[davidosborne]

Please pass it on...

I invite you to read the previous “Just say NO” threads

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/justsayno2johnmccain/

[Resolute Conservative]

I have cut the RNC off a couple of years ago and send directly to candidates.

I got a RNC mailer a couple of months ago and instead of a check I sen them a billing invoice for a reimbursement of my past contributions for they way they have pushed RINO’s and bad policy decisions off on us. I have not gotten a check yet :)

[TexasCajun]

I find it very therapeutic to send my frustrated sentiments to the RNC in their own prepaid envelopes with a big ole HELL NO on the solicitation part.

[golfisnr1]

Go away. Admin: Please pull this thread.

[dk/coro]

LOL. Been down that road before.

Seems that the ludicrousness of the ‘92 Perot alternative”to a lethargic GHWB White House gave us 8 years of sheer hell.

This is not a perfect world; and we best play the cards we are dealt, or go home from the game, dead broke, with hat-in-hand. Political Science 101.

Respectfully submitted, dk/coro — now in Battle Creek. *S*

[cripplecreek]

I couldn’t be paid or tortured into voting for McQueeg.

[jammer]

I’m with you all the way.

[Calpernia]

>>>I ask you to reconsider this option, unless you want to completely DESTROY the two-Party system and move our party so far to the left that the base is completely ignored in ALL FUTURE ELECTIONS...

I find that sentence redundant. THAT was the whole point of the Centrist Coalition.

Senate Centrist Coalition

Excerpt:

According to Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), "The Centrist Coalition is a group of moderate Democrats and Republicans seeking common ground and compromise on issues. ... The Centrist Coalition helps to bridge the two parties ... It brings together progressive national policy initiatives while promoting growth for businesses and increasing personal responsibility for Americans. Most South Dakotans are not left or right-wingers, but instead are right down the middle -- they simply want their government to work well and efficiently. The Centrist Coalition is a good step toward bringing the parties together."

(snip)

"The group also exerted influence in helping to push for enactment of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, said Sandy Maisel, director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

"Maisel said the members who frequently attend the coalition's meetings 'have the potential to have a great deal of influence' in the current Senate which is closely divided with 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats and Jim Jeffords, a Vermont Independent who usually votes with the Democrats.

"'All they need is a swing group of about six or seven, and then they can be very influential,' he said."

Excerpting the Republican Members:

* Republicans

* George Allen
* Bob Bennett
* Kit Bond
* John Chafee
* Susan Collins
* Mike DeWine
* Pete Domenici
* Peter Fitzgerald
* Bill Frist
* Judd Gregg
* Chuck Hagel
* Jim Jeffords
* John McCain
* Pat Roberts
* Richard Shelby
* Gordon Smith
* Olympia J. Snowe
* Arlen Specter
* Fred Thompson
* George V. Voinovich
* John Warner

[Mr. K]

good idea- lets put all our efforts into electing a republican congress, but not one penny for McLame (or any other democrap running as a republican)

DO NOT STAY HOME THIS ELECTION- go out and vote for any conservative or republican for congress- just DON’T pull any lever for president

[Dante3]

If McCain gets the nomination, it means we have basically a one party system. During the last election, the Democrats gave us Kerry, their weakest candidate and the only one in the opinion of many who was likely to lose to Bush. Now, it appears, it is the GOP's turn to provide the worst candidate - somebody likely to lose. For the Democrats and MSM it is a win-win-win.

BTW, did you know that McCain was a POW? Anyway, later he went to visit with his captors. I wonder why he pushed for dropping finding our POW/MIAs.

[davidosborne]

Glad to see this thread getting some traction.. If you have a del.icio.us account please tag this thread for more exposure..

Thanks

http://del.icio.us/DavidOsborne

[archy]

I would encourage you to send any contributions you have made in the past to the RNC to CONSERVATIVE candidates for the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate.

Just about the time that Huckabee dropped out of the race, I happened to have dinner with our state Republican Party Chairman, who told me he expected that the grassroots efforts he'd previously seen on behalf of Republican candidates was going to be particularly critical in this election cycle.

Too bad, I told him: it just became pretty well dead certain that this was going to be a repeat of Bush I's reelection campaign after he broke his *no new taxes* pledge and gave us his semiauto import ban by executive order in 1989. Between throwing away those five to ten million votes, and those drained from him by the campaign of Ross Perot, for whom about one American in five cast their vote, Bush didn't stand a chance.

And that, my dinner companion told me, was why the Republicans running with McCain needed all the help they could get, boith in getting out the vote and with hard-to-find campaign contributions.

And you can count on me, I told him, to give the party back just exactly what we've gotten from them over the last eight years. Right here you go:

And then I gave him one of these, stood up and left, and let him pick up the check.