Posted on 11/18/2008 9:07:26 PM PST by Coleus
Until we can attain a majority without them we need them with us. They have to be taught to accept us as the driving force and if that's unacceptable they leave. BTW, where would they go? The Rats don't want them.
Quote: “The Republican Party had been taken hostage by “social fundamentalists,” the people who base their votes on such social issues as abortion, gay rights and stem cell research. Unless the GOP freed itself from their grip, we argued, it would so alienate itself from the broad center of the American electorate that it would become increasingly marginalized and find itself out of power.”
Oh, is that why one of the only true Republican victories in this election was the passage of Prop 8 in, of all places, California? Regardless, Christine dear, if you walk down the middle of the road, then sooner or later you will get run over. There is no such thing as a moderate on election day. Come election day a moderate goes into the booth and becomes either a dem or a republican depending on who he or she votes for. The democrats went hard left after the 2004 election yet they have emerged victorious. Who knew, turns out the voters preferred the real brew to the fake stuff (this means you, Christine). Going soft left in response to the democrats going hard left was not the answer.
One more thing to note, are the democrats not also “social fundamentalists?” Euthenasia, abortion on demand, secularism, need I go on. Yet they espouse these ideals with every bit of vigor as anyone on our side espouses our ideals. Why then, under your theory, Christine dear, did the dems win if they have “social fundamentalists?” Christine, go back to the country club where you belong and leave the driving to us conservatives.
Yes, and had it not been for the engineered economy 'bailout' which McCain fell for he most likely would have won this election.
One thing the 'moderates' seem to forget is that conservatives will almost always support the moderate candidate, even if they don't like him or her, in order to thwart the Democrats. It seems though the moderates don't care to return the favor, and will even abandon the moderate candidate, as we saw with Colin Powell, and others in this last election.
So, who exactly is BETTER for the Republican Party's chances, in any given election, Christie, the 'social fundamentalists', or the 'social liberals'?
She barley beat the hated tax-hiker Florio and Jim “Mark Foley” McSveevey then a pissant Mayor. Both races should have been beatdowns by the GOP.
No one should take her advice unless they want continued rat domination.
# 1997 Race for Governor: Christine Todd Whitman (R) (inc.), 47% - James McGreevey (D), 46%
# 1993 Race for Governor: Christine Todd Whitman (R), 49% - James Florio (D) (inc.), 48%
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# 1990 Race for U.S. Senate: Bill Bradley (D) (inc.), 50% - Christine Todd Whitman (R), 47%
She never even got a majority. What a joke! What does she know about electoral success?
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