I’ve been here before. And it will happen again. And I will see it again, unless I die. And I don’t think I will care about any of this if that happens. At least I think I wont care.

I’m fairly sure Bill Clinton wasn’t/isn’t a Marxist. The man was ‘not exactly’ what we like to see in a President, but he was not seemingly out to destroy The Republic.

Our very liberty, sovereignty and freedom as a people is at stake with the person who was just elected to be “point” for the next four years.

As bizarre as things got under ‘Ol Billy Boy, you somehow had the knowledge he wasn’t going to overturn The Constitution and Bill Of Rights, socialize all that is our economy, bring on the next great depression and appease madmen.

Can you say the same of our next president ?

I cannot.

I never thought I say I miss Clinton, but The One is downright scary. And he makes Clinton look like Rush Limbaugh.

look, it’s not that hard to keep it under control…

if our leadership lacks this much self-discipline they need to resign and be replaced with people who can exercise restraint.

You make an excellent point. It’s supported by the numbers – the Democrats’ margins in the electoral college, House and Senate are very similar to the 1992 election.

Secy. of State Shultz was right about DC, nothing ever gets settled in this town.

For me, the biggest loser in the recently concluded election is the MSM. Journalism in America is dead.

Let a new, balanced news firm be born and challenge the legacy media.

In 1992 we had not been attacked with 3000 dead in the streets. Now we are in the midst of two wars and an economic crisis with an unapologetic socialist in charge.We also have a totally corrupt MSM that is willing to cover for the new leader and his party. With a Democratic party that is willing to do literally anything including sacrifice lives and national security in order to retain power.The destruction of the presidency or GWB and the leaking of national security secrets by the NYT and other members of the MSM were all about the pursuit of power. Decency, fairness and civility are gone from the left and the lapdog media just ask Sarah Palin and her husband and children.

The worst you could say about Clinton was that he was a draft dodger and skirt chaser with a shrill wife out to nationalize health care and allow gays in the military.Clinton was also a former Gov with executive experience who had attempted to moderate his position and his party with the DLC. He was not a junior Senator with no executive experience or an unapologetic radical with people in his background like Ayers and Wright. I also don’t recall Clinton being endorsed by the dictators of Cuba, Iran and Venezuela. Things are very different this time, back then Rush was optimistic and wrote two best sellers. For all of Clinton’s faults he was not someone who was in a position to destroy what this country stands for while endangering national security.

If the Republicans want to taken seriously ever again they can start today by EVERY one of them publically stating, as a group, on the Congress steps to NEVER take an earmark or pork home again. Tell their constituents they are in Washington to run the country not bring home goodies for the voters.

Reeducate their constituents “”Ask not what your country can do for you -ask what you can do for your country.”

How crazy would it be for a Republican to run on the platform…Vote for me, I will not go to Washington to bring you back pork. Do not expect me to bring money back here for some park or walking trail, if you want that, get together and make it happen yourself. I go to Washington to do the countries business and nothing more…part of that is to not loot the public trust and I promise to fight to prevent any other Congressman trying to bring home pork…I will not wink at my colleagues and say I will vote for your pork if you vote for mine…. expect nothing from me but to ensure the safety of the country and the reduction of spending. My first initiative will be work to mandate starting in the first grade, the teaching of self-reliance and all that goes with it.

If this had been done in 1994 when we had a majority spending would be under control and we would have a generation of graduates chafing at the bit to go forth and be entrepreneurs and we would probably have a super majority in both houses..instead we have another generation of young adults with the entitlement mentality barely able to tie their shoes without looking for assistance.

I wish I were more confident or could draw more parallels from 1992. But I think we are looking at an even worse situation. The demographics are shifting. I have to wonder if states (and districts) like VA, NM, IA and others aren’t gone permanently. Even if 0bama screws up I think the Dems will not suffer much for it in 2010. I hope I am wrong but 0bama has been made so god like I fear most of those who voted for him Tues. will still stand with him. I suppose one difference though is that he will not be on the ballot in 2 years.

