Posted on 11/13/2006 12:28:51 AM PST by xtinct
You are correct.
Very true. We are THE Big Tent party.
And anyways, when was the last time the GOP was TRULY fiscally conservative? Socially conservative ....yes. Fiscally conservative ....well, let me say that some of the spending would make Democrat presidents in office before Carter balk!
Yes, this is true, but so are "Yankees" themselves. Mass. and R.I. are the fastest draining states and upstate NY is not far behind. As a temporary stop Pa. seems to be picking up people but these are people who have not yet come to understand that for various reasons it is also dying.
I heard a rat say New England was the Democrat's solid South." I'll take that trade anyday.
No, it's a small-'l' libertarian. A small-'l' libertarian has a live-and-let-live social attitide, but really wants fiscal restraint and limited government. You know, the kind of limited goverment the Republican Party used to stand for.
May he RISE AGAIN!
That's right. The party that was once dominated by, northern chardonnay drinking, ivy league educated, polo watching episcopalians is now run by southern light beer guzzling, state university educated, NASCAR watching evangelicals.
Where's the article about how the dems lost the South?
Vermont was litterally colonized and conquered by wealthy liberals from New York and Boston. They arrived, and in the name of "conservation and evironmental protection" ran the long standing timber industry out (in reality, they didn;t want the vistas from their million dollar mountain homes destroyed by a bunch of stupid natives who make a living chopping down trees).
If one went to the state house in Montpelier, he would see a picture of every governor. All of them are dressed in dark suits and wear upon their faces the expression of old New England Puritan stoicism (think Calvin Coolidge). Except one- Howard Dean. He's dressed and posed for a picture that could go in an LL Bean catalogue.
Regards, Ivan
When all Conservatives get down here, we will finally build that damn wall... ON THE NORTH END OF TOWN!
LLS
maybe you should get out of kalifornia and come see.
If Yankee Republicans are about to become extinct, they have only themselves to blame. They have insisted, foolishly, on adhering to a political philosophy that causes them to become a laughing stock to both political parties.
To paraphrase Alfred Sloan, Yankee Republicans have failed to master change.
The trouble is they are taking the entire party with them.
They all came up to escape the high taxes, but immediately demanded all of the services that they had down south. You'll never guess what happened.
my hometown liberal rag once again affirms why the average american is migrating out of the northeast.
The "Good Ole USofA" is not Republican or Democrat. It is a spirit of optimism, capitalism, and Christianity. When the British colonial governments left and there was no American government, this spirit created the greatest culture that Earth has ever known. It is alive today. It is expanding around the globe. Join it or get out of the way!
Now, there might be a bit of "tongue in cheek" to that story, but the premise is based in the reality of Vermont becoming a haven for dope smoking anti-capitalist anti-Constitutionalist socialists.
And now we have Bernie Sanders in the Senate. There you go.
The idea that he is now a Senator is particularly dreadful.
Regards, Ivan
That was a really stupid article. When the politician being discussed is no longer considered a republican by the overwhelming majority of republicans, they, perhaps are not republicans.
"For those of us who couldn't care less about the social conservatives, the loss of fiscal conservatives stings"
I cannot speak to the house but 'Republican' New england senators like Collins, Snowe, and Chaffee who vote against tax cuts and against energy exploration are not in my panthion of 'fiscal conservatives'.
They exist on the myth of fiscal responsibility but too often the underlying base of votes is simply democrat lite.
North East Conservative:
Socialists that horde their own money and give away others!
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