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With the Tea Partiers
It’s Not Over by a Long Shot
Conservatives must wage a perpetual campaign.
FOR YEARS I’VE BEEN TALKING about the “Long War” and the need to prosecute a perpetual campaign against the progressive left. Many people scoff at the notion of perpetual campaigning and say it detracts from the business of governing. Those people are usually liberals, who don’t like it when conservatives look and sound as if they may actually put up a fight, or conservatives who shudder at the thought of real work when they think a white paper will do. But the perpetual war is necessary.
We just concluded yet another multi-billion- dollar presidential campaign—and it doesn’t much matter who won. Presidents don’t govern in a vacuum. They need partners, allies, and other elected officials willing—for whatever reason—to support their agendas. The problem we face in our country is the same today as it was on November 6: Too many “conservative” members of Congress are willing to support policies that lead to more spending and bigger government.
Hundreds of members over the last three decades have stood idly by while government outlays have doubled, while debt and deficits have ballooned, and while the challenges we face as a nation have been kicked down the road for other generations to handle. Many have been actively complicit in mortgaging our future. Yet in 2012, only three GOP members of Congress lost primary elections against fiscally conservative, liberty-minded challengers.
It’s easy to rail against liberal incumbents. We do it well, and often. But there remains a stigma among Republicans and conservatives that if you have the temerity to hold your own representatives accountable to the principles of limited government, you are an apostate. If America is to stay free and prosperous, this attitude must change.
Sure, we can say that we stand for limited government, less
regulation, lower taxation, and more freedom from an expanding,
intrusive government. 
But talk and white papers are cheap and easy. To
solve our nation’s problems we need real reform. That takes the
courage of conviction. It takes constant reinforcement.
We’ve spent the last year and a half focused on the presidential election because it’s a simple construction—two people from opposing parties in a contest for the most electoral votes. It’s flashy. It’s exciting. It’s hypnotic. And barring serious political courage, it’s about nothing more than choosing which party will stand at the helm of the American ship of state when it smashes into a massive iceberg of debt.
But we’ve been overlooking the hundreds of congressional, state, and local races whose outcomes have a far greater impact on the future of our country than the battle at the top. If real national, generational reform is to take place, it won’t happen at the top. It will start from the bottom, a groundswell that will bring about fundamental change.
The campaign isn’t over: For conservatives, it’s only beginning. Our fight is not just to maintain a majority position. Pro-life statists and RINOs, even self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives, must be exposed as frauds if they don’t put forth a real plan to reduce the tax burden and close the budget deficit—not in 10 years, but in four.
Our perpetual campaign must expose the bad behavior of the elected officials who claim to represent the conservative majority but sponsor the same failed policies of the left. Maybe those leaders aren’t radicals. Maybe they’re not true believers in the welfare state—they are statists with a smile. But so long as they nibble at the edges of our overgrown budget, they are part of the problem.
Political pundits love to ruminate about the future role of the Tea Party and the conservative grassroots. This is it. Ending the permanent protected class of unaccountable leadership in America isn’t just about beating the left. It’s also about reforming the right to make it effective.
Our leaders are creating a fiscal mess of historic proportions, and bold leadership is needed to right the ship. Liberals won’t do it. For them the campaign is never over and the beat goes on. They have the patience and endurance to wage a war of attrition. It has worked for them for decades. So no matter how weary conservatives are, we cannot rest.
We must develop a robust program to find credible, well-financed replacements for those whose records deserve to be challenged in 2014. Candidate recruitment starts now and is the responsibility of the grassroots even more than the establishment.
American politics must remain a free-fire zone for true fiscal conservatives. We must hit the progressives every day while striking fear in the hearts of “press release conservatives.” If we are truly to keep America free, and to get this nation back on a path of prosperity, we must dig in and prepare for the long war.
About the Author
Ned Ryun is the founder and president of American Majority, a political training institution. His “With the Tea Partiers” column run each month in the The American Spectator’s print edition. You can follow him on Twitter @nedryun.
