Tag Archives: Republican Party

Life in America as a One Party State

Obama and the Congressional Democrats are not wasting time.  The drive to turn the United States into a socialist country is happening right here, right now.  Overwhelmingly, the Old Media are in accord with this, so there will not be any opposition from those, heretofore, had acted to preserve liberties.  The elite Republicans are in

What Was the Bush Presidency?

Every president has successes and failures.  Every president is termed the “worst president ever.”  President Bush could not be an exception. So how will history judge President Bush.  The Left will write the history, so the answer is “not well.”  Iraq will be figured prominently, as indeed it should.  But the positive and negative aspects

The Conservative Movement in America–Quo Vadis? Part III

The third major problem with the conservative Movement in America is with the leadership of the Republican Party.  Major figures in the Party are intent on turning the Party into the Democratic Party lite–the Democratic agenda, only slower.  John McCain comes to mind.  His contempt for his base was unrivaled (and perhaps the only good

Immigration and the Decline of the Republican Party

Pat Buchanan made some interesting remarks on the decline of the Republican Party due to immigration.  In an interview with Bill Steigerwald (October 9, 2008) he said: Q: Are we witnessing the end of the Republican Party’s 40-year cycle of power, as Chalmers Johnson says in The Nation? A: I’ve written that. I think what

More On Making Democrats Red Again

Great comment from reader PatrickHenry. I want to reprint it: Comment from PatrickHenry Time September 8, 2008 at 5:44 pm Good observations. The following article might be of interest to readers: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/1430/ Not only does it confirm the fact that Republicans have been designated the blue party on several occasions, but it highlights the history

Making Democrats Red Again

Historically, Republicans were represented by the color blue and Democrats by the color red. So how did Democrats become blue and Republicans red? Consider these examples of electoral maps from 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992. But something curious happened in 1996, the colors representing America’s two major political parties changed. Republicans became red and Democrats