Posted on 11/11/2009 7:08:05 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
RNC Chairman Michael Steele's promise that the GOP will “come after" incumbents who support President Barack Obama's policies is inexcusable. I like Steele personally — he was an original co-chairman of the Republican Leadership Council along with former Missouri Sen. Jack Danforth and me. He took on that role, he said, because he recognized that the party needed to be able to accommodate Republicans who might come out in different places on various issues. I wish he were still championing that message.
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I’ll just say that we listened to her kind in 2008 and look where it got us.
Thankfully, as NY23 showed, we no longer have to put up with this crap.
Yeah! We can lose elections without any help from RINO's!
“Yeah! We can lose elections without any help from RINO’s!”
I expected a response like that. Actually, what we proved was that were able to give the people of CD23 a conservative to vote for, rather than have to choose between two liberals.
We NEVER were able to do that before (at least like that), and don’t think for a minute it didn’t send earthquakes through the Republican leadership.
Well gee, maybe the NRCC shouldn’t be recruiting carpetbaggers to face conservative republicans already running in primary races.
“We shouldn’t be attacking our own (Christie Whitman Barf)”
Actually, I don’t know of conservatives attacking conservatives. I also don’t know of RINOs attacking RINOs. So I’m not sure what she’s getting at - if she means conservatives attacking liberals, then what’s her point? Do we have to give liberals a free pass or something - and if that’s the case, why even participate in politics?
“Christine Todd Whitman is a former . . . .”
Bingo!
It's all those evil Conservatives' fault!!!!!!!
Dede Scozzafava was SOOOOO far removed from any sort of Republicanism, she was on the fringe. No wonder that the Politico, that leftist rag, has Whitman writing for them to sow discord in the GOP.
I’m so disgusted with the scumbags in the GOP who are doing this crap I can barely stand it.
They play this game of pretending they learned something from the NY race but are quietly trying to manipulate primary races around the country.
They need to stay the hell out of the congressional primaries till we the people choose our candidates. If they win this game in my district, they’ll likely lose my vote for good.
Yeah, I know. Except that, they should've learned that lesson from the bigger demonstration in 2006.
But it seems all we're teaching RINO's is that they can rely on liberals consistently voting for them, and conservatives will yank their support on any single issue failure.
The only powerful congressmen are the ones in solid districts. Pelosi and Frank can be leftist extremists because they can't be fired.
If Hoffman had won by a razor thin margin, knowing that they could manuever Hoffman into a litmus "before/against" vote that would piss off the conservative base, and he'd be a lame duck.
“But it seems all we’re teaching RINO’s is that they can rely on liberals consistently voting for them, and conservatives will yank their support on any single issue failure.”
I couldn’t agree more...I do get the impression that a LOT of people here expect Republicans in the Northeast to vote like Jim Inhofe on every issue...well guess what, they will NOT get elected in many of those states if they had a record like that. People tend to forget that, other than Lincoln Chaffee (who was a TOTAL loser), even Senate RINOs almost always supported Bush on judges, which is not a minor thing (since they knew that those same judges would eventually vote to jettison Roe vs. Wade).
“We shouldn’t be attacking our own...”
But it’s OK when you attack conservatives, isn’t it Christie?
Fu** her and the horse she road in on. The same goes for Michael Steel...
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By shouldn’t be attacking our own, does she mean shouldn’t be attacking democrats. That is her party after all.
In very short order Christie and all of her ilk are going to discover that they're nothing but parasites with no constituency; that there is no big tent. There is nothing but conservatives who've been willing to work and pay for their excesses only to be called names when the electorate prefers to take their Democrats straight form the bottle instead.
She and Bill Weld are great pals and liars. They underminded ‘their own’ every chance they got when they had power. Rinos always undermine conservatives unless conservatives wake up and decide to crush them which is not hard to do given the rino wing of the party fits into a pup tent.
When they start whinning about a “big tent” you know they are realizing there are rino hunters in town because otherwise they could care less about that big tent.
Christie Todd Whitman is a colossal hypocrite:
The Committee for Responsible Government (CRG) was founded by a group of moderate Republicans in 1992 as a response to the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston, Texas where Pat Buchanan gave the address known as the "culture war" speech.
The Republican Leadership Council (RLC or RLC-PAC), founded in 1993 as the Committee for Responsible Government, is a political advocacy group and political action committee that promotes Republican candidates who espouse a platform that the organization characterizes as "fiscally conservative, socially inclusive."
Senator John Danforth and Governor Christine Todd Whitman created the political organization...
Also, they changed many of the state primary rules so that ‘open primaries’ would allow for more RINO’s to be nominated.
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