Yeah, yeah, I know it’s a red meat thing, but it is also a childish waste of time to engage in this exercise when there are very real issues related to the mark toward socialism that the GOP should be fighting.

Instead, they are wasting time with frivolous resolutions and funding groups like the NRSC that is willingly picking candidates who support the march toward socialism.

First, why would they brand the Democrat party socialist, then back RINO’s who agree with the socialism, a little hypocritical to me.

Second, why fight last generations war. This war is within the mainstream of our politics now. Fight the opposition on the issues, not on stupid nomenclature.

Why not call a socialist a socialist?

Are we really that afraid that someone may confuse the party as a party that stands for something?

Why not define the Democrats for what they are, or are we afraid we would not get the love and admiration of the MSM?

I don’t understand how this would in any way prevent us from then going on to say “Yes we are the party of smaller government unlike the socialist Democrats”.

I really don’t think the “Hide under our desk and ask the Democrats their blessing for our policies or opinions “ has really served us well over the past several years.

I for one welcome some political red meat as opposed to the soft pastels of Democrat-lite. At some point we really do have to point out the obvious.

“…Republicans lost to the Democratic Party in a fair and free election.”

This election was bought and paid for, with much of the cold cash coming from unknown (*cough…middle east*) sources.

It’s widely accepted now that the sycophantic mainstream media boosted obama’s numbers by at least fifteen percent. He only won by five or six.

The media and the idiotic, high school primary methods in the early states insured that the Republican ticket was headed by a RINO.

Acorn brown shirts are currently under indictment in numerous states for voter registration fraud throughout the election process.

Need I go on?

Hear me. As of Nov. 8, 2008, there will never, ever again be a fair and free election in this country.

Way to go RNC! Rather than come up with constructive opposition consisting of better ideas and appealing platforms, they’d rather demonstrate how little they have to offer the public by resorting to name-calling? Who are these guys and why are they speaking for us? Wanna see what damage this is doing, then check out the comments at:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/20/rnc-showdown-over-socialist-resolution-may-be-avoided/

Way to go RNC! Rather than come up with constructive opposition consisting of better ideas and appealing platforms, they’d rather demonstrate how little they have to offer the public by resorting to name-calling? Who are these guys and why are they speaking for us? Wanna see what damage this is doing, then check out the comments at:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/20/rnc-showdown-over-socialist-resolution-may-be-avoided/

Words matter.

If the people around here don’t even get that, don’t bother wondering why The Base is walking away from you and your party.

Hannity opens his show every night saying that President Obama is taking us “down the road to Socialism”. The RNC wants to rebrand the Democrat party as “socialist”. Tea Party-ers hold signs declaring that we have become the “Socialist States of America.

What is missing from all of this is dialogue explaining why socialism is a path down which we do not want this country to head. You hear pundits talking about the failures of socialism and its financial pitfalls, but yet have I heard about the true danger of socialism and its assault on individual liberties and freedoms. The polls reaffirm this, with younger voters becoming more and more accepting of socialism, without any real knowledge of what socialism is and the consequences of its methods.

Instead of tossing out “s-bombs” and focusing on “how much money this will cost us”, lets make the conversation about how socialism destroys individual identity, pits citizens against one another, replaces individual liberty with group fairness. Lets make the arguments that Hayek, Locke, Mill, Bastiat, and our forefathers made.

Doesn’t the torture debate, military tribunals and Gitmo prove that if we engage on the substance we can indeed turn issues to our favor?

We have important points and real ideas to offer the American people on health care and entitlement reform which we will have to fight for in the next couple months. I sincerely hope can approach those issues seriously and discard these sideshow distractions.

When I see conservatives blasting fellow conservatives I always suspect we really have a liberal.

This resolution is a minor thing. It is no big deal, but still this article is devoid of any intelligent opposition or discussion. It is just highly emotional, vitriolic rhetoric…in short, purely liberal language.

I think your efforts to portray conservatives as being totally divided and in opposition to one another is just a scam, and I am surprised that Red State is working so hard to undermine conservatives. You should vet your writers better.

Best regards,
Gail S

The Republicans need a good slogan, and a good person to say it, as Reagan once was.

We all know that good intentions often lead to H-E-double hockey sticks, and its the Democrats, with their lack of understanding of liberty, and opportunity, that are leading us there. They Democrats rarely consider unintended consequences in their over eager malaise into centralized government

The vast majority of the voting population has no idea what the word socialist means. With this historical illiteracy Democrats and the MSM with simply counterattack with the old McCarthyism ploy and most of the ‘moderates’ will drink it up and then ask for seconds.

We cannot attack with one-word campaigns. We have to educate the public on the issues. We have to attack on individual issues to turn public opinion without resorting to conservative buzzwords.

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How about one encouraging Republicans to refrain from referring to Dems as ‘liberal’? Attempting to relabel the opposition is not only childish, but pointless. But aquising in their Orwellian paradigm shift is counterproductive.

Maybe those here at Red State could set an example.

Or not. I guess it’s just me.