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Republican Leadership Isn’t…Stand Up Or Stand Down!

By: Skip MacLure (Diary)  |  October 22nd, 2009 at 08:01 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

It’s driven me CRAZY for years…these clowns talk such a great game seeking our votes and then they go back to WASHVILLE…which was once a swamp…I’ll let you fill in the blanks.
Maybe the British were trying to do us a favor when they burnt it down in 1814.
It must be that moist, dank, swampy air that causes brain lesions in politicians as soon as they check into the Beltway.
The Republican brand in particular is suffering from severe disillusionment, stemming from years of rank and file abuse by the party “leadership” which isn’t.
You’d think the boneheads would get the message that’s been coming from the people ever since George Bush started taking America down the wrong fiscal path. Centrism and reaching across the ‘aisle’ has proven to be worse than a red herring time after time. Accommodation with the Democrats is like dropping into a den of rattlesnakes and blithely saying,  ‘ Why howdy neighbor” – and then being genuinely surprised at getting bit. If the base wanted you to make deals we would have said so.
But then, you guys develop extremely severe hearing loss, along with your tunnel vision which comes with your SWAMP FEVER. And you wonder why you shed voters and support like needles on a month old Christmas tree. (Notice the non-use of the term holiday tree?). If this party is to re-emerge as the right-of-center party, capable of saving America from the voracious maw of Marxist tyranny threatening to overwhelm the Constitution and the rule of law as laid out in that Constitution and in our Bill of Rights, then it had best stand on its feet and proclaim to America and the world that, “WE STAND FOR AMERICA…this shall not be!” Say it loud. Say it clearly, without the usual mealy mouthed equivocation a la Lindsey Graham and the pathetic turncoats like him. Stand up and stand for something, or die for nothing. Stand up and America will follow.
You can’t have it both ways.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2009

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  • AceInTX

    a fitting place for reptiles and snakes

    • Streiff

      the bottom land on what was then Tiber Creek. Foggy Bottom has always been the area just west of the White House where the State Department is now located.

      • AceInTX

        it works as a word picture anyway…lol

        • Streiff

          that the swamp was only a small part of the 10 sq mi that was the original Washington. Your comment seemed to read that all of DC was a swamp.

          • AceInTX

            to include Capital Hill, The White House…K street and Embassy Row…LOL

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    within the Republican Party itself.

    Conservatives do not control the majority of the precinct committeemen slots. With HALF OF THOSE SLOTS VACANT, we could. If we conservatives got out of our chairs and to a GOP local meeting and volunteered to become a precinct committeeman.

    Why do you think the insiders tapped Scozzafava? They allowed the PCs in the counties to vote. Not enough conservative PCs showed up at those meetings to vote. No conservative majority in the voting ranks, no conservative candidate.

    The incumbent Republicans care about one thing and one thing only: reelection. History tells them under the status quo they have over a 90 per cent chance of getting reelected if they don’t make waves. Why don’t they implore you to come into the Party? It’s obvious. They’d rather take there chances with the status quo, which elected them last time, then take a chance with new conservative blood in the Party PC ranks. Because even they FEAR losing to a “better” conservative challenger in the primary election they must survive.

    Here’s an example: Rep. Tom Price tells us, “We will keep fighting, but we need you to remain engaged and active in this process.” In other words, the status quo. Keep making phone calls. That’s enough. But don’t, whatever you do, come into the Party as a precinct committeeman and CHANGE IT. Because, heaven forbid, I might lose in a primary. And my friends in the Party leadership might get booted and replaced with BETTER conservatives.

    Go here: http://www.redstate.com/congressman_tom_price/2009/10/22/remind-the-speaker-who-really-influences-votes-you/

    Even John McCain, now, a year before his primary contest, is having his campaign call precinct committeemen in Arizona seeking their support. I know. They called me about a month ago. Why? Because he knows conservatives are coming into the Party like never before.

    Rallies and protests are one thing. Real party politics is another. If you want to change the Republican Party, being a registered voter and blogging and holding signs and making phone calls is not enough. What is MOST effective, what really matters, is being IN the Party so you can vote for the leadership and MOST EFFECTIVELY EVALUATE the primary candidates and get the vote out for, and endorse, the BEST candidates. Conservative caucuses within the Party at the legislative district, county and state levels can endorse candidates. Want a more conservative Party? Then create a conservative majority in it. We seem to have the bodies — note the Tea Party and 9-12 movements. And the numbers. We just don’t seem to have the knowledge and sense of purpose to become engaged in party politics. Which really matters. Which is the real ball game.

    So we suffer with the likes of Scozzafava. And Crist. And the reluctance of the likes of McConnell, Kyl, McCain, Boehner and Cantor to explain to the American people that, for example, the “healthcare bill” is unconstitutional and a violation of our rights and will bankrupt the nation and that it’s a power grab, pure and simple, etc.

    And this will continue unless we conservatives take over the Republican Party.

    Want to get involved? Go to the link below.

    Thank you.

    ColdWarrior
    www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

  • Ausonius

    Where are the e l e c t e d Republican leaders who say things like we heard in Dick Cheney’s most recent speech?

    Where is our 21st-century Ronald Reagan who does not care what the New York Times thinks, who will go to head to head and expose the ill logic of the MAObama Administration, and who will u n a p o l o g e t i c a l l y propound conservative principles as the basis for a program of renewal?

    Among elected Republicans right now one could perhaps choose: Peter King? Thaddeus McCotter? Michele Bachmann? But they are smothered by the MSM.