The Conservative Thread: Back to Basics. Pass the Lasagna and Have a Flower!!

[Tink & Goofy]

bat signal, we need a BAT SIGNAL

Yeah? What's going on?

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Ah ha! A cuteness contest is it? Have at you!

Leonid Breznhev's unibrow......Comrade Leonid's unibrow.......please answer the red courtesy phone of the proletariat......

Oh, you'll be sorry, sir! I shall plumb the depths of my reserves...

Here is a small homage to the patron saint of the current president-elect

 

[#1hockeymom]

I like my new signature... To whomever I stole it from, THANK YOU!

still thinking BAT SIGNAL

 

[wdw4life]

WDW, can you please go in and add the word "husband" after the word awesome in my quote that you quoted so that no one thinks I am completely bonkers? Thank you and carry on.

I didn't even notice there was a word missing.

 

[blestmom]

AN ELECTION THAT THE REPUBLICANS NEEDED TO LOSE — GOOD LUCK OBAMA

By DICK MORRIS

Published on TheHill.com on November 5, 2008


If ever there was an election that was not worth winning, it was the contest of 2008. While it was hard-fought on both sides, had McCain won, it might have spelled the end of the Republican Party. As it is, the party is well-situated to come back in 2010 and in 2012, if it learns the lessons of this year.

Simply put, all hell is about to break loose in the markets and the economy. The mortgage crisis will likely be followed by defaults in credit card debt, student loans and car loans. We will probably be set for two years of zero growth, according to economists with whom I talk. And the federal efforts to protect the nation from the worst of the recession will probably lead to huge budget deficits and resulting inflation. We are in for stagflation that could last for years.

Had McCain won, he would be the latter-day Hoover, blamed for the disaster that unfolded on his watch. Now it is Obama’s problem. With the Republicans suffering a wipeout in congressional elections (although not as bad as they feared), the ball is now squarely in the Democratic court. Good luck!
If Obama raises taxes, the situation could get even worse. With a liberal Congress on his hands, he will be constrained to move to the left, if he needs any pushing. When Clinton was elected in 1992, the Democrats in control of Congress gave him a clear message: Either you govern within the four walls of the Democratic caucus or you won’t get our support. Crossing the aisle to get Republican votes, even including the GOP in negotiations, was a no-no for which the president would pay dearly if he transgressed.

The result was predictable. Moderate initiatives like welfare reform were scrapped, the Congress passed tax hikes and legislation became festooned with liberal amendments. Faced with the need to round up every last vote in the Senate and House Democratic caucuses, Clinton had no choice but to load up conservative bills like an anti-crime measure with liberal pork (like a provision for midnight basketball courts in urban areas) to get unanimous caucus backing.

Obama will have to move left to appease his caucus. He will become their hostage, and they his jailers.


This dynamic will produce extreme-left-wing governance, which the Republicans can blame for the continuation of the recession and for any worsening. The party will recover, fed by anger at Obama’s policies, and will emerge from this defeat stronger than ever.

But the Republicans must learn the lesson of MoveOn.org. Founded in the bleak days of the Clinton impeachment, MoveOn developed a grassroots Internet base. Building up its e-list of activists and contributors, MoveOn laid the basis for the incredible Internet appeal of the Obama campaign. At last count, Obama has 4.5 million donors, most online.

Conservatives cannot count on the Republican Party to fight their battles for them, and certainly cannot count on them to win. The right needs to develop cyber-roots conservative organizations to rival the power of groups like MoveOn.org. The stellar efforts of NewsMax.com and its ally, GOPtrust.com, illustrate the power of such efforts. Together, these groups raised $10 million for an independent expenditure on media in swing states featuring the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American bombast.

And their efforts worked.

Virtually all the polls agreed that Obama would win 52-53 percent of the vote, but the surveys varied in the amount of undecideds they found. On Election Day, virtually every undecided voter went to McCain, and Obama’s final vote share was no more and no less than the 52-53 percent the surveys had predicted. This unanimity among undecided voters is attributable to the endgame of groups like GOPtrust.com and NewsMax.com.

These groups have to lead the way in running media to battle against the leftist legislation that will undoubtedly emanate from the Obama administration and the liberal Congress America has just elected. Then they can become the basis for a Republican resurgence, just as MoveOn.org was this year for the Democrats.

Very good read...

 

[Mr Man]

Would THAT word be legal in Scrabble? Seriously, people, I was edumacated in the public school system. That is a big word! Sheesh.

I stole it from Joe Biden.........shhhh......I also grabbed his toupe.......my cat absolutely looooooves it.....

 

[disney4us2002]

I love that RR pic Zip. He was such a handsome man. By chance did you ever read his book, Love, Ron I think was the name. It was his personal notes to Nancy and her impressions. It was so sweet.

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Cute kitty war?

And hussein's bedmate:

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

I didn't even notice there was a word missing.

Oh great! No one even notices me. Feels like gym class all over again.

 

[Soarin08]

ok, but do we have to share that icing?

This is all yours- HANDS OFF everyone else!!

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

I stole it from Joe Biden.........shhhh......I also grabbed his toupe.......my cat absolutely looooooves it.....

JOE BIDEN WEARS A TOUPE????!!!

 

[Mr Man]

Oh great! No one even notices me. Feels like gym class all over again.

too. much. werdzonscreen.

cannot. type. fastenoughthisthreadisreallyflyingtonight.

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

This is all yours- HANDS OFF everyone else!!

At first glance, I had no idea what that was!

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Cute kitten...

 

[Octoberbride03]

JOE BIDEN WEARS A TOUPE????!!!

 

[mfd25wife]

OK, I think I need to call it a night. I thought you wrote that you have family in the brothel!!!

Well, I wasn't going to talk about THAT side of my family. JK

See y'all in the morning!

OOOhhhhh

I had a friend in high school who went to WDW and got stuck on the Small World Ride for 3 hours!!! And they did not turn the dolls or the music off It was stuck in his head for days.

I ride it every time I go, but I might go insane after that... Reminds me of DD's addiction to Barney as a toddler.

I had to reread it. At first I thought it said 'brothel'.

See, ya'll can't even understand my southern slang when I type....

 

[Mr Man]

JOE BIDEN WEARS A TOUPE????!!!

not anymore kitteh took care of it.....

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Feared leader...

 

[need_a_Disney_fix]

oops

 

[#1hockeymom]

*wondering if we could combine lasagna with bat signals