The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights, The Declaration Of Independence.

Oh yeah…. one other thing too if you’re so inclined, but not a requirement. Some folks may have heard of this itty-bitty book. It’s called The Bible. My people call it “The Torah”.

That’s a pretty good “party” and I know everybody’s welcome with open arms.

C’mon in and sit a spell.

Cheers !

Fiscal conservatism/limited government

This is common point that the conservatives, social conservatives, libertarians, and possibly paleocons and neocons can rally around.

As far as the differences on national defense – hopefully some common ground can be found to oppose Obama’s foreign policy lunacies.

Social issues – I think libertarian should at least respect social con positions that are defended on limited government grounds, while agreeing to disagree on the specific positions if they do differ (rather than hurling anathema).

But the highest priorityt and lodestone is fiscal conservatism/limited government.

I can fight with other conservatives who want to put too much emphasis on things like using government to promote their own social issues, or the war hawks who IMO have gone too far in trying to mold the world into our way of thinking (with poor results).

But in the long run, the Democrats prove no better on those issues and much, much worse on others so I have to oppose them.

However, I will not any more vote for a liberal Republican just because the democrat might be slightly worse, won’t ever do it again. That is just not a good policy.

Fiscal conservatism/limited government

This is common point that the conservatives, social conservatives, libertarians, and possibly paleocons and neocons can rally around.

Agreed.

As far as the differences on national defense – hopefully some common ground can be found to oppose Obama’s foreign policy lunacies.

The longer The One is in office, the more obvious the need for a serious foreign/defense policy will become.

Social issues – I think libertarian should at least respect social con positions that are defended on limited government grounds, while agreeing to disagree on the specific positions if they do differ (rather than hurling anathema).

Who cares if a libertarian wants to avoid abortion and gay marriage-as long as they are against judicial activism. Take the federal government out of the equation (eventually) and let the states and the people decide.

Yes, we need to stop the in fighting. We’ve been too busy killing off each other rather than battling the Democrats.

The next time you’re ready to skewer some other branch of the party for not adhering to core principles, just remember “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

We also need to quit with the “He started it!” mentality. As Kenny pointed out, most of us here are are people of the Book and one of the great lessons in the Book is to forgive others for wrongs. It’s hard work but we need to start putting this core principle to work.

Fiscal conservative, smaller government, etc…is BRAND NEW to millions of potential voters. They haven’t seen it in decades. It’s new and improved for some, but totally new to most voters.

We need some better PR/marketing people and actually put some solid product in the shiny new package this time around.

We have to sell benefits, not features. “smaller government” can send the wrong signal. That is telling people they will get less. How about “efficient government” getting more for less!

We need to sell benefits of how people will benefit from the features of conservatism. How will we be better off, not just “less taxes”. People have been brainwashed to think “less taxes” is BAD! LOL. Because many of the voters don’t even pay taxes why would they want less taxes?

REPS have been absolutely horrible, stagnant, and myopically lazy in their branding.

I think I’ll write a diary on this.

That’s all we need to pound into the American Idol generation.

My 17 year old is starting to get it…