Christine Whitman and Robert Bostock: GOP can't afford to remain hostage to social fundamentalists

Capital Times ^ | 11-15-08

[SJackson]

It is time to have three major parties: Liberal, Conservative, Mushy Middle.

We have that, we always will. And it's imperative we get the mushy middle Christines to vote with us. But not to lead.

[SJackson]

She should really stay there and quit trying to go national.

She saw what the lovely lady from Alaska did.

[SumProVita]

“Christine Whitman and Robert Bostock: GOP can’t afford to remain hostage to social fundamentalists”

Translation: GOP can’t afford to adhere to absolute moral virtues.

[Richard Kimball]

We did not lose because of social conservatism. We lost because of big spending.

[leprechaun9]

Christy Witless, please as General Mac Arthur said, fade away like the old soldier of the Northeast elite that you represent (and did while serving as governor)!

By the way, your liberal daughter didn't do too well in her venture into public office. Perhaps you left too many people who worked for you that you left disappointed by your liberal appointees to the NJ Supreme Court.

[Mr. Jeeves]

I’m a small government fundamentalist...where did we all go? The Republicans certainly have nothing more to offer us.

[jwalsh07]

We lost for a number of reasons. Big spending I wouldn’t put high on the list since a majority of voters just voted for “big spending”.

[silverleaf]

Time for a new party for social conservatives
Seriously

I am tired of expending energy and intellectaul capital on having to associate much less support idiots calling themselves GOP who are contemptuous of moral values as a political concern. People who call Sarah Palin’s baby “it” for example.

[mathurine]

Christine, go off somewhere with Newt and suck on some sour grapes. You weren’t on the ticket; if you had been, it would have lost by a landslide. The conservatives almost saved McCain’s bacon, the moderates didn’t. Why should the moderates be presented as the potential saviors.

[Ingtar]

Two more Lepers.

[peggybac]

It’s a shame they believe the murder of babies, morality and the sanctity of marriage and family is so extreme.

[SJackson]

Time for a new party for social conservatives Seriously

Like it or not, without fiscal and defense conservatives, you're left with maybe 30% of the vote, max. And they'll be purging each other over fiscal and defense issues. I really don't think there were many on the right calling Sarah's baby "it".

[sonofagun]

Her selection cost the ticket support among those moderate voters who saw it as a cynical sop to social fundamentalists, reinforcing the impression that they control the party, with the party's consent.

This may be true, but what the author fails to perceive is the dramatic upswing of conservative support her selection realized which led to the GOP ticket NOT being humiliated by a huge landslide defeat.

I suspect these moderate folks would have swung in Obama's favor anyway. The reason they are moderate is that they have no commitment to the issues they care about and as such, are easily swayed by the Obama "change" rhetoric.

Just a hunch on my part.

[what's up]

True. Perhaps it's a case of jealousy.

Whitman should follow Linda Lingle's lead. She is also a Repub Gov, (from Hawaii). She's considered a moderate, yet she doesn't find abortion, gay marriage or stem cell research stumbling blocks; Lingle backs Palin completely.

[texican01]

I agree.

RINO Whitman is a clueless fool.

Baby killing, pervert pandering and God mocking is not a winning platform in America.

Sarak Palin is the only articulate honest decent Republican on the public stage presently.

[hinckley buzzard]

It's all BS. "Social fundamentalist" issues were not on the table this election. McCain ignored them. The authors' basic premise is totally irrelevant to the recent election, just as they themselves have been irrelevent to the party these many yeas.

The GOP has nothing to gain by abandoning pro-lifers and cozying up to abortionists like Whitman.

[realdifferent1]

Two more insignificant members of the republican party giving us their insight.
I rank their opinion right up there with Barrymore and Lohan.

[scfischer7]

You mean it’s not a winning platform for conservatives. Liberals are just fine with all that... In fact they got their way.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

What I am hearing from the RINO Republicans is that they can better compete against the Liberal Fascism being advocated by the Democrat Party by putting up a Conservative Fascism.

I hate to remind the RINO’s but politics is not the same as a team sport.

The social conservative electorate is what keeps America from becoming like a multi-party European country where politicians form their alliances without being hampered by the electorate.

[datakcy]

Did anyone bother to tell this RINO nitwit that 3 more states outlawed same-sex marriage fraud? Even in ultra-liberal California it was overturned. Seems no matter where the people get to vote on this issue, it is overturned. Too bad the fascists of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont won’t give the people a chance to speak their minds at the polls.

It seems whenever the party embraces the RINO philosophy we LOSE voters. It would appear that folks having the choice to vote for two shades of the same liberal flavor would prefer to stay home. Take note: whenever McCain moved to the right his poll numbers went up. Whenever he reverted back to his RINO status (suggesting putting Al Gore at EPA, jumping on the Socialist bailout, proposing even another $300 billion for home buyouts, etc.), McCain tanked in the polls.

Ms. Whitman - please do us a favor: come out of your liberal closet and go join the other RINOs and Democrats. You couldn’t get more RINO than McCain and it showed what an absolute mistake the party made. The liberal MSM baited the Republicans with their love for McCain only to demonize him after he was the nominee. Never again!!!