Change Needed
Posted by redvirginia on May 7, 2008
This is just a little bit of a rant but yet again, the moderates have failed. Here we are, looking down the road to November and imagining how many seats we will lose in the House. Why is it that we continue to lose seats???
It could be the types of candidates that the GOP has been consistently nominating for the past couple of years. The candidates have to be about big government mixed with some “social liberalism” (that is regulating marriage on a federal level etc.). These candidates get slaughtered at the polls. Yet, the moderates yell that if the Conservatives were at the front then the party would be destroyed. Well, moderates take a look around and tell me how the party is not already destroyed by your own doing?
NRCC is also having a hard time. The Politico has a good story describing their current status after their recent electoral blows. The fact that the GOP lost the Louisiana House seat should send warning signals across the party. Does anyone believe that McCain can really hold all of this together???
Newt Gingrich calls for house members to promote “real change”. I don’t know about you but that sounds a lot like Obama. Newt seems to forget that he has caused a large part of the problem that the GOP is dealing with today. His reforms and initiatives will actually change nothing just as he did nothing back when he was speaker. By nothing I mean that he did not carry out the Contract with America and decrease the size of the Federal Government. It’s time for this old guard to move on and retire, Gingrich included.
It’s time for a change in leadership. The people that run this party will be the same under McCain as they were for Bush. The party will not move forward but only backward because the policies do no make sense. The ideologies do not connect with the message. It’s time to change leadership. Let’s put Conservatives in charge in the house. Let’s put Senator Tom Coburn at the front for a little while and see what happens.
-RedVirginia
Rusty Paw said
A) Ironic that you use Tom Coburn when this very same blog attacked him for being a “false conservative” when he endorsed John McCain.
B) Newt is pushing for real solutions because Washington is broken & I don’t know if you know this our government works by compromise…Conservatives cannot be so stingy, sometimes they need to help and reach across the aisle.
C) Yes, I do think McCain can hold all of this together. We did not lose the LA seat b/c we are not conservative, we lost it because Republicans have a bad name right now…Thanks GWB.
D) If a moderate Republican runs in the 11th, he will win. If we run a Goldwater, we will lose…Republicans cannot run right-wingers everywhere because in a lot of places that does not sell. TMD was moderate and he won here because he was not an ideolog he was a pragmatist.
E) Your blaming everything on the moderates in the Party, when it has a lot to do with GWB and 8 years of failed policy.
redvirginia said
GWB is a moderate. Are you crazy?
Government has grown under him at an unparalleled pace. Why do you think he is part of the Conservative Movement? Where is that evidence. He has never been a part of that. He has always supported a strong federal government and that is apparent in all of his policies.
Rusty Paw said
Yes, I agree GWB is a moderate but it wasn’t because of his moderation or “Compassionate Conservatism” it was b/c his administration has failed for 8 years through scandals, Iraq War, etc….