Conservative Republicans: scrape that stuff right off your shoes

Republican Goo on Your Shoe?

We had a sticky snow last night here at the Orchard, and the melt this morning was causing some runoff problems. The old feeder found an even older spade and went to work draining the big pool that was blocking our driveway. The snow stuck to my new jail shoes in great clumps; every step added another layer until it was like walking in deep-sea diver boots. I'd scrape but the next step started the process again. I finally had to pull my foot out of the shoe pictured above. What has this got to do with conservative GOP politics? Read on.

John McCain style conservatism is a proven loser, yet the stuff keeps sticking to conservatives' shoes like last night's snow. You might think the last presidential election would have scraped this mess off of the shoes of good Republicans. but, no! It's back, the same crappy faux-conservatism that gave us the disastrous Obama administration and it's awful Marxist "change." Don't let this stuff build up on your political walking shoes. Scrape it off! Don't let this horrible accretion continue.

Please take a few minutes to read Michelle Malkin's timely column, Conservatives: Beware of McCain Regression Syndrome. Heed the warning. America cannot stand another failure of true conservatism. The GOP is walking a dangerous path, one that has much of the old shit sticking to their shoes. It is time to scrape these losers and their failed ideologies off and find the true path. Otherwise the conservatives of America will pull their feet right out of those sodden Republican shoes.

The Republican Party Split

Two factions have emerged in the GOP. The difference is in their election strategy:

• Give the voters what they seem to want, i.e. more liberalism.
• Sell the voters on a more conservative government.

One is a sure loser, the other has a chance. Guess which is which.

Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel - In Good Company

Chuck Hagel - Ted Stevens - Larry E. Craig

Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, always ready to shame and embarrass the home folks that sent him to Washington, isn't going to attend the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis. He will be in good company. I got the picture above from the LA Times, and here is their caption:

NOT IN MINNESOTA: From left, Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who is about to retire, will be in Europe. Alaska's Sen. Ted Stevens is awaiting trial; his aides say he's too busy campaigning to attend. Idaho's Sen. Larry E. Craig, another no-show, pleaded guilty in a sex scandal and will soon be an ex-senator.

Of course, the LA Times would like you to think that the fact that some 'prominent' Republicans will be staying away from the convention is a symptom of party disunity. Nice try, Californiacs, nobody wants these chumps to show their faces. It would be as unseemly as having impeached perjurer Bill Clinton show up at a Democrat convention.
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The LAT is being charitable in saying that Hagel is "about to retire". I'd call it something else; the RINO can read the handwriting on the wall in Nebraska. He couldn't get elected dogcatcher here. Even his Democrat friends don't want him around any more. Retire? More like shown the door.

Schwarzenegger Brand GOP

"Ve got to sell dis pahty like it vas a moofie"

From San Francisco: Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for 'rebranding' GOP. How about Brand X? Democrat Party Lite? Aren't we all glad this big fruit was born in Austria and can't ever run for President?
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Michelle Malkin calls it "Schwarze-fication" and likens the idea to New Coke. Any way you look at it, real Republicans lose.

Donate to the National Republican Congressional Committee

Plains Feeder suggests that our Republican readers start out by giving them their 2¢ worth. Here is where you can give it to them: in the comments at this NRCC blog post titled Republican Solutions and a Positive Agenda.

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin - The spanking they deserve: NRCC gets an earful.
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