January 20, 2005
Welcome To GOP Bloggers

It is my pleasure to welcome you to GOP Bloggers.

GOP Bloggers is a new online grassroots campaign with the goal of keeping a Republican majority in Congress, and a Republican President in the White House.

The 2004 Election was considered by many to be the most important election of our lifetimes, and over 62 million Americans came out to successfully reelect President Bush. In the aftermath of victory, we still must look ahead, and remember that there is still a lot of work to be done to continue winning the war on terror, keeping the economy strong and growing, improving education, healthcare, reforming Social Security... The Republican Party has demonstrated the resolve to address these issues, and we need to show our support and get behind the party.

As the Democratic Party moves further and further to the left, their bitter partisanship has proven that they are more interested in regaining power than they are in winning the war on terror, keeping this country strong, and addressing and fixing the problems that still need to be fixed. They're more interested in blocking qualified judges from getting an up-or-down confirmation vote in the Senate than they are interested in fixing the problems of our legal system. They care more about the interests of France, Germany and China, than they do about our national security.

The election of 2004 empowered bloggers as the new media. With this empowerment comes a responsibility on our part to make sure Republican Party gets their message out. GOP Bloggers was created for this purpose.

GOP Bloggers is a new blog community that offers visitors commentary and analysis by a group of writers with varying backgrounds, hailing from around the United States. Our plan is to get the GOP's message out and organize as many bloggers as we can to create the biggest internet grassroots community for a political party.

The work we did (and are still doing) at Blogs For Bush showed us our potential. Soon will be the midterm elections of 2006, and then the elections of 2008. Let's roll!

Posted by Matt Margolis on January 20, 2005 07:00 AM


Comments

I am liking what I am seeing.

Nice address - Good luck with the blog.

Posted by: Ian at January 19, 2005 11:53 PM


I'm really looking forward to see this grow, just like BFB.

Posted by: Willis at January 20, 2005 12:05 AM


Nice, clean format, I like it. Looking forward to this pages growth as well

Posted by: Elliott [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 12:18 AM


Good luck with the new blog.

Posted by: WK [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 01:47 AM


Just added ya to the blogroll...good luck.

-The MUSC Tiger

Posted by: Jeremy Parker at January 20, 2005 02:03 AM


I just learned of your blog and will be adding it to the roll soon.

Posted by: James C. Hess at January 20, 2005 07:40 AM


Ah, its a fine day to reaffirm our loyalty to the President and a fine day to launch a new blog. Like the color scheme a lot.

Posted by: Scaramonga [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 08:09 AM


Let's kick the tires & light the fires! Happy to be on board!

Posted by: Alamo Nation [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 08:39 AM


I like the format, color scheme, disclaimer and posts. Will visit you often.

Posted by: Evon at January 20, 2005 10:23 AM


First day and I'm already seeing a lot of new reader names besides the B4B regulars- a good sign. The grassroots is (are) growing. You know the Dems are going to try to copy what the GOP did in this last election cycle, so we need to stay one step ahead of them.

Posted by: Retired Spook [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 10:43 AM


...one goose-step ahead of them.

Posted by: onan [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 01:27 PM


Great look guys -- here's to another four fantastic years. However, we can only celebrate so long -- it's time to start gearing up for '06!

Posted by: TheBigW [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 02:17 PM


So "onan" can sing one note and one note only. Your obsession with those National Socialists comes naturally, onan. Stop projecting and embrace the implosion, loser.

Posted by: The Valiant Elephant [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 02:44 PM


I am a registered independent voter. For now (and it looks like the forseeable future) I will be voting Republican in man national elections. I will not climb down from my watchtower of vigilance because I know that indifference and complacency are enemies of liberty. I would like to see the Republican Party expand its platform to communicate to the American voters that caring for the: poor, uneducated, unemployed or underemployed, uninsured, nature loving, environment protecting, recycling, social issues concerned person is not the property of the Democratic party.

I would also like to see the pendulum swing in the Democratic party to address pro-life issues, a rejection of gay marriage, and realistic solutions to our Social Security crisis, energy needs and oppression of peoples under dictators. Until then, I will continue to lobby both sides and vote for the ones who best pursue a conservative agenda.

Posted by: PJLR at January 20, 2005 04:49 PM


Oh, look, the one with the...brains?.

I know you guys deal in catch phrases like Socialist but the parallel with your movement and the Nazi movement is too great to be distracted by the use of hot-button phrases.


"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before in the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.... When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom to-day this poor people is plundered and exploited."


Except for the part about the Jews, sounds like a Republican.

Posted by: onan [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 05:11 PM


onan is great with the nonsequitur and begging the question. The implication is, of course, that Republicans advocate hatred of people based on ethnicity. "except for the part about the Jews, sounds like a Republican."
How about actually backing up your statements, onan? I listened to the speech today, and once again, President Bush advocated liberty for ALL people. This has been a consistent theme of this president, and it is more than a theme. Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, Bush is willing to do more than talk. He takes decisive action, even at great political risk. Seeking to overthrow tyranny and turning control back over to the people hardly parallels Nazi thought.
Perhaps you need to actually read the the numerous sources of conservative(mostly Republican)thought, such as The Weekly Standard, National Review, or many others. This site alone will link you to dozens, if not hundreds, of accurate expressions of the "Republican" mindset. If you will take just a bit of time to examine them, I believe you will find your Republican=Nazi paradigm to be utterly false.
I have moved more and more to the right because I HAVE been reading these various journals, and I have found that in general, it is the Republicans who truly practice cultural diversity, freedom of expression, and empowerment of the individual.
So, onan, if you wish to make your comparisions, provide specific examples of how your analogy holds up.

Posted by: DebateRight [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 05:46 PM


"Oh, look, the one with the...brains?. "

More than you will ever attain, loser.

"I know you guys deal in catch phrases like Socialist"

"Socialist" isn't a catch phrase, moron. It's a disease. One you are afflicted with no less.

" but the parallel with your movement and the Nazi movement is"

Non existent.

" too great to be distracted by the use of hot-button phrases. "

LOL! Nazi = National Socialist

"Except for the part about the Jews, sounds like a Republican. "

Like hell it does. Hitler, like the socialist stain he was, bastardized Christian teachings and used them to manipulate the German people. Sort of like "As a Chatholic I think life starts at conception, but I can't impose my values on others." :)

Posted by: The Valiant Elephant at January 20, 2005 05:48 PM


*Chuckles and looks around the place*

Nice and clean. Very bright and open. I like it! :)

It's good to be here from B4B and it's good to see we've already got our first troll! Yay! I feel so happy. Thanks for the housewarming gift onan! :D

Posted by: Gozer [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 07:31 PM


Onan apparently considers himself a minor expert on Nazism. He was kind enough to treat us to the limits of his expertise in a few other threads. It might be amusing to get his perspective on Captain Ernst Roehm--assuming that he knows who Roehm was.

Posted by: Tannenberg [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 07:39 PM


I especially like the logo picture...

Four great Republican presidents and the best two "others". ;)

Posted by: Todd L. Dietrich [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2005 10:28 PM


Tannenberg,
If I remember right, Roehm was Hitler's WWI captain, and he was a homosexual whom Hitler had murdered because of inappropriate conduct with young boys (had to do a report on Hitler as a freshman in high school, so my memory might be a little off here, but I think that's pretty accurate).

Posted by: pd at January 21, 2005 09:45 AM


You're in the ballpark, PD. You might review Shirer's "Rise and Fall" for more exact details. A pity that the troll was banned before he could wade into this minefield....

Posted by: Tannenberg [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 21, 2005 01:03 PM


Gotta add here that I conclude that 'onan' just hates Christ, Christianity and Christians so is going to any lengths to demean Him, that and them.

The German Socialist Party grew out of liberalism in Germany. It was a SOCIALIST Party, based in paganism and the occult and practices devoted to class status and "workers" "rights" and other purely social causes, with government and a central figure as (a substitute for) religion.

So, based upon the REALITY of who the German Socialist Party was and from whence it drew it's motivational points and also drew references, if there are any people in the U.S. today who are aligned with that, with the German Socialist Party ("the Nazis"), then it's liberalism, Democrats.

Posted by: -S- [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 21, 2005 06:27 PM


The Nazis were economically Leftist and socially and politically Rightest. Not that this old argument is going to get us anywhere; the perennial debate over who gets the blame for the Nazis misses the point that the political spectrum isn't simply linear, but multi-dimensional. Authoritiarianism exists on both sides of the "Left/Right" divide.

Posted by: Bob Waters at January 24, 2005 10:13 AM