Comments on: Why GOP must embrace small government philosophy of Tea Parties

By: Michigan-Matt

Michigan-Matt — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:26:06 +0000

As probably the only real GOPer who reads GayPatriot, aside from the writers, I’m convinced that the GOP is changing fundamentally at the state level in states that will matter in 2010 and 2012 –the natl party (if id’ed as the RNC members) hasn’t gotten the “it” in the TeaParty & TownHall movements. I’m sure they will, eventually… and before 2010.

The hardcore conservative GOP base needed some bitch-slapping for the excesses brought by Delay and his “No Moderates Need Apply” cabal… and Steele has publicly and vocally stressed we need to appeal to moderates and independents while remaining true to core GOP principles and values; it doesn’t mean turning over the Party to squishy RINOs like Snowe… it means smart, well positioned policy alternatives.

The answers for the GOP are in the success of governors and state leaders actually doing the innovative work today. It doesn’t lay with inside-the-beltway types or fat cat pundits selling their fake outrage over the airwaves. That isn’t the TeaParty anymore than Rush is the leader of the GOP –as MoveOn, DailyKos, CBS, RachelMadcow and others would like to project.

By: DRH

DRH — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:29:00 +0000

I have to ask: can the GOP change its ways? The recent ‘purity pledge’ is a bad sign.

By: V the K

V the K — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:42:17 +0000

I am in basic agreement… it’s good for the Republicans that Obama-Reid-Pelosi have been wasteful and incompetent beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. But no one is going to trust them unless they present a plan to reign in government, and actually stick to it. I know I don’t trust them.

But the simple reason the tea-party patriots are right and everyone else is wrong is that we simply can’t afford the level of government the Obamunists are creating.

By: Ted B. (Charging Rhino)

Ted B. (Charging Rhino) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:37:10 +0000

The high panjandrums of the Party should take not that “gay marriage” and “abortion” are not on the agenda nor the placards of the Teabaggers…it’s about liberty from Nanny State and fiscal sanity. When trhe Whig Party lost it’s way and moral compass just before the Civil War, the Republican party was born. Maybe it’s time for another rebirth?

Considering how the Democratic Gays have been repeatedly thrown under the bus by the Obama regime…maybe they should join the Gay Conservatives in the center and support the Teabaggers…

By: Steven E. Kalbach

Steven E. Kalbach — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:30:29 +0000

I see now why they are in a hurry to pass health care and appease their base. In this scenario, democrats could win races with their base only if the independents are pulled off by a 3rd party candidate.

By: ILoveCapitalism

ILoveCapitalism — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:55:55 +0000

The Republican political class isn’t trustworthy. Under Bush-DeLay, they spent like drunken sailors. The Bush tax cuts were fine; but the massive year-to-year domestic spending increases and new entitlement programs, no freaking way. Combined with 1% interest rates (which Bush owned because he chose to re-appoint Greenspan and egg him on), it led to the real estate bubble and then the financial crisis. Now Obama is making it worse. Obama is running deficits four times as large and going with 0% interest rates, trying to re-inflate our stupid, debt-based “bubble” economy. So Democrats are worse than Republicans. But alas, that still doesn’t make the Republicans grand, or even trustworthy. I see precious little sign of the GOP establishment ‘getting it’; only signs that they are a bit less demented or insane than their Democratic counterparts.