RNC Considering New Guiding Principles for 2010

You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig.

Republicans new guide line "Pray for a miracle"

The RNC needs to get back on the conservative side and quit trying to be Democrat lite. McCain lost because it was a choise between 2 liberals and the most liberal won. The likes of Charlie Crist is a no win. The choice of him or an independant I would vote independant. Get some real conservatives and go for broke this nation has gone too far left and it's time some one took the rudder and got us back on course. The inside the beltway croud needs to go career politicians need to go it's time for real change.

Why doesn't the RNC make a case to the American public what their vision is instead of what the other party is not in their estimation?

New guiding princples? How about:
--small, unobtrusive govt that performs its small number of Constitutionally mandated tasks well
--low taxes
--strong defense
--muscular foreign policy
--the individual before the collective

You know, those little things that helped Repubs win landslide elections in the 70s and 80s. Instead of trying to wordsmith things, how about making the argument in plain terms: "one sides believes in the primacy of the individual, that free people living and working in economic liberty are best-equipped to make decisions for themselves; the other side believes in putting as much control as possible in a central bureaucracy. We believe less govt is better govt, that lower taxes are the key to economic growth and job creation, that a strong defense is necessary for deterring America's enemies and for protecting its interests, that we can and should utilize ALL sources of domestically produced energy to include fossil fuels - wind - solar - nuclear - and whatever lies in the future, and that America is about equality of opportunity not equality of result."

There, Michael, there it is in a simple, easy-to-read and comprehend paragraph. You don't need manifestos, contracts, position papers, and power points; you need to explain conservatism to a nation that, for the most part, gets it and you need to not be Dem-lite. You need to reiterate until you are saying it in your sleep that no nation has achieved greatness because of its govt and that, while govt has a role, you believe the power of individuals working in liberty to be far more conducive to good outcomes than bureaucracy micromanaging people's lives.

Ron Paul for President. Joe Arpaio as his running mate.

nah - Ron Paul/Ross Perot. Joe Arpaio for US Attorney General.

Well, the RNC can start by distancing itself from fringe, right-wing troglodytes, like the loons at RedState, and reach-out to Middle America. I have blogged about the disillusionment voters have with the Right and Left, but I'll tell you what, at least the Left is not outright mean and rude.

Saturday night I was bounced from RedState's website and censored after indicating that Middle America is disillusioned with the political Left and Right. Evidently, I hadn’t consumed enough of its apparatchik Kool-Aid before engaging the right-wing fringe at RedState. Oh well, so much for constructive dialogue . . .

I have visited hundreds of political websites and blogs, and I spend countless hours each day on the same, and never before have I ever been censored, never mind immediately and reflexively cut-off, for asking reasonable policy questions (a string of Saturday night’s exchange is linked to my blog post, URL is below). I will wear the rebuke like a badge of honor, and as a reminder of RedState’s inability to provide a forum to rationally discuss public policy issues impacting Middle America.

In fact, I was chastised for expressing my reasonable views and I was told, “You’ll find that stuff not welcomed here.” My goodness, are we in China? (Well, not yet, but we will be soon, thanks to the trillion dollars of U.S. Treasury debt China owns and America’s skyrocketing deficit, following eight years of fiscal irresponsibility in Washington, but I digress). Suffice it to say, it’s become very clear to me why the website is called “RedState”—it’s RedState’s proclivity for censorship, of course.

For the fringe on the Right, it is precisely this irrational, emotional response to reasonable inquiry that has marginalized and isolated it from normal, thinking human beings. Unfortunately, the folks at RedState continue to read and believe their own press releases, insulating them from anyone thinking outside of their tiny little circle. Like many of the fringe lunatics on the Right, it remains out of touch with voters and continues to create a vacuum in the center, which will someday be filled, but not by someone of its liking.

Middle America and the pocketbook issues that impact it everyday have been neglected too long by the far Right. Understandably, the fringe at RedState is sensitive about it and unwilling to discuss the recent failed leadership of the Right. This is disappointing, but it brings clarity to how RedState helps the Right maintain its minority and irrelevant status.

A word of wisdom for those of you on the far Right that are hard of hearing (likely from too much banjo music): Middle America is where the voters are, which, based on your irrelevancy, you do not comprehend. However, if you’d like to dig out of the hole you’ve put yourself in, stop neglecting it. It is interested in jobs, affordable healthcare, and quality education for its children; oh yes, and constructive dialogue. Americans visiting the RedState website, whether they be Red, Blue, or Purple, deserve better than being treated like pivot men in RedState’s knuckle-dragging circle-jerk.

A. Muser
http://americanmuser.wordpress.com

And?

Oh I get it, its like warning someone before you bop em in the eye!...weeks in advance.

LOL

Its coming, why I oughta....!