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Originally Posted by Riot
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I've never said I claim to understand the Republican side. My concern right now is quite the opposite. I have been a registered Republican for over 30 years. Yet the current Republican party incarnation is unrecognizable to me.
IMO, the GOP is a mess - leaderless, rudderless, alienating and breaking apart from within. On a national public level, at the local level around me. Abandoned by many of their faithful this last Presidential election, and yup, I was one of them.
One of the biggest crisis since I've been alive, and the GOP publically is busy dissing Obama? Unlike ArlJim, I don't think the GOP is entitled to check out, whine they are outnumbered, and not participate for the next year.
This isn't about who wins the next damn election cycle, this is a time of national crisis. The GOP were elected to do their job. Do it. This is exactly the time for them to step up and get involved. If they have good ideas, they can rally the general public to them, they can show they are the party with fiscal answers and fiscal responsibility. No matter what Congress and the Senate end up voting for. But they are not doing that. It's absurd.
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Republicans were just tossed out of office in favor of a guy with a huge agenda. what is the job that you want the GOP to do right now? they don't control the legislative process, they are submitting ammendments that get shot down. you lay out your ideas/agenda, then there is an election. if you win you go forth with your ideas. you go on offense. the party that loses is looking in from the outside and is on defense.
its not that they don't want to be involved, its that they are locked out.
you seem to be placing the blame for things on Republicans for not doing enough when they do not control a single branch of government. they have ideas but nobody is listening at the moment because they don't have any kind of public mandate. are you at all familiar with how congress works? the party that has no power doesn't get to do much.
you're right, the Republicans are in a mess right now, lack of a coherent message, leadership, coming off of a pounding in the election. as they say in sports, they're in rebuilding year. i guess i'm not shocked that people right at this moment aren't all tuned in to them to hear their ideas. now that may change in a year or so but only if they come up with an articulate leader. (and by that i don't mean Huckleberry)
03-12-2009, 09:06 PM
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