So much for us becoming a party of toothless, southern knuckldraggers:
The state’s loneliest Republicans – those who languish in the navy blue regions from Northampton to Nantucket – are shaking off their years-long malaise and rebuilding a political machine in the land of Birkenstocks and Priuses.
“People are coming out of the woodwork saying, ‘We’ve been Republicans in hiding and now we want to be out and help,’ ” said Jeffrey Hopkins, chairman of the City Republican Committee in the old Democratic union stronghold of Fall River.
In the wake of Scott Brown’s victory in his Senate campaign versus Martha Coakley, a surge in interest in the GOP has come from longtime Republicans, independents, Tea Party activists and even Democrats, dazzling many organizers.
Early interest, of course, does not a resurgent party make – but each journey really does begin with the first step. Electing Senator Brown was Step One.
The plain fact of the matter is that the Democrats obtained their pow in 2006 and 2008 by flat out lying about themselves and, of course, a relentless campaign of slander against President Bush…they threw so much garbage at him that in the public mind, some of it stuck…and given the way the Congressional GOP blew it, our defeat was pretty much inevitable. But that doesn’t change the fundamental fact that only via lies were Democrats able to obtain their majority and elect Obama. The lies have now been exposed.
They ran centrist and are governing leftist. They figured that they could continually bamboozle the people until they got a solid majority completely dependent upon government, and then they’d be in forever. Didn’t work out that way – by means of the New Media grafted upon the innate distrust of government among Americans, the Democrats have been stymied.
Now comes the really hard part – hitting them with so much truth that they are wrecked as a party for a generation. Of course, key to this is doing as much as we can to clear out our own political barnacles. Most of them have already gone but we must be wary as 2010 advances that we don’t replace old RINOs with new RINOs.
We can do this – we can take our country back and return it to the Founder’s vision. If we work hard. If we keep the faith. If we remain true to what we profess.
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