As usual, explained clearly and succinctly. Thanks for being you.

This explains the TEA Party movement, which is actually very libertarian, very well. People have to wake up and decide how much of their lives they own and how much they want to cede to the federal government. I’ll keep all of mine thank you.

I just heard a guy from Politico asked on local news about Bennett and he said “he was very well liked” and I immediately hollered at the TV “yeah by you all in DC”…..it is the media template that if a Senator or Congressman is “well liked” in DC that WE The People must be stupid out here and are just “angry”. WE are not through TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY as a matter of fact WE have just begun to reclaim an America that does not give cradle to grave WELFARE and whose citizens wake up and work hard and get to keep the fruits of their labor. WE will not be buying up people’s mortgages who bought houses they could not afford while those who have done EVERYTHING RIGHT in their lives have to work twice as hard to pay for their own and then someone else’s.

Conservative Revolution 2010 is coming are you ready? obviously the media is not…heh!

To do so would ruin their entire deliberately false narrative, The leftie media types aren’t stupid; they’re liars.

Also, admitting the truth would severely reduce the leftie media’s chances of getting invited to Obama’s parties. After all, we know that “access” to the Obama White House (and the whole rich and powerful left-wing political class in D.C.) is the smarmy payoff for the media’s ongoing deceit.

Great work Erick as usual. This writing should be one of the foundation pieces for all conservative elections between now and November.

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…since the mid-1800s. This is one of my favorite quotations from R. L. Dabney. He was discussing the issue of women’s suffrage (women’s right to vote), but his analysis of the “conservatives” of his day (mid-1800s) is exactly in line with the situation with most modern-day “conservativism.”

“This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt bath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always, when about to enter a protest, very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its “bark is worse than its bite,” and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance. The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy from having nothing to whip. No doubt, after a few years, when women’s suffrage shall have become an accomplished fact, conservatism will tacitly admit it into its creed, and thenceforward plume itself upon its wise firmness in opposing with similar weapons the extreme of baby suffrage; and when that too shall have been won, it will be heard declaring that the integrity of the American Constitution requires at least the refusal of suffrage to asses. There it will assume, with great dignity, its final position.” http://www.amprpress.com/women%27s_rights_women.htm

I’ve heard others say we need to clean house but I like disentangling
better because that’s exactly what needs to be done

You’ve captured the essence of the movement. When I discuss politics withi my relatives from the other side of the aisle I sign off as a “staunch conversative and sometimes Republican.”

Bennett did not have the good grace to retire when it was his time. So we in Utah had to show him the door.

Personally I was most frustrated with his arrogance. I voted for the man three times (in spite of the fact that he committed to only run twice). But his elitist attitude about earmarks, immigration and TARP drove me to oppose him.

Bennett was recently listed in the USA Today as the eighth highest Senator taking money for earmarks. That is embarrasing for conservative Utah to be parked at the public trough like all of the other liberal-porker States.

His support of the Bush amnesty plan is what originally fueled the opposition statewide. After we drove Rep. Chris Cannon out for his similar stance on illegal immigration, we realized that ousting Bennett too was a real possibility. We saw that we could replace a Republican (Cannon) with a conservative (Chaffetz) and it felt great. We were even more determined to do the same with Bennett’s Senate seat.

Bennett’s vote on TARP was just the final nail in his coffin. He was and is clueless enough that after losing on Saturday he told us all to stick it in our ear because he would vote the same on every issue if he had to do it again.

He and Sen. Orrin Hatch like to claim that their clout is irreplaceable. Well if clout gets you ACLU attorney, Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the Supreme Court with almost no opposition, what good is that clout? If it gets tax cheat, Timothy Geithner, approved to oversee the IRS, what good is it? If the deficit is allowed to spiral out of control on your watch whether you’re in the minority or the majority, what good is it?

Finally, Bennett took a parting shot at those who opposed him Saturday by blaming the “toxic atmosphere” for his loss. The atmosphere in Utah is only toxic to those who can breathe conservative oxygen.

Erick, you are being way too politically correct about this whole thing. This is not a Republican (or hell, even Conservative) thing to do. We must call it for what it is:

This is a purge. Real Republicans (both Moderate and Conservative) are rejecting Career Politicians who claim they are Republicans. This purge of fake Republicans must be done at all levels of government. It might be messy and hurt us in the short term, but it will only make us stronger in the long run. This is not about Moderates vs Conservatives, this is about Republicans vs RINO Politicians.

I myself live in Florida’s 5th Congressional District and here on RedState, I am trying to spread the word about a TRUE Republican, Jason Sager (CAN-R-FL-05), who is now tring to defeat a RINO Politician who wants the party nomination.

Your analysis is superb…the word ‘disentangle’ is perfect…and the media is complicit *and* lazy.

And Bennett’s rumblings about running a write-in campaign, on top of ScuzzyFuzzy’s endorsement of the lib Dem, Crist’s decision to run an independent campaign after getting his arse handed to him in the GOP, and Specter switching parties so that Toomey wouldn’t do the same to him, along with multiple examples of the same thing happening over the past decade, should continue to give lie to the disingenuous bleatings of the “Moderates” in the Party that it’s the conservative wing that insists on purity and that it’s the conservatives that will take their ball and go home if they don’t get their way.