Things were looking down when Clinton won but at least we still had IN, VA, and FL in the red column then. Our only hope, IMO, is that when 0bama lurches far to the left and tries to take more of everyone’s income, that this might convince some moderates and independents to turn back into Republicans.

Articulated conservative principles, clearly, consistently and without apology.

FWIW, check what the economy and market did for six straight years after 1994.

everyone understands how we got here; we lost our Conservative principles: smaller government, less spending, and competency!

You put the above together as well as the leadership void left by President Bush, who after Katrina, spent his remaining political capital on the Surge in Iraq, and you get President Elect Obama.

We’ve been at war, and the American Public is tired. They want to be led, and Obama’s ability to, as Rush put’s it, “say nothing better than any one else,” convinced enough of them that he is the One to do it.

it certainly amused me.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122593259568103473.html

Those of you who have curiosity about the long view, I think you’ll find support here.

It’s long, but those who appreciate history — and are unfamiliar with the rise and fall of American political parties and their attendant ideologies of the moment — will find it illuminating.

Cheers.

In 1992 the media was also fully in the tank for Clinton. Remember the Carol Simpson moderated debate with her smarmy “let’s ask the education president” and Ted Kopell the topic every night on NightLine for 3 months leading up to the election was Iran-Contra. The week before the election, Cat Weinburger was charged for Iran Contra and miraculously Georgie Stephanopolous calls in Larry King while Bush was the guest the Friday before the election pounding him on the Iran Contra, and Weinburger’s indictment while King sat there and shrugged his shoulders. As a matter of fact the Clinton campaign released a press release commenting on the indictment the day before anyone even knew about it.

The 1994 republican revolution was the master stroke of Gingrich. He ran a national campaign on local races. He proved once again conservatism wins elections. Whoever is the nominee on 2012 must do what Reagan and Ginrich did, not just have a strategy to beat the democrat but have a strategy to beat the media.

This is fundamentally a Center-Right country. The politicians will overreach, as they always do, and will get slapped back by the electorate. It always happens.

I live in SF Bay Area. You should have seen the utter despair and grief by the Libs in both 00 and 04, when they were shown the door. They were absolutely devastated. The same articles were written, showing how demographics had forever changed and the libs were relegated to a permanent minority.

The difference is this: We don’t run away to Canada, and we don’t try to undermine the nation’s security.

Americans like to have divided government. I guarantee that if we can present a competent case for less government intrusion, more personal freedom, strong defense, and fiscal restraint, we will have our rightful place in leadership.

Not to mention the corruption fiasco.

Quite honestly there are many Republicans in congress that are nearly indistinguishable from their counterparts except for the little elephant on their lapel.

The foundation of any new platform for the GOP must be open, honest, ethical behavior. Without that, many conservatives will remain skeptical.

In my view, the End of the Revolution was in late 2001. In the aftermath of 9/11, the Congress voted huge chunks of unaccountable cash – $25 billion in the first round for New York. Which was sniffed at as insufficient, so they rolled up their sleeves and went for another huge chunk – can’t remember the amount, but I believe it was approximately the same. A few brave Republican House members (I think Flake was one) were hammered for questioning the need for accountability. He said, we’ll give you another $5B, then come back and ask for more as you need it.

Both parties then looked around and realized – there were no negative consequences to spending tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. After that, it was off to the races. Thus the Farm Bill, the Transportation Bill and, the savior of the Republican Party, the Medicare Prescription Drug bill.

Thus the corruption in both parties, with asymmetrical attention to the Republicans (Cunningham big news, Jefferson no news at all). Then 2006, now this.

To get “from here to there” all this is needed is a consistent attention to the core conservative principles, the development of market-oriented policies to address the “ills” of education, healthcare, etc. – and some great, visible communicators. I would like to see Gingrich as head of the RNC, and some Young Turks from the House step forward into leadership roles.

With the inevitable disasters of the Obama Presidency – overreaching, a fracturing of the Democrat party into coalitions, and Hillary revving up her primary challenge in 2012, the entire situation could be so different, and so much better, by 2010.

at the level of the houses. Some people run on a party ticket just because they are the ones favorable in societies eyes. We need to make sure candidates in primaries are probed enough to fish out the coat-tailers