I second that request.

Good article and questions, Zubaz.

This is the way I'm formulating it....

We're stuck with Obama and I'm guessing that if he makes good on his campaign promises, he's going lead the Pelosi, Reid, Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer type Democrats to the Far Left...

The result is people will see through life experience that Liberalism/Socialism aren't happy systems to live under...they don't produce happy people....big government is a burden to the people and giving up freedoms is not going to go over well.....by the time the next election ...2 years from now....the Republican party and what it stands for is going to look real good even to some of them..

In the meantime the Grand Old Party is going to have to re-group, revamp, and re-organize. We are going to have to weed out the RINOs and launder out the Rockefeller Republicans.

Liberal Republicans are phonies and drag the party down...the conservatives is where it's at to keep the party on target...and becasue the media is not even remotely fair and impartial, we've got to develop other ways and better ways to get our message out to the people. I think the answer is strong grassroots and good effective communication.  

I've hated the republican's a long time.  If they were to make a few changes though I'd vote for them.  

1.  Campaign Finance reform.  My dollar should mean more than Coca-Cola's dollar.  

2.  Religion issues should not be part of politics.  This country was founded on separation of church and state.(screw you england!)

3.  If they actually brought jobs back to the country instead of shipping them over sees.  

Democratic part has had my vote for some time but issues I have with them are the following.  

1.  Campaign Finance reform.  My dollar should mean more than Coca-Cola's dollar.  

2.  Spending on oversees involvement should end.  I'd love to be more isolationist.  Lets help ourselves before helping others.  

3.  Stop worrying about Raising taxes and inflation and worry instead about the Value of the dollar.  I don't need to make more money if my money was worth more.  

djashdj,

resurrecting Zubaz' post.....what fun and great timing! 

I was thinking the same thing. 

Yup..3 plus years of Obama-machination has moved the nation to the Far Left. If re-elected, we'll be over the cliff. 

I think this is still true today. Even some die hard Democrats aren't following in lock-step. Some are distancing themselves from Obama and his policies. That's why he's bringing in the former lecher-in-chief Clinton.

This is where the Tea Party comes in. They were effective in 2010, in some of the primary elections already held and they'll be just as effective in November, 2012. 

Today's vote in Texas should tell a tale. 

Don't you think Romney will give a place at the convention table and beyond as far as the Libertarians are concerned. Ron Paul has quite a loyal following that should not be dismissed.

Obama has become far more right / authoritarian then in 2008.

There is almost no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans now.

http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2012

They are not. They are decoupled. The site is actually explaining this.

Or did you miss the whole, we hate gays, immigrants, and like throwing people in jail to make a buck memo that most right wing parties advocate these days?

This is a gross hyperbole. 

1. The official democrat platform is "no gay marriage", Don't Ask Don't Tell was implemented by democrats (clinton), the religious right does not hate gays but thinks they are sinners in need of salvation (no different then any of other myriad sins), and conservatives are not exclusively made up of the religious right.

2. We love immigrants, we don't like criminals. Illegal immigration is a crime and the people smuggling them in also smuggle in terrorist, encoded messages in arabic, drugs, weapons, and organized crime. Securing the border is not a hate of immigrants.

3. I have no idea what the throwing people in jail to make a buck thing is referring to.

Right wingers explicitly oppose the authoritarians in the right. The very basis of their platform is the conservation of the separation of powers and weak central government as outlined in the constitution.

Give me an example.

Left and right wing have a million differing definitions and they are constantly redefined by politicians as is expedient in their attempt to twist the language to support their cause.

Its like calling murdering homeless people "volunteering at the shelter" and then expressing outrage that anyone would be against volunteering at the shelter

If they think right wing economics was shifted to they are smoking crack.

That there are establishment republicans are often corrupt and erode civil liberties doesn't change what the platforms are. the democrats are openly for eroding civil liberties at the moment while the republicans at least pay lip service and sometimes more, especially if they are more serious conservatives.

You also keep on throwing buzzwords like political science without any relationship to anything else you are saying in your argument.

I am a libertarian, sorta. And I have legally emigrated to the USA from Israel, a socialist "utopia" with over 75% tax rate, socialized everything, massive amounts of people on government dole, etc etc etc.

So its funny how an impartial outsider is now a "you people". Also, no typical republican has ever had anything like obama's policies.

And before you bring up bush as the modern US liberal is so apt to do, the bush bailout was voted for by a super majority of democrats and against by a super-majority of republicans.

1. He did not extend them. He put forth a bill for only portions of them to be extended while giving severe tax hikes for others. Namely "the rich" aka small businesses, doctors, etc. But it was blocked by other democrats. Such class warefare and "progressive" taxation is not "moving to the right".

2. Who? (no really, who?). And an adviser to the FDA? So, not someone who actually decides anything just someone to give advice?

Did you see who he appoints to positions that matter? Eric holder, Sotomayor, and all the other liberal hacks.

3. Obama canceled nasa, canceled the railgun battleships, halved the navy, canceled most military R&D, massively slashed army spending in every possible way. hamstrung our armed forces abroad, etc etc.

4. "Free trade" is a buzz word, if you look at the details of every deal he signs you will find his marxist ideology. Trade agreements with other nations is not "conservative policy" nor does it move him to the right. The big deals he supported were meant to strip Americans of their freedoms in an authoritarian manner such as the UN gun ban, SOPA, PIPA, etc etc.

Deregulation/regulation are stupid and annoying buzzwords thrown by both the right and the left with vague definitions. The same action can be described as both regulation and deregulation most often depending on how you phrase it. And usually IS described as both deregulation and regulation depends on what each side thinks of it.

That being said, none of the above are moves for deregulation. 

You are actually arguing that obamacare is right wing law? No wonder you are so off your rocker.

Every single democrat, republican, and moderate disagrees with you. The conservatives hate it and the liberals love it, but they all agree single payer is a liberal policy.

Libertarian.

Also what "political compass site" I am talking to you about the nonsense comments you make in this thread. I saw no link to any such site nor is it relevant to ANY of the points we are discussing.

And democrats ARE evil leftist socialists and everything they do IS for stripping away civil liberties in the name of creating a utopia via legislation... as if it ever works out.

I disagree with the republicans on some points and hate their corrupt pork barrel status quo establishment. But the tea party is making good headway there while hitting a stone wall on the democrat side.

The democrats are stripping away our freedoms and ruining the economy. Not to mention being chock full of KKK members and antisemites.

I don't care who you are, that's funny.