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GobBluthe| 11.19.12 @ 6:30AM
Blah blah blah Ned. You're not in the majority and how did your guy Murdock do? The flaw in your position is what happens when your candidates defeat rinos then lose the general election to leftists? Oops
R Martin| 11.19.12 @ 7:23AM
There is no flaw in Mr. Ryun’s position; did you miss the word credible? Murdock, Aiken, O’Donnell et al were never credible but rather reactions against incumbents who were never going to lead the fight for real solutions. Besides, Murdock was largely nominated with help of labor unions who took advantage of an open primary to pick a weak candidate.
Mr. Ryun suggests grass roots work is needed. That effort should include (and perhaps be preceded by) the elimination of open primaries and early voting and, for heaven’s sake, the creation and institutionalization of an honest, accurate and fraud proof voting process.
Stan H.| 11.19.12 @ 7:31AM
Tea Partiers for limited government?
Ha!
All you could talk about was criminalizing a woman's right to termninate a pregnancy. You want to the government to take control of a woman's body.
Your inability to say the word fetus, and your shrill calls of "murder" turned moderate Republicans away in hoards.
You're too extreme, and you're the cause of Romney's defeat.
So . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Get Over It!
KennesawJack| 11.19.12 @ 9:01AM
You use the term "terminate a pregnancy", we use the term "killing an innocent child". You use the term "fetus", we use the term "unborn innocent child". Murder is extreme and that makes YOU the extremist, not me. You're the one who needs to get over it.
vtwin| 11.19.12 @ 10:01AM
Good point! I think you should all run Murdock, Aiken, and O’Donnell again.
GobBluthe| 11.19.12 @ 10:31AM
Dont forget Angel and Buck. That's five seats the GOP has tossed away by nominating fools.
Occam's Tool| 11.19.12 @ 12:33PM
Obama favors denying medical care to a baby who survives an abortion, outside of the mother's BODY. Let me guess that Stan H. has no kids; however, he will expect OTHER people's kids to be around to wipe his ass for him in the Nursing Home.
MikeBee| 11.20.12 @ 7:16PM
Stan,
There you go again. Typical liberal. To you, and to all liberals, a woman only exists from the waist down. (O.K. Tatas, too.) When are you liberals going to get out of a woman's reproductive organs and realize that women have brains, too? To you, the Women's vote is simple: talk about their reproductive organs, and scare them about things neither Republicans nor Democrats can affect. NO ONE is changing Roe vs. Wade; it's the law now. NO ONE is taking any drugs away from women, including contraceptives. NO PRESIDENT will do anything about these things. Yet, you Democrats continue to focus, lazer-like, on a woman's reproductive organs and her right not to reproduce. To Republicans, a woman is much, much more, and has an incredible brain, and a wonderful personality, and desires for her future, and dreams and wants. A woman is not a sex object, Stan. Get over it, or lose the women's vote.
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 9:07AM
There's the Problem, right above me.
We have too many Stan Hs, and not enough Men.
Seriously. What MAN gives a Sh*t about A Woman's so-called RIGHT to Murder her Unborn Child?
We're "Too Extreme". We want Babies to Live, and Killers to Die.
We want Able Bodied Men and Women to get off their Lazy Asses and GO TO WORK.
We wanna Drill our own Oil and Gas. We want a Strong Military, and a Limited Central Government.
We want our Immigration LAWS Enforced, and we want Charlie Rangel and John MFing Corzine IN JAIL.
We wanna keep the Money that we Earn. WE want Everyone to be able to PROVE who they are when they go to Vote, just like they have to if they want to get in to Eric Holder's Office, or the White House, or the Liquor Store.
And we want The Constitution to be Adhered to.
And, we'd like all of the Titless Wafs, like StanThe Girly Man, to show us Exactly where this Right to Murder a Child in it's Mother's Womb, is.
That shouldn't be too hard for a Genius like Stan.
In fact, the next time you Sit Down to Pee, you can look it up, and then get back to us when you finish wiping.
R Martin| 11.19.12 @ 10:45AM
Wasn't it Stan who, in "The Life of Brian" really wanted to be a woman.
Stan H.| 11.19.12 @ 1:13PM
TLP is the most pathetic poster on this blog.
