Next Step - Time to take over the Republican Party?

We need to get over the term takeover. This is not something that will happen easily, all at once. The neocons did not take over suddenly either.

What is true is that our influence is growing. In my county it is substantial, within the party organization. Given a couple more two year elections cycles we could have a very different power balance going into the state convention.

Find your local RLC chapter or C4L group and join in.

Dr Paul would do wonders for them and bring respect back to the GOP. This election was a absolute joke for the GOP and they know it. Sometimes I wonder if they did it on purpose because they did'nt want him in the limelight. It's backfired miserably on them, because Dr Paul is on TV a lot and they've been polite to him and letting him talk his talk, because they know he can walk the walk too.

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GOP in tatters, looks to regroup

WASHINGTON — So much for a lasting Republican majority.

The Republican Party is essentially in tatters, and not that long after President Bush's 2000 election spurred talk of enduring GOP dominance.

John McCain's shellacking, along with recent congressional losses, leaves the party searching for a new leader and identity.

"It's time for the losing to stop. And my commitment to you is that it will," House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio told his rank and file after the party lost at least 19 congressional seats Tuesday _ on his watch.

Saying the party's image has been tainted by "scandals and broken promises," Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina declared: "We have got to clean up, reform and rebuild the Republican Party before we can ask Americans to trust us again." He called for party leaders to "embrace a bold new direction" or hit the road.

Indeed, a leadership fight brewed in the House.

Boehner announced he will seek two more years as Republican leader. But Rep. Adam Putnam of Florida, the No. 3 Republican, was "reluctantly" stepping down from his post. And a GOP official said Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor intends to run for the second-ranking spot now held by Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri. Whether Blunt intends to seek a new term was not immediately known.

Plenty of Republicans from the conservative to the liberal wings of the party agree the GOP is in shambles as the Bush presidency comes to a close, leaving the party without a titular leader when the president's term ends in January.

Nearly two dozen prominent conservatives planned to meet in Virginia on Thursday to try to chart a path going forward.

To be sure, plenty of prospective White House hopefuls seem to be lining up for 2012.

McCain running mate Sarah Palin has signaled that she will remain on the national political scene. She says: "I'm not doing this for naught." Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who lost the nomination this year, has restarted his political action committee. And, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is heading to the leadoff caucus state of Iowa on Nov. 22 to deliver the keynote address to a conservative group. Any number of other Republicans may test the waters as well.

Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said it would be wrong to view the election results as "the death rattle of American conservatism," pointing to a roster of GOP rising stars that includes Palin, Jindal, Cantor and Sen. John Thune of South Dakota.

Republicans, Duncan said, "are going to take a deep breath and listen to the American people." The party is creating a new online forum, called Republican for a Reason, that will allow people to explain "how we let them down" and "what we can do to restore confidence in our party," he said.

Tuesday's electoral losses for the GOP culminate a campaign that took place in an extraordinarily challenging political environment for the party in power amid two lingering wars and a spreading economic crisis. Bush's job approval ratings are at record lows and much of the country is demanding change.

Republicans were severely punished _ for the second straight election.

McCain's loss to Democrat Barack Obama in an Electoral College landslide dramatically reorders the divided political map that's been the norm during the last two elections. Obama won in traditionally Republican states like Indiana and gained ground in just about every demographic group, including the fast-growing Hispanic bloc that Republicans have courted.

In Congress, House Republicans lost at least 19 seats, just two years after losing 30 seats and House control. Democrats now have locked up every seat in the Northeast.

Senate Republicans, for their part, will lose at least five seats, although the GOP blocked a complete Senate rout and thwarted Democratic hopes for a 60-vote majority needed to overcome Republican filibusters.

It's all quite a reversal from just eight years ago, when it was the Democrats in disarray.

In 2001, Bush set up shop in the White House with Republicans firmly in control of both the House and Senate.

His chief strategist, Karl Rove, envisioned building a long-term Republican majority by broadening the party's base in part by building support among women, labor groups and Hispanics.

Two years later, Rove said: "Political parties kill themselves, or are killed, not by the other political party but by their failure to adapt to new circumstances."

That turned out to be true _ for the GOP.

"The party just simply lost its way," said Republican Dick Armey, the former House majority leader from Texas. "It was no longer about small government and individual liberties ... and the party became enormously unattractive to the American people."

Many point to the Iraq war _ and anger over how it was handled _ as just the start of the troubles.

"Try as it might, the party has been unable to get it off its back," said Frank Fahrenkopf, a former Republican National Committee chairman. He also pointed to Hurricane Katrina and a spate of scandals, including the leak of a CIA operative's identity, as kindling that fueled distrust of government and disgust with the GOP.

By 2006, the country issued a double repudiation of Bush and the party, giving Democrats control of both the House and the Senate.

Two year later, the GOP lost the White House in Obama's barrier-breaking election as the first black president.

...you've flipped your Whig.

Let it die, then rebuild it.

Can anyone give the results of those Ron Paul endorsed for Congress and Senate?

But not just the Republican party - the Democrat party too.

Detective Krum Investigates:
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and fight socialism and welfare and fight for the Constitution, and the Republicans will have no choice but to follow us.

"The Constitution was written not to regulate you in any way, the purpose of the Constitution is to restrain the government." Ron Paul.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdUoq0ihC2U

This is the best time to infiltrate and overtake the demoralized and decimated GOP. Join up today and kick out the scum and religious extremists who have had their fingers in every part of our government for decades.

Ron Paul succeeded because he used the Republican party to get on the debates and get his message out to millions of Americans.

The only way we'll succeed is if we use the Republican party as a platform to elect liberty minded people into all political offices around the country.

I also think that we should work hard to get Third Party candidates included in the presidential debates of 2012.

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i know everyone is feeling completely dejected today, but now is the time for all of us to get our second wind.

the bush/cheney/rove mindset was soundly rejected yesterday. i know that obama/mccain offered no difference & no true choice, but the republicans needed to lose. otherwise, the neocons would have 4 more years of their reign of terror. we'll deal w/the dems in 2012.

ron paul represents the genuine republican ideology & we need a ron paul republican to stand up & become the new voice for the gop & rnc. otherwise, all of the progress dr paul has made will be for naught.

now is OUR time.