I think it is time to start the: CNC
The Conservative National Committee!
Contribuye unless you want Obie in office.
If the GOP continues to drift left, my vote will go to Bob Barr. McCain can still salvage conservatism, but I have little faith that he will.
John McCain and the RNC doesn’t WANT the votes of the Conservatives or the Christian Right. They are depending on Hillary defectors from the Democrat Party to defeat Obama.
And they might do it, if enough conservatives sell out America and vote for him.
Brer Riley writes like a child.
He needs to "GET HE HEAD OUT."
RNC is a dead horse. The CNC sounds good to me.
I agree with the majority of these demands.
However, I’d like to point out the difficulty from a political standpoint with implementing them.
In both the 2000 and 2004 elections the election was about as close as it could get. About 35% of the voters called themselves Republicans and about 35% Democrats.
Today about 42% of likely voters call themselves Democrats and about 32% Republicans. Democrats are jazzed and Republicans are demoralized. If McCain appeals largely to his base, he’s going to be clobbered. His base is just much smaller than Bush’s was.
McCain must appeal to the squishy middle if he is to win. Possibly these demands would accomplish that, but I’m not so sure.
Just because we believe firmly that we are in the right doesn’t necessarily mean most voters agree with us. Unfortunately, the number of votes is all that counts.
“Newt is offering you a “Platform For America”! READ IT!”
Col Riley better read it too. Fruity Newt is on the gorebal warming bandwagon with the rest of the eco-twits!
I liked this, too. Not that the GOP/RNC will do anything with it, but it was an interesting read. Thanks.
What was that line...oh, yeah — want in one hand and **** in the other, see which one fills up faster.
Conservative “wants” are going to get short shrift because our “betters” think the way to success is to out Rat the Rats on borders, global warming, the budget, the war — you name it.
Yesterday, I sent a letter to the RNC saying that the only thing I’ll contribute to McCain is my vote, unless and until he gets off global warming, amnesty, and stops bashing corporate interests and Pres. Bush. I’ll contribute to my local candidates, but not to him.
If they won’t listen to us during an election they NEVER WILL!
And McCain, as we now, is a spoiled brat (sorry, "maverick") who doesn't abide little people telling him what to do....
We can all “Wish” for Juan McLame to become a conservative.
But if you wish in one hand and crap in the other, at the end of the day, all you have is a hand full of crap.
For years I have had discussions at work and was able to get many to vote Republican. For these people the last straw was amnesty. They possess an emotional hatred for the pubbies that cannot even consider a reasoned argument. Everything they are against, is represented by BHO yet they support him anyway, b/c they don't trust the pubbies at all. And McCain was one of the leading causes of this problem. I have been a pubbie since 1964 and I am seriously considering voting for Bob Barr. Down ballot I will go pubbie. In the future I am considering running for office as a Libertarian. I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer nor do I have any knowledge about running a “campaign” however, anyone electing me can rest assured that I cannot be bought and I will work to defend and expand their liberty and freedom.
Yep. And notice, as you go down his list, that he touches all the essential bases.
If you want tax cuts, then you need to agree with people who support family, life, and marriage, leading to a sound society and economy and sensible voters.
If you oppose abortion, then you need to agree with people who oppose the ILLEGAL immigration that is wrecking our institutions and the rule of law. You can’t equate the lives of innocent babies with criminal illegals coming from a country that is overflowing with money and natural resources that only needs to get its act together. It’s their damned, rich, corrupt government that is sending them here, to pile up even more money to send back home and to ensure that none of these people really benefit from it.
If you want to defend our country, then you need to base that defense on a solid morality and on solid families who bring their kids up properly.
You can’t defend our country with one hand while aborting babies and blessing gay marriages with the other, the way Rudy proposed to do. You can’t support life while welcoming in cheap illegal labor to enrich your corporate friends and donors, causing hospitals to close their doors and the welfare system to go broke and throwing young Americans out of jobs, as Huckabee proposed.
We need conservatism across the board, and when we get it, there are a ton of votes waiting to support it, as we saw especially in the 2004 election.
Unfortunately, I doubt whether the RNC or McCain even BEGIN to understand any of this. It’s not in any of their plans, and no sign that it ever will be as long as McCain is the candidate.
Seems like it? Its a fact pal! Why do you think he is trying to hard for Democrap voters? He wouldn't have to even do this if he wasn't going to loose the Conservative vote big time. McCain knows that conservatives aren't buying his crap! He will not appoint conservative judges and will make President Bush look like Ronald Reagan when he's through!
I read many of these posts against this article and others, and sense defeatism setting in like rigomortis.
We’ll never have a chance in November if we have become stiffs by June.
Now, if he would only back away from supporting, what was it, "fruity Newt" Gorebull Warming stuff...