Evidently he has no life, so he sits all day and runs off at the mouth in the most vulgar, uneducated language imaginable.
Sorry you have no life, TLP. Perhaps that explains why you are so bitter.
KennesawJack| 11.19.12 @ 3:17PM
You know, Stan. After reading your drech, I almost wish your momma had the same attitude about abortion you have.
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 4:00PM
Everything the Stan H's of this Country demand is For Thee, and Not For Me.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Stan H.| 11.19.12 @ 4:19PM
To KinnesawJack
Had I been aborted, I would have never know it, so it would have been fine with me.
Just fine.
CJW| 11.19.12 @ 5:01PM
Stan
By your logic if someone kills you today you then as soon as you are dead you will never know you lived.
Stan H.| 11.19.12 @ 5:34PM
No, idiot. A fetus has no developed brain, no memory, no personality, no . . . forget it. Your mind is too thick with tea party goo to reason.
Anyway, you tea partiers are the losers, and you brought down our Republican Party with your regressive rhetoric.
Losers! All of you! Idiots, also!
Bye-bye.
Yvonne| 11.19.12 @ 5:40PM
Stan H., you should know by now that you cannot reason with these types. I've been reading this blog since the Republicans lost, and a few of the contributors understand why we lost. But the tea partiers don't want to understand.
I'm a Republican in my 2os, nd we younger voters are so sick of hearing about "babies" in the womb and "gays" taking over , and so on.
Gays? Yes, they are assuming roles of leadership and they are doing just fine, thank you. And they will do even better when you old tea partiers die off.
Get my drift?
Bob K| 11.19.12 @ 6:56PM
Yvonne,
How about telling us all the good points of a woman who wants to kill her own child?
CJW| 11.20.12 @ 11:02AM
Yes, but you do not have a developed brain either, or personality, so Idiot, you can be killed also.
So you cannot reply to logic and have to resort to you typical lefty loon rants.
Get lost.
MikeBee| 11.20.12 @ 7:24PM
Stan,
Wow! What incredible ignorance! An unborn child has a memory, a developing brain, and a personality. If s/he didn't have these things, why would playing certain types of music have any effect on a baby whatsoever? But researchers have determined that an unborn child IS affected by this stuff. It is also affected by the stress level of the mother. A pure mass of material, which you are claiming an unborn child to be, couldn't possibly be affected in any way by these non-physical things.
What stupefying ignorance! Keep it up, Stan, the essence of Liberalism is on display.
Tom of the Missouri| 11.19.12 @ 5:56PM
The hated T-party candidates would have pulled the voting lever against the destruction of the country. It does not take a genius to be a Senator, which is a fact that should be obvious. The self righteous Republican moderate idiots that sandbagged their campaigns should be run out of the party or else a new real conservative/Tea Party type party should be started. And there should be room in it for the Aikens and Mourdocks of the world. Fellow party members can point out their differences with them if asked but they don't have to crucifiy and abandon them to everyone's demise when one of their type is occasionally duly elected by their constituents. Waiting for all candidates to be perfect is a disastrous strategy. The left, who has no shortage of outliers never does this despite the degree of insanity practiced by their members. If the left paints you by association, you should use your money and energy attacking the accuser for lying about you and not attack a member of your own party who like everyone else has some issues with which you disagree. I would take Christine O'Donnel, Aiken or Mourdock any day over the big government statists that our moderates like the loser Karl Rove and anti Akin posters here like Stan H. helped elect. This party suicide has to stop and stop now.
Tom of the Missouri| 11.19.12 @ 5:57PM
This moderate strategy of attacking your own and adopting the lefts ideas half way has never worked and will not work. I for one don't want to be a part of it even if it does work. What is the point if you end up at the same place Obama is taking us anyway but just a little slower. Now is a time for a cleansing or silencing of these name calling suicidal idiots before we can go forward as a party. We could have tolerated them in the past, but now time is short if it is not already too late, so we need to do it now to have any chance of saving the Republic.
