Originally posted by nyk537
I can't say I disagree with your thinking.

I do worry though about what the next 4 years could bring under complete Democratic control.

It's scary. Unchecked power from anyone is scary.

Funny, when GWB and the GOP has unchecked power the republicans weren't scared. when the GOP controlled every thing and ran this country in to the ground no one was "scared". But now that the Dems might have total control the people who own the GOP are panicking. All that money invested in bribing the GOP wasted. Like Freddie Mac's two million dollar pay off to destroy regulation.

Originally posted by BlackOps719
I believe once the country gets its first strong taste of socialism to come, there will be a wild swing and an upsurge in the opposite direction.

They did already - the first two years of the Clinton administration. Remember what happened afterward? Democrats lost a massive amount of seats in Congress. I look for that same pattern to be repeated under an Obama presidency.

Originally posted by GamerGal

Originally posted by nyk537
I can't say I disagree with your thinking.

I do worry though about what the next 4 years could bring under complete Democratic control.

It's scary. Unchecked power from anyone is scary.

Funny, when GWB and the GOP has unchecked power the republicans weren't scared. when the GOP controlled every thing and ran this country in to the ground no one was "scared". But now that the Dems might have total control the people who own the GOP are panicking. All that money invested in bribing the GOP wasted. Like Freddie Mac's two million dollar pay off to destroy regulation.

Can you drop your partisan pot-shotting for just two seconds and realize that having ONE party in total control is NOT good? Conservatives aren't naive enough to believe that an unchecked system of Republicans is akin to a holiday in the park. It's a recipe for disaster because as the old saying goes, "Absolutey power corrupts, absolutely."

The sooner you realize that's what checks and balances is all about, the better off you will be on that subject.

What I find interesting by all your comments is that it seems the majority of you want the party to become more right wing which in case you haven't noticed tends to alienate more people than it attracts.

Becoming more right wing does not seem like a winning strategy to me. I don't want a permanent majority of any party or ideology for that matter...

... Like I said earlier there are many ways of being conservative just as there are many ways of being liberal. In most countries what we call right wing conservative would be considered liberal and in some cases far left.

To become more right wing would to become entrenched and it seems to me would continue the party down the wrong path.

I envision a Republican party that like I said earlier would embrace Main street over Wall street... would steer away from the nasty politics of hate and smear, the Lee Atwater's and Karl Rove's have in the long run hurt your party more than helped it. How about returning to the conservatism of caution as opposed to the conservatism of division because like it or not, accept it or not, we, left, right, conservative, liberal, Democrat or Republican... all of us are Americans and we love our country... we often see the same things wrong with it, we just differ on ways to fix it.

It will be interesting to see if the GOP retrenches, chases out the remaining moderates in its ranks and embraces the right like never before...

... or rather grows up and realize that the hard right has never had a majority in this country and continuing down that path is a dead end.

Originally posted by grover
What I find interesting by all your comments is that it seems the majority of you want the party to become more right wing which in case you haven't noticed tends to alienate more people than it attracts. ....

Forgive ramblings that may follow - I am just out of bed.

True on quoted above. Just as on the left a far left stance tends to alienate more than it attracts. I think part of Obama's success was due that he moved more toward the middle after winning the nomination.

Much like the bell curve, a few (often very loud) voices on either the far left or far right, and many in the middle that hold a mix of left and right views.

It seems we (both left and right) have been groomed to hate and fear the other side. How did this happen? Was it by wildly spun meida and those loud voices on either side? Heh - I know there will be those that say, "My side doesn't do this!" But, yes, each side does it. It didn't used to be that way and doesn't have to be that way now.

Obama largely spoke of "hope" - a powerful message. Isn't the gift of hope one of the greatest gifts of all? If he can deliver - only time will tell.

I think in some part what the Repulicans must do depends on what Obama and Congress does - how it is recieved. Obviously much of what the Repulican's did over the past 8 years was not well recieved and the people let them know.

I think the answer lies not in moving farther right, but moving more center. Surely there are things that will benfit not just the CEO, but the guy on the assembly line too.

Keep it simple is a good start. Ask "What do we want to stand for?" "Do we do that now?" "What do we need to change to move to there?"

A Star for you. Excellent post and one I couldn't agree more with. I considered going to Ann Coulter's website to see what that anorexic shrew had to say... but hey why ruin my breakfast?