PAT BUCHANAN: ......  The Reagan Democrats are dying out.

    The Reagan Democrats are dying out because there are no Reagans.  Where is the Republican leadership? This party hasn't had a Party spokesman for years, just a few timid mice who will occasionally poke their heads out of their burrows, start squeaking they are willing to 'work across the isle' and when the democrats and the press growl at them they scramble back to the safety of their dens.

 
If Obama wins, future elections will be run between the far-left and centrist moderate Democrats trying to pass themselves off as Republicans. It may take generations, if ever to recover from this. Welcome to European style Socialist-Democracy folks, we are truly screwed if zero wins.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

- Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

" The Cake is a lie."   

What this highlights is the failure of the GOP to stay on topic and expound upon the theme.  Joe is absolutely correct, people pay attention and change their tune when they hear 75% of their paycheck will go to government.  The GOP has done a dismal job of PR when it comes to Social Security.  We could have roasted the Dems over this issue when W first brought up the need for reforms but as usual, the GOP poobaas didn't have the staying power or vision of how they could use this to further the Party as a whole.  A complete failure of leadership because there was no vision or backbone.  It's time to turn the tables on the Dems, use the Alinsky method on them, RUB IT RAW.  The collosal failure of the GOP leadership was not making the issue of the 1% Return On Investment (ROI) that Americans are forced to accept from Social Security.  Not making the issue of the embezzlement of SS funds under the fraud called PAYGO using pension fund money to pay operating expenses. 

Now the Dems want to extend this fraud to our 401k investments.  The thieves are openly talking of confiscating $3 trillion in 401ks accounts to pay for the shortfall in SS and Medicare.  In return, they are going to give a 3% return for that money.  Notice the SS trust fund has $3.5 trillion in IOUs, that's why they want to steal your 401k money.  Do we hear campaign ads talking about this?  In 20 years or so down the line, where will they steal that $3 trillion from?

Do we hear campaign ads about Obama talking about bankrupting the coal industry?  Why is it bloggers are the ones digging this up and carrying the water while the GOP sits there like idiots? The worst part about this is the GOP staff is paid to screw up and we the rank and file are expected to support their incompetence.  Yes, you heard me you morons,  get off your butts and act like a POLITICAL PARTY.  The average person needs guidance in the face of a constant barrage of propaganda.  Your idea is to sit there and say "unbelievable" and stand aghast when the Dems prattle their endless stream of mistatements like Joe Biden did at the VP debates.  Don't you guys get it?  The Dems aren't interested in playing nice or power sharing.  Don't think for one minute they are interested in any of your concerns or will give you professional courtesy for not hurting their feeling during a campaign.  The idea you have to make nice and smile like an idiot is your failed rules and that's not the rules the Dems are playing by.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

David Frum quotes
a conservative correspondent who talks about the insuperable electoral
difficulties created for the GOP by the loss of California to the
Democrats 15 years ago, and now by the impending loss of other western
states as well. The reason that California and the Southwest are being lost to the Democrats: the vast increase of the Hispanic population. The correspondent points out that Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and nearby states will soon go the way of California. The Latin American invasion spells demographic doom for both the GOP
and conservatism, and hence for ordered liberty under
limited government with individual rights, rather than group rights and
identity politics.

Is conforming to leftist race baiters by avoiding talk of demographics more important than conserving american liberty and preserving individual rights instead of boosting identity politics and economic egalitarianism? Scarborough and Barnicle seem to think so. That' why John McCain is losing 20% of the conservative vote according to the final IBD/TIPP final election tracking poll.

 
Final IBD poll: Obama 51.5, McCain 44.3

This is what the GOP leadership has wanted all along, to move to the center, to rebrand itself as a JFK type party, to finally shrug off the stigma of being controlled by the far right. They've explained this countless times. And we supported them every step because we were scared of the Democrats.

Well look where that has gotten us.

He is not being xenophobic -- he is merely extrapolating a trend from the past two decades.

