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Malady afflicts GOP in House, Senate (Novak on GOP moderates -- tail wags dog)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | November 14, 2005 | Robert Novak

Posted on 11/15/2005 9:16:03 AM PST by maryz

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The Boston Herald ran this column today under the title "Moderate Tail Wags Dog."

Can't something be done about these people. "Appeasement" -- as ever -- doesn't work.

1 posted on 11/15/2005 9:16:04 AM PST by maryz
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To: maryz

We could ask them to join the Democratic party where they belong or form a new 3rd party so the voters could see that they dont belong to the Republican party. Continuing to call them Republicans is not an option.


2 posted on 11/15/2005 9:19:39 AM PST by saganite (The poster formerly known as Arkie 2)
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Yes, something can be done. They can be fired from their committees and refused campaign funds next election. Then say hello to Speaker Pelosi, and say goodbye to any discretionary capital you still may own.
3 posted on 11/15/2005 9:20:50 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Sticking a microphone in front of (Terrell) Owens is like giving a crackhead a spoonful.)
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To: maryz

No party support for their election. Active recruitment of primary challengers. Yes, there is things that must be done. Really need the Hammer Tom Delay back.


4 posted on 11/15/2005 9:21:53 AM PST by MNJohnnie (100% of Islamic Terrorists disapprove of the job President Bush is doing)
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To: .cnI redruM

"Then say hello to Speaker Pelosi, and say goodbye to any discretionary capital you still may own."

Or, you get rid of them, and let a real conservative run in their place, and they win the seats, or at least a good percentage of them.

But spending RNC money on these RINOs just to have them vote like democrats is idiotic. Might as well let the democrats pay for their own damn politicians.


5 posted on 11/15/2005 9:23:52 AM PST by flashbunny (LOCKBOX: Where most republicans keep their gonads after they arrive in Washington D.C.)
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To: maryz

And Novak's source for the Plame story is?


6 posted on 11/15/2005 9:24:43 AM PST by popdonnelly
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To: flashbunny
That's possible, but it hasn't worked yet. Maybe if the challenger wins the primary in RI.
7 posted on 11/15/2005 9:24:56 AM PST by .cnI redruM (Sticking a microphone in front of (Terrell) Owens is like giving a crackhead a spoonful.)
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To: maryz

HERE take two of these and go to bed.

BUSH LIED NO QUESTION!! WHAT Hypocrites

http://media1.streamtoyou.com/rnc/111505.wmv


Get everyone of them


8 posted on 11/15/2005 9:26:52 AM PST by CHICAGOFARMER (concealed carry)
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"Maybe if the challenger wins the primary in RI."

Hah, yeah, if the RNC, the NRSC, and the white house wasn't supporting uber-liberal linc chaffee!

The GOP is its own worst enemy.


9 posted on 11/15/2005 9:27:13 AM PST by flashbunny (LOCKBOX: Where most republicans keep their gonads after they arrive in Washington D.C.)
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To: maryz
We all need to forget about Republican or Democrat. I'm a conservative, and I would vote for a conservative Democrat in a New York minute over a liberal/moderate Republican. Send your money to organizations that support conservatives, and not Republicans like Arlen SPECTRE.

We need to face the fact that third parties in this country at least to present haven't produced a viable alternative to the two party system, but we can make damn sure that Republicans we support should also be conservatives. The national Party will not do this for us. We must do this ourselves, and this is where activism plays such an important role. Let's rock the vote with conservatives and not RINO's.
10 posted on 11/15/2005 9:28:45 AM PST by conservativecorner
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To: maryz

Somewhere George Soros is smiling.


11 posted on 11/15/2005 9:29:11 AM PST by NeoCaveman (ANWR is national security, RINO's keep us dependent on foreign oil, aiding our enemies)
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STOP IT.

I refuse to call these LIBERAL republicans 'moderates' (thus implying that the 'other' guys are far right wing extreemists, and they are 'reasonable' and 'calm')

LIBERAL republicans, NOT MODERATE republican.

Hell, Lieberman is MUCH more conservative than these so-freaking-called "moderates".

So STOP IT...

Its LIBERAL republicans not moderate republicans!


12 posted on 11/15/2005 9:30:18 AM PST by FreedomNeocon (I'm in no Al-Samood for this Shi'ite.)
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In the past 10 days:

1. "Winfall Profit" Binge with Democrats against oil companies
2. Removal of Anwar Drilling from Energy Bill (ironic giving point 1)
3. Delay of budget cuts entirely
4. Backpeddaling on investigation of 'Black Prison' leak WHILE they prosecute a 2yr case of lying about a non-crime during an investigation of said non-crime.
5. McStain's "We need a law to stop us from torturing terrorists"
6. Frist and other repukes "Plan for withdrawl"

What is wrong with these clowns?!!?


13 posted on 11/15/2005 9:31:54 AM PST by FreedomNeocon (I'm in no Al-Samood for this Shi'ite.)
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To: maryz

Yeah, the malady is they're big chickens...


14 posted on 11/15/2005 9:32:05 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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Abandonment of oil drilling in the Arctic failed to appease the moderate bloc
The fact that this was attempted makes me want to vomit.
15 posted on 11/15/2005 9:41:58 AM PST by samtheman
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Withdraw financial support to these SOROS Republicans. Withdraw Chairmanships. Drop them from Party endorsed candidates and select new challengers in the Rep primaries. If you can't control them, the next based thing is to distance yourself rather than letting the Party take the hit. Does the GOP have the guts to do that? To directly treat them as they would any Democrat?


16 posted on 11/15/2005 9:47:00 AM PST by Soul Seeker (Mr. President: It is now time to turn over the money changers' tables.)
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To: .cnI redruM

Exactly. The old stick and carrot. It the carrot doesn't work, use the stick and make them hurt.


17 posted on 11/15/2005 9:51:57 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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The solution is conservatives doing what is necessary to eliminate these RINOS from office, even that means letting Democrats have some of the seats for an election cycle.


18 posted on 11/15/2005 9:56:15 AM PST by Ol' Sparky
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To: FreedomNeocon

In order to conform to the "compassionate conservative" they have bought in to the notion that more spending (of other people's money) equals more compassion. It doesn't matter what the spending is on.


19 posted on 11/15/2005 10:00:15 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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These liberals need a trip to the Presidential woodshed.

Unfortunately, no one seems to be willing to take them there.


20 posted on 11/15/2005 10:02:37 AM PST by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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