Cantor is the one who is scared of the sound bite, he doesn’t want to be the one that gets the you are just like Rush finger pionted at him, same as the rest of them. Come on the Dems andf the drive byes having been setting this up for the last couple of weeks, with the Rush is the leader of the concervitive movement in an attempt to create division in the republican party.

And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail

at the state and federal level are actually run mostly by Democrats or congenital ‘crats who lean D. The structure of the federal government was set by sixty years of Democrat power from the New Deal onward. State governments largely replicate the fed. No Republican could staff all the appointed positions with loyal, competent Republican appointees if his/her life depended on it. Many don’t even try; they just put some of their buds in the visible spots and let the government run itself. In eight years, GWB only put a thin veneer of his own appointees in the fed. At the regional level, most departments were still firmly in the hands of Clinton appointees or ‘crats in acting status.

Rest assured that everybody in the federal government who even had a Republican thought in the last eight years is fired or soon will be and the Ds have little baby appointees coming out their ears.

because I’m heading off to church momentarily.

“to effect” means to “to carry out, to execute”.

And what Art has been teaching us repeatedly, which I agree with, is that almost all government bureaucracies are run by Democrats – or Democrat sympathizers. So when you come in to executive power as a Republican, you find yourself facing a bureaucracy – who are the people who actually carry out the programs and who persist through multiple administrations – that are led by people who are fundamentally hostile to consevative/Republican values – and who will use their knowledge of procedure to obstruct or even sabotage your programs.

The solution of course is to replace the leadership with people who are committed to conservative solutions – but what Art is saying is that there isn’t the infrastructure in place to put these people into control. Whereas the Democrats are loaded for bear when they get into power because of their shadow structures.

And over time, this Democratic preponderance seeps down into the lower ranks, which for instance may explain why the DOJ got into a witch hunt for Stevens while they still can bring any Democrats to trial – and why they were focusing on Red sates rather than Blue states during a REPUBLICAN administration.

And these kinds of insubordination ran rampant through the Federal government.

One of Art’s key criticisms of Sarah Palin (whom I really admire) is that she has relied too much on Democratis in the bureaucracy to carry out her programs and did not clean them out – and on several instances (Troopergate, per diem) they’ve bitten her in the a**.

But Sarah isn’t unique – too many Republican executives fail to clean out the bureaucracy – and have failed to do so for decades – and they keep getting burned. In California, Arnie didn’t take on the bureaucracy properly, got his head handed to him, and now has totally capitulated.

Hope that explains my point a bit better…

so often are more passionate about their beliefs, more convinced of their rightness. As a child of the 60′s myself, one raised by staunch Republicans, and one who couldn’t wait to pretend to be a lefty for a while, my love for my country and what it is supposed to be, how it is supposed to function, is much more serious now than when I was so much younger. Freedom is not just a word or a concept, it is everything, it is the air we breathe, the words we say, the choices we make, the things we teach to our children…..

And it is the most precious thing that is under assualt daily, hourly, in this most perilous time in our history. So, yes, converts will do just fine and dandy. How many do you have in stock, Mike?

then sorry, no sale. That’s what got us where we are now, electing people who wanted to be inclusive instead of standing up for the principles of conservative which are the same principles of freedom.

Many people who think that conservatism is exclusive to only a very small group of people are going to be very surprised to learn that with each passing week of Obama’s reign, they share those same principles. They will learn that when they see what socialism means for freedom and prosperity.

Nice reception for a new guy. Nice to be here.

I’m not sure we’re talking about the same MySpace. Are you referring to my “Occupation: fails every time”? It’s kind of a joke about hostile occupation of a foreign country–itdoesn’t really work. Has nothing to do with my job or career.

I don’t expect anybody to pick up my slack. I work my job and do my thing. Jumping me with personal attacks because you don’t agree with something i said is pretty lame.

This is a direct manifestation of the “enemy” mentality you have. Saying people are speedbumps or that what they think isn’ important is a prime example of why we are losing political ground. What people think is VERY important, because they vote based on how they think. Wouldn’t you agree?

I’ve never dealt with a dedicated lefty with power. I HAVE, however, dealt with not-so-dedicated left-leaning individuals. I don’t know if you would consider them to have “power” or not. They’re just regular, everyday people, with a vote. I’m not a big enough fish to have the opporunity to change the minds of “powerful” people, but I like to contribute in my own tiny way by sharing my conviction with those “little” people I actually do encounter. And when those people get called enemies, it makes my job harder.

…dude, comparing people to serial rapists is no gonna get them to change their political views and agree with our principles.

To “beat” them, we have to convince quite a few of them that our way of thinking, acting, and legislating is correct.