Let’s Be Realistic
June 1st, 2007 at 9:34 am by CrankyPeggy Noonan pens a brilliant piece on the Republican’s contempt for and betrayal of its conservative base.
Key quote:
But on immigration it has changed from “Too bad” to “You’re bad.”
For the 7,000th time in the last year I was reflecting on how our political class, both D and R, are self-serving professional bureaucrats.
This stab in the back from the Republican party coupled with the Democrats’ steadfast commitment to the Culture of Corruption tends to get daydreamers thinking about doing a “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” or starting a third-party.
That was the gag behind the Insufferable Prick Party. However, kvetching about bad government and making jokes about it is about as far as I will realistically go. I suspect that this is the case for 95% of us.
Most average Joes and Jeans don’t want to give up being productive members of society to enter politics. Others just don’t have the narcissistic streak required to pimp oneself and raise the vast sums of money required to get into the game.
So, all this is lead to the epiphany, which hit me as I was cutting off a Prius with a Kerry/Edwards sticker on my morning commute, that I’d like to share with you.
If you give to the Republican party or particular candidates, don’t.
Brilliant, you say? Pwshaw, I reply, wait until I get to the good part.
The Good Part™: We need to get behind groups that do represent our conservative politics. These groups endorse and support the conservative politicians within the party. So in a sense, we are outsourcing our activism and pooling our resources.
What immediately comes to mind are groups like the Club for Growth and the Citizens Against Government Waste.
If every dollar that you would have given to Arlen Specter or Trent Lott goes to back true conservatives, we might see real change.
Thank you. You may now resume your day.
UPDATE: Thank you (read: “get stuffed”) See-Dubya, for pointing out that Stephen Moore is, in fact, pro-immigration.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, in my opinion. What irks me the most about Mr. Moore’s writings is that there doesn’t seem to be any mention of border enforcement, which sometimes means, “yes, the doors should be wide open.”
It may be a good time for me to clarify where I stand.
I want the border enforced.
I don’t want mass-deportation of illegal immigrants.
I don’t know who said it, but some guest on a Talk Radio show said that if we secure the borders, then there will be an attrition which will deplete the ranks of illegals. Do we want 20 million guest workers? Sure, why not as long as they waited in line.
UPDATE II:
Daisy (a dude, if you can believe it), shares his thoughts on immigration. He’s an eloquent writer too, which further puts the masculinity thing into question. Regardless, do check it out.
On being an “anti-reformer”:
We don’t trust the government on the border. We have heard it all, and the government’s credibility reservoir on this subject was drained dry long ago.
June 1st, 2007 at 10:41 am
Press 1 to Donate to your favorite Republican Candidate…Press 2 to tell us to Kiss Off…
Republicans are learning illegal immigration is having an impact on jobs here at home…..
The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors’ rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its tele…
June 1st, 2007 at 10:43 am
How dare you come in here and provide solutions and suggest reasonable action?
June 1st, 2007 at 11:24 am
The IPP is a gag?!?! Then will you guys quit calling me and asking for a donation?
On a serious note…I am a registered independent for this very reason. When I unregistered as a donk I pondered my options. I knew it would be only a matter of time before the Republican party…hell, ANY party, would betray me.
So I registered independent. At least until the IPP holds it’s first California primary…then I’m a delegate!
June 1st, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Isn’t the Club For Growth pro-open borders? That guy who was being such a wingwang in the WSJ editorial board meeting, Stephen Moore, was their president for several years.
I suppose I could go to their website and actually be helpful and look it up for you, but I think that would violate some sort of rule or something. Later.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Here’s to starting your own party…perhaps you could bring back your forebearers, the Know-Nothing Party.
June 1st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Get out of here you stupid Mick.
June 1st, 2007 at 3:11 pm
I have a semi-long rant riffing on sweet Peggy’s demure piece entitled “PN sees Bush Deranged” which exaggerates her ire:
“Peggy is being too kind. GWB has the lack of depth and perspective a C-student at Yale who never cracked a book might be expected to have. Although his reasons for invading Iraq were not ironclad, we gave him the benefit of the doubt. But he devolved the peace after the war into the hands of a total arrogant incompetant named Rumsfeld, who grabbed the development of democracy from seasoned “professionals like Jay Garner and his team, and gave it to a loyalist hack named Bremer. And GWB was somnambulent as Ken Lay was at Enron, allowing “experts” like Cheney and Rumsfeld to overrule Shinseki and do a peace on the cheap. Of course, it was new wine into old wineskins and the seams broke.”
“Peggy does a somber sum-up that reflects my own misgivings—especially about Poppy Bush and his singular insouciance about taxes and the economy that led to Perot. Then his son squandered trillions with a Republican Senate resembling Ali Baba and his forty thieves. GWB is now realizing that the Dems write the history books and is trying to salvage his reputation by serving as Teddy Kennedy’s tea-boy, the same Kennedy who in ‘65 promised that that Immigration Law would “not allow a million immigrants a year nor change the ethnic composition of the country.” both of which it eventually did. [ditto ‘86]”
“Now REAL conservatives will have to latch onto a real Republican of the Reagan/Goldwater stripe—not transplanted Rockefeller Easterners affecting drawls and down-home cowboy charm. Like Fred Thompson or Romney. Peggy continues with a sad summary of the Bush Betrayal Family Tradition, both father and son wobbly and spineless…”
But to keep the SCOTUS from turning us into a Eurabian dystopia, I’ll hold my nose and vote for Giuliani, as long as he has Fred or Mitt on the ticket.
June 1st, 2007 at 5:51 pm
It’s just like you Pricks to stifle debate and suppress rational opposing viewpoints like my own.
Since you guys have formed this so-called “Prick” party, it is only natural that us local libs combat it with our own opposition party.
Today we form the Volunteer Vagina Party. Party platform: basically against anything you knuckle-draggers are in favor of.
We plan to fill our ranks by welcoming in all of our disenfranchised voter friends who you thugs have been discriminating against simply because they can’t speak English, haven’t been paying taxes or can’t document their immigrant status.
Everyone is welcome…because accountability or standards are not important to us.
Except…you can rest assured we will never let a Prick into our Vagina Party…
Now if we can just come up with a slogan…
June 1st, 2007 at 6:46 pm
What’s a “forebearer?”
June 1st, 2007 at 6:59 pm
It occurs to me that if I ever wanted to read anything Braisted ever wrote that all I should do is refresh Kleinfaggot’s site every 5 minutes. As they’re usually so far up each other’s butts that when Sean takes a dump, Kleiney wipes his own ass and then pens 500 words about what a great experience it was.
June 1st, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Vinnie, I believe a “forebearer” is a golf shot that I am only too familiar with.
You hit the ball into the woods and yell “fore”. Upon looking for the ball, you are confronted by a pissed off bear with a Titleist indentation on his skull.
Something like that…
(forgive me everyone)
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June 3rd, 2007 at 12:21 pm
No Nigel, a “forebearer” has something to do with that thing that gets cut off in the name of some putative future health advantage, soon after birth, and sometimes in a bizarre religious ritual. At least that’s what I’ve been told.
June 3rd, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Ah…Casca. Thanks for the edumacation. You know those libs like SB always use dose big words dat confuse us simple conservatives…
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