Morris: Resisting O's World - Stick To Your Guns, Republicans

[Terri]

By Dick Morris
May 12, 2009

Editor's Note: This column was written with Eileen McGann.
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Gen. Colin Powell is wrong to say that the Republican Party must move to the center: Now is not the time to try for triangulation.

This is a time for the party to stand firm on its principles until this nation again comes around to the GOP's way of thinking. This process will be driven by the consequences of President Obama's program.

The challenge brought by Obama is no longer just theoretical: He means to pass the ultimate leftist agenda and has the votes to do so.

As a result, our nation will be unrecognizable well before the 2010 elections. Business will march to a beat drummed in Washington. The top producers will be hounded by confiscatory taxation. A majority will pay nothing or receive government welfare. Our health-care system will be destroyed. Illegal immigrants will be well on their way to citizenship.

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[ReneeCA.]

Dick Morris is absolutely right!

We cannot blur the line between Republicans and Democrats. The votes will go to the Democrats if the public perception is that we are all alike. We must make the Public see the basic, clear and principled differences between us. Only then will the public dome to an understanding of who we are really. And the differences are HUGE!

A strong military, lower taxes, smaller Government, States rights, Constitutional rights, etc.

Our belief that the Government shouldn't be picking winners and losers in the name of equality nor a pervasive Government where intervention becomes the norm and the end of the Free Market!

[TWM1942]

The advice given by Dick Morris is "right on". This country suffered under many years of dominance by the Democrats within the halls of Congress until Newt Ginrich led the "Contract with America" campaign by the Republican party.

By providing a clear, distinctive, and visible difference from the worn out strategies of the Democrat party, the Republicans were able to win both houses of Congress in the mid-90's and pass legislation that gave us welfare reform, tax cuts, and improved national defense.

And then what happened?? The Republicans lost their way and let the media dictate their agenda. They threw Newt out of office, and began acting like Democrats. The voters know very well that Democrats do a much better job of being Democrats than Republicans do, and here we are.

Republicans need to go back to being Republicans, and return this country to the fundamentals that it was founded on, that led us through 2 centuries of growth, expansion, and greatness before the definitive downturn in the 60's.

[utexas]

Of course, WE know that our leaders acting more like Dems than Repubs is what got us into this situation in the first place. Even if Colin Powell, John McCain, and all other RINO's like them do not.

[candles]

Gen. Colin Powell is wrong to say that the Republican Party must move to the center: Now is not the time to try for triangulation.
I do not agree, we need to tell Americans how we differ.
Republicans need to campaign on smaller Government, little to no earmarks and pork, lower taxes etc. We need to begin NOW, to win the next election.

[qrayjack]

This is a time for the party to stand firm on its principles until this nation again comes around to the GOP's way of thinking.

America is... pro life, anti big government, anti big spending, anti tax increases, pro free speech, pro gun, pro capitalism, anti socialism, pro religious freedom, anti tyranny and the list goes on.

My point is that the nation is already at the GOP's way of thinking, it's the #*@$(+ GOP that needs to figure out who it is!