Posted on 12/03/2005 6:27:44 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Look at the Senate, for example. Fifty-five RATS is four more than they need when the Vice President is of the other party, and the RATS keep their members in fairly strict discipline. Not so for the GOP. With Snowe, Spector, Chafee, Collins, Dole, and sometimes McCain, 55 seats does not mean a majority when it comes down to the votes for the Republicans.
The House has been far more consistent, though sometimes disappointing, than the Senate. The Dems know how to exercise power because they had a lock on power for years and years.
Many GOP members of Congress fall for the MSM trap and the Beltway lifestyle, which more often than not is a distinction without a difference.
Every GOP member of Congress should face primaries, for they are going to need pressure placed upon them constantly. New Pubbie-elects will need pressure from a primary put on their heads, too, when they're up for re-election.
And I'll end with this: Yeah, nearly 100% is against pork-barrel spending and for small government, except when it comes down to their own districts. This is where the people come into play.
I am voting against all of the GOP incumbents in the primaries. I'll vote for the GOP nominee in the election.
Reading through the comments, I see avid, near-unanimous support for what Tony Snow wrote.
GOP LEADERS: THIS IS THE VOICE OF YOUR BASE SPEAKING. IGNORE IT AT YOUR PERIL.
I guess you weren't on the thread where a woman who has a husband in Iraq, is a strong Bush supporter, made a comment that her husband is seeing a decline in morale because the president isn't defending the lies on the left or the mission in Iraq.
I guess you weren't on a lot of threads where similar comments were made by those of us who thought there was no good reason for the president to remain silent in the face of unrelenting lies by leftists, and we were slammed for being critical of the president. It was enough to make a lot of us who think lettings lies stand to seep into the public consciousness isn't a good thing.
Why the shock and surprise?
Isn't the GOP motto: Pulling defeat out of the jaws of victory.
I hope this Long overdue article has legs.
Tony has been reading my mind and my posts.
Republicans arent cowards , but unfortunately they have elected cowards. How can the people we elected forget why we elected them? Obviously they are reading Democrat polls.
No Republican wants to see their President called a liar, and we expect the people we elected to stand behind our man.Not slither away from drunks like Kennedy,Traitors like Kerry ,idiots like Pelosi, and senile old bastids like Murtha.
Name names...
Hello, RNC and White House--let the truth be heard before it's too late!
ping - taking the liberty of suggesting a ping to your Tony Snow Show list. This is Tony at his BEST!!
Here is the problem:
They started consulting pollsters to assay "correct" issues and positions. They played it safe -- or so they thought.
The political consultants know the tricks to getting elected and they want to round off any rough edges and eliminate as many objections as possible. They have no interest in philosophy or values, that is not their job. (Dick Morris is an excellent example.) Their job is to get their candidate elected.
It is the candidates job to direct the consultants rather than to give in and let them direct him. To get elected, they let the tail wag the dog, and it stays that way. It is human nature but it is not leadership..
Yes, well, I doubt that they will be leaving any time soon because they are ones who are in charge. It anything, they are running off the more conservative members.
Since they lack the moral decency to do that, they should be thrown out by leaders with the stomach to act in accord with Party goals.
Sorry, the "leaders," from the top down, have no intention of reducing the size and scope of government, they never have.
Unfortunately, we've been had.
Exactly. You hit the nail on the head. The Republican candidates, campaigns, and party leaders should be using the pollsters and consultants to tell them how well their principled messages are working. Instead the use the pollsters and consultants to tell them how to vote, what to say, etc. It is, as you say, the tail wagging the dog.
I am sending his thoughts to every republican senator/rep I can find and email for, we should flood their offices with it
It's all over. It's either balless wonders as Republicans in government or low-life socialist liars on the Democrat side.
No matter, they are all self-serving rats (on both sides), the majority of them deserving to be hung......... after the proper trial of course.
The Founding Fathers themselves, if alive, would love to string up these self-serving COWARDS in congress who, for example, are ignoring Able Danger, turning on the troops, and blushed like babies when CFR was passed. How about the abysmal eminent domain???
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This country is near death. The politicians are nutless!!!
Please see it as it is!
It's time for some kind of a revolution!
The fat lady hasn't sung yet. Keep putting conservatives in the pipeline and we'll find one or two make the big leagues yet. There are several in Washington now, but they are being held back (Remember the class of '94?). The fact that our issues are on the front burner and the left on the extreme defense says a lot for time and effort. It ain't over yet...
Great move.
And it only took them ten years to figure this out. Not too bad...for gibbering idiots. Now if the Administration can figure it out too, this nation may have a shot at survival.
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