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From the Ground Up

To those conservatives who have known all along that BigTent Republicanism was a doomed experiment from the beginning, and to those who have finally given up on it as a way to keep conservatism relevant, perhaps we can now begin speech about the rebuilding of the GOP from the ground up.  There have been many references to this, but I have not seen any serious attempts to get the ball rolling.

The natural place to begin is with the platform.  The Republican Party platform in the early nineties was a bullet list of principles and positions.  Now it's a bunch of paragraphs listing the excuses and methods for compromising each of them.  Delete! Delete! Delete!

First I believe we should seriously consider the fact that we actually imbue in our very speech and writing, the incredibility and guilt we are accused of by liberals.  We speak in the PC of the day, and then complain that John McCain doesn't hit hard.  We ask for a Teddy Roosevelt and get Marty Milktoast.  We shun those who speak the truth openly because we are wanting to be what?  Nice?  We are nice, we care about liberals too.  But speaking the truth is not mean.  It's just been called that for so long that we become robotic to whatever fingerpointing we experience.  We should stop negotiating around the insult of accusation and say what is right intelligently and forcefully.  Stop being sorry for our races, sorry for not calling someone by their latest demanded moniker.  We can be smart while we do it though.  For example, in referring to Obama's communism, we don't call "a spade a spade".  That just makes it too easy for someone to call us racist, whatever our own color.  You call a communist a communist and then you explain what that means.

We should stop with the planning being handed to us in how we should be considering a new approach to our compromised conservatism and throw out the compromise altogether.

A new platform, supported with bold and intelligent speach.  No compromise on the part of the part for each bulleted item, but demand compromise on the part of those who come to understand and support most of the platform.

1- Republicans are pro-life.

etc. 

If you are a Republican but do not believe in the pro-life value, then you compromise your own beliefs and not expect the party to compromise to keep your votes.

more ranting later. 
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Media Preparing To Call It Early for Obama

When I lost a video game to my 10 year old daughter in 2001 and asked for a rematch, she said "C'mon Dad!  Don't be like Al Gore."

This struck me and I began to think.  She does not even watch the news nor even speak of politics, but Al Gore's whining-3rd-grade-sore looser attitude was something she picked up on nonetheless, because it was on the television.  Of course, now at 17 she is a powerfully critical thinker with an intellect to back it up.  But the point is, just what has been said can be a powerful influence on what people think. 

So then how powerful was it when the media deliberately told the public that the Florida polls were closed in 2000 before they actually were?  Or when they called the election for John Kerry when it wasn't true?

I predict the Obama friendly media will jump-the-gun this election with these same tactics again, hoping that the momentum will trump wrongdoing.  But if McCain still wins, there will be riots.  And people will die as they do in these things.  And the Republicans won't do more than try to smooth things over.

We are so nice.  Leftists in the media have been doing both of these for decades and we just smile at them.  "It's Ok.  We understand.  Just got a little overly excited and jumped the gun."  Has anyone gone to jail or paid a serious fine for this type of election tampering?  Not enough to stop it or even curb it.  That is the reason they don't fear to do it again. 

You know, I consider a liberal pointing their finger at me as a badge of honor.  I wish the Republicans would all take courage like Sen. Joseph McCarthy.  Damn the consequences!  Do what's right.

God save America!

Read Karl Rove article on poll jumpers.


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