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Future of the Republican Party (Chris Shays and Stephen Moore)
C-SPAN ^ | 29 Jan 06

Posted on 01/29/2006 4:48:34 AM PST by leadpenny

At 7:45 ET this morning:

Call-In

Future of the Republican Party

C-SPAN, Washington Journal

Shays, Christopher, U.S. Representative, R-CT

Moore, Stephen, Senior Writer, [Wall Street Journal], Economics

Participating by remote video feed, Representative Shays and Mr. Moore discuss the future of the Republican Party. Mr. Moore participates from West Palm Beach, Florida, while Representative Shays speaks from Stamford, Connecticut. They will discuss the Republican agenda, leadership in Congress, the House majority leader elections on February 2, and issues to be mentioned in the State of the Union address. The guests respond to telephone calls and electronic mail.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Connecticut; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 109th; chrisshays; cspan; gop; stephenmoore
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To: whattajoke
I live in the Constitution State as well. Is there no conservative willing to challenge Shays in the primary? I would work my butt off for any one who meets two requirements:

1. Must be to the right of Shays (not hard to do).
2. Must have some guts.

Who is out there who detests Shays as much as I and could give him a real fight? Frankly, I don't fear that Shays would be so beaten up in a primary that he might fall to Diane Farrell. There isn't a dime's worth of difference between them, and the next election would only be two years down the road.

Perhaps a conservative challenge, even if unsuccessful, would set the table for a future successful challenge.

21 posted on 01/29/2006 6:12:33 AM PST by Dr. Thorne
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To: Dr. Thorne
Perhaps a conservative challenge, even if unsuccessful, would set the table for a future successful challenge.

I admire your idealism, Doc. As each year passes, this true conservative challenge seems more and more impossible here. Truth be told, I actually do enjoy a lot of what my town has to offer and you can't touch our autumns (or our Huskies), but I swear, I'm slowly going insane living here!
22 posted on 01/29/2006 6:35:41 AM PST by whattajoke
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To: whattajoke

I listened to this, and when it was over I was depressed. Shays is so old hat! CAFE standards???? Mr Shays, you need to get out more. Or, as Grudge keeps saying, get out of the way old man with your old ideas. You are in the way of our new technology! With GM and Ford both in the dumper and bringing out flex fuel cars and delivering hydrogen prototypes he is bitching about Cafe standards. give me a break.


23 posted on 01/29/2006 6:49:35 AM PST by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: leadpenny

Naturally C-Span would invite Shays, who is totally out of the mainstream of Republicans today, to talk about the future of Republicans. Irrelevance loves irrelevance.


24 posted on 01/29/2006 6:57:24 AM PST by Wuli
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To: whattajoke

Everytime I see leftist (as long as I get the NYTimes loving stories) Shays, I'm reminded why we left Connecticut. It's a perfect example of a purple state. . . even GOP is red with only a speck of blue thrown in by the Rinos to win elections.
Gary Franks was the last politician whom I admired and I hope he's doing well out of politics now.


25 posted on 01/29/2006 7:08:25 AM PST by SouthCarolinaKit
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To: sittnick
The son of the senator who never met a gun ban bill that he didn't love...

Lincoln Chaffee? By the way, Son of a Senator is kind of salty language to be using around here!

He's the one!

Mark

26 posted on 01/29/2006 12:47:41 PM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: OldFriend

"They are supporting a democrat from Texas for Congress. They made a statement saying they think Congress needs mor democrats."

CLub for Growth is supporting a hispanic moderate pro-tax-cut Democrat fending off a hard-core leftist Democrat challenger.
I think their analysis is right on. This is a Democrat district, so they are trying to defend the best possible democrat they can there. Because of RINOs, we need a few moderate Dems to help pass bills like tax-cuts.


27 posted on 01/29/2006 2:42:34 PM PST by WOSG
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To: WOSG
Colorado thought they were getting a moderate/conservative democrat too. His name is Ken Salazar.

Need I say more.

When they get to D.C. the leaders take them by the hand and read them the riot act.

28 posted on 01/29/2006 2:44:36 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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To: OldFriend

The moderate Dem is Ceullar and he is already in office. He's a known quantity who has supported Bush tax cuts.
Again, this is a Democrat district and the choice is moderate Dem incumbent vs hard-left Dem. CLub for Growth has favored the more conservative GOP primary candidate, and this unusual choice extends the same logic into a Democratic primary.


29 posted on 01/29/2006 2:51:12 PM PST by WOSG
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To: RaceBannon; scoopscandal; 2Trievers; LoneGOPinCT; Rodney King; sorrisi; MrSparkys; monafelice; ...

Connecticut ping!

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

30 posted on 01/30/2006 10:29:30 AM PST by nutmeg (NEVER trust democRATs with our national security)
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To: whattajoke

I'm leavin' soon as I graduate...can't stand these hippies...


31 posted on 01/30/2006 10:42:33 AM PST by Andonius_99 (They [liberals] aren't humans, but rather a species of hairless retarded ape.)
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To: Dr. Thorne
Perhaps a conservative challenge, even if unsuccessful, would set the table for a future successful challenge.

Not saying he'd want to, but Shays could be a Senator this time next year. Enough Dems are p.o.'d at Holy Joe Lieberman to fracture the party in November. He could "pull a Weicker" and sneak in with, say, 36% of the vote, the kind of thing his mentor did in 1970.

32 posted on 01/30/2006 6:14:26 PM PST by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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To: Snickersnee

... that is, 36% of the vote in a three-way race. Sorry.


33 posted on 01/30/2006 6:15:53 PM PST by Snickersnee (Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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To: Snickersnee

Great. We would have another Lincoln Chafee in the Senate.


34 posted on 01/31/2006 6:52:39 AM PST by Dr. Thorne
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To: leadpenny
Future of the Republican Party?

Huge spending on domestic and foreign entitlements and large new branches of government would be my guess. Oh, and safety laws. Lately the Republicans are as much in love with safety laws as the liberals are, if not more so.
35 posted on 01/31/2006 6:59:42 AM PST by mysterio
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