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Force Democrats to Commit to a Particular Vision for America!!

Submitted by go2thegym on Fri, 12/05/2008 - 01:35
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There is any easy path back: Force Democrats to Commit to a Particular Vision for America.

To do this, consider a coalition between the Green and the Republican Parties.

Crazy you say?

Hear me out.

What is the best way to expose the basic fraud in the democrat appeal?

Force them to choose between the liberal base and the broad coalition.

What is the best way to do that?

Help the Green Party win those "safe" liberal seats tucked away in the inner cities.

Usually, the Republican Party doesn't even run a candidate in these seats. Why not contribute to Green Party victories in those Gerrymandered Liberal State Representative, State Senate, and U.S. Congressional seats?

How can you do that?

Prevent the democrats from blocking Green Party ballot access. Relax restrictions on ballot access. Contribute money to Green Party campaigns. At every opportunity, attack the hypocrisy of Democrat candidates in comparison to Green candidates.

Don't let the Democrats get away with installing another Baraka tHUSAME Obama in a nice safe State Senate seat like the one in Hyde Park, Chicago. Make the would be "liberal" democrats fight the Green Party for those seats. Make them prove their liberal credentials so that they can't run away from their commitments as soon as they see lobby money waived in their faces.

This is way better than the K-Street project. The Green Party project would actually work.

Think of the effect on the Democrat Party.

Democrats would have to choose between, on the one hand, an honest and straightforward socialist approach, or, on the other hand, a weasel-worded, flim-flam, Obama type campaign of deception in which they promise everything and deliver nothing but image.

How can Republicans continue letting the Democrats finesse all the major issues of the day, without forcing them to commit to their best solution?

Exhibit A: immigration policy.

Exhibit B: trade policy and globalism

Exhibit C: income redistribution

Force the democrat liberals to choose.

You really want "Choice not an Echo," then start by forcing the liberals to choose. It'll make your job easier.

If Green members take the liberal seats in the State Houses and Congress, the Green Party can form a coalition with the Republican Party, just as happens with third parties in Canada, Europe and Israel.

Coalitions allow the parties to unite to accomplish specific goals. It's not true that there could never be a project on which Republicans and Greens could agree. Starting with the selection of a Speaker of the House (state or federal), the opportunity to form a coalition with the Green Party could offer significant advantages to Republicans over their Democrat rivals.

The beauty of a multi-party system is that each party passionately represents it's own constituency. As the constituencies expand, the influence of the party expands. Each party negotiates on behalf of its constituency for the best government possible. There is less ideological fraud.

The Republicans have been trying to run on ideology since 1964 - as if Republicans were in a multi-party system. Instead of a straight up debate, Republicans keep using wedge issues and sleezy (Atwater type) campaigns in order to win. This must be frustrating to those who want to have a full opportunity to work out a functioning philosophy of government. How can you do this if the Democrats can't be pinned down?

Force the democrats to stick with a message. Force them to represent their constituents.

Force the democrats to face the Green Party.

Force liberal democrats to chose between the Democrat Party and the Green Party.

Liberal democrats will either disappear; or, the Democrat Party will accept a fixed ideological position. Either way, is good for Republicans. And, coincidentally, it would be good for America.

 

What the GOP can and cannot learn from the Tories Part I

Submitted by mdb on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 23:40
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The net has been abuzz recently with the recent success of David Cameron's Conservative Party in the recent English local elections, and how it impacts, if at all, the fortunes of the Right here in the United States. David Brooks  went so far as to declare the English Tories the leader of conservatism worldwide, a role traditionally held by the American Right. If I may be as bold as to offer my own humble thoughts and the lessons and cautions of the Tories recent victories and prospective majority.

First, the cautions, what must Americans seeking to understand the English Conservative Party's successes keep in mind.

1) Cameron's Tories are benefitly greatly from being the opposition, a luxury that the GOP may have in Congress but not in the White House and in the US, most people focus on the White House when determining who to blame for problems and economic downturns, a result of our wonderful presidential system. So unfortunately the GOP cannot campaign on not having been in power for 11 years like the Tories can. We have plainly seen in poll after poll and indeed vote after vote how independents and soft GOP voters are migrated to the Democrats when given a palatable alternative, something the Democrats have been stellar at since 2006, tailoring candidates perfectly for districts. Voters are tired of the GOP or more accurately what they perceive to be the GOP. Bush fatigue is real, as apparantly Labour fatigue is real on the other side of the Atlantic 

2) English Conservatism is different. Ever read National Review's The Corner blog and found a post which seems oddly out of place on a conservative blog? I have, and more often than not the "offending" post is from one of the English born writers on the website. Why is this? Well, the simple fact of the matter is that English conservatism is a different type of conservatism. The type of conservatism that exists in England is far more class conscience, than US conservatism. The GOP has become more and more the party of the white working class whilst the same is not true of the English Tories, who draw their base clearly from the monied classes of England (and I do mean England, the Tories are still pathetically lacking in support in Scotland and Wales.) In this vein, the Tories lack the broad support that the GOP enjoys from religious conservatives and gun owners, a support which all but guarantees the GOP 40 percent of the electorate and most the South and Plain states. Additionally, the welfare state is more firmly entrenched and comprehensive in Britain than in the United States, for example the Tories present themselves as defenders and more compentent administrators of the socialised National Health Service, whilst the American Right is in the position of opposing Democrats efforts to introduce government health care at all. All these factors lead to conclusion that Cameron's new Conservatives are more socially libertarian while at the same time being less economically libertarian than the American Right could ever be.

So, are we to conclude that Cameron's success offers no solutions to the position the GOP finds itself in? By no means. Cameron has shown two excellent traits in particular that I will explore in my next post

 

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