To my conservative and Republican friends..
- By Linda Rapoza
- Published 01/13/2008
Linda Rapoza
Linda Rapoza is the State Republican Committee woman for the 1st Bristol/ Plymouth District.
Republican & Conservative Friends,
There was an extremely important editorial in The Herald News this morning by Michael Reagan, "GOP turned upside down". Please read this piece. If you don't receive the paper, get it online or call me and I'll be more than happy to mail you a copy. It is the absolute truth, and it is the very crisis we now face in standing up to the "king-makers". The Republican Party has been broken since a majority of Republicans in Congress decided they needed the liberal media to like them more than they needed the voters to.
We cannot build the Republican Party from the top down. We must re-build it from the ground up with the help of grassroots conservatives like yourself. It's so important to understand that change doesn't happen overnight. Diligent, systematic progression back toward the direction of conservatism will provide results only if it's practiced daily. And it will not be re-built on the backs of RINO's. They destroyed the Party to begin with! When Republicans behave like Democrats they can be assured of being stroked with fawning pieces about their being "mavericks" and "bi-partisans". Remember, partisanship is good. It defines the difference in ideology between you and them. When liberals are given the choice of voting for a Democrat and a make-believe Democrat, they vote for the real one every time. Only when they're turned out of office do they finally "get the picture". But it takes too long for that, and in the meantime, RINO's do a great deal of damage to the Party's principles while they're in office.
There seems to be a bit of apprehension concerning our (yes, that's yours and my) ability to re-build the Republican Party here in Massachusetts. Spending years creating the grassroots conservative movement, Ronald Reagan knew what the Party needed to be, and he didn't give up until it became what it needed to be. There was no guarantee that he would build a successful, thriving conservative grassroots movement, but he wasn't afraid of failing because he never thought about failing. The only way you can guarantee failure is to give up! His two landslide victories proved that common-sense conservatism wins over liberal socialistic ideas every time it's tried.
And then, the people, in essence, gave President Reagan a third term when they voted for his vice president George H. W. Bush who proceeded to abdicate his leadership by backing down from conservative principles, and you know the rest. Conservatives who are a little bit on the side of socialism are like being a little bit pregnant.
Those who like to insist that we are a "big tent" forget that the tent still stands on conservative principles. Weasels who insist they're against the killing of the unborn but feel they must preserve this "right" for their constituents are empty suits of no character. They stand for nothing!
Ronald Reagan's two terms in office gave this country the breathing room it needed to get back in line with common-sense conservatism. It was a break from the wacky '70's. I truly believe if he hadn't been overwhelmingly elected, the '90's that followed under Billary would have sealed our fate, and this country as a democracy would've been over with.
Don't be fooled. The Democrats are still looking towards such an end. You hear them every day. "The country's heading in the wrong direction", making the implication that people are clamoring for socialism; making the implication that people actually want politicians to take their right to vote away from them in order to allow the politician to make all their decisions for them.
If you look at every decade that offered a decline in morality, a drop in basic rights of free speech and free association. a drop in living standards, a decline in respect for life, an illumination of fear of God, a drop in respect born out of fear from our enemies, and a growing more intrusive government it was always under Democrat leadership. There's way more evidence out there today than there was just a decade ago. People need to understand that if the Democrats continue to take over the government, this country will continue to spiral downwards.
You need to ask yourself a simple question. What kind of country do I want to leave to my children and grandchildren? Do I want the government deciding their every move? Do I want them to fear government imprisonment for speaking their mind against political correctness? Do I want them to know what a real democracy, a real representative republic is? Do I want them to know what real freedom is? We will not get there by simply electing people who call themselves Republicans. Right now, we have more liberal Republicans than conservative ones, and they're as bad as the liberals! How often do you hear the phrase, "no difference between the two"?
Lee Iacocca once said, "Lead, follow, or get out of the way!" I want to help re-build an army of leaders who aren't afraid of the task ahead, who aren't embarrassed to speak their mind about what they believe in, and who understand that if we give up before the battle's begun, the result will be too horrible to even think about. If that's not enough to keep you focused, then you're not breathing.
