# 36 is a great post.

I hope to hear more from you.

Great post!
It’s well thought out and well written.

You have suggested that the party take a large share of the failures of the past 8 years, and openly admit their sins under an official party letterhead, so to speak.

I suggest to you that such an act would be virtual suicide for the party. Just what do you think the Democrats would do with such an official admission of our sins at each election cycle for the next decade or two? Trot it out and tell the voters yet again how we admitted our enumerated sins over and over and over. Such a club would bury us, even if most of it was wrong, or only half right.

In my view, you regain credibility by creating a legislative program with high integrity and with provisions that preclude the sins of the past from reoccuring, but without a mea culpa to go with it. If this program is properly designed, it would appeal to a large percentage of the public, would provide sensible corrections to our pressing needs, and would reaffirm our principles of conservatism.

With that program design in hand, we take it to the people over and over again and show them how it works in their best interest. We show the people the set of legislators we will champion and their commitment to all of those provisions in the program that benefit the public and correct past flaws.

If we beat this drum well, it will penetrate and be rewarded at election after election until we are back in control.

In fact, I have never seen a campaign whose manager would allow the candidate to apologize for anything. No negatives at all, but positives all the way. We will correct the flaws in our system, etc. and we will have the talented people to do it in DC.

It took what 30 years for your party to really get it’s act together, why do people think the GOP will get back in six months? Reforming a party isn’t easy and I applaud Rick for trying. Who wants just one party rule?

I don’t agree with your strident anti-religious or that the party is in that much control of them. It’s more a combo of them and plain greed during the Bush years of fiscal cons giving up all cred. But you are correct that the party has to give up some of it’s hardcore policies. I don’t see that happening soon. But looking at your party it took 14 years from when Clinton banished Casey at the convention to start getting pro-lifers back in your party. And like I said 30 years to really get even a more than half way liberal pres. Once Clinton’s health care blew up he pretty much sailed the middle for six years, worked well too.

So even though it sucks to try to reform it takes time, history does repeat. In the meantime we might get someone that I, you and Rick might like a more moderate GOP leader. Congress and Senate might be Dem for quite awile (thinking at least a decade)but we just might get a moderate president in the mold like Ike in 8 years. But mostly like 12 years.

I wasn’t there because I had a hippy chick tea-bag me. I thought that was enough.

Um… you do know the definition of tea-bag, right?

Contrast this with Mr. Moran in his 26th February post, “sitting in the darkened study of [his] sister’s beautiful home in Bethesda….” and advising us to pay heed the profound thoughts of a 17 year old.

I’ll put my money on the protesters in the streets rather than Mr. Moran in the darkened study.

Tea-Bag - 8 definitions - Dipping your testicles into the open mouth of another person

Could this explain attendence?

The tea parties will shortly speak of forming militias.

After all a “well-regulated” militia, being necessary for the defense of “the state”…uh…when you read it makes as much sense as the Bible.

If only my faith were stronger there would be no fear. Jesus will pull my nuts out of the fire!