Posted on 05/16/2008 9:24:13 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
All week long, you and I have been blasting the bereft Beltway GOP leadership for their empty sloganeering and Obama-esque change obsession.
Now, the NRCC is hearing it directly on its website. Reader Fritz e-mails that the comments section in the NRCC blog post by chairman Tom Cole is sizzling hot with aggravated grass-roots conservative feedback.
Go check it out. A sample:
This is not the message I am looking to support. The message of the Replican Part should be fundumentally different than the Democrats. We don’t need to “fix” the government. We need the Federal Government to do wnat it is supposed to - protect our freedom. It should not try to be eveyones “Daddy” Healthcare is not the Federal Governments responsibility. If my new my situation, you might take these comments more seriously. I am not some rich guy who wants to pay less taxes and who can afford to pay for the high prices of healthcare. I just know that government, in general, is inefficiant and wasteful and would like to see less governement programs instead of more.
Posted: Steve Bryant on May 16, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Republicians think the way to Win is to Out “Liberal” the Liberals! McCain will be defeated by his views and disregard of Values. Obama will win. If we put up with Jimmy Carter for 4 years….Let Obama and the Dem’s take all the Credit for DESTRUCTION that will follow.I will either not vote or vote for Ron Paul. NO McCain.
Posted: Greatdanes on May 16, 2008 at 1:07 PM
PLEASE….you are kidding??!! John McCain is the republican candidate for President. So, which LIBERAL should I vote for. Let’s see OBAMA(Marxist), CLINTON(Marxist), MCCAIN(Open border/amnesty liberal). I have changed my party affiliation to independent. I will not vote for anyone who says one thing during the primary and when they think they have the nomination locked up, tell how they truly feel. John McCain “DIDN’T GET IT” after-all.
So if the RNCC is going to support this liberal RINO, then you and are at odds from here on out. No more money, no more support.
Posted: Terry on May 16, 2008 at 1:08 PM
No conservative American gets up in the morning looking for a government handout. They go to work and support their families. I have 2 questions for you. When everyone is collecting who will be paying? Why are we not using the resources for energy here in America that God gave us? STOP BEING RINOS. Either LEAD,FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Posted: Maureen McInerney on May 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM
All you guys have shown us is how to loose. The Republicans had the Congress and the Presidency and you debated flag burning! Where is our energy policy? Why are we burning our food supplies? Where is the debate on “global warming”? I can’t support you, you all need to go.
Posted: 19852 on May 16, 2008 at 1:16 PM
It’s rather evident, the Real Republicans are telling you the GOP, the RINO’s are in charge, they are no better than the libs and their values are not those of conservatives. We want the Republican platform adhered to and the speeches to reflect our values as Republicans, not fence sitting RINO ways.
Real Republicans do not have barb wire rash.
Posted: ONTIME on May 16, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Your message sounds like more big government. I am conservative and want a conservative message. I want to support conservative candidates. The three congressional seats that the democrats just won were won by democrats that had a conservative message. Republicans have lost their way. The party has gone back to the good old boy party of elite country club moderates. That is not the way to win elections or raise money. I will certainly read your e-mails but will not support any candidate that does not espouse a conservtive agenda. I hope the party will adopt that philosophy and then carry through.
Posted: Lynda Shackelford on May 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM
…I’ve got a Republican Solution for you: Tighten the belt or lose the pants. And here’s a Positive Agenda Item for you: I Positively DO NOT need a Nanny and am tired of you thinking that I do.
Here’s a thought: Why don’t you figure out what you stand for? You’re starting to sound like you’re falling for anything. I won’t be following you there.
Posted: Colleen on May 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM
…I’m sorry, but there is no way I can/will contribute until I hear the Republican party taking on the fight against the global warming HOAX, drilling in ANWAR, and absolutely protecting our borders against illeagal immigrants. As an example of what I would like to hear, every Republican senator should have jumped on Dick Durbin’s comment “we can’t drill for lower prices” after the amendment to drill in Anwar was defeated. In the circumstances we find ourselves, that is one of the most stupid comments I have ever heard from any politician. To the best of my knowledge, the laws of supply and demand have not been overturned by the liberal judges…yet.
Just one example of many that could turn the party around.
Posted: Rod on May 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM
I’m a middle-class conservative business owner who is still outraged that the GOP leadership in this country decided to make medications part of the entitlements available for all medicare recipients.
I’ve reached that golden age when I am eligible for medicare myself. A lot of us can and should pay for our own prescriptions. For those that are unable to pay, there is a place for this largesse.