7-08| 11.19.12 @ 7:45PM
If you maintain your social issue focus of denying other rights you will continue to lose by diminishing your numbers through gender and generational attrition and no replacement partisans will be possible. If you stick to the simple principles of smaller government, less taxation and more personal freedom your membership will flourish and you will win. It is as simple as that.
Yvonne| 11.19.12 @ 9:50PM
You get it, 7-08. You understand why we lost. And you' ve listed some winning tactics.
Aristocat| 11.19.12 @ 7:49AM
The only hope is that somehow the House decides to put up a fight....Pass a budget, send to Senate, then, when the Senate says, "Pass another CR or we will shut down the govt." Tell them, "Go ahead."
RJ| 11.19.12 @ 9:11AM
For the last two years, the House has unilaterally compromised in the face of intransigence from the White House and the Senate. The House leadership chooses to ignore the fact that every dollar spent by the federal government must be appropriated by the House. John Boehner is not the man for the times we face. We need someone else to represent our views. In an ideal world, we would have a Churchill, Reagan, or Jackson in his place.
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 9:11AM
So, by your own definition, what you're really saying is that there's No Hope.
I agree.
chriser| 11.19.12 @ 10:05AM
Yes, this is the key - being willing to allow the govenment to shut down. As long as you are not willing to do that and everyone knows it, then you will lose every batle.
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 4:01PM
So, by your own definition, what you're really saying is that we will lose every battle.
Nancy in NC| 11.19.12 @ 8:57AM
Ir's very telling when you don't even spell the guy's name correctly: it's Mourdock.
The problem is most politicians just love the sound of their own voices and never know when to shut up. They have to pontificate endlessly about whatever, even though their principles are rather unsettled. Therefore they end up saying stupid things.
How Akin and Mourdock can say the things they said is beyond the pale, and shows their temerity. I certainly would never defend them as their remarks were stupid and foolish.
We are not in the minority. More Americans identify themselves as pro life than pro choice. But until politicians learn how to explain their positions without sounding like morons, we are bound to lose...especially men who will never be pregnant nor have to confront the personal decision.
John786| 11.19.12 @ 6:59AM
Why is everything a -war- with you people?
Nancy in NC| 11.19.12 @ 9:00AM
Sort of like the war with you people. War on women? War on the wealthy? War on white people?
It's a war...for the survival of freedom.
KennesawJack| 11.19.12 @ 9:03AM
Very well said. Thanks, Nancy.
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 4:02PM
Why didn't you join us on Friday, Nancy?
You missed out.
Occam's Tool| 11.19.12 @ 12:35PM
Because you have to fight when you are dealing with Zombie scumbags, like the idiots in Gaza who voted to go to war against a country that will actually protect their citizens.
Tom Kyba| 11.19.12 @ 12:54PM
Because you started one gomer.
CJW| 11.19.12 @ 5:02PM
John
Do you tell your fellow muslims why everything is a war with them?
Joellen| 11.19.12 @ 7:06AM
Jackson Jr. won even though he's in a mental hospital and has committed allege crimes. Warren beat a RINO, even though she lied about her heritage and her law license is questionable. Bobby Menedez stiffs not one, but two ladies of the evening - yet he wins big. So, GobBluthe your theory is irrelevant. We lost two seats, well, that's the way a battle is faught - you lose some, you win some. In the end, I'd still rather be on the team, whether we win or lose "here", that espouses values that are worth fighting for. We will continue the fight Mr. Ryun, and the perpetual rant from the left does not weaken those of us who are convicted in our fight. By the way GoBluhe, how many Republican Governor seats did we pick up?
GobBluthe| 11.19.12 @ 10:26AM
You picked up one GOP Gov seat. Earlier in the year it was expects three would be picked up. NH and WA went Dem.
Von Mises Jr| 11.19.12 @ 7:10AM
The American Revolution was the only long-lasting successful revolution in history. Hannah Arendt in "On Revolution" explains that many rebellions have occurred in history, but only the United States was able to produce a Constitution of counterbalancing powers.
Europe and Asia have always been ruled by Absolutism: One Supreme Ruler. We followed the model of England after the Magna Charta ended the "Divine Right of Kings." They also had a system of separation of powers as described by Montesquieu dividing executive, legislative and judicial; but also counterbalancing power instead of diminishing power.
