I found a couple of people pointing out the Republicans lack of aggressiveness despite winning elections and more and more of the citizens moving to the right. A column by Christopher G. Adamo frames out the above point:
Conservative morale is regularly boosted as one poll after another conclusively shows that the country is leaning further and further to the right. National election results of recent years (in truth, the only polls that matter), irrefutably confirm this point as well.
Yet such key agenda items of the counterculture as same-sex "marriage," increasingly liberal education practices and philosophies, and the demolition of the country's standards of morality all suggest that the concerns and energies of the conservative grassroots do not necessarily translate into positive changes in policy. The social climate of the nation is being moved relentlessly to the left. How can this be?
Even before the 2004 elections, Democrats were scrambling to prove to mainstream America that they were indeed the party of patriotism and traditional values. In certain key races, some Democrats even attempted to create an impression of allegiance to the Bush administration. Former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle went so far as to run campaign ads portraying himself in the company of the president.
Though Daschle's ploy ultimately failed, and South Dakota's contested Senate seat went to Republican John Thune, the ploy remains a cornerstone of Democrat strategy. Hillary Clinton, presidential aspirant and wife of one of history's greatest political chameleons, is clearly embracing this tactic. Sadly, for Democrats to win by such a means requires "cooperation" from the Republicans, which is all too often the case.
Worse yet, in the wake of the elections, Democrats have simultaneously engaged in another strategy. Having lost faith with the public for lack of an agenda, it stands to reason that they recognize the political advantages of preventing Republicans from advancing the conservative cause. All too often, Republicans take the bait and back away from principled stands on major issues.
Adamo then points out another issue:
Worse yet, where Republicans abandon any fervent advocacy of worthwhile issues for fear of appearing extreme, Democrats quickly move in to assume the "moral high ground." No clearer example of this unfortunate phenomenon exists than the present debacle involving the president's judicial nominees.
Yesterday Rush Limbaugh addresses that point in regard to the possible use of the so-called nuclear option:
Seeking to encourage them, Democratic leaders tried to shift their rhetoric to divide Republicans into what they called 'responsible' and 'radical' members of the GOP. 'Responsible Republicans in this country and in this Senate must listen to what's going on in our country,' [Dingy] Harry Reid ... Reid referred to comments by former Senate Majority Leader and Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, who told National Public Radio earlier in the day that 'you have to be very careful ... before you start tinkering with the rules' because one day Republicans will be in the minority and need to use the filibuster." I don't get this. I just don't get it. I don't understand the fear. I don't understand why we have to start thinking about policy based on when we're going to be in the minority.
If that's how we're going to think we deserve to be in the minority. If we're going to start thinking about what's going to happen when we're in the minority, let's just go there. We're already in the minority in the way we're acting, folks. Let's just go ahead and give the Democrats the six votes they need to become 51 votes in the Senate. Have a bunch of Republicans switch parties and make it official. McCain can switch parties. Hagel can switch parties. Susan Collins can switch parties. Lincoln Chafee can switch parties. Olympia Snowe can switch parties -- and anybody else that wants to join them. Let's just go be the minority. If we're going to act like it, let's just be the minority. If we're going to make plans of what to do when we're in the minority, let's go ahead and do it. If that's the way we're thinking about this, if that's the way some of these people are thinking, it's asinine. It's insane. It's ludicrous. You start thinking like that that's what you're going to end up being. We're not talking about wiping out the filibuster on legislation or any other cherished act in the Senate. We're talking about righting a wrong that the Democrats have instituted here after 200 years of it having never been done: filibustering judicial nominations. That is what I mean. I'm getting blue in the face talking about this. This is getting boring. I'm getting sick and tired talking about it. I'm getting sick and tired reading the same news every day about this issue.
Rush then turns the table on the Democrats use of the media to misrepresent Republicans as extremists:
Among those pushing for the change is Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania," who said:
"'I am concerned that a partisan minority of Democrats are threatening to shut down the Senate if Republicans act to restore Senate tradition for simple majority votes' on nominations to the bench. Their rhetoric is out of control and counterproductive,'" and that is exactly right. If anybody is out of control here, if anybody is being extremist it's the Democrats and it's time to say so, and it's time to force their hand. We're not even making them filibuster, for crying out loud! We're just giving in to the threat of a filibuster. We're not even making them do it. What have they got to lose? They go out there and try to define Republicans in their way. I know they've got the mainstream media helping them out in doing that but nevertheless it's the same ol' thing. It will happen when it happens and we'll see what happens when it happens but the attitude that associates itself with this, "Well, we can't we gotta be careful here. We're going to be in the minority someday and we want to..." I will guarantee you that the day the Republicans end up in the minority and whoever the next socialist president of the country is and he sends up these judges that are going to try to take over the country, I will guaran-damn-tee you the Republicans will not filibuster judges. Even if the Democrats have done it, they will not.The Republicans will not and I'll tell you why: It's the same old fear they're afraid of what the Times will say about them or the Washington Post or what the Democrats will say about them. The Democrats after employing the tactic if it were turned around and used against them, would act like it did never been done before. "The Republicans are ripping the Constitution to shreds." They'd say, "It's a sorrowful display about a bunch of sore losers can't deal with the fact that they're a minority." That's what the Democrats would say. That's what they would say, and they'd get away with it in the press. They'd get away with acting like they had never done it first. I mean, the idea that we want to do this when we're in the minority? We wouldn't do it. Our people are too principled. They're not going to trash the Constitution like this. If Orrin Hatch was still in the judiciary committee and ranking there and high up he's not going to do this. Our guys would not pull a stunt like this. There's too much respect for the Constitution. So it's just mind-boggling to hear people say, "Well, you know, we gotta reserve our rights here for when we're in the minority." Well, you're not going to do this when you're in the minority anyway. When you're in the minority you're going to do what you always do, you're going to roll over! So why don't just go to the minority right now and roll over and get it over with and be done with it? Not even making them filibuster!
As the MSM helps the Democrats with another con game, it is nice to here someone say…its time to fight. Its time for Republicans to find some balls and show the Democrats for what they are. Thats what happened in the 2004 South Dakota Senate race.
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