Since the government got in the business, the price of my meds has increased 30% across the board. I live on the Canadian border and have friends and family on both sides of the border. Heaven protect us from the kind of “free” healthcare they must endure.
When has the government ever done anything as cheaply and efficiently as the free market?
I come from 3 generations of straight ticket Democrats. Jimmy Carter was the last time I voted for a democratic candidate.
I doubt I’ll be able to stomach voting for McCain unless he gives me some solid reasons why I should. His “reaching across the aisle” only demonstrates a big lack of judgment.
Celeste Colson May 16,2008 12:51 CDT
Posted: Celeste Colson on May 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM
So let me get this straight - I have a choice between McCain or Hillary or Obama? Did I just say I have a choice? I think I just had a 52 yr-old brain cramp. I do not vote for RINOs. None of these 3 are qualified to run this country. If the Repubs are not different than the Demoncrats then what is the use? We speak with our votes - we vote for someone else. Vote for a spoiler? No, we vote our conscience. If the MSM or the NRCC want to consider them a spoiler - so be it. Get a clue already!. Abandoning conservatism means no money, no support, no vote from me.
Posted: PEPPER on May 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM
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The LOTUS blog is selling a fitting t-shirt for the times.
Ping! ;)
I am a local-level GOP officer, and the party will more than likely not be getting my vote for president this fall.
I wonder why the Republican party is doing this?
You have to wonder if these fools simply print off these emails and head to the nearest pub and laugh their butts off at these “bitter, God, Gun and law abiding Americans”.
To which "this" are you referring, pray: allowing conservative voters to righteously lambaste them online, or committing electoral suicide...? ;)
GOOD stuff there......I wonder if it’ll have any effect?
Sadly, this is WAY too late in the game.
I was one 'til 2006. One of the reasons I resigned is because I would be obligated under our bylaws to support the R nominee and I was concerned it would be McCain.
If your bylaws require you to support the R nominees, then I would respectfully suggest the correct course of action is to submit your resignation. But your bylaws may be different than ours.
The outpouring of Conservative anger (near 500 comments as I write this) to Tom Cole's letter at NRCC.org is beyond description.
I did not write that but it sure sounds like me!!!! And I agree 100%!!!!
They don’t care what we - conservative think. And that’s the problem, isn’t it?
Fro the first time in my voting life, I am seriously considering a protest vote - like a Duncan Hunter or JC Watts write-in. All three of the current candidate bozos make me ill.
The GOP's new base: Illegal Aliens and Polar Bears. Better hope they turn out in droves this year.Posted: on May 16, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Hilarious. I’d join in if I thought they’d give a damn. Unless you have a hundred grand in bundled cash, they just don’t care. Why should they? They really believe you have nowhere else to go.
>Illegal Aliens and Polar Bears. Better hope they turn out in droves this year.
They had better hope that they throw in some hard cash, as well...
I really liked the email that contained the phrase “tighten the belt or lose the pants.”
Ain’t it the truth.
I like McCain’s personal story of his military service. I try not to judge him on other personal stuff, but, his politics make me very nervous. I will vote for him in November because I believe anyone is better than what the Dems will offer. However, I say that with some hesitation as well. I am glad McCain has a temper, I think it’s great. It may keep people on their toes and it shows he’s a real guy. There could be a drawback to it too.
I am really more concerned with what’s going to happen in the House and Senate because that’s where the nuts and bolts of the country grind together. Crazy times.
Remember what Bismarck said!
“The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions ... but by iron and blood.”
“Here’s another great one, austinaero.”
Yep. There are many intelligent emails in that mix. Some of these people are really clever, lol.
All I got was a black screen at the NRCC Blog link. I’ll try again in the AM. I read a lot of sensical commentary in the examples. Hope to read more at the link.
Also on the MM site, a list of suggested slogans for the GOP. OMG, they are hilarious!
Sadly, most of them are true.
Here’s one -
“G = Gutlessness
O = On
P = Parade”
or
“Blowback”
or
“We’re Screwed ‘08”
Standing in a circular firing squad is what Republicans excel at.
We really do need a third party to address the death of the GOP and fill in the breach.
Not this year, but we got 4 more to go after this.
Re -election will commence January 21/09.
The RINOS need to go, the message should be vote out the incumbents.
It would really have a chance if half the voters weren’t sucking off the Gov’t teat , in one way or another.
Whot the hell isn’t involved in a “Program/Supplement”
in this country.
That must be “The Rich”!
Those who earn enough to survive....don’t forget to hate everyone else who has more..
SanFranNan will come smack you with her pinky whip!
/Rant off
Interesting, but I have to wonder considering the rejection of conservative values at almost all levels, will this really have any effect.
