Red State: Time to Roll Up the Welcome Mat

[skeemer]

We here at RedState are American citizens. We have no plans to secede from the union. If you do, good luck with that, but this is not the place for you.

We have a place for you here if you wish to continue the fight against Republicans in Washington like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell who’d be happy to sell us down the river to keep their power, no matter how devoid of principle or sound policy. You have a place here if you’d like to keep fighting the Democrats who are intent on further stifling economic growth, pushing forward with Obamacare, bankrupting the nation, and siding with teachers unions against kids who deserve better.

Too many people have spent the past four years obsessed with birth certificates. Now they are obsessed with voter fraud conspiracies, talk of secession, and supposed election changing news stories if only we had known.

http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/13/i...come-mat-here/

Great editorial, and what I'd like to see more of out of the conservative movement, but it may be too little, too late at this point.

[reg_indy]

I find the ' if only we had known. ' part interesting...


What were they looking at if they did not know their supposesd champions were wasting time effort and money in silly thngs?

[wbr]

http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/13/i...come-mat-here/

Great editorial, and what I'd like to see more of out of the conservative movement, but it may be too little, too late at this point.

totally agree.
democans and republicrats both do it. They fog the vision of the country with issues that, IMO, are meaningless, wedge issues. Women's rights, abortion, birth certificates, etc, while the country is being sold down the river. And the majority just beLIEve the crap they are fed by the media and dc.
We need term limits for all elected officials but sadly, I don't believe I'll see it in my lifetime.

[ms maggie]

totally agree.
democans and republicrats both do it. They fog the vision of the country with issues that, IMO, are meaningless, wedge issues. Women's rights, abortion, birth certificates, etc, while the country is being sold down the river. And the majority just beLIEve the crap they are fed by the media and dc.
We need term limits for all elected officials but sadly, I don't believe I'll see it in my lifetime.

I don't think term limits are the answer. First you would have to pass an amendment which would be highly unlikely (a law wouldn't stand up in court IMO). And think what terms limits would mean. Faceless congressional staff would become a lot more powerful, having continuity and connections that a rapidly turning over Congress wouldn't.

A key problem IMO is the gerrymandering that has reached new levels. The system now encourages extremism. Another key problem is the corrosive affect of money--in campaigns, w lobbyists.