am not deluded by the 20,000 Keystone could help, if it costs 160,000,000 citizens the kind of tax cut that has the highest money multiplier for our economy. They are seperate issues, and I blame who I blame for the offense they take at supporting the middle class. It was their choice to gum things up.
The current DC Republicans have plenty of tarnish, and have nearly lost all of their fiscal conservative stripes. I'm in a primary state, and my vote has to be earned.
Big tent?
Republicans always claim they are a big tent? Judging from the actions of republicans the only thing they want is your vote, NOT your voice or concerns.
Paul supporters and the unaffiliated have felt the hate of true republicanism. This can not be denied.
Since republicans/conservative/family values is myth as proven with newt it is only about power.
The democrats are exactly the same.
The republicans and democrats are allies and this can not be denied.
I thought the goal was to save the country and that can only be done by the trading of words Not smut peddling.
Both government parties(republicans and democrats) positions are take it or leave it.
I will NOT choose between evil and support the system that created and elected BO, because it will elect another.
I am free and unaffiliated
Fighting to return to the people their voice and power.
Freedom has always been the enemy of the powerful and road block to those who fear and hate.
What is a conservative?
Well said bumr50.
I don't want to elect someone who will just babysit the country for 4 years until it gets handed to the next radical to take it over the brink.
That barely sounds better than beating Obama, if it even is. If the GOP had integrity and conviction at least that would be the counter-point Obama and the Dems would have to worry about. With the likes of Romney, there is no real counterpoint.
Rush has been a great blessing in our nation, indeed.
Paul does have some good ideas. Both Perry and Newt support part of the Paul platform. Paul will have a voice at the convention. Paul supporters have been disrespected imo (and I was a Perry supporter). We need to take the best ideas from each of the candidates and BEAT BO!
Is CPAC still run by stealth jihadists? Will Robert Spencer be giving a lecture?
Sorry about that! I ate pizza and just put away the leftovers before I said that… Where ever did I put the Tums???
I agree Andrew. I nominate Joe the Plumber.
I wonder myself about being overly dramatic sometimes. But the facts are what they are, and we've all grown accustomed to a status quo of the unsustainable. "Unsustainable". What a cliche. Do words have meaning anymore?
Our national debt clock. As I read it, national debt is about 15 Trillion. That by itself should be stunning. Add in another 117 Trillion for unfunded liabilities. All that debt, lucky for us we're paying nearly zero interest rates on it, thanks a) to Fed artifice and b) most of the globe being equally bad off. (Should that be a good thing?) Odds are the debt will be nearly as high or higher when those interest rates inevitably spike. Do the math. If that's allowed to happen, the federal budget will be mostly consumed by interest payments. I don't suppose the entitlement-addled Occupier types will react well to that. Nor do I think our crisis-loving socialist/marxist, America-hating president would let such an opportunity pass unexploited, especially as a lame duck unconstrained by thoughts of re-election. Iran with a nuke would no doubt also see opportunity in an economically hobbled America.
I know I'm not telling anyone anything new. Just acknowledging indisbutable facts, connecting some dots, and making obvious extrapolations. One doesn't need to be much of a conspiracy theorist to see cause for alarm, just coldly rational.
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