Posted on 05/29/2005 11:31:38 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
About Us:
Our vision is a Republican Party that is unified by the basic tenets of fiscal responsibility and personal freedom, but that allows for diverse opinions on social issues by its members.
IMP-PAC is chaired by Christie Todd Whitman, a lifelong and loyal Republican and a leader of the party’s moderate wing, who served in the Bush cabinet as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January 2001 to May 2003. Prior to that, she was the first female elected governor of New Jersey, serving two terms from 1993 to 2000.
Advisory Board:
Congressman Mike Castle (R-DE)
Susan Cullman
The Honorable Robert J. Dole
Lewis M. Eisenberg
David Eisenhower
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
President Gerald R. Ford
The Honorable Michael Huffington
Honorable Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Congressman Jim Kolbe (R-AZ)
The Honorable Amo Houghton
The Honorable John McCain
The Honorable William G. Milliken
Congressman Rob Simmons (R-CT)
The Honorable Alan Simpson
Candace L. Straight
The Honorable William Weld
we also need to remember that neither the conservative nor the liberal bases are enough to win an election on a national scale. There has to be some moderate appeal or else you get 35% and an @$$-whuppin....
Traditionally, you're exactly right. But I believe things are changing - due to new media.
Also, we are in the failed-liberal stage of the 30-year cycle (by analogy, it's 1975 and Bush represents Ford or Nixon). That means we have about 5 more years of desperate times, to be followed by a decade of Reagan-like conservatism. Or so the theory says.
yeah but does that mean Hillary would win in 08?
It depends what you're conservative about. Abortion yes I am pretty conservative, but not on contraception. Censorship of pornography or language, no way...censor yourself or your own kids. Gay marriage...too much of a waste of good political energy (more for civil unions, but it's not going to affect striaght marriages). Stem cell research...very tricky ground specially in the desire to make the uber mensch...have to be careful here. I feel more comfortable in big tent conservatism...actually I'd be a libertarian if it were a more viable party. I have voted for libertarian candidates in the past.
christie todd whitman is nobody.
spending money on this pac is just an effort by the left to try and make the parties "generic" again.
Perhaps she should become a democrat and do the same "its my party BS."
These people should do what Theresa Heinz did. They do not have to change ANY of their views; just admit your party left you and become a Democrat.
On the flip side, never met a tax that I like. I truly believe that our national defense should receive the highest share of budget money (I can be a bit hawkish too). And I am a FIRM believer in capital punishment!
George Soros owns the Democrats and brags about it. He contributes to these Republicans because he wants to own both parties outright. If those pesky conservatives would just go away and stop causing problems, he could own the country (and brag about it.)
We have besides these men descended by blood from our ancestors-among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe German, Irish,. French and Scandinavian men…if they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none,…but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, [that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are LIFE]and then they feel that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as through they were blood of blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world.
If you can't abide, join the culture of death, the democrat party.
The first two tenets seem straight-forward. The third is as vague as it can be. If one declares their principles with the implied proviso that they may abandon some of them at any time if they are not consistent with another vaguely stated belief, can one claim to be a principled person?
I would think Allen with Rice could do it....
maybe a couple others, but it is going to be an interesting race...
I remember hearing about a movement by in the 1910's or 20' where the elites set about contributing and manipulating both parties so that is would NEVER MATTER which party won. (I think it was michael reagan or another radio show host. Liddy?)
They did not want to have to worry about which party won or whether voting by the populace in general would matter.
I see these RINOs as a movement to foster irrelivancy.
A few of the sheeple have one eye open and that is enough to cause the elite a few sleepless nights.
Perhaps this is an effort for the powerless Rino's to get money from soros and co.
I'm thinking of just using your post as my explanation of my own beliefs! Though we differ in one area--I'm getting a little soft on the capital punishment thing. I agree with it when we're taking out those who we know for a dead (pun intended) certainty did the crime, but I'm also pretty leery of taking the government's word for it. On the other hand, if we quit making the prisons an "alternative living" area, I'd be all for leaving them in there to rot indefinitely.
"we also need to remember that neither the conservative nor the liberal bases are enough to win an election on a national scale. There has to be some moderate appeal or else you get 35% and an @$$-whuppin...."
Absolutely correct. Us despised moderates are just as important. The choice is clear. Big tent or no tent.
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