A few days ago, on the GOP blog The Everyday Republican, the Chairman of the Connecticut Republican Party Chris Healy posted a stirring call to arms to rally his fellow doughy warriors in the fight to retain the White House in 2008. His post was entitled "Enough Already: Shut up and Suit Up".
What follows will be a completely serious and sober analysis of this historic and moving Republican Manifesto. I hope that by this clear-eyed analysis, we can prepare ourselves for the great challenge that faces us in November.
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Chairman Healy starts off with a warning that his soldiers must suit up.
It is time for all Republican leaders, from Hartford to Sacramento, but especially Washington, D.C., to zip their lips, pull up their socks, grab your baseball bats and get back on the field of battle.
AUTOBOTS, TRANSFORM, AND ROLL OUT!!!
Chris Healy is a straight talker, he cuts straight to the heart of the matter.
As a Northeastern Republican with solid conservative credentials, I believe the basic tenets of our party will resonate with the voters of this country. The problem is our own people in Congress and their hired hands on K Street, have not lived up to them over the past four years and learned nothing from 2006. Many are friends of mine, but we locals need to intervene here and offer political quinine to Potomac fever.
As a Republican Party Charmian from a region of the country where the GOP is all but extinct, Chris Healy understands how strongly GOP tenets resonate with the voters.
We all get the joke out here on Main Street. For too long, Republicans in power have become accustomed to power and its trappings, its pork and living in a dream world where they think everyone agrees with them
Who better than Party Chairman Chris Healy to break GOP leaders of their desire for power and its trappings, and bring them the perspective of Main Street?
The public expects Republicans to cut taxes and to win wars. We are the "grown up’s party" for a reason. President Bush has not sold the war or the positive impact of his tax cuts on a daily basis and paid for it in the polls.
The Republicans are clearly the party of maturity and responsibility, the GOP just needs to be more persistent in explaining why those surrender-monkey liberal fascists cannot be trusted to capture Osama Bin Laden or balance the budget like Bush and McCain will. Wait a minute...
His position on keeping our nation safe is without peer and McCain and Gingrich know we must educate the public of the growing danger of nuclear terrorism against a major city.
Republicans know that part of responsibility and maturity is making crucial national security decisions in a state of abject terror.
Start voting as a team and keep tying the Democrats up. The Democrats will eventually turn on each other.
Another big problem was that the Republican Party did not march sufficiently in lock-step behind the Bush administration. The failure of GOP representatives to sufficiently embrace Bush and the national Republican leadership will come back to haunt us if we do not correct it now.
Finally, Chris Healy closes out strong.
Take no quarter. Admit we lost our way, but that we got the message and have a plan and the alternative would be devastating for national security and economic prosperity.
Fight, or die.
Show that we got the message the voters sent us by embracing our national party leaders even tighter, and remind them that Democrats cannot bring peace and prosperity to our country, which is why Americans were so relieved when the Clinton Administration came to an end.
I have to say, after a sober and thoughtful analysis of Chariman Healy's call to arms, I do not want to face this new, revitalized and formidable Republican Party in November. I truly believe we might be looking at another Walter Mondale-style landslide. We should embrace every piece of advice that Republicans give to Democrats about how we can connect with the American voters better, seeing as how they are so smart when it comes to these things.