Cross posted ” Wisdom’s Seven Pont Plan for the GOP” at http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2008/11/wisdoms-seven-pont-plan-for-gop.html

The Palin farce is already the stuff of legend. [but] John McCain’s choice was not a fluke, or a senior moment, or an act of desperation. It was the result of a long campaign by influential conservative intellectuals to find a young, populist leader to whom they might hitch their wagons in the future. And not just any intellectuals. It was the editors of National Review and the Weekly Standard, magazines that present themselves as heirs to the sophisticated conservatism of William F. Buckley and the bookish seriousness of the New York neoconservatives. After the campaign for Sarah Palin, those intellectual traditions may now be pronounced officially dead.

http://sec.online.wsj.com/article/SB122610558004810243.html?mod=article-outset-box

“Dead” in the sense you won’t see it again for another generation.

It will take a civil war to get rid of the democrat’s trifecta in the White House. That is your only chance.

America wants balance and I wholeheartedly believe that in two years there will be a big turnover in the house and senate. Two years of liberal rule will be enough for Americans and they will restore balance to the system.

The conservative organizations that have been tried and true to the cause are going to be key to keeping congress in check. We have to get behind them and add voices to those insisting on small government and lower taxes. . I go to the US Chamber site often and I found this video and the message is right on. . .

http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/takeaction/index.cfm?ID=246

The problem with our legislature is it’s rife with career politicians, the corrupt, unscrupulous, and lawyers (who tend to fall into all those other categories. I disagree slightly with Steve on point 4. Some of our greatest politicians were just regular folk with good common sense that stood up and said, “Dammit, those people have gone and pissed me off long enough. I’ve got something to say about it.” That’s what put Reagan in the Governor’s seat in California and the presidency, and it’s the same thing Palin brought to the table. You don’t have to come up through the ranks. You just need to have some wisdom, fair-to-middlin’ intelligence, know basic right from wrong, and enough smarts to know when someone’s blowing smoke up your fanny. That’s why people think Joe the Plumber could do just dandy in a Congressional seat. Hell, I wouldn’t mind givin’ it a shot myself once I don’t have to worry about going cross-country all the time jumpin’ from one family crisis to another. I still have some good years left in me, even with a weak ticker.

How often have we seen politicians on a ballot run unopposed because nobody had the cohones to throw their hat into the ring? How many have seen that single name on a ballot and voted for them, as much as you despised them, because they were the only person running and you didn’t want to waste a vote? You do know you didn’t have to vote for them don’t you? You could have left that blank and moved on. If they don’t get any votes, they can’t win can they? You ever voted for someone else because they were the only person running against someone you hated and you certainly didn’t want them sitting in that chair again? Me too. That’s my point. There was an election 2 years ago where people hated one of the guys so badly they voted in a dead guy and his wife took the job on his behalf.

#5? Absolutely light a fire under the school boards. If you want to change the schools and get rid of the socialists, don’t vote for teachers for school board positions. Teachers are members of the teacher’s union and like all unions it’s mostly more about politics than their damned jobs. Do you have any idea how many of those teachers went to college and were taught there to be socialist indoctrination specialists? And by all means, attend the PTA and open board meetings and voice your opinion. They don’t meet that all that often. To tell the truth, you don’t even have to have a kid in the school. You’re a taxpayer and you are paying for it the same as everyone else. So you have a right to voice your opinion on what the schools are shoving out their doors and onto your community streets.

I wanted to let the elections sink in before I said anything about, or do a long post about it. I want to congratulate Obama for a splendid campaign. He had the organization and the rhetoric that people heard and…

This proud Texan rejects Obamunism.

I see no reason to offer Obama any more support than Bush got after the 2004 election. Obama is a liar, he proved so during thew campaign. Texans hate liars.

I feel like Steve Rowland, I would never give my respect to someone who doesn’t merit my respect, should he be POTUS or not. Respect is not a right; it is something you have to merit. Obama merits none. Hanging around with terrorists, Marxists, communists, socialists, anti-Semites and American’s hater doesn’t get my respect, sorry Wisdom.

I agree with you on changing the leftist education indoctrination that kids gets in schools and colleges… but, Good luck! After 4 years of propaganda with the democrat trifecta in the White House, it will be a lost case.

I think USA is done and toasted. Too bad, but Americans had to stop that bum before he got to White House. This is the point of no return. Sorry to tell you this, but this is the reality. You will find out soon enough. By that time, his organization will be so big, nobody will be able to compete with is gigantic demoniac machine.

While it is commendable that you can be gracious, “let me be perfectly clear”, I will not support B. Hussein Obama until that shopping list of unanswered questions about he and his past, how he amassed the amount of money he did with those little “$100 here, $100 there” donations from the rank and file are answered to reasonable means. This guy is a Marxist and he is expected to govern as a Marxist (well, as about as far left a liberal as could be had) until the legislation proves otherwise.

Don’t forget, Obama cannot do anything of himself, Congress has to put his proposals into practice.

That’s very nice that you intend to keep him under your microscope, but exactly what satisfaction do you feel you will obtain when his minions become entrenched and you have a bone of contention with everything he proposes? I doubt if he will have a sit-down in the Oval Office to reach a compromise.

1: I agree.
2: I agree
3: I don’t agree, the Democratic Party has nothing to offer towards Republican ideas. They stole our playbook. Need to retrieve it.
4: Unfortunately, that will take time, Those ‘charismatic leaders’ have to come through the individual states, and senatorial elections only come up so often. and right now, few true conservative republicans are coming through the ranks. The more we dilute the old conservatism, the more we play right into the hands of the Democrats.
5: This depends on the individual. They still have to come up through the ranks.
6: Same here, it looks like 4, 5, and 6 are parts of the same.
7: I tend to agree, but again we don’t need to go that far.

Check out Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michele Malkin, etc, they list just why we lost this election and the bottom line is this: We lost because we allowed the media to select our candidate for us and then seconded the nomination. McCain is about as far from being a conservative, in my opinion, as Lindsey Graham (and he ain’t no conservative). As bad as our selection was, we nearly pulled that election off with whom I feel was simply not going to get the necessary conservative votes to go along with his own base, thus Sara Palin could not make up for all those who had a disdain for McCain. McCain is a honorable man and no one deserved this election more than he, but he was not a winning presidential persona with all that ‘across the aisle’ stuff. People don’t want non-partisanship, they want their ideas about government championed and McCain simply did not speak for enough of them by far. I only voted for him because of Sara Palin, period, his more liberal stands on immigration and other conservative issues simply are not my cup of tea, however, any Republican is better than a damn liberal Democrat. If we simply had had a true conservative in his place, likely Obama would be returning to his do-nothing Senate seat.

And lastly, maybe we can add number 8: Get those damn RINO’s out of the Republican party! This will be a start to wake up to.