McCain doesn oppose the Marriage Protection Amendment. So far he has not taken a position on it.
Who cares? The positions of Arnold, Guiliani and Pataki aren't close to a majority of Republicans nationwide. Unless these gentlemen get up there and deliver rip-roaring speeches in favor of abortion and gay marriage (highly unlikely), what they say will make little practical difference.
Maybe Mr. Weyrich should remember the 1992 convention when Pat Buchanan let loose with his speech. I was embarrassed by that speech as were thousands of other conservatives.
Why don't we just tell all the moderates to take a hike and have an inclusive Republican Conservative Party and lose all the elections so people like this can continues to whine we are losing and don't understand why. (sarcasm)
You don't put on a party convention for the rank and file -- you put it on to capture votes of that mushy middle. Would I prefer that we were all Conservative in the Republican Party -- you can take that to the bank. Do I want to win every election -- absolutely. Right now those two don't go together thanks to a bunch of states with non-conservative values. That means in the general election you have to got to have moderates go vote and be in the party to ask others to vote. Will not turn my back on moderates when we need their votes so desparately to keep two extremely liberal lawyer RATs out of the WH. Those two make our moderates look conservative when comparing their voting records.
Some of these conservative writers need to put a zipper on their lips and keyboard until the election and just get out and get conservatives elected across the Country and re-elect Bush-Cheney '04.
When you have people like Rudy and Arnold in your Party, you need to spotlight them to bring in votes. I am very comfortable with both of them speaking. Rudy is a fantastic speaker -- heard him this spring.
We are not a one issue party and we are certainly not an exclusive party as much as Weyrich and some others want to make it so. I want to register as many new Republicans as we can to go vote -- they need to have one overall agenda and that is defense and homeland security which go hand and hand.
For social issues, you change hearts one at a time and we are winning in the hearts of the American people but you don't do it by shoving it down their throats. You do it by individual contact. Showcasing on the national stage some of our more outspoken conservatives plays to the base but we need to win this national election for the security of our Country which triumps social issues IMHO. Without national security, we don't have to worry about social issues, some socialist will take care of that for us.
Enough of my mini rant for this morning -- have some other things to get done -- local House Rep needs reelected and RATs are after him big time because he stands up for Conservative values.
Regards, Ivan
Should Catholics who support the RINOs on the platform or Specter also not present themselves for Communion?
Hmmm...several here disagree.
I happen to think it's a good article and that Bush needs to fire up his CORE to win, not the center.
We'll see who is right the day after the election.
" Often I have become known as a cheerleader for Bush-Cheney "
Oh really.
Paul Weyrich routinely writes " this is the last straw " columns where he threatens President Bush that conservatives will stay home in November.
Moderate = babykilling gun grabbers. Adultery and sexual misconduct issues plague many of them as well. But then again, whose convention is it, anyway?
If Bush gets the vast majority of votes from serious Catholics, he wins. To do that, a Henry Hyde or Rick Santorum would need to assure serious Catholics that Bush is where they are and Kerry is absolutely in the opposite camp. You won't get that from the presently constituted line-up at the Convention.
For all their brilliance, Mehlman and Karl Rove (who no doubt vetted this line-up) have made a very serious mistake with this Convention's line-up.
It is one that the rank and file should not tolerate. If the President is embarrassed to be seen with conservatives at the Convention, maybe conservatives will be embarrassed to be seen with the President on Election Day.
President Bush, are you listening?
Ping. (As usual, if you would like to be added to or removed from my "conservative Catholics" ping list, please send me a FReepmail. Please note that this is occasionally a high volume ping list and some of my ping posts are long.)
Then STFU. This is a critical election and desperate times for our country. Kerry would be WORSE than Clinton. The speakers are all about helping Bush appeal to moderate voters which will sway this election in November.
Good grief. What a whiner. If you knew that the election was going to be decided by about 6-10% of the populace who occupy the middle -- what would be the wise thing to do at your convention? Try to shove and "agenda" down people's throats? Preach to the choir? I thought that was what liberals and activist judges did?
Does Weyrich hear himself? The words hateful, spiteful, mean, narrowminded, petty and childish spring to mind.
"MODERATE" will get Kerry elected.
Since this is a Republican convention it seems to me that all aspects of the party would be included.
Mehlman will be leading Bush-Cheny down to defeat.
Bush has demonstrated an incomparable lack of good judgement on any number of issues, especially when selecting "advisors"
No Republican will ever be elected to office by pandering to the left. He won't get liberal votes (and these four RINOs are "liberals", not "moderates" - Bush is a "moderate") and he will erode his conservative base enough to loose enough of them to be defeated.
These four had better be very careful what they say, and they had better be balanced with a strong slate of conservative speakers.
So much for the "no liberal media" line...