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Monday, June 09, 2008

Tom Delay: It Will Take Years To Rebuild The Party

Tom Delay, former republican power-broker in congress, says the GOP and conservatives failed to adapt to the new realities of the McCain/Feingold campaign laws, while the democrats and liberals did.

Delay believes that republicans have not hit bottom yet following their losses in ‘06 and that it will take years to rebuild the party and it’s base.

The conservatives refuse to accept that the left is cleaning thier clock and until you hit some bottom, wherever that is, to where it says, “Well, maybe we aught to do something different, little or nothing is going to change.”


Delay argues that the left has mastered the art of using independent groups, while republicans lag far behind, still focused on a party-based strategy that can’t compete.

They’re living with 10 - 15 year old technology. They still believe if you raise enough money, go on television enough, you’re going to win. Those days are over.


Delay will spearhead an effort to bring together different conservative groups, but admits the process will be slow and new leaders will have to emerge.

Delay will vote for John McCain but says his wife may vote for Bob Barr, Libertarian.

In short, while conservatives cursed the McCain/Feingold legislation, liberals sat down, studied it and learned to adjust. The GOP and conservatives failed to adapt to the new realities, are losing the war of words and ideas and must find new ways to package their message.

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jun/09/delay-warns-gop-faces-long-rebuilding-process/

Comments

He should know, he was one of the key players in the gop demise.


“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

realitybasedbob on June 9, 2008 at 06:42 am

Nice guy you’re supporting for President PP.  I kinda dropped the McCain “shut up you stupid citizens” law after the primaries, but that should have disqualified him from any kind of leadership in the party.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on June 9, 2008 at 06:46 am

I’m curious.

Just when did McCain make his big push to silence voter interest groups under the aegis of campaign finance reform?  2002 was it?

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002

The Congress passed the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA), also called the McCain-Feingold bill after its chief sponsors, John McCain and Russ Feingold.

Hmmmm.

(A)uthor, Richard Poe, whose earlier publications include Hillary’s Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists, told WND that Soros later funded the senator’s Reform Institute because of their work together on the McCain-Feingold Act.

“Money paid to the Reform Institute rewarded McCain for pushing the McCain-Feingold Act, a law which restricts the ability of grassroots groups to advertise on television, while allowing major media free rein to promote their favorite Democrat candidates,” Poe told WND.

I suppose it’s a lot easier to adapt and improvise if it was all part of your plan in the first place.

But by the same token, the Conservative Beltway Establishment is very different from the Leftard’s political machine.  The Conservatives will devour their young and devote very little energy or funds in cultivating the next generation of young leaders.  The money and jobs just aren’t there, and when they are, they are more rare than hen’s teeth.  Often, even once employed, the pay rate is so low as to be tantamount to indentured servitude.

I spent years going through Heritage and the Leadership Institute job lines, doing little to no-pay internships on the Hill.  Yet, I could find advertisements for Leftist positions, some paying as well as $40k, to work towards gun control, feminist studies, equal opportunity and so forth.

The Left has the money and is willing to spend it.  Their intent is to obtain and retain governmental power.  Conservatives are more focused on going to Wall Street and are simply not the political animals the Left are.


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Move_Zig on June 9, 2008 at 07:56 am

This kind of defeatism certainly isn’t helping.


Leftie political philosophy, from a DU commenter:

It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not. RUMOR IS TRUTH. The modern laws of media hype and political warfare have a useful tenet: Repeat ANYTHING or raise false concern over ANYTHING and it is likely to be planted in the conscious/subconscious of many voters.

robert108 on June 9, 2008 at 09:18 am
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MC-CAIN’S LAST DATE WITH THE REAGAN REPUBLICAN PARTY

McCain’s ideological support, like Bush’s, comes from Podhoretz Neo-Cons and Leiberman Neo-Libs, not Reagan Conservatives nor Kennedy Liberals. These supporters have the same Neo-Marxist roots, which originated over 60 years ago, when millions of defeated Marxist immigrants from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were admitted by America, as desperate persecuted refugees; after all of the European nations refused to take them.

By the McCarthy Era, many of these pathetic refugees had gotten good government positions; and, by way of showing their deep gratitude to the American People, they systematically corrupted the government and endangered national security, by working as spies for Marxist Russia. The most notorious of these spies, the Rosenbergs, were executed for treason. This had the intended beneficial effect of stopping most of the dangerous spying; but it had the unintended consequence of causing these Marxist refugees to seek social and economic power by pretentiously assimilating into the Conservative Republican and Liberal Democrat parties; where they quickly mutated into the Neo-Conservatives and Neo-Liberals, with insidious ideological opposition to traditional Christian culture and Constitutional principles.  The result of the subversive influence by these virulent Crypto-Neo-Marxists in the government, schools, news media and entertainment media was the increasingly intolerably cultural degeneration that has led up to the American Cultural War. 

Podhoretz Neo-Con and Leiberman Neo-Lib ideology notoriously instills subversive contempt for patriotism, defensive war, historical accuracy, Christian culture, and Constitutional rule, United Nations resolutions, and Conservative Reagan Republicans and Liberal Kennedy Democrats. 

All of this contempt is transparently motivated by a dogmatic belief in gaining an advantage by insubordination to the practices of national religious and governmental traditions, which grant the inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  These Crypto-Neo-Marxists, like their failed Marxists predecessors, imagine that they can somehow create their own new superior civilization, if they first destroy the traditional allegiance to the nuclear family, Christianity, nationalism, and the Constitution. 

Israel, which these Marxists refugees have had all to themselves for 60 years, to do their utopian social engineering, in their own artificially created state, is notoriously poorly governed and heavily subsidized by the Diaspora; and the People of Israel, once the most widely pitied in the World, have come to justly earn the distinction of now being the most universally despised, condemned, and threatened with annihilation.

In this crucial 2008 presidential battle of the American Cultural War shall the Reagan Conservatives and the Kennedy Liberals finally combine forces against these desperately united Podhoretz Neo-Cons and Leiberman Neo-Libs supporting Insane McCain; or shall they continue to suffer ideological corruption of their Republican and Democrat parties, subversion of their traditional Christian culture and Constitutional rule, pernicious governmental strife, and the illegal and un-patriotic sacrifice of the wealth and blood of the American People to sole benefit of Israel?

With Leiberman Neo-Lib Princess Hillary burnt at stake by the Kennedy Liberal Democratic Party, shall Podhoretz Neo-Con McCain have his final date for the presidency, or for the Reagan Conservative Republican firing squad? 

Google: “Mearsheimer Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy”; “Evans Blacklisted by History: Untold Story of Joe McCarthy”; “Wall Street Journal McCain-Feingold”; Stricherz Why the Democrats are Blue; “Human Events Ron Paul Interview”; McClelland “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception”; McCain Keating Five.

Jeugenen on June 9, 2008 at 01:22 pm
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