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Marked in Pgh on Thursday, November 20, 2008 2:04:17 PM
The election was devastating to the Republican Rinos. They were the ones who ran the campaign, ran it poorly and lost, while trying to make themselves into Liberal Light. They even had their own candidate: an inoffensive, politically correct and amiable fall guy in McCain. They got their clocks cleaned and many of the Republicans who lost their seats in Congress were Rinos. That makes our work easier to rid the Republican Party of their kind.
In their prime, they rampaged over the political terrain and damaged the efforts of conservatives within the party. Now they have decimated themselves and their numbers. There are just a few prominent ones left, including Sen. Snarlin Arlen of Pennsylvania, who we need to defeat in the 2010 primaries if he doesn't retire first.
What can the rest of us do in the aftermath? The same thing the conservatives within the Republican Party did after the defeat of Gerald Ford in the 1976 election. Every once in a while the News Media actually screws up and reports something truthful and newsworthy. The CBS Evening News did just that when they sent a single female reporter to a meeting of the Republican leadership of the party around two years after the election and reported the conservatives were actively taking over control of the party. The conservatives did just that and came back to win the election of 1980 with Ronald Reagan. It was done then, it can be done now, to bring about electoral revolutions in 2010 and again in 2012. The first reform within the party needs to be no more open primaries. We choose our own candidates for President, not the Democrats or the Rinos in our own party. History is, in fact, cyclical and we can bring about another 1994 take over of the House in 2010, followed by another 1980 election in 2012. Yes, we will.