Posted on 11/16/2008 11:35:46 AM PST by SJackson
Now, let's see a show of hands by those people who still insist it isn't time to replace The GOP.
No silly. :)
Excuse me, Ms whitman & Mr. bostock, but it was social fundamentalists who started the Republican party. So if you two don't like it, then you're welcome to leave it. Just make sure you don't let the door hit you in the --- on your way out. K?
If we have that.. the Liberals would win all the time. We need to bring the REAGAN DEMOCRATS to the GOP, and not let them be brainwashed by the MARXIST DEMOCRATS.
To go along with your post I thought you might enjoy this:
http://gloriajane.podOmatic.com/entry/2008-11-15T09_05_19-08_00
This old song, “John Brown’s Body” is about 150 years old. It’s from back around the time that abolitionists and Kansas farmers first formed the republican party. It’s about the abolitionist and well known Baptist Preacher John Brown who gave his life to put an end to slavery.
During the civil war northern soldiers, also referred to at the time as Yankee soldiers, used to sing the song as they marched off to battle.
After Julia Ward Howe heard the Union troops singing this, which is the original version of the song, she wrote her own words to it’s tune. Soon after, her version, was published in the “Atlantic Monthly” as “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
It’s kind of significant that New Jersey is the only state where, when polled, a majority of the people said that they would like to live somewhere else.
One would hope that it would begin to elect some leaders with a little more wisdom and leadership beyond its bounds than we have seen for a long time.
“Social fundamentalists.” Ah, you mean people who actually believe in something. Or rather, people who do not believe in selling out their nation or the American people to the radical left. Yeah, those dummies! Look how well McCain did with his appeal to the braindead “moderate majority!” Gee, what are we conservatives, we actual Americans, thinking about!
Therefore, moderates are flip-floppers! :) Luke-warm, ready to be spit out of God’s mouth, especially after voting pro-death to the innocents. Like Whitman!
“Whitman is great for ultra-liberal states like NJ.”
Republicans should generally ignore the words of any pol from a state that is on salt water or a major river.
“Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment”
He!!, waking up in the morning and seeing Michele, my gal, is PUNISHMENT!
AWNT ESTHER!
Go ahead and try to win without us.
-—”Christine Whitman and Robert Bostock: GOP can’t afford to remain hostage to social fundamentalists”-—
I agree - the Social Libertarians are killing us. Unreliable, bad at turning-out, no grassroots machines to offer, tend to defect in important elections and on votes......I don’t want to be held hostage to their demands anymore. They often choose our candidate and STILL defect (see McCain, Dole). Until we’re finally Social Democrats, we’ll never be good enough for them.
I’ve had enough of the Social Libertarian fundamentalists too, Whitman and Bostock. These two are right - we should stop being held hostage to them.
Or were they referring to something else.......? ;-)
Because being taken "hostage" by liberal Democrats is so much better.
That's true, but not really the issue. Hostage, where was the McCain campaign held hostage to social issues. This election began as a referendum on the war, having won that, on the economy. I'm sure McCain mentioned abortion somewhere, I missed it, gay marriage was opposed by Obama and Biden, because the voters oppose it.
There were no "fundamentalist" issues discussed in this campaign.
ditto
in fact, if the RINOS win this battle then I am going to register as a democrat
I will vote for the most conservative democrats I can find or no one at all
True. This was not an election about cultural issues. The RINOs are still trying to blame it all on Sarah Palin and social conservatives.
It was really about the rejection of the big government conservatives like Christie Whitman, IMO.
Without the “social fundamentalists,” they’d really have been hurting. That was the only thing that got many people out to vote for the GOP.
Except for the GOP nod to opposition to abortion and opposition to things like gay “marriage,” the parties are virtually indistinguishable. Take away the social conservatism, and you’ve taken away the only reason to vote for the GOP.
Let’s see: 57 million Catholic voters looking for a voice, and 80% of the country describing itself as Christian. Not only is Whitman a mindless moderate; she can’t count.
—Republicans never win when they run as “Democrat Lite”.—
You are absolutely right.
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