For the last four years, the Congress has totally abdicated their power starting with TARP and allowing the Obama regime dictatorial, unconstitutional rule. If they don't stand up NOW, we don't need them as currently constituted. The States must re-create the system in those states that wish to be free.
Nancy in NC| 11.19.12 @ 9:10AM
And the American Revolution was started by 10% of the colonists. We are on the right side of history, the right side of good and evil.
It's quite apparent we can't clean up the left, so we must concentrate on cleaning up our side of the fence. We should start by sweeping out the flotsam of stupidity, and encourage the rest to study their principles. I'm tired of candidates who have no understanding of the Constitution or conservative values.
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 9:20AM
Except........Have you SEEN today's Tories?
These are not your Ancestor's Tories.
These are MORLOCKS, living Underground, and having no need for The Light.
I want you to think about everything that has CHANGED in the last Four Years, and then Multiply that by Two.
We will not survive a Round 2 of this.
I pray that God sends A Hunter. That we might return from whence we came.
GobBluthe| 11.19.12 @ 10:25AM
Maybe you should ask God why he sent a hurricane to rescue Obama
SUBVET| 11.19.12 @ 11:03AM
Gobbluthe..........if you "knew" God you would know the answer.
GobBluthe| 11.19.12 @ 11:28AM
That is typical answer from those of "faith" . You cant answer the question, so you cast your reply in mysticism and cryptic language. Fact is there is either no God or God is a liberal. Id rather there be no God personally.
CrackerHound| 11.19.12 @ 1:10PM
I'll bet you do sport!
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 4:10PM
Where did the Hydrogen Atom come from, that, supposedly, erupted in to The Big Bang?
And, why do they call it The God Particle?
And, how did you get so Fck Up?
Which one of your Uncles molested you? Or, was it your Syphilis infected Homosexual Father, who hid the Salami where the Sun don't shine?
You can tell us.
We're all friends here, @sshole.
Von Mises Jr| 11.19.12 @ 11:12AM
Maybe you should ask the idiots in New York and New Jersey whom voted 70% for socialism where their food, water, fuel, clothing and generators were when Sandy hit?
Remember King Canute said he would "stop the rise of the seas and heal the planet?" Well he apparently didn't stop the 13'8" of tide and surge that swamped Manhattan. Maybe the message was from G0d to the morons as a last warning?
Since I am taking up movies and entertainment in TLP fashion but at the wrong end of the week, let me quote another: “You can’t fix stupid" (Ron White).
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 4:13PM
We need you on Fridays, VMJr.
Go to last Monday's story on Europe's Jerry Sandusky, and check it out.
You won't be disappointed.
Join Us.
Ralphie| 11.19.12 @ 8:04AM
Milt Friedman said sonething like it isn't so much the person you elect, the right person, but making them do the right thing once in office.
The dems run a permanant campaign and the less informed voter is the target and the message is cathartic emotion, not persuasion.
This election was mainly about economic security, in which the electorate seem to believe is beyond their ability to do anything about despite more and more credentialed citizenry.
RJ| 11.19.12 @ 8:58AM
While there is much truth to what Ned has written, the battle for America extends much broader than politics. Politics reflects culture. For decades, Americans have been bombarded by the false religion of modern liberalism in the classroom, on TV, at the movies, and through the "news" media. It is no wonder that their indoctrinated subjects vote for statism on election day. Statism has clearly failed over the years, yet a dependent public continues to double down. We have a challenging road ahead of us.
PS - Troll activity has increased since November 6. I will happily ignore them as they add nothing to the dialogue. There are so few honest, thoughtful liberals these days.
Nancy in NC| 11.19.12 @ 9:10AM
Amen.
RAM| 11.19.12 @ 9:23AM
There can be no long war without an effective campaign to provide economically attractive alternatives to left-dominated education.
C. Vernon Crisler | 11.19.12 @ 9:34AM
"Pro-life statists...."