Let’s pray the RNC reads it and gets it.

Erick, You should fepackage this as guest column that the lame stream media might run like they do with Limbaugh on occasion. The establishment Republicans need to be pounded with the truth … at this point they are trying to recruit the media to defend their position against the tide that is washing them away. I am watching McConnell flay around desperately to rescue Grayson … I suspect he sees the coming leadership challenge in the Senate after November.

Obviously a lot of thought and analysis and time and energy went into writing this very important piece, and I’m glad I took the time to read it. Thank you for consistently getting it and never even dreaming of selling out.

Hey, where’s arc_ut? (kidding)

For Utahn’s what’s important now is to recognize Bridgewater as Bennett-Light… same flavor, just fewer earmarks. He wears the same bad suit of the businessman turning his head toward the horizon, chin steeled for the possibilities of the future (insert dramatic music here). In reality, for Bridgewater, running for Senate is just another thing for him to do. Another item for his Vita. “Let’s see, run several businesses… check. Marry a pretty wife… check. Have children… check. Build a big, stucco-laden house… check. Go into politics… check.”

Erick nailed it, Bridgewater is a rent-seeker. Something deeper, more genuine has brought Lee to the race.

He gets in their face by speaking clearly and unambiguously about the madness that is liberalism. Few incumbents have this kind of clarity or toughness. Most have been compromised by too many years in Washington playing the same old insider game.

translate to his polling there. I was just trying to get a feel for where the primary will go. It looked like from the convention Bridgewater has an advantage, but I don’t know if that is real or not. Anyone understand this process who can offer some thoughts?

I occasionally skim leftie blogs, hate, bile vituperousness–my negative adjective repertoir could expend itself. I skim this reply column—mostly reasoned, minor disagreement, hey guys, is there something wrong with us?

One big problem with our system of government is that almost everyone wants the incumbents thrown out except for their own. This year that sentiment may be changing. Utah has shown the way by throwing out our own.

I issue a challenge to all of you in other States. Your incumbent is likely part of the problem. Toss the bums out.

I understand that you see this as a conservative versus quasi-liberal insurrection. But I think you are seeing the symptoms and missing the cause.

I agree that Conservatives rightfully are fully disgusted with what is going on in Washington. But then again, so are a lot of other people. I am a Republican, and we agree on just about everything. So, we have a common goal. Electing individuals that will support a new Paradigm in politics.

Where we differ: The insurrection is the result of a Paradigm shift in Political expectations. In the early sixties, Television brought people together to focus on segregation, on putting a man on the moon, and on improving the lives of the less fortunate. People embraced the idea that Washington could redress matters that the country generally agreed were in need of change. This paradigm differed radically from the existing State Centric approach to government. It ushered in the world we know today.

Every administration, including the Reagan revolution existed in this activist federal paradigm. But the end years of the Bush administration rubbed raw the desire for change, which Obama used to his advantage.

What has brought about this desire for “change” is a disillusionment with the price and focus of an Activist Federal paradigm. That, and a new technology that has revolutionized politics the way television did in the early ’60′s. The web, social networking and smart phones brings people together in adhoc groups capable of applying the same level of focus on a varying scale of issues they way network footage of the abuses of the civil rights marches brought us together in 1963. The result is the same, the scale is both different and dynamic.

The cause of the insurrection as you called it is not a conservative awakening, specifically but a new political paradigm. A Scalable Local Activism Paradigm. (SLAP)

Local Activism, because it you have to pay for it you own it and if you own it you should control it.

Scalable, because of the ability to adjust solutions to the most appropriate government entity.

Besides, it is just neat to be able to that Bennett and the GOP got some sense “SLAP’d” into them.

WmCraig
Solvo Reor

www.freedoms-light.org

All that we really know is that the new media can manipulate with half truth and overwrought pseudo-religious zeal just like the old media. But because it is “New” and a different direction, we think it will be better. Utah will wake up down the road and realize that the angry lemmings just carried them off the cliff of reason and sanity, and nobody is going to feel sorry for them when they hit the bottom.

We need leaders that know hard work brings rewards, correct laws brings about correct behavior and love and compassion for our fellow man, brings us all together. We need leaders that roll up their sleeves and get things done, not just complain and mock others when the lights and cameras are turned on. We need leaders that are sincere and have the humility to let others take the credit, thus lifting them up. We need……..wait a minute, we had a leader like that, and the crazies threw him out.

to dump Lyndsey Graham in 2008

Fiscal Conservatism and Social Conservatism are not the same thing.

What Americans want these days is Fiscal Conservatism. Being a social conservative will no longer paper over fiscal recklessness. i.e. being “right” on abortion (to name one hot button issue) is irrelevant .

THAT is the big change.

Political shorthand: America is moving in a more libertarian direction. Now about the waste, fraud, and abuse that is called The Drug War.

Or to put it differently: The Culture War is coming to an end – out of necessity.

M. Simon