{"id":769,"date":"2012-02-23T19:14:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2012-02-23T19:14:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:14:15","slug":"dnr-order-for-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"DNR order for the GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally blogged on Thursday, January 22, 2009<\/h2>\n

<\/a> The GOP’s DNR order<\/h1>\n

“And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, “Dan’l Webster-Dan’l Webster!” the ground’ll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while you’ll hear a deep voice saying, “Neighbor, how stands the Union?” Then you better answer the Union stands as she stood, rock-bottomed and copper sheathed, one and indivisible, or he’s liable to rear right out of the ground. ”<\/p>\n

I, for one, do not want to be the man calling out to ol\u2019 Dan\u2019l Webster today\u2026<\/p>\n

A Call to the G.N<\/em>.P.!<\/p>\n

\u00a0You there\u2026Republican! Yes, YOU! I know, you stopped calling yourself that didn\u2019t you? Yes, I know how you feel. I have, as well. You\u2019re feeling a bit let down, a bit disenfranchised, even a little angry that the party you\u2019ve been pulling the lever for is fading fast after all these years. Here\u2019s an idea\u2026DO NOT RESUSCITATE!<\/p>\n

The G.O.P. will not change. In fact, the G.O.P. does not WANT to change. In a display of \u201cconservatism\u201d, the party wants to just keep on keepin\u2019 on with the way it\u2019s always been. Ask ANY \u201c12-stepper\u201d and they\u2019ll tell you that the first steps to change are admitting you \u201chave a problem\u201d. That you have \u201chit rock-bottom\u201d, and truly \u201cWANT to CHANGE\u201d.<\/p>\n

Admit to a problem? As in the “drunken-sailor” spending of the last four years? The countless adjustments and re-adjustments of Federal Interest Rates to overcome bad decisions made in the previous administration? Freight trains loaded with “pork-barrels”? NOT standing squarely behind the people on the frontlines of our national defense? (Read that; Ramos & Compean). The people tasked with seeing to it we haven’t another attack on U.S. soil? (A task they accomplished, might I add?)<\/p>\n

The Republican Party has indeed, \u201chit rock-bottom\u201d. A twenty percent, (in some polls less\u2026), approval for an outgoing two-term president? The replacement candidate a \u201cRINO\u201d at best, and a LIBERAL at worst? That sounds pretty close to \u201crock-bottom\u201d to me.<\/p>\n

Handing the keys to the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to a man with NO executive, and precious little legislative experience? Bam! There it is. J.F.K. must be laughing like a whole pack of hyenas. Bedrock-bottom.<\/p>\n

I have listened to many of the pundits, ( That’s right.\u00a0 PUNDITS.\u00a0 The word is PUNDITS.), as well as party officials, academics, and other \u201cexperts\u201d offer up ideas to \u201crenew\u201d or \u201crevitalize\u201d or even \u201crebuild\u201d the party.<\/p>\n

Sorry, folks, but it\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I have seen plans of others, more grass-roots plans to do the same. They face the \u201cproblem\u201d of being \u201ctoo conservative\u201d or \u201ctoo removed from the ideals of the party\u201d. They face the indolence of the standing party staff. The wall of \u201cthey way it\u2019s always been\u201d. The subversion of the camouflaged \u201cnew\u201d Republicans\u2026.the good \u201cold\u201d Democratic-Republicans!<\/p>\n

NEWSFLASH. It\u2019s DEAD.<\/p>\n

\u00a0History killed it. Well, more truly, revisionist history killed it. Even more truly, unfettered, unbridled, and unchallenged REVISIONIST history killed it. The party that championed civil rights has lost its beneficiaries\u2019 votes to the party that opposed it. Why? Because \u201cwe\u201d are \u201cgentlemen\u201d and we don\u2019t \u201cstoop to the level\u201d of those who oppose us. We are wealthy white men, whose only agenda is to pollute the planet and rob people of their livelihoods and dignity. The party that stood against the Red Menace has, in this general election, allowed more communists into the Whitehouse than in the last fifty years. Why? Because we wanted to run a \u201crespectful campaign\u201d. When campaign finances were discussed between this past cycle\u2019s de-facto nominees, ONE changed the rules in a day or so, but it was left unchecked. Why? Because a promise is a promise. We insisted on joining in a street fight clutching our Marquis de Queensbury rulebook. Just by having it there, the opposing side would have no choice but to step up to the higher ground, after all. Right?<\/p>\n

