I find myself in strong agreement with republicans

[cali]

they're absolutely right: the republican party has moved way too far to the left. that's the reason McCain lost to Obama. In order to achieve success in 2010 and beyond, the republican party must disentangle itself from all the lefties and moderates infesting their party. They need to purge the RINOs. They should marginalize such left leaning politicians as Susan Collins and Arlen Specter. Remove them from Committee assignments. Republicans will have fewer seats on Committees and only staunch conservatives who appeal to Americans should retain their seats.

If the republicans ever hope to win in the future, they should cling to such towering figures as Sarah Palin and Mike Pence. In fact, moving Mike Pence into a position in the leadership, is a stroke of genius.

Conservatives in Congress should try and block every single one of president Obama's legislative initiatives. They should attack him 24/7 for every word that comes out of his mouth.

Republicans are off to a solid start in these areas. Please, please, please, keep moving further to the right- (even if it means completely falling the edge of your flat political map; especially if that's what it means.

[votetastic]

1. Yep. McCain was a flaming liberal.

Republicans need someone further to the right, if they expect to survive as a party.

[WeDidIt]

2. Yep, they should kick Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe out of the caucus

Both have proven themselves to be nothing mroe than RINOs.

Chuck Hagel, too.

:evilgrin:

[cali]

3. Chuck Hagel won't be in the Senate as of January. He didn't run for re-election

but Arlen Specter is a flaming lib and clearly should be removed from the Judiciary Committee.

[H2O Man]

4. Exactly.

They need to huddle and plan for the future by heading towards the past. A serious study of the gospel of Ronald Reagan is surely required. Focus all attention on the faded memories of their older true believers.

They must cut-off all contact with the reality of the real world. This worked for Nixon in the 1970s, and for Dick Cheney in recent years.

Knee-jerk reactions and finger-pointing are essential. Refuse to even consider the possibility that they have some degree of responsibility in their own failures. This is an attractive trait in both individuals and groups, and is sure to reel in millions of supporters.

Set rigid standards. Exploit every potential weakness in the opposition. This almost worked in 2008, and would have if it were not for the moral failings of those weaklings who put nation before party.

Make use of the symbols that illustrate the core values of the party. Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, and Ashley Todd were all gifts from the divine republican authority. Spineless republicans of little faith failed to rally to their cause.

Most of all, plant the seeds of hatred today, in good faith. Did not St. Ronald preach that some of these seeds would fall upon the concrete of the cities, and be swept up by the homeless; others would fall into the homes of Ozzie & Harriet, and produce Thanksgiving dinner; and yet others would fall upon the rich soil of the composted grey matter in true republicans' heads, and grow unto the White House?

Let us pray.

[old mark]

5. If they would just continue with the same attack strategy

McCain used in his campaign they will do just fine. Rove should head the party.


mark

[cali]

6. Karl Rove or Newt Gringrich? Who would be the better candidate

chairing the RNC and leading the republicans proudly, bravely back to the past?

[H2O Man]

7. Newt was just mentioned

on MSNBC. His leadership skills are needed.

[cali]

8. I just found the perfect republican blueprint for Newt to follow:

the author, who I confess I'd never heard of, is brilliant.

The results of the 2008 election mean a lot of things to a lot of different people. What do those results mean to conservatives? The results do not mean conservative candidates lose elections. Obama got a big slice of the conservative vote, largely because he portrayed himself as a post-ideological as well as a post-partisan candidate - and McCain tried to do just the same thing. Ronald Reagan in 1984 was the last man to run as an unabashed conservative, and he won by the last true landslide in an American presidential election.


President Bush, admired for his personal honor and deep faith, was respected by many conservatives, but he was hardly a conservative himself. No man who nominated Harriett Meiers to the Supreme Court could be considered a true conservative. Anyone who could embrace the vision of Ted Kennedy for our national education policy was not a true conservative. Anyone who could create a new entitlement for prescription drugs was not a true conservative.


Bush was simply a decent man who was not a Leftist Democrat. As McCain found out, being a decent man who is not a Leftist Democrat means nothing at all to the Left. Both men, like Bob Dole and like George H. Bush, are good Americans, admirable people, and men blissfully unaware that the Left is not just waging battles on issues like more socialism but are rather waging war on our entire way of life. Bush, Dole, McCain, and Bush Sr. were not wicked failures because they were not conservatives. They were more like Chamberlain at Munich: They did not grasp the true depth and nature of their adversary and, they thought, their adversary might be reasonable.


How far have "conservatives" come from Ronald Reagan's famous maxim "If you can't make them see the light, then let them feel the heat." In other words, conservatives must lead. Or, as Reagan also said "All they can do is hang us from a higher tree." This homey, typical truth trumped all the mush of moderation that brought Republicans in such disrepute over the last ten years or so. Courage is contagious and so is cowardice.

When Republican "leaders" like Trent Lott sabotaged the impeachment trial of a sitting president because they feared political fallout, conservatives cringed. We conservatives, after all, do not involve ourselves in the public arena because of the goodies we might get. That is what Leftists do. We intend to protect the sacred values of the Declaration of Independence, which are utterly nonpartisan (the founding fathers, of course, dreaded political parties) and we do this recalling that the signers of that document risked all in taking their stand for transcendent liberty. Ronald Reagan, a Hollywood star with a starlet wife and lots of money, did not enter politics to get but rather to give. He entered to lead and not to herd. This is what conservatives used to do.


And this is the way conservatives used to talk: "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Barry Goldwater defiantly rejected the idea that Leftists could place him on some invented "Far Right." He stood for specific things, which he recorded in books, and which represented an actual platform for conservative ideals. John McCain, the other Republican nominee from Arizona, would never have embraced extremism, even in the defense of liberty. The soft, warm, middle was his true home. The safe, predictable consensus was his real party.

<snip>

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/what_do_the_election_results_m.html

With such brilliant thinkers as the author, Bruce Walker, the republican party is destined to... go places.

[old mark]

9. You are right - this IS perfect - I have seen McCain referred to many times

as a "Republican in Name Only", and that the just-ended campaign was a choice between a liberal and a communist.
Bruce Walker is the guy they should be following.


mark