The shift to the extreme left has been guided by persons, who grew up under the puplic school system, ( in the last 50 years). When children are turned away from their parents’ teachings, the following generation looses that foundation and tradition, that normally are passed down. After 50-70 years of this — -there are no more voices from the past to remind us because they either have died or are not heeded.
Celebrities aid & abett the MSM, coupled by the various nefarious anti-American groups that operate under the guise of “looking out for the small person”, such as ACORN.

Now, the extreme left is viewed as the center, the right of center is viewed as extreme right—-no wonder Rush, Ann and the others are flailing——–they too, hear only themselves along with a few TV & print Conservatives.

Where are the idea people? The leaders? That is what we need and fast—-2010 will be the mark — unles BHO no longer deems elections necessary.

to Rush often enough.

In a nutshell…

Repetition: Government Schools, Occasional Listener, Partisan Press

Exhaustive Analysis: GOP compromised the Founding principles, embraced bipartisanship.

Plan: “Conservatism wins every time it’s tried.”

But I’d have to disagree with your premise.

Movement Conservatives have not been ‘distracted,’ they’ve been accurate in their predictions of how far left things would go.

They have also had some winning issues, such as “Drill Here, Drill Now” that were crippled by the lack of support by moderate Republicans and RINOS. This issue came too late to generate enough support to slow the Democrats and their ‘hope change’ message, but it was effective.

It may be that you haven’t heard the movement calls for limited government and lower spending because they’ve been ignored or shouted down by the relentless left.

conservatives NOT holding those who have brought about this destruction on the Republican party to account. WE and Rush, Hannity, Coulter etc HOLD them to account day in and day out. It would be the party apparatus ie: RNC, RNSC, RNCC etc that does NOT hold them to account.

If Michael Steele REALLY wants to change the direction of the party he would come out and say that Specter and the two traitors from ME will NOT be recieving funding from the party and he SHOULD have said it prior to the vote.

So if you want to go after those in the party please do so BUT do NOT say that movement ie: grassroots is NOT going after them!

“There is no winning strategy, however, or even a questioning of what went wrong on 11/7/06 and 11/4/08. No attempt to reach out to the estranged GOP Base, better understand them and make adjustments that would draw them back. Among conservative politicians or pundits there is no significant plan to go on the offensive against those negative forces within the GOP that continue to have a strangle hold on it.”

Rush et al have advocated alternatives that specifically reach out to the base and Rush never stopped accurately representing the base. It is the GOP elected officials that did.

But they too are now and have for weeks, been offering alternatives to Obama’s plan. The McCain, Thune and DeMint amendments come to mind.

What the heck are you talking about?

that way. On a daily basis, my local radio serves up interviews with politicians and pundits like Mark Kirk, Peter Roskam, Blago (yes, last week Don Wade had him on for a solid hour, and boy did he give up a ton!), Roland Burris, Mark Halperin, George Stephanopoulus, and on and on. These are the people and policies the public needs to become aware of. And when they are caught in a lie, it is exposed, big time.

Talk radio and conservative internet sources are getting the word out. Of course the celebrities, Rush, Ann are going for the ratings. So what? In between “Barack the Magic Negro” and “The Justice Brothers” Rush is reaching out to inform the dumb class that 1) The country is not socialist (yet), and 2) Conservatives have fun, too.

My congressman, Roskam, has regular conference phone calls in the district. He is doing his job. And Rush is doing his job. Rush’s job is not to spearhead the conservative movement. That is the job of Steele and every person who intends to run as a conservative, as well as the job of the people they intend to represent.

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…”the dumb class”? There are those that are totally governed by their emotions and I suppose that can cause a dumbing down, certainly. But there are many former GOP voters who are not presently buying what the GOP has been trying to sell over the past 8 years. And I’m not talking about the war. There is wide support for the war. The war has nothing to do with the “great gulf fixed” that is presently between the former estranged Base and the GOP.

And the jury is still out on whether Steele will be able to put his finger on what the problem is. But don’t delude yourself into believing that those out in flyover country, Middle America are the “dumb class”. I’m talking about the 10-20 million that stayed at home on 11/4/08. DD

You wrote: “There is no winning strategy, however, or even a questioning of what went wrong on 11/7/06 and 11/4/08.”

I think it is fairly obvious that (the GOP) navigating AWAY from (its) conservative ideals is what led to the election results of ’06 & ’08.
I submit that we CONSERVATIVES have not been distracted at all. I submit that we are more focused than ever. As you suggest, the drumbeat by our “national” brothers and sisters such as Rush and Ann is louder and more insistent than ever. It is a return to form (for the GOP) which will make 2010 and 2012 something to behold! Distracted? Hardly.
God bless John McCain, but one could hardly argue that he is from the “base”.

To Rush, Ann and the others I say: Keep on Keepin’ on!!!

I do believe that this county wanted and still wants a change. I believe that we have gotten away from sound conservative values that people in this country long for a return to that (as a whole). Now THAT is change you can believe in.

Are you complaining that our talking heads are talking about the wrong things altogether, or just not talking enough about what you want to hear? Do you want them to stop mentioning Democrat offenses entirely?

Here’s a perplexing statement:

“As if this is the first anyone has heard about this agenda of the left which works tirelessly towards undermining our Constitution and moving us, instead, toward and under the control of some world governing body. I mean, what the heck did they expect?”

You may have meant that rhetorically, but it’s a legitimate question. There were millions of voters who either did not vote for McCain because they perceived no difference between the two candidates, or who voted for Obama in order to feel good and who seemed to think, “What can it hurt?” Those people did NOT expect what is being delivered to them. Going over the errors that Obama has made and will make is a means of driving home the realization that, “This is what it can hurt.”

And

“There is no winning strategy, however, or even a questioning of what went wrong on 11/7/06 and 11/4/08. No attempt to reach out to the estranged GOP Base, better understand them and make adjustments that would draw them back.”

That couldn’t be further from the truth, at least in regards to the pundits. Every one of them is centered on the idea that the party needs to return to conservatism, rather than try to chase the elusive “moderate voter.” The party leadership itself seems to want to go the opposite direction, but I haven’t heard much about what Michael Steel is planning.

Finally,

“Among conservative politicians or pundits there is no significant plan to go on the offensive against those negative forces within the GOP that continue to have a strangle hold on it. Those that continue to drive away millions of former GOP voters. No naming of names. No pointing of fingers.”

It seems to me that names have been named, but not in the sense you’re looking for. So, how about it? Name some names. The bully pulpit of RS awaits.

… I want to thank you all for your comments. It was lively and uplifting. DD