God Bless,
Linda Rapoza
Spread The Word
Comments
Comment #1 (Posted by Peggy Noonan)
"George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues .... And this needs saying, because if you don't know what broke the elephant you can't put it together again. The party cannot re-find itself if it can't trace back the moment at which it became lost. It cannot heal an illness whose origin is kept obscure. "
Comment #2 (Posted by Linda)
I wholeheartedly agree. George W. Bush's abdication from his position as the leader of the Republican Party allowed the deviancy of liberalism to flourish and be defined downward. Who would have thought that in just a mere six years under a self-proclaimed " Christian conservative", our culture would have been allowed to descend, uninterupted, into the gutter without so much as a whimper from the Christian or his cabinet? While this president was obsessed with the task of creating Jeffersonian democracies across the globe, our own democracy is suffering the effects of a growing fascism at the hands of the New Left, the Democrat Party, with the help of RINO's and "mavericks", and without so much as a whisper of protest from our leader. There is now a newer lower level of ignorance and a general lack of the understanding of simple truthfulness that has enveloped our youth. To listen to Democrats, America will only "work" if government can take the place of the "Creator". How did we get from Reagan to this? Apparently, everything you see when you look around yourself happened in a vacuum. According to the fascists, it had nothing to do with pride or patriotism, entrepreneurship, or an American Dream, or a work ethic, or the desire to breathe free, or to work hard so that children could do better than their parents. Bush's sorrowful incapablility of being able to communicate with the general public in ways that Ronald Reagan did with ease has left the Republican Party a fractured empty vessel left to defend itself against an unpatriotic (yes, I said unpatriotic) media and a Democrat Party with Communistic tendencies that regularly and with relish, seeks ways to curcumvent democracy in order to destroy it. Half of the Republican Party holds out and prays for the grown-up, someone of Ronald Reagan's stature, to come and rescue them with his words, while the other half thinks that if they become jock sniffers for the liberal left, they'll be tolerated just enough to hang onto their seats a little longer. John McCain will be this election's spoiler. The "maverick" who's endorsed by The New York Times, the Boston Globe, and every other liberal rag, and by every single RINO in Congress, and every single loser that never made it to prime time, is being shoved down the throats of people who actually believe that principles have no place in politics. And all of this is in an effort to set up a spectacular failure on the part of Republicans this fall. Liberals are depending on the stupidity of a citizenry, the dupes, who've been trained by an absentee leader to believe that bi-partisanship, (the definition of which is that conservatism is the ideology that gets tossed), is more important than principle. When and if John McCain (who stands for everything conservatism isn't) becomes the nominee of the Republican Party, get ready for President Billary, the two-headed dragon, and the end of America.
Comment #3 (Posted by Obamanation)
Bush's inability to communicate effectively - at any level whatsoever - was apparent long before he ever became president. So, were his two nominations also the product of this vast liberal conspiracy you write of? By the way - i'm not convinced it's the Clintons whom John McCain will have to worry about come November.
Comment #4 (Posted by Linda Rapoza)
Really? And where exactly did I write about a liberal conspiracy? After 8 years of the stinky-poo twins smelling up the Oval Office, everyone was so anxious to get all the women's panties and party favors out of there, that they were willing to take the first self-annointed conservative adult that came along. Well, we've learned OUR lesson! (As for the second term, the fact that John Kerry appeared to be just two neck bolts away from a character portrayal in a Mary Shelley novel was just too much to take. And nobody was quite ready to put a man whose face appeared to be sliding off of his skull in the White House.) Unlike Democraps, real Republicans are no longer willing to prostitute themselves for their Party. It took a "Jimma" Carter and four years of malaise, double-digit inflation, gas lines, and 22% interest rates to elect a Ronald Reagan. If the Republican Party insists on laying down and playing dead liberals by voting for make-believe conservatives, I'd rather see a genuine Democrap in an empty suit take the blame for what will happen next. Here's a tip: You'd better wash the stardust out of your eyes. Billary runs the Democrap Party. Why, they 're the first black co-presidents, don't ya know? Scrape some of the sludge off of Hill's face and Democraps actually see black under there. Remember her big speech when she said she "feels no way t-i-i-red?" That she's "come too f-a-a-r-r-r!" Remember that? Remember the swooning that went on? And that was just the liberal men! Democraps make their living calling Republicans racists, bigots and homophobes. It's called "projection". There are more racists, bigots and homophobes in the Democrap Party than anywhere else. They see race in everything. The first thing Democraps think of when they look out over their selfdom is color, gender, and sexual orientation. And then the next thing they envision is their dominance over their very own plantation. Obama's a nice enough socialist, but he'll never beat Billary. They'll set him up as the "black candidate", not the candidate who happens to be black, and all those lilly white racists in the Democrap Party will scurry into the voting booth, close the curtain behind their fat fannies and flip the switch for the lilly white fat guy and his bride, the first black co-presidents! Oh my! I can just imagine the praise they'll receive when they promote all those "African Americans" to prominent positions in the White House... as secretaries, janitors, servants, cooks, bottle washers... you know, all those jobs that white Democrap presidents bestow on black people who elect them?