Posted on 01/04/2005 7:13:52 AM PST by Hugenot
Christine Todd Whitman and the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party just don't get it. At a time when Democrats are realizing that their party is out of touch with basic American values, Whitman is bemoaning the takeover of the Republican party by zealous "social fundamentalists."
While her memoir It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America will be released on January 27, the product description on Amazon.com is disturbing.
"Relentlessly pushing their ideological stances on abortion rights, race relations, the environment, tax policy, and go-it-alone foreign policy, the conservative extremists are not only violating traditional Republican principles, she argues, but are also holding the party back from achieving a true majority. By playing so slavishly to the far-right base, running negative campaigns and marginalizing women, the party has forsaken the much broader base that propelled the "Reagan revolution" and has fueled the country's overheated polarization."
Perhaps Whitman wrote the book before the 2004 election, where the President won a solid re-election bid despite relentless media opposition and the Republicans gained seats in both the House and the Senate. When do Republican majorities in the House and Senate qualify as a "true majority?"
Maybe no one told Mrs. Whitman that "moral issues" was the top voting issue for 22% of all voters. Perhaps Whitman was unaware of the pre-election Gallup polling which indicated that 25% of Bush supporters are single issue pro-life voters. Gallup also noted that they found similar results in both the 2000 and 1984 presidential elections. Maybe Whitman did not see the Zogby polling in 2002 which indicated that the pro-life position was responsible for victories in several key Senate races which amounted to an unprecedented midterm election victory for the Republicans.
How can Whitman call two-thirds of Americans who supported initiatives in eleven states to prohibit gay marriage "social fundamentalists?" How does she propose that Republicans make up for the 25% of Bush supporters who describe themselves as single–issue pro-life voters?
It is also very interesting that she presumes to lecture the party of Lincoln about race relations after the infamous photograph of her smiling for the cameras as she frisked a black man while touring with the New Jersey State Police. She really advanced the cause of race relations with that maneuver!
Maybe Republicans like Christine Todd Whitman will save the Democrats from their "values gap" problem after all.
They are two sides of the same coin. They both want the Govt. to take a position, and make law, though on opposite sides, on issues on which the Govt. should have no position at all.
The Govt. will almost always be right when they say "that's none of our business, we are staying out of it".
So9
Anyone who uses the term "marginalizing" in referring so some special class of people is a liberal who has no real support for his/her position. This is just an observation that I have made over the years.
her memoir It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America will be released on January 27
Some milquetoast has-been dingbat with her worthless musings on what people far better than her are doing wrong.
Other than tax-payer funded libraries (who don't care how they spend other people's money), who the hell is going to buy this book?
PURGE THEM!
The title of her book is whiny. Let's see who buys it.
Christie Todd Whitless has the same effect on me that Nancy Pelosi does.
She makes my skin crawl and my gag reflex kick in...
"It's my party, and I'll whine if I want to..."
Let me re phrase that for you Christie:
"Relentlessly pushing their ideological stances on abortion rights, race relations, the environment, tax policy, same sex marriage, the liberal extremists are not only violating traditional American principles, but are also holding the country back from the principles that got it through the first 200 years of its existence. By playing so slavishly to the far-left base, running negative campaigns and marginalizing minorities and women, the party has forsaken the much broader base that propelled the "Reagan revolution" while it fuels the country's overheated polarization."
Nice! Real nice!
Who twice vetoed the ban on partial birth abortion.
She presumes to lecture us about values?
Ms. Whitman, stick to your knitting and get off the stage.
No, you're not the only one. Not even close.
Let's go with "Truth in Advertising" ...
The communist & socialist need to form their own party and leave the DNC.
The democrats in the RNC need to go back and re-form the Democrat Perty
and the Republican party can re-group with ONLY those who believe in our Capitalist Representative Republic
All others may either make their own party or join the major party closest to their ideologies.
I am sick of the so-called RNC leadership that allows leftists to call themselves republicans just so they can have the "numbers".
She's pretty much run the course. She's been neutralized by the party she claims to have been estranged from. She sounds like all of the other east coast whiners.
yawn... is there any particular reason you posted this other than to promote a filthy book?
Don't let the door hit your liberal "attitude" on the way out.....
"Other than tax-payer funded libraries (who don't care how they spend other people's money), who the hell is going to buy this book?"
Republicans who are not on the far right and Democrats who are not on the far left. Basically, moderates.
Moderates are the group of individuals who have now become the 20%(I think 40%) of the voting block that was formerly called Independents. IMHO I think today we have a 20% hardcore left, 40% hardcore right and 40% Republicrat.
This is the group that the RINO's and DINO's will play to in the next elections. Whitman isn't off in her assessment. Problem for her is that this is now what the majority of the country wants, as they voted for this.
Like the RATS, she will have to get used to the fact that our country is going back to the days of the moral majority.
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