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GOP Housecleaning?

Posted by Duck Archer on Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:06:48 AM
 

I spent 20 years in uniform. In 20 years, I was betrayed. I swore an oath to 'support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic'. While I 'manned the walls', somebody let the enemies under the walls and into the courtyard: fellow countrymen have allowed internal rot to erode the force & effect of the constitution I defended. Outright betrayal.

Yes, Mr Matt Towery explained my '80% wants change' notion.(http://townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2008/10/23/gop_seems_poised_for_complete_housecleaning).  Mr Towery explained it far better than the liberal/socialist media & democrats ever could -- or would be willing to admit to. He's also explained it better than any 'compassionate conservatives' could ever understand.

Still, a point to amplify: betrayal from arrogance 'reaching across the aisle' to the usual liberal suspects.

As a conservative, I have a memory that I'm not afraid to use. I remember the lies & duplicities of liberals & outright admitted socialists, of 'compassionate conservatives', and of would-be conservatives who behave as if having tumbled gyroscopes for their Jiminy Crickets. Being conservative also means I believe in an immutable standard of right versus wrong, that I'm not ashamed to call a lie a lie, and that I insist all should stick to the agreed rules, like the constitution ... or leave us.

No, the 80% change I want is to take the kid gloves off against those who throw mud to see what sticks. I want to lose the politically correct veneer: the politics of personal destruction is NOT in calling a lie a lie, it's in telling the lie in the first place. Those who speak plainly, unashamed to point out the lies, those are the candidates I'm willing to vote for and support. Conservatism does this. Conservatives will send a Packwood packing just as quickly as sending away a Studds, while the liars will join against Packwood, but circle wagons around a Studds. 

Most of America doesn't give a hoot about 'partisan politics' so much as we want integrity we can trust ... integrity that forbids betrayal. ENOUGH with lies and all the rest of Relative Morality's hidden praise of duplicity!

Conservative victory, the phoenix of integrity ... we need it.

Anybody ever notice that Republican success in national elections is directly related to how conservative the Republican is???!!! ('DumbOxBellowed' blog shows details in a featured essay.)

I wish the 2008 ticket was Palin-Anybody, with a cabinet including Thompson, Gingrich, Alexander, Keyes, DeLay, Lott, Santorum, Thune, etc. (I remember how some of them were tarred & feathered, run out of DC on a rail, then exonerated. THAT is the politics of personal destruction.) No human is perfect, but a cabinet like those names would probably keep each other true to politics of service, away from politics of self-embellishing duplicity. 

That's the conservative hallmark: loyalty to the constitution as written and as explained in the Federalist Papers, not loyalty to how one might wish the constitution be re-written today.
  - Duck Archer
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Republicans To Blame? Yup.

Posted by Duck Archer on Monday, September 15, 2008 4:05:10 PM
 Republicans, under Newt Gingrich's conservative principles, shored up the American economy.  Republicans, under G.W.Bush's 'compassionate conservative' principles, have damaged the American economy.  Compassionate Conservatism is little more than Liberal Lite, and nearly as damaging to economics, self-esteem, and morals. 
 
Compassionate Conservatism's successes:
 - dramatic (40%) growth in federal non-defense spending, nearly all the increase in DC spending since 2002
 - dramatic increased reach of the federal government into medicines:  he who pays the bills calls the shots
 - dramatic increase in power for NEA, meaning more centralized DC control over kids' education, not less; so we get lie-filled curriculum spanning
    - - from environment (Inconvenient Truth movie in the classrooms)  
    - - to morality (with a struggle to get abstinence even included in Sex Education)
 - dramatic abandonment of science in favor of emotion, leading to  
    - - population-increasing Polar Bears being added to the threatened species lists,  
    - - abandonment of Americans in favor of supporting environmentalist lies about Global Warming, despite the science showing Earth's stayed constant since 1979, warmed in 1998 (El Nino year), and cooled since then.
    - - ever more companies making bad business decisions to placate politicians, and the environmentalists they've lent ear towards, now that the President has surrendered the businessman's last political cover
 - dramatic political losses in 2006, among Liberal Lite Republicans, because they abandoned the people who elected them ... after garnering only tepid acceptance in the first place, with all that "compassionate conservatism" that hardly intersected conservative principles.
 
At least 'compassionate conservatism' gave us solid conservative stands on national defense, right to life, and interpretive mindsets in new Supreme Court justices.
 
The Obama-Biden ticket won't fix these dramatic problems.  Again, they're Liberal, and we've had years of Liberal Lite.  So let's indeed hope & trust that McCain-Palin indeed isn't another term of Bush -- and let's hold that ticket acountable for promises of change!
 
 
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