Posted on 01/12/2012 2:41:55 PM PST by neverdem
The blinding speed with which the country has veered left under Obama has left Republicans desperate to find a way to take back the steering wheel. With that in mind, it is impossible to turn on the television and see any political analysis of the GOP presidential nomination process that doesn't inevitably turn to the question of which of the candidates can beat Obama in the general election. As many of the polls reflect, most such discussions come to the conclusion that Mitt Romney is the safest choice. However, this argument from electability is based in fear and defeatism, and it produces candidates who fail to energize the voting public enough to win elections, much less edge the direction of the country back to a rightward trajectory. The nomination of John McCain in 2008 is only the latest example...
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...the Republicans are poised to select another Bob Dole or John McCain. As Republicans are embarrassed and afraid to offer a solidly conservative candidate, they only give credence to the mantra of the left that the GOP is filled with right-wing extremists. They're acting as though they believe it themselves.
The left-leaning bias in the press cannot be changed in the short or intermediate term, nor can it be avoided by running candidates the media may find less objectionable. The Democrat candidate will always be the hero to the GOP's villain. Sooner or later, the GOP is going to have to muster the courage to trust the American people to see through the biased coverage, and to support a candidate who reflects the conservative values that are still generally mainstream, even if not in the dominant media. The strategy of appeasing the left with a watered-down candidate is destined for defeat in the both long and short term.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Safe + Moderate not equal to Electable - Low-beta isn’t always better.
I intend to write in George Washington for president and vote conservative on all other ballot measures.
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
I still remember watching this moment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO2_49TycdE
That was the moment that the RINO GOP insiders were put into the back seat - for only four years, but long enough to get something useful done, nonetheless.
It’s the little Republican primary voters who continually keep the ruling class entrenched.
A bunch of Rino losers afraid of their own shadow.
Yep. Congress Rinos tell Obama “Tsk, tsk, we disapprove.”
Oooooh, Obama is just quaking in his boots now..........sarc.
Posted at 01:20 PM ET, 01/11/2012
GOP Rep: We’ll vote to disapprove of ‘recess’ appointments — once we’re back from recess
By Felicia Sonmez
Freshman Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), the author of a new House resolution disapproving of President Obama’s move to recess appoint former Ohio attorney general Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is out with a head-scratcher of a news release this morning.
FR used to be a site about political activism. More Freepers need to step away from their keyboards, put down their screens, and start working to elect conservatives to state and local offices. Hook up with your local Tea Party. Doesn’t matter who wins the presidential race, we are going to need conservatives in Congress to lead the way. And while you’re at it, stop in en masse at local government meetings. You can actually stop them from spending your money. I know—I saw it. We are all acting like passive victims of abuse. As Obama said, time to take off the bedroom slippers......
“If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures.” - Alexander Hamilton
Babye Mitt/Beck bot...ZOT!
“If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures.” - Alexander Hamilton
Babye Mitt/Beck bot...ZOT!
“If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures.” - Alexander Hamilton
Babye Mitt/Beck bot...ZOT!
Signed up December 2011?
You forgot, Sandra Day O’Connor was up there voting against Reagan ad nauseum.
Yeah, the Republicans need to start throwing bombs.
Republicans had the Tea Party, Democrats had the KKK.
Barack Obama, murdered 200 Mexicans and counting.
Solyndra, Obama’s plan for the American Economy.
I long for the time SNL gets edgy enough that they show a Tea Partier in eternal detention because Joe Biden called him a terrorist.
Nothing pisses off democrats more than being ridiculed.
>Yeah, the Republicans need to start throwing bombs.
Fast and Furious in itself should have been a big enough bomb... it’s enough to rattle even those that aren’t in the news (or are into one-sided news), but it’s almost like they’re “afraid to rock the boat.”
Sure it can. What did we tell Col. Suharto in 1965? He got rid of his PKI problem, and they were on the verge of taking the country down.
And for the record, our press doesn't have a "left-leaning bias" -- they are hard-line ideologues and bigots who dream of sending us to the crematoria. The remaining daylight between them and the murderous Bill Ayers has been reduced to Zero.
Well, weren't about fifty new conservatives elected to the House in 2010, but there presence seems to have been of no notice?
Not enough. We need to elect more. The Dems and Rinos are trying to triangulate them out of existence because they are a threat to business as usual.
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