Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 1:20:09 AM
Wow - what a crappy bunch of choices on the Conservative side for president. I'm sorry, none of these losers could inspire me to walk out of burning building much less vote for them. And all the pundits and all their guesses are wrong. They're hitting all around the answer to why no one can get a Conservative movement going, but they haven't hit it yet.
It basically boils down to WHY WON'T ANY OF THEM FIGHT FOR ANYTHING? The spirit of standing up for their beliefs is what won Ann Coulter so much praise from the Conservative base just a month ago. A lot of people feel like we're taking this lying down and we're tired of it. So many on the Republican side seem all too eager to sell what they say are their beliefs for some invites to the cool parties and 30 seconds of praise on CNN. Not the least of which is John McCain. Note how many of the Republican candidates are from the Northeast? That's a big red flag - you don't win in New England unless you drop your ideas under pressure and none of these guys have even come close to demonstrating that they're fighters.
How do you think you can inspire me? So what if you're pro life - Hillary Clinton will call you a sexist and you'll back down. So what if you want to win the war on terror - Cindy Sheehan and her bunch will make one speech and you'll run for the tall grass. Your ideology is meaningless unless you're going to stand up and defend it. So what if you're for tax cuts, the left will just ask you to turn around, drop your pants and grab the ankles and you'll do it.
What's truly pathetic is that I know you guys *can* fight. You showed us this last year during the immigration debate. I've never seen one party stand up to its base and tell us off so forcefully. We told you we didn't want amnesty and you extended the middle finger and told us you'd do whatever you felt like doing. And then there was the William Jefferson scandal. You know that Democrat from New Orleans who took all that bribe money and the FBI got a warrant to search his office? I've never seen a bunch of people so willing to defend their political rivals - especially against their own base.
So here we are six months later and you're rolling over for them. We have the attorney non issue. Dems are going crazy over something that is not a violation of any law, not a violation of any ethic and something that historically Dems themselves have done and no Conservative leader inside the beltway has done anything to fight it. What's even worst is the number of you joining Liberal Democrats in pressuring Gonzales to quit - he did nothing wrong. (Well we can't get media coverage.) That is crap. If you stood up and fought the media would come and the headlines would all be the same "So and so stands up for corruption." You worry that that will look bad to middle America? What about your base? Middle America isn't going to remember this at election time, but the Conservative movement will.
Why didn't any of you defend Libby? He was convicted because he couldn't remember anything. If that's a crime, then Hillary Clinton should be behind bars as well. But none of you even tried to defend him. Libby's not even the guy who leaked Plame's name. He was put on a liberal partisan railroad. Meanwhile just a couple of months ago Sandy Berger took official records off government property and hid them at a construction site in an attempt to thwart an investigation. Berger did something wrong and illegal. Where the hell were all of you when all of this was going on? I would expect the left not to mention anything cause they're getting caught dirty, but for the Conservatives to stand around and let it slip?
You choose to go in to politics. You choose to put yourself in the spotlight. Stop whining about it now. Are you going to stand up for what you believe in or not? Of course they're going to call you names, they're your political rivals. They're not your friends and will never treat you as such (unless they're trying to get something.) Forget it now. But the base will notice and this is what you need to jazz up if you're going to win *anything* in the next few years. If someone actually goes out there, espouses a right wing viewpoint AND STANDS UP FOR IT AMID CRITICISM we'll have a front runner. In the meantime, have fun trying to out libs the libs. It'll never work, you'll never win and I'm stunned that you haven't learned this yet.