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RNC Memo Warns GOPers Not To Distance Themselves From Bush
The Hotline (National Journal) ^ | March 28, 2006

Posted on 03/28/2006 7:52:53 PM PST by Karl Rand

Republican pollster Jan van Lohuizen, in a memo written for RNC chairman Ken Mehlman, warns that if members of Congress try to drive a wedge between themselves and Pres. Bush, it'd be akin to adding weight to an anchor. GOpers are "W Brand Republicans" whether they like it or not. And van Louhizen, who has polled (often secretly) for the Bush White House under the RNC aegis for years, is worried about low turnout.

Time Magazine first reported on the memo this weekend, but the full text is below.

(Excerpt) Read more at hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; albatross; branded; bush; bushrobusteza; congressbots; howlinandherbushbots; lockstep; partysuicide; rnc; wbrand; wbrandmadeinmexico
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To: Badray

"Typical"

Wow. I sit in awe of your wit.


581 posted on 03/30/2006 10:54:38 AM PST by zook
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To: sasafras

"When the dems unfortunately do take back the office I will be in 100% support of the impeachment of this president."

Hear, hear! I agree 100%


582 posted on 03/30/2006 10:59:00 AM PST by B4Ranch (Immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
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To: Cindy_Cin

Have you noticed how Bush1 and Bill Clinton have become best friends? They were both working for the same goals. Bush2 is right on the same track.


583 posted on 03/30/2006 11:04:04 AM PST by B4Ranch (Immigration Control and Border Security -The jobs George W. Bush doesn't want to do.)
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To: Willie Green

Yep, you got that right.


584 posted on 03/30/2006 11:41:37 AM PST by SUSSA
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To: Badray
Bad, you really hate me. You think I'm nuts.

You are right however, the word I was looking for was anecdotal.

But, there is no reason for me to discuss this point further. If you believe I'm out of my mind, then this discussion is nothing but noise.

I wish you the best. I mean that sincerely and with respect.
585 posted on 03/30/2006 11:42:07 AM PST by pollyannaish
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To: Karl Rand
 

       SOLD!


586 posted on 03/30/2006 1:53:21 PM PST by Icelander (Legal Resident Since 2004)
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To: Killborn

For the crime of violating the oath of office -- to protect and defend the Constitution of the US. If he honored his oath -- if any of them did -- we'd have a very conservative (that is -- limited) government.

Only by violating the oath and the Constitution can you get to the place we are now.


587 posted on 03/30/2006 2:00:56 PM PST by Badray
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To: pollyannaish

I don't know you well enough to hate you. I reserve that amount of energy and emotion for a very few.

I do thoroughly disagree with your viewpoint, but i appreciate your politeness. I apologize if I was less than gentlemanly in questioning your sanity. Not for questioning it, mind you. Only the manner in which I did it. ;-)


588 posted on 03/30/2006 2:04:31 PM PST by Badray
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To: Badray
Fair enough. You know us Pollyannas, dim but nice. LOL!

I do want you to know that I respect your position and that I definitely understand the emotion behind it. I prefer to think of your responses not as ungentlemanly, but rather as passionate which is perfectly appropriate. These are treacherous times. I pray that God has mercy on us all.

Feel free to question my sanity any time. Sanity questioning is good for one's soul, even If you end up with the same position in the end. I do try to stand back and evaluate my sanity every now and then, with varying results. ; ).

Hope we meet up again...and next time on the same side of whatever issue it is that we are all feeling passionate about. You are a much easier to have as a friend, then a foe.

589 posted on 03/30/2006 2:29:26 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: pollyannaish

See what you're doing? Now you're gonna make me want to love you.

LOL

And yes, I can be your best friend and you don't want me as your enemy. (With apologies for stealing a USMC slogan.)


590 posted on 03/30/2006 2:51:51 PM PST by Badray
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To: Badray
That's the whole point of this place! Discuss, discuss, discuss....flame, flame, flame....make up, make up make up! Sheesh. Sometimes I think people just don't get it.

Now, how great is it that a conservative pollyanna and a conservative badray can end up friends thanks to our man JimRob.


Ok. Now I am going to have to go have something salty to eat because all this love and sweetness is really, really starting to make my teeth hurt.

591 posted on 03/30/2006 4:04:10 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: zook

For a so called academic you talk like a 14 year old. And with a similar level of thought.


592 posted on 03/30/2006 4:36:36 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: Badray; zook

Don't mind zook.

He's hated me since I called him out on what a phony he is. Preaching the virtues of national downward mobility from a cushy guaranteed job for life.


593 posted on 03/30/2006 4:38:41 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: pissant

And 30 years ago barracks of generals and foreign policy 'experts' were singing hosannas to Imperial Iran. Ten years ago they would have been singing hosannas to the great love the Saudi people have for America. The sort of people you cite so approvingly have been consistently dead wrong about Muslims for quite some time now.

If you believe that the Shiites feel the barest shred of gratitude to America I have a bill of sale for a bridge for you to sign.


594 posted on 03/30/2006 4:44:18 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: Sam the Sham

Only time will tell how grateful they will be.

In the meantime I suggest you read Sandrat's and Gucho's and and Wiz's threads a little more often and lighten up on the NY Times and the anti-Bush threads. Give you some perspective.

Here's a couple examples...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605428/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1606456/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1605031/posts


595 posted on 03/30/2006 5:13:35 PM PST by pissant
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To: tennmountainman

"House passed budget cuts and Democrats opposed it, wanting bigger spending; they passed immigration reform without amnesty and Democrats opposed it"

"WHAT ARE U TALKING ABOUT. THE REPUBLICIANS ARE THE M A J O R I T Y. THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE M I N O R I T Y."

Yes and the House Republican majority passed a tough immigration bill, the Sensenbrenner bill, with Democrats opposed.

Yes and the House Republican majority passed $79 billion in spending cuts, with Democrats opposed.

That's what I'm talking about.

The Democrats + RINOs have a majority in the Senate, which makes conservative bills in the Senate difficult if not impossible, but the House at least can pass out conservative bills.

One every single issue the whiners complain about, the Democrats are far far worse.


596 posted on 03/30/2006 10:40:24 PM PST by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com/)
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To: Badray

If we impeach everyone who violates the Constitution in the slightest, we'll have no one to fight for us. Even our Founding Fathers ran into legality issues from time to time. If we looked close enough at even the best Presidents this country had, we'd still find unConstitutionality problems.

You don't win a war by executing your generals.


597 posted on 03/31/2006 12:33:03 AM PST by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: Sam the Sham

Thanks for helping to expose him.


598 posted on 03/31/2006 12:51:08 AM PST by Badray
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To: Killborn

Find these words for me in the Constitution:

Education
Entitlement
Social Security
Medicare
Foreign aid

Where is the authority to restrict firearms? Free speech?

None of these things are minor infractions. At what point would you start 'executing the generals'? If you show the political will and moral courage to shoot execute the first one, it won't happen again so soon.


599 posted on 03/31/2006 12:55:41 AM PST by Badray
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To: pollyannaish

Making up is always the best part, right?

Potato chips or salted nuts? Be careful how you answer. Our future together depends on your answer.


600 posted on 03/31/2006 12:59:47 AM PST by Badray
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