Or will they dismiss the “disgruntled rumbling” of the unwashed rabble and continue steering full speed ahead into the rocks?
Only time will tell.
That makes two of us if I want to be honest about it.
I have less than zero faith in the gop to get it right anytime in the coming century.
LMAO! Now THERE's a comment that obviously came from a freeper. The pretend-moron misspelling of "lose" was the giveaway. Har!
I’m not bothering to even respond to them anymore. Falcon is my home from now on.
I too am a county GOP officer, when my term is up, I'm done, I've wasted enough time trying to change the stupid party. McCain is my Senator, I've been voting against him for years.
It’s a BS comment that is ignorant of history of political parties. if you make-beleive your history, you can make-believe your future.
The Democrat majority in Congress needs and deserves to be dumped, spanked, harmed, crushed and removed.
Attacking GOP minority leaders is diversion from the essential task of saving the country from the depredations of the Democrat majority.
I notice that you are talking about 2 of the 7 statements made by the poster. I guess you agree with the rest, just not their interpretation of the Whig party’s demise? /s
That word is "losers."
I will not hestitate at all.
I will vote for McCain readily knowing I have reservations and disagreements on a few issues and common ground on many key issues - Iraq, taxes, spending, judges, pork, litigation.
Those whining about mcCain are narcissists. They have their own image, ego, and issues are not voting/thinking based on the simple patriotic question “Who is best for the *country*, McCain or Obama?”
We have plenty of time to clean out the RINO cr*p in the GOP stables, so long as the *country* remains intact. We cannot assure that will be the case with President Obama, he is that bad that the country as a whole will never be the same. Even his slogans are recycled communist themes!! ... With a Democrat Congress likely, we cannot afford a Democrat free-ride.
The Whig party was fractured based on the slavery issue, leading to its demise. The Republican party is fractured based on numerous issues, among them illegal immigration, size and scope of government, spending, and free speech. It deserves the same fate if it can’t readjust itself back to its conservative platform.
“The RINOS need to go, the message should be vote out the incumbents”
The Democrats are a majority in both houses, so the anti-incumbent message needs to be a message that removes that Democrat majority from power.
Bookmark to email link to County GOP chairman in AM
I told him Thurs night we were in serious trouble this year.
They'd genuinely rather lose, than "give in" to the conservative voting base within their own party. Sad, but true.
“Do you work for the NRCC?”
Do you work for Soros, Obama, and the Democrats? All you do is bash Republicans and take glee and their current doldrums. that’s not a conservative position, that’s just kneejerk anti-GOP.
” You seem to have the same mind-set”
My mindset is to be proactive and do the right thing for my values and my country.
Here’s what the GOP should do, and btw it is what many GOP Reps are supporting:
Stuff like this that was posted on the blog:
1) Drilling for domestic oil i.e. ANWR, Bakken Formation (ND), and off shore.
2) Support nuclear power plant, fast track utilities plans to build nuclear plants.
3) Forget about ethanol
4) Pass legislation to stop the boutique gas formulations.
5) Protect our 2nd ammendment rights for all firearms. Even the lowly 6-shooter is a semi-auto.
6) We don’t need a nanny. Government is meant to protect our freedoms. Not restrict them. McCain is wrong on campaign finance reform.
7) Protect our borders. Stop illegal immigration NOW. Reform legal immigration, friends who have immigrated have to hire high powered lawyers... This should not be necessary.
8) Pass legislation to build a natural gas pipeline from the north slope to the US or to Canada.
9) Forget about cap-and-trade on carbon. It is a hoax get over it.
10) DEMAND A VOTE ON MAKING BUSH TAX CUTS PERMANENT. FIGHT THE DEMOCRATS ON TAXES 24/7.
11) FIGHT THE DEMOCRAT MAJORITY 24/7 ON GWOT.
12) FIGHT THE DEMOCRAT MAJORITY 24/7 ON THEIR OVER-SPENDING AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY IN GOVT.
13) FIGHT THE DEM MAJORITY ON TORT REFORM
14) END USELESS BOONDOGGLES AND ZERO OUT EARMARKS AND PORK.
And put it all together in
A CONSERVATIVE GOP AGENDA FOR THE NEXT CONGRESS
“they have and are also ignoring the well-written opinions (over 500 of them, I’m told) of conservative posters.”
BULL. These views are WELL represented in the MANY conservative Congressmen and activists who work DAILY with Rep Cole and others.
You are the us vs them, I am saying *WE* conservatives have to stick together and support conservative candidates for Congress ... there are HUNDREDS OF THEM.
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