bullypulpit
01-31-2009, 08:08 AM
...That was the essence of Senate Minority leader Mitch "McChinless" McConnell's statements on Friday.
<blockquote>"We're all concerned about the fact that the very wealthy and the very poor, the most and least educated, and a majority of minority voters, seem to have more or less stopped paying attention to us. And we should be concerned that, as a result of all this, the Republican Party seems to be slipping into a position of being more of a regional party than a national one," McConnell told the gathering.
"In politics, there's a name for a regional party: it's called a minority party. And I didn't sign up to be a member of a regional party . . . As Republicans, we know that <b><i>common-sense conservative principles</i></b> aren't regional. But I think we have to admit what <b><i>our sales job has been poor</i></b>. And in my view, that needs to change." - <a href=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/v-print/story/61044.html>McClatchy</a></blockquote>
What "common-sense conservative principles" is he gabbling about? Certainly not those he and his fellow travelers have espoused. The last clear voice for real conservative values died February 27, 2008.
The irony here is that, if all he thinks needs be done is to change their sales pitch, he's sadly mistaken. The GOP has been on message for the last eight years, longer if you count their having seized the majority in Congress in 1994. And that message has brought us to our current straights. Tax-cuts benefiting the wealthiest Americans...deregulation of banking and financial services...gutting environmental and worker safety regulations...Trickle down economics is little more than the GOP pissing on the backs of average Americans and telling us that warm feeling running down our backs is prosperity.
The results of November 4, 2008 were a repudiation of the "common-sense conservative principles" he and his fellow travelers have been espousing as well as the 8 years of the Bush administration's mismanagement and malfeasance. Change or die...Given the inflexible nature of these so-called conservatives, the latter is far more likely than the former. May the GOP, like the Whigs, Requiescat In Pace.
<blockquote>"We're all concerned about the fact that the very wealthy and the very poor, the most and least educated, and a majority of minority voters, seem to have more or less stopped paying attention to us. And we should be concerned that, as a result of all this, the Republican Party seems to be slipping into a position of being more of a regional party than a national one," McConnell told the gathering.
"In politics, there's a name for a regional party: it's called a minority party. And I didn't sign up to be a member of a regional party . . . As Republicans, we know that <b><i>common-sense conservative principles</i></b> aren't regional. But I think we have to admit what <b><i>our sales job has been poor</i></b>. And in my view, that needs to change." - <a href=http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/v-print/story/61044.html>McClatchy</a></blockquote>
What "common-sense conservative principles" is he gabbling about? Certainly not those he and his fellow travelers have espoused. The last clear voice for real conservative values died February 27, 2008.
The irony here is that, if all he thinks needs be done is to change their sales pitch, he's sadly mistaken. The GOP has been on message for the last eight years, longer if you count their having seized the majority in Congress in 1994. And that message has brought us to our current straights. Tax-cuts benefiting the wealthiest Americans...deregulation of banking and financial services...gutting environmental and worker safety regulations...Trickle down economics is little more than the GOP pissing on the backs of average Americans and telling us that warm feeling running down our backs is prosperity.
The results of November 4, 2008 were a repudiation of the "common-sense conservative principles" he and his fellow travelers have been espousing as well as the 8 years of the Bush administration's mismanagement and malfeasance. Change or die...Given the inflexible nature of these so-called conservatives, the latter is far more likely than the former. May the GOP, like the Whigs, Requiescat In Pace.