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Whitman pushes GOP moderation
Star Ledger ^ | 04.17.06 | DEBORAH HOWLETT

Posted on 04/17/2006 9:41:56 PM PDT by Coleus

Former Gov. Christie Whitman believes the Republican Party is in deep trouble. The GOP, she says, is now where the Democrats were a dozen years ago in Washington when they lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years. President Bush's popularity is at a low ebb and several GOP leaders have been snared in ethics scandals.

"We're at a critical point," she said. "We're starting to see polls that look just like the polls looked to Democrats in '94." From a converted hayloft of the barn on her family estate in Oldwick, Whitman works each day on what she believes will be the salvation of her party.

She says Republicans must stop their internal bickering and adopt a broader view that allows a less conservative take on social issues such as abortion, gay marriage and stem cell research. She calls for a "new civility."

"The rhetoric is getting harsher, and we're having more divisive elections," Whitman said. "We can't just agree to disagree anymore without being disagreeable. ... People see their opponents as not just wrong, but evil."

Whitman is spreading her word of "radical moderation" and making campaign contributions to moderate candidates through a political action committee she formed last year after releasing her book, "It's My Party Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America."

The book has just been published in paperback, giving new spark for an effort she hopes will pave the way for mavericks like Sen. John McCain of Arizona or former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to run for president in 2008. Whitman has collected $1 million for moderate Republicans in as many as 120 local elections across the nation.

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To: Blue Jays

Smile for the camera, Chrissie, while you pad down the "negroes."

41 posted on 04/17/2006 10:30:52 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Coleus
[ Former Gov. Christie Whitman(R) believes the Republican Party is in deep trouble. ]

Can't we all just get along?...
Only if you're a RINO.. i.e. stealth democrat, traitor..

The Mass Importation of proto democrats across the Mexican Border(and other places) is suicidal to the republican party..

Christie must think all/most republicans are oblivious, sadly, many are..
You know like Christie.. But not all RINOs are oblivious some are democrat shills ON PURPOSE.. Mclaim, Spectre, Chafee, and a boatload of others..

Is Bush a malefactor like McLaim?....... probably..

42 posted on 04/17/2006 10:30:59 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: Blue Jays
What the GOP needs to do is redefine conservatism as being "moderate" and "centrist" in itself.

Conservatism is a winning message which has been proven time and time again. Why some Republicans want to be liberal and yet remain members of the GOP is beyond me.

43 posted on 04/17/2006 10:32:51 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Remove card rapidly)
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To: Blue Jays

You may be interested to know that those rest areas in 295 are now closed, and boarded up, courtesy of Governor McGreevey. I find that amusing on several levels. Payback is payback, pure and simple. Those rest areas were also well known meeting areas for local gays. So it seems McGreevey had to make some choices.


44 posted on 04/17/2006 10:34:41 PM PDT by kylaka
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Why some Republicans want to be liberal and yet remain members of the GOP is beyond me."

Easy answer. Most are arrogant wealthy elites, they don't want to join the party with all those dark-colored people in it. I'll be the first time Chrissie ever touched a Black person was when she felt up the perp in my pic above.

45 posted on 04/17/2006 10:38:20 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Well said! I noticed that too.


46 posted on 04/17/2006 10:55:49 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Remove card rapidly)
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To: Coleus

Christie Whitman was, ism and always be, a lefty at heart, she personifies the word RINO.


47 posted on 04/17/2006 11:00:21 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I view myself no better then the cleaning ladies and the janitors, they just had different opportunities and career choices then myself. I doubt that the up-stuck country-clubbers think the same.


48 posted on 04/17/2006 11:03:21 PM PDT by John Geyer
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To: John Geyer; Clemenza; Clintonfatigued; Extremely Extreme Extremist

I guarantee you those cleaning ladies and janitors have a higher ethical and moral standard and far better values than the Chrissie Whitmans of the world. Another reason why the Whitman's hate "those" people.

I'm reminded of the old slogan from the '50s about Adlai Stevenson -- "Vote for Adlai, He's better than you are." Of course, he never sanctioned those buttons, but it's always what the RINO Country-Club set is thinking regarding their candidates and the electorate... we're better than you, and don't you forget it.


49 posted on 04/17/2006 11:13:47 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: EagleUSA
no, I have not been drinking...

Why not? Are you drunk or something? ;-)

50 posted on 04/17/2006 11:18:44 PM PDT by lowbridge (I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
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To: Coleus

Dear Ms. Whitman,

We are honored by your public service till now. Please shut the hell up and rest.

Sincerely,
Pissed off Indianrightwinger!



Whitman can go to hell and rot there for the rest of her life for all I care. Who the hell is she to tell me, the Republican party or the conservative movement to do?

Too many moderate DUmmies like her with an (R) are the REAL problem we have now. Not the other way. Go take a look at the Senate.


51 posted on 04/17/2006 11:49:35 PM PDT by indianrightwinger
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To: Coleus

To: Governor Christie Whitman
Fr: Howard Dean, Chairman DNC

Dear Christie,

You're doing a fine job. I think we'll move up your announcement of switching parties to one week before Election Day this year, sound good?

Best,

YAAAARRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!! :)


53 posted on 04/18/2006 2:53:40 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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To: kylaka

They were devastated back when Mayor McCheese got in when they figured out he lied. Didn't make a difference in any of the races since whether it was for the US Senate with the Louse or the governorship with Corzine. Like the voters here in the People's Republic of NY, the voters in my former state of Joisey just keep piling on the elected hurts. They complain immediately after the election and then go back to sleep.


54 posted on 04/18/2006 3:25:46 AM PDT by Dahoser (Time to condense the spending nonsense: Terry Tate for OMB head.)
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To: Coleus

I can't recall exactly how Ann Coulter a while back described Whitman. It wasn't entirely complimentary. It says right here that every time Whitman expresses herself in any way she proves the only reason she has a head is to keep her spinal cord from unraveling.


55 posted on 04/18/2006 4:13:08 AM PDT by stevem
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To: Coleus
The "Devil I don't know" in the flesh.

Ms. Whitman is one of the most disingenuous and dangerous "Republicans" in the party.

She knows full well "moderation" is killing the conservative movement and MOST Americans have no problem with social conservatism AS WELL as fiscal.

Her "Republican" party is interested in nothing more than building their power structure with big government as much as any democRat. The only difference is democRats attempt to buy votes with socialist programs and "Republicans" attempt to buy votes with tax cuts.

56 posted on 04/18/2006 4:17:38 AM PDT by manwiththehands (I'm a single issue voter this year: illegal immigration.)
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To: Coleus

She thinks Bush's horrid ratings are because he is too conservative???


57 posted on 04/18/2006 4:18:53 AM PDT by Sometimes A River (America can do nothing for the Muslim world)
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To: Coleus
“fiscal conservative”

That 'ol claim by wussy Republicans of being a fiscal conservative but a social moderate is so disingenuous and bogus as to make me ill.

It is (was) used by Schwartznegger and my (former) Congress critter Jim Greenwood (R-8) Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

If you think about it, you can't have a fiscal conservative ANYTHING if you enact the moderate/liberