[KoRn]

"says Mr. Bush and adviser Karl Rove were wrong in their strategy of boosting turnout among the party's voting base of political "extremists" on the right, including evangelical Christians."

Well, what were they supposed to do? Send Bush on bus tours though college campuses? I this 'book' will be about as full of logic as a 'football bat'.

[Torie]

Well it is clear Whitman does not know how to break bread with Evangelicals. Her life experience, and her imagination, is just too circumscribed and narrow. She needs to have long and liquid dinner with me, who in some ways, has the same leitmotif as I do. I think I could help her. My skills have been honed right here at FR in fact.

OK, she is just trying to sell some books. Whatever.

[Texas Eagle]

Mrs. Whitman says the Republican Party has failed to reach out to "moderates" like herself.

Who do we look like? Diana Ross?

[TFine80]

So either the majority of Americans are 'extremists' or only Whitman is smart enough to recognize their essential control.

I've never understood why Bush is considered a right-wing or extremist politician. What federal program has he eliminated? What has he really changed in social issues?

Being against the Kyoto treaty does not make one an extremist.

[srm913]

Christie Todd Whitman obviously has a lot of air between her ears.

[sinkspur]

Bush's second term strategy is correct: put absolute loyalists in the cabinet.

These jerkweeds like Whitman and O'Neill were poor administrators, and back-stabbers once they left.

Bush is too good a man to have to put up with this bullshit.

[jveritas]

Christie:

We , the Conservative Republicans are the majority in this country and that why we control all three government branches.

Be silent and join the losers in the Democrat party if you wish.

PS: Bush Won.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Mrs. Whitman says the Republican Party has failed to reach out to "moderates" like herself."

IMO - "...political "extremists" on the right, including evangelical Christians..." should reach out to "moderates" exactly as "moderates" reach out to right wing "extremists".

[Texas Eagle]

Help yourselves everyone.

[mwfsu84]

She blames W/Rove for not bringing in more Blue States?

Actually, Bush increased his number of votes in the Blue States over 2000 - and brought in two of them in Iowa and New Mexico.

I suppose he could have won Pennsylavania, if not for all those voters in Philly cemeteries casting ballots for Kerry.

[Clemenza]

Ping!

[Noachian]

It's obvious that Whitman doesn't know diddly-squat about how to win an election, but she seems to know how to lose one.

[Ramius]

I think I know what happened here:

I'll bet money that she wrote this book last year, believing that Bush was going to lose the election. This book would then be among the new realeases trying to "explain" why Republicans lost.

Only... it didn't work out that way... and the book was already in the hopper so she's trying surf it as well as she can, even though none of it makes any sense. Funny how its actually the democrats that need a book entitled "It's my party too".

Maybe that's what this really is.

Hmm...

[garyhope]

Do I smell RINO here?

[Captain Peter Blood]

If anything the party isn't Right Wing enough.
Unfortunately right now the Republican Party is the only game in town.
I have voted and supported Bush but I certainly do not agree with everything he has done.
Just when I feel he is on the right track he hands us the disastrous Prescription Drug bill that will end up costing us well over $1 Trillion over the next 10 years and then we have this muddled idiocy on Immigration that is a disaster also.
Then I read the Republican hierarchy is all but admitting that striving for smaller government is all but a dream and no longer a priority.
Then we have way too many RINOS to contend with and then to cap it off the Judiciary Committee votes 10 Zip to confirm that "Traitor" Specter as it's Chairman. Then if than ain't enough that "Damn" Frist caves in and won't change the Filibuster Rules.
Hell we control both houses of Congress and no one steps up to the plate with any Cojones and wants to take charge and get our Agenda through.
Now I have to listen to that Idiot Leahy making accusations about Gonzales which I know are bogus and what is being done about that? Don't we have any people up there with any Guts and Integrity????

[blam]

Geez. Now I'm an extremist. What next?

[woofie]

Im sorry but people who win elections do not need advice on winning elections

[Apercu]

More hateraid from a wannabe & a whiner. CTW is no more a Republican than Hillary is a centrist.Begone you Bruja.

[LegendHasIt]

I remember when she was appointed to the position.... That the people who she in now kissing up to called HER a right-wing extremist ... and that was the nicest thing that they said about her.

Now, she is just a back-stabbing opportunist. and will get no respect from anyone. Talk about cutting your own throat.

[citizencon]

The 'wrong" strategy worked, did it not? GWB won.