However, the current election cycle has other variables at play, the whole credit debacle being foremost.  Never mind the fact that this debacle was primarily, from my view, the fault of Democrats, starting with Clinton and including some in the present Congress, along with their insidious ideology (namely, that there is no Universal right or wrong, no God acting as the all-knowing Regulator-In-Chief).  But I digress.  My point is that it doesn't have to be as bad as Mr. Buchanan predicts.  For one thing, Hispanics tend toward conservative (Catholic) social values, and many African Americans are also Bible-believing Christians.  The Republicans should not be afraid of basing their outreach on these issues.  For another thing, I hate to say it, but the fact is, African Americans have a self-imposed low fertility rate, one that does not lead to growth in their demographic, which means it will shrink in terms of relative percentage of the total populace; indeed it is already shrinking.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.   -- Edgar Allan Poe

Demography is changing and now the nanny state is coming.  Everyone wants a free lunch. 

The immigrants coming now are not schooled on American thought, United States' world view.  They come with different principles. 

It is true what Daniel Webster wrote long ago, " If we abide by the principals taught in the Bible our country will go on prospering, if we or in succeeding generations reject its authority, or neglect its instructions, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may bury our glory in profound destruction."

Hard work and earning your keep is a Biblical principle.  Too many are rejecting that notion for a socialist view which takes away from those who work hard and give it to the less industrious.  That is oppression.

The biased media has possibly succeeded in changing our country's world view.  Demography is destiny?  Most likely so.  

Hate to be a pain, but let me ask a couple of simple questions ...

• How many conservatives on this website have read Russell Kirk? (We'll wait while everyone runs to Wikipedia...)
• How many conservatives on this website can explain the principle of judicial originalism?

I know this is unflattering, especially to most of us who consider ourselves conservative, but I'll argue that being a conservative requires more than simply being against liberals. Sure, we don't want the local sex freak show teaching our children, but what do we have to offer in return? And if we want to offer a coherent alternative, we need to know the details and philosophy of what we're offering. The Buckleys and Himmelfarbs and Borks spent a long time meditating on what conservativism means, or should mean. I argue that after Reagan was elected, conservatism coasted. It became popular, and people flooded to conservatism simply because it wasn't liberalism, but they never took the time to meditate on it.

Remember, demographics trump everything, if the game and the players stay the same. But they don't. Young people grow up. The Irish move from being street hoodlums to becoming cops and politicians. Immigrants don't retain immigrant attitudes forever ... that's why they came here. They came to find a new life, not to bring their old one with them.

My argument is simple. We have work to do. We need to assemble a collectively coherent vision. We need to do it quick, because Obama's radical liberalism is simply ego-driven ambition masked behind academic language. It will fall apart quickly, and we need to be there to pick up the pieces.

Will it be hard? Not really. Remember, what the Buckleys and the Kirks offered the world wasn't a clever theology, but a plain, easily understood vision of what being an American has always meant. Go back to the basics. Our coherent vision isn't a complex fantasy pushed forward by jargon-soaked eggheads. Conservatism is going back to the basics.

Forego the temptation of a political version of the "west coast offense." Read Buckley. Read Kirk. Rediscover what America was designed to be, and why. And then, just block and tackle. The rest will take care of itself.

The college kids of today will be watching chunks of their paychecks going into a system that will not be there for them when they retire.  They also will begin to wonder why they have to dole out for others who do not pay into "the system". 

They will ask themselves why they have to pay a few hundred bucks a month into some antequated system that will ultimately fail them.  The ugly thought that libs hate will rear its ugly head, "I bet I could do a better job with my money than the government could".  Wach out when that happens.

God made man, but he used a monkey to do it  -- DEVO

Pat Buchanan is right! The whole reason we have so many illegals is the freebies us working stiffs provide through our generous tax donations. They will keep the Communist Democrat Storm Troopers in power until we are all broke. Than the Islamic thugs will take us over!

I've had the same feelings as Buchanan for a while.  I live in a rapidly changing area - the north eastern suburbs of Atlanta.  The influx of immigrants (legal or otherwise) is extrordinary.  What was once a deep red bastion is quickly turning purple.  Most of the more conservative voters are older, with few new, younger ones moving in.  The party must do a better job at bringing in this new population or else ground will be lost.  The message is not loud enough and the party is being defined by the other side. Unless the leadership can reverse this trend, I don't have much hope for my evolving community.   

I am a conservative voter and remember when Buchanan ran for President.  After he lost the nomination he sent out letters to his supporters begging for money to help  him pay off his debt.  No deal!!   He is like a blind man lost in a snow storm.  I pay  no attention to any of his ccomments.

Mccain/Palin '08