Huh? You mean it's statism to try to restrict baby murder? Here I think is what is wrong with the Republican Party: people like Ryun (and Kaminsky and many others) prefer to cave in to the horror of abortionism. Our country is guilty of mass murder on a scale that dwarfs anything done by Hitler or Stalin or Mao, and all Republicans like Ryun want to talk about is a soulless fiscal conservatism. If this is what the Republican Party has become, then I will clap at its funeral, while mourning the death of America.
GobBluthe| 11.19.12 @ 10:04AM
I also wish conservatives would see Limbaugh for what he is: A bloviating fool. For all his alleged smarts and brilliance, he fell right into the left's trap. Sandra Fluke would have been a one day event if Limbaugh had just kept his mouth shut.
Limbaugh is also the creator of the moronic Limbaugh Rule (vote in the primaries for the most conservative candidate, period) to replace the Buckley Rule (Vote for the most conservative candidate who can win in the general election). Not content with costing Jim Talent his close race in 2006 by attacking Michael J Fox, Limbaugh and his army have nominated no fewer than 5 GOP losers who lost winnable Senate seats.
C. Vernon Crisler | 11.19.12 @ 10:24AM
If Republicans would listen to Rush, they'd be in power now.
GobBluthe| 11.19.12 @ 10:29AM
Keep believing that.
C. Vernon Crisler | 11.19.12 @ 11:13AM
Putz
Houdini| 11.19.12 @ 10:39AM
Sandra has really never left the ash heap.
Petronius| 11.19.12 @ 11:16AM
RJ nailed it. Until the young are really Educated instead of indoctrinated we are toast. The left has now infused 3 lost generations of infantile spongers with their goody-goody chickenshit economic and social fairy tale reinforced by all forms of amusements and media muscle. No 6 year old will listen to anybody who says that the fluff they see from Disney about saving whales and killing Capitalism will ruin their future. Emotion trumps reason every day and the so called rational adults who run and ruin the GOP don't get it, don't care, and want our enemies to like them. Conservatives know we are in a war to save our beliefs as well as our life style, yet those in command of our side want it both ways. And I'd bet they're not unhappy Romney lost. They're delighted Akin did too. Somebody like him in Washington would expect them to behave like they are White. It's too late now. The trash can't be beaten politically and this country is descending to the dregs of predation, perversion, parasitism, plunder, and perpetual serfdom for all who choose to remain civilized. Our only chance is going Hostess. Lay in provisions for a year and close down all unnecessary commerce. No taxes: No Liberal Government. Starve the beast.
RCV| 11.19.12 @ 11:54AM
Good luck with that plan, Petronius! Go Hostess!
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 4:15PM
Go Hostess?
They're already GONE, dumb@ss.
RCV| 11.19.12 @ 7:32PM
Read his post, stupid.
JimH| 11.19.12 @ 11:20AM
The left has perfected the art of turning their time in office to just an extension of the perpetual campaign. Every act while in office is done only with an eye to rewarding their supporters, winning the next election and not for the good of the country.
Who Knows?| 11.19.12 @ 12:01PM
The “permanent campaign”?
Where have I heard of THAT?
Why, wasn’t it Bill Clinton who famously spent 8 long years mostly campaigning, and doing some governing? And, NOW, we have the next iteration of Obama, who’s accentuated the campaigning and decreased the governing.
What does that tell you?
Look, the permanent government has passed the tipping point, and there’ll be no going back---short of a cataclysmic political or natural or economical disaster. And, I continue to believe there’s going to be a massive economical correction, that will make the real estate write down look like small beer.
All any future Democratic Party leaders know to do is COPY Obama and Clinton, because their compatriots in the liberal power pyramid will only need cover to continue their permeating takeover of the economy. We are getting to experience fascism, American hate style.
And, the American stupid party, the GOP, has leaders who resemble the farmers who brought on the Dust Bowl. When confronted by worsening problems, they double down on their loser strategy!
Demographics is destiny. So, bring on the illegals, let’s have them vote—for more government as taker!
You can only weep, and marvel in horror at the slow dance of death of America, soon enough to be a fast step off the freedom cliff.
