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To boost their morale and their poor prospects this fall, congressional Republicans had a little ceremony at the Capitol to roll out a new slogan for the party: “The Change You Deserve.” Not only was the slogan uncomfortably close to Barack Obama’s “Change You Can Believe In,” it was also the trademarked ad slogan for Effexor, a prescription antidepressant whose side effects — nausea, irritability, etc. — the Democrats gleefully recited. It’s been that kind of year, actually two years, for the Republicans.
They had just come off losing their third straight special election in previously solid GOP congressional districts.
A memo to House Republican leaders obtained by The Washington Post cited “the deep seeded (cq) antipathy to the president, the war, gas prices, the economy and, in some areas, the underlying cultural differences that continue to brand our party.”
In 2000, the party was talking grandly about “a permanent Republican majority” and it didn’t seem totally out of the question. But while wallowing in the perks and privileges of the majority, the party of limited government, low taxes, fiscal prudence and cautious foreign policy was running up record deficits and national debt, setting new spending records, creating the largest entitlement program since the Great Society, approving a huge new federal bureaucracy and approving federal intrusions into Americans’ private lives.
The voters seemed to notice how far the Republicans had drifted from their principles before the Republicans themselves did. Now there is a desperate search for strategies to turn the situation around but few are forthcoming.
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The Change You Deserve - Absolutely None Whatsoever
#1 Posted by mycophile2 on May 15, 2008 at 9:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I vote for candidates who have a history for ISSUES that I support.
I do not vote for a political party.
Many members of political parties do not agree on all issues.
http://ronpaul2008.com/issues/
http://knowbeforeyouvote.com
http://amazon.com/Revolution-Manifest...
#2 Posted by jacktanner on May 16, 2008 at 12:43 a.m. (Suggest removal)
THIRD FORCE
http://conservativehq.com/active-peti...
The following petition will be sent to over 300 leaders in the conservative movement, asking them to join in our efforts to declare independence from the Republican Party and instead establish conservatives as a THIRD FORCE in American politics.
Dear conservative leader:
WHEREAS the Republican Party has decided to act independently of the conservative movement, and
WHEREAS the Republican Party has refused to follow conservative principles on a wide range of issues, leading to its loss of majority status in this country and endangering its hold on the White House, and
WHEREAS the party’s leadership appears more interested in maintaining its privileged position than in advancing the beliefs of most of the party’s members, and
WHEREAS political movements are most successful when they refuse to tie themselves down to any one political party, and when they let the parties compete for their support, and
WHEREAS conservative leaders ranging from Richard Viguerie to Newt Gingrich have called upon conservatives to declare independence from the GOP,
THEREFORE we the undersigned call on you, as a conservative leader, to help establish the conservative movement as an independent force in American politics, not merely an adjunct to the Republican Party.
#3 Posted by jacktanner on May 16, 2008 at 12:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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