Posted on 11/16/2005 6:38:25 AM PST by OXENinFLA
I felt this needed its own thread.
Awesome!
Can this guy run for President??
Senator Coburn is speaking at our Cleveland County GOP Fundraiser this Friday night here in Norman, OK. I am so proud of Dr. Coburn and what he has brought to the Senate -- honesty, integrity, and a strong belief in what is the right thing to do.
Oklahoma Republican grassroots spent hours working to elect Dr. Coburn and I know as a member of that group I couldn't be happier with the job he is doing in the Senate.
Wish we had a lot more like Sen Coburn!
Thanks for posting!
Can we lose this war?
Well, that depends on the meaning of the word "lose".
We didn't lose the Vietnam war, we quit. Shortly thereafter, people were clinging to the landing rails of helicopters as we emptied the Saigon embassy and shortly after that human beings were being sent to re-education camps and communists from the North had completely taken over.
Can we lose this war?
No. Can we quit? Can we allow Iraq to fall to the terrorists? Can we allow the Middle East to be siezed by the worst of the worst?
Ask the Democratic Party who has found a possible political foothold on an "anti-war" platform. The more they pervert the truth and rile the citizenry against the war, the more they please their base. Its a dangerous ploy that has longterm and serious consequences much worse than the killing fields of Cambodia, because those killing fields may end up in the USA.
Funny how the General points out why WE may need to part temorarily with some liberties while McCain is trying to advance the rights of heinous terrorists.
I would love to have him as President! I would also be willing to work the same number of hours to make it happen and maybe squeeze in some more. Oklahoma Conservative Republican grassroots put him in the Senate against all odds. He started late in the race against the establishment candidate and a Clinton backed Dem in the general election. He ignited the grassroots here in Oklahoma, he won the primary handily, and defeated the RAT handily.
Only he attributed it to an AOL member. Snopes says it's a hoax:
Can you clone him please? He is desperately needed in California.
I'll give you two Barbara Boxers, and raise you one Diane Feinstein.
Can you clone him please? He is desperately needed in California.
I'll give you two Barbara Boxers, and raise you one Diane Feinstein.
My mistake, Snopes actually says that he didn't write it ... he forwarded it to friends vai email.
Yes...it does deserve a thread....but if I remember correctly....Coburn gave this speech BEFORE the vote on those stupid amendments...
SO...obviously he wasn't listened to by a majority of his own party members, let alone the dems.
Tom Coburn is EXACTLY the kind of Republican we need in WDC. You 'done' good Oklahoma.*~*
"I wish to read, for a few moments, a commentary he has written
What an impressive speech by Sen. Coburn!! One of the best I've seen in a long while. He makes points that no one else has made, to my knowledge.
If we can't stop the Islamofascists, who can?
I'd quote key passages but must run. Will check in later. Let's spead this speech around as much as possible and maybe send Sen. Coburn a big thank you!
See post 10, Coburn was reading a letter going around the net.
Me too.
He's the one we need!
In the 2000 Bush campaign, we discovered something right here on Free Republic. The campaign would send out press releases but they wouldn't get published so three of us decided to try getting the word out for the campaign on FR and asked that Freepers email or deliver the press releases to their local papers. Over time, press releases started getting published and letters to the editor in support of Bush/Cheney began appearing.
I have always said that Free Republic was the link in the chain that helped elect the President and then fought for his right to be President in Florida and around the Nation during the Florida fiasco.
It is not often that one person can make a difference but when you combine an army of folks like on FR, we can all make a difference by sending items like this to our local media and writing letters to the editor. If you are consistent and keep it up, sooner or later more will join the effort.
You cannot sit back and say the MSM is not going to report -- you have to take action if it means taking an article like this personally to your local media and asking them why they continue to ignore and then contact sponsors with the same information. It takes time but you never quit fighting and giving into the liberals and their sidekicks in the media.
If the Oklahoman Conservative Republican Grassroots got discouraged at the lies and lack of reporting on the facts of what Dr. Coburn was saying during the campaign, then he wouldn't be in the Senate. We spent every day calling people, talking to people, sending letters to the editor, calling talk shows to get support for Dr. Coburn.
A phoney poll from the Tulsa World before the election said Dr. Coburn was going to lose by a fairly large margin -- that Friday night we had a fundraiser in Norman attended by some Freepers and a lot of others as you could barely move around the room, and he received quite a bit of money. The most important part was that we believed in this man and with the turnout and our words, he felt that belief, left the event in high spirits and went on to clobber the Clinton candidate in the general election.
Out of many campaigns I have been involved with, those two stand out as examples of what happens when we work together as a group even though we come from various states. Conservatives have to stop getting down or saying something cannot be done -- roll up the sleeves and get it done or keep at it until it is changed. Takes time, patience, and understanding of the enemy but in the end we will win because we have the winning message.
My two cents on this cold, sunny Wednesday morning here in the Heartland of the Country and home to the grassroots movement of Dr. Tom!
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