GobBluthe| 11.19.12 @ 12:38PM
I dont know why the GOP is constantly called the Stupid Party. It is conservatives that nominate the Stupid Candidates
Tom Kyba| 11.19.12 @ 12:55PM
I believe your blathering has been answered already madam.
howard lohmuller| 11.19.12 @ 1:43PM
Democrats did not win the election. Republicans lost it. If the same number that voted for McCain had voted for Romney, Romney would have won. Colorado, Florida,Virginia and Ohio, 67 electoral votes, were lost by less than 500,000 votes, about the same number that Romney would have gotten if the same number of White voters as 2008 had come out.
Mohammed Ali used to say "Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee," meaning if you are not on offense, you are on defense. Republicans must face up to Democrats wanting tax rates raised by allowing defense to be cut and bringing home all but 10,000 of our troops in Afghanistan. President Obama telling our enemies he would leave in 2014 has poisoned the well, making our troops vulnerable and our goals unachievable. The argument being that the troops lives are more important than money. Democrats are going to blame the fiscal cliff on Republicans anyway.
Next Republicans must argue to streamline immigration looking for accomplishment and education rather than chain or family ties. Illegals will be able to work if an employer states no one else will take the job. A path toward citizenship will be available but illegals will be ranked for accomplishment and education and be in line after legal immigrants. Those immigrants whom have served in the armed forces or are children brought here by their parents will have separate paths to citizenship. The southern border will be sealed as part of the process.
TLP| 11.19.12 @ 4:18PM
So, according to you..........Everybody in the World need to obey our Immigration Laws, except the Hispanics?
Is that what you're saying, Douchebag?
Russel| 11.19.12 @ 5:25PM
We've got yet another one stinking up the room , named Gene something . Unless they're all the same one . Good grief what a waste of space , and oxygen .
RAM| 11.19.12 @ 4:45PM
1. Latest data show that Romney's total vote is closing in on McCain's. Some people will need a new theory.
2. What can one do with or for citizens who think Obama cares about people (other than himself), specifically people like them? They demand to be fooled.
Bob K| 11.19.12 @ 7:02PM
So what! Obama's is also increasing and Mc Cain lost his election too.
FreedomFighter| 11.19.12 @ 5:05PM
Many articles I read tell folks what we have to do. We all agree. It is unfortuanate but true that to make this a reality we need leadership to organize the people, without this what you have outlined will never become a reality. I don't see that leader(s) - do you?
Bob K| 11.19.12 @ 7:12PM
Yes and the people who write those articles like to tell us "folks what we have to do." They get paid well and can celebrate if "us folks" listen and the their candidate wins. But if he doesn't it's always "us folks" fault for not listening. That's because "us folks" listened to their candidate instead who was saying things "us folks" did not like. But that is neither his or their fault they argue after the loss.
Who needs them?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.19.12 @ 5:06PM
If one were to summarize this article in one sentence, it might be "The price of liberty is eternal vigilance".
Cool Hand Luke| 11.19.12 @ 8:47PM
Go back to Lincoln. Back to Wilson. Back to
FDR. Fast forward to LBJ. Obamacare and
so on.
Yawn...
Ralph Novy| 11.19.12 @ 9:58PM
You're swimming against a rising tide, pal.
Combine demographics with education levels and you've got a losing cause.
A none so well deserved.
The sooner selfish, racist nationalists disappear from the political scene, the better.
Ted R.| 11.19.12 @ 11:56PM
Hot Damn right, R. Novy. Fortunately for all of us, Ryun as his fellow-travelers are leading a valiant charge off the cliff... I like coming to this site to see what's going on with the GOP's Dead Enders. The GOP is in civil war, just as we predicted.
Now's the time for the liberal Democrats to press their advantage - in a smart, measured way. The core of our agenda is creating a society where "equality of opportunity" is not an empty slogan. Only when prosperity is more broadly shared, can the economy be put on a long-term trajectory of sustained and sustainable growth. That is the only way to deal with our long-term financial picture, anyway. The bottom line is this: real opportunity now, or class war later.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 11.20.12 @ 2:05PM
You're already doing the class war thing, and as far as your Prosperity broadly shared, I believe your true visionary and prophet already established how he intended to do that with "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need".