Posted on 01/04/2005 9:35:27 PM PST by kattracks
The Republican Party is being "dictated to by a coalition of ideological extremists," a former Bush administration Cabinet official says in a new book that blames President Bush and his top political strategist for failing to bring more "blue states" into the Republican column in November.
Christie Whitman, the former Republican governor of New Jersey who resigned her post as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency in May 2003, says Mr. Bush and adviser Karl Rove were wrong in their strategy of boosting turnout among the party's voting base of political "extremists" on the right, including evangelical Christians.In her new book, "It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America" — due in bookstores Jan. 31 — Mrs. Whitman says the Republican Party has failed to reach out to "moderates" like herself.
The Republican Party "at the national level is allowing itself to be dictated to by a coalition of ideological extremists — I call them social fundamentalists — groups that have claimed the mantle of conservatism and show no inclination to seek bipartisan consensus on anything," Mrs. Whitman writes in the book.[snip]
Fellow Republicans reacted sharply to the arguments Mrs. Whitman makes in advance copies of her book.
The Republican Party is winning elections by "sticking to our principles of trusting free people and free enterprise," said Sen. George Allen of Virginia, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
"I take issue with her prescription," said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican. "Our winning the White House again and increasing our majorities in the House and Senate show that most of the American public agrees with our philosophy of government."
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She's a POWERLESS RINO. Republicans in NJ don't want her. They're looking to Tom Kean Jr. as the future. If she becomes a Democrat, NJ Democrats won't give a damn about her because they don't trust her.
She should just do more interviews with Ali G -- her rap was done pretty well.
I'd ask dimWhitman who was the last moderate GOPer to get elected President. Nixon's social and fiscal policies were be called moderate by today's standards but he was thought of as a hard line anti-commie. Not totally true because detente was never designed to defeat the USSR but that was the perception of him.
She's just mad because she can't be President and/or she's just trying to make a buck the only way she knows how.
The publisher told her she had to say what, in order to get an advance?
No bucks for former Ms. EPA. What's Carol Browner doing these days? EPA isn't even cabinet level. Whinerman has nothing to spill and less to offer on any other subject.
yitbos
;^)
Geez. Now I'm an extremist. What next?
Im sorry but people who win elections do not need advice on winning elections
So much for bipartisanship. Witless was a RINO and had to be fired.
No better results will be achieved trying to "just get along" with libs. Beg as they will.
yitbos
I concur.
Thoughtful analysis and I bet you are right. It came out too quickly after the election and doesn't really make sense. I think you nailed it.
I remember when she was appointed to the position.... That the people who she in now kissing up to called HER a right-wing extremist ... and that was the nicest thing that they said about her.
Now, she is just a back-stabbing opportunist. and will get no respect from anyone. Talk about cutting your own throat.
The 'wrong" strategy worked, did it not? GWB won.
I guess she is trying to convince all 3 people that will buy a book from a failed governor.
An Ee-Van-Gelical named Blam, who is into guns & dogs. Perfect. It's OK: I've gotten used to being a living stereotype...I go you one better and still wear a high-and-tight a decade after leaving the military. BTW: You look like a clone of my Dad. You're Pa wasn't a semi-pro hockey player was he? :0)
'Quill
Bump.
On top of that, NJ was so close in the end that if she had actually supported the President maybe he could have won or come even closer.
Plus, if he's so extremist, how did he get 46% in NJ?
#18..I think you're exactly right!
I wonder if it's too late to give the dog back?...:^
Christie, Christie, Christie....RINOs like yourself are the very reason I will not be endorsing and voting for Dick Lugar in the next Senate race.
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