Grieve and mourn. Wail and gnash thy teeth. But it\u2019s dead. Bury it. Move on.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I call on all of you who are out there, trying hard, to breathe new life, (heck\u2026.ANY life!), into the corpse of the Grand Old Party to stand up, clean off, get into your rescue vehicle, and go deliver the NEW baby. The Grand NEW<\/em> Party. The party that people will hear of from scratch. From Jump Street. From the Get-Go. Call it the the \u201cGrand New Party\u201d. Call it the \u201cRe-Republicans\u201d. \u201cRepublican Reprise, Redux, Remake\u2026.\u201d You get the point, by now, I\u2019m sure.<\/p>\n

The party that will stand for all the things we believe. LIFE, Liberty, the pursuit of happiness\u2026.ALL of it. The new message can be carried forth to young and old. Rich and poor. Men AND women. Out of the cremated ashes of those old Republican bones, a new life can appear. A new life that can make America safe, secure, and prosperous. An America ready to resume it\u2019s place as the leader of the World in human rights, personal freedoms, and a general sense of well-being.<\/p>\n

And TAKE OFF that bow tie!<\/p>\n

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<\/a> Addendum of February 14th, 2012<\/h4>\n

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As a codicil, I present the current \u201crace\u201d for the mansion on Pennsylvania Avenue. As we have seen here in Maine, just follow the back story for a moment…<\/p>\n

The G.O.P. has been trounced repeatedly in the race for the Governor\u2019s Mansion for several decades. Now, I\u2019ve only been living \u201cup heah\u201d for nigh seven years and following the political machinations for a couple more beyond that, but I can see the failure that oppresses the G.O.P. with a clarity that the native-born cannot. This is a state with a HUGELY \u201cred\u201d populace. In the suburbs and rurally. In the cities, (yes, we do have a few), there\u2019s a decided \u201cblue\u201d streak. The people in the Republican camp have striven to find candidates who can gain \u201cthe base\u201d. Swell. Good, solid political thinking. Right? Wrong. By running a buttoned-up jacket with a bow tie and horn-rimmed glasses you can energize the base. But you can\u2019t win an election! You need someone to pick up the \u201cswing\u201d voters, and anyone that looks like a prep-school headmaster might sound wonderful to people oppressed by a monster in the tax-man\u2019s office feeding another monster in the welfare office at the behest of the monster in the business development office is NOT going to DO that. Lesson learned. This time out, we, as a state, managed to put a Republican governor in place. A governor who stacked his cabinet with others who were, at one point or another, IN that race. They had run on their strengths and LOST. So he put their individual strengths to work IN his win. Progress continues. My home state of New Jersey did the same thing. It\u2019s working, (much to the chagrin of the Democrats and the press in NJ), very well.<\/p>\n

But then, this paradigm is not the same for a general election…Or IS it?<\/p>\n

\u00a0 The \u201cfront runners\u201d in the race for the Republican \u201cnod\u201d this cycle are Mitt Romney,(D-MA), and in some areas, (Maine included), Ron Paul,(L-TX). Yes, I know that they bot identify themselves as Republicans. As there is a difference between \u201cmoderating\u201d a \u201chard line\u201d and being an imposter to a title…They are not. Among the phrases we hear over and over in elections is that a candidate is, (or at least wants to), be recognized as run(ning) on their record. Romney\u2019s record would win him a seat just fine…as a Democrat. The only thing that makes Paul a Republican is that he \u201clegally\u201d changed his party affiliation to the G.O.P.<\/p>\n

I identify myself as a Republican, too. But then, I always have. My \u201crecord\u201d on issues was, is, and I suppose will always be reflected in the pool of Republican thought. \u201cModerate\u201d, at times, but still able to walk on the planks of the party of Reagan.<\/p>\n

That party, folks, is dead. As dead as the Romans. At least for this cycle. Because we decided not only to \u201cmoderate\u201d, which is a good idea, but to run off the end of the Earth with it into a Democrat and a Libertarian looking as much like a presumptive candidate as the incumbent president.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, President Obama, on your re-election.<\/p>\n

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Originally blogged on Thursday, January 22, 2009 The GOP’s DNR order “And they say that if you go to his grave and speak loud and clear, “Dan’l Webster-Dan’l Webster!” the ground’ll begin to shiver and the trees begin to shake. And after a while you’ll hear a deep voice saying, “Neighbor, how stands the Union?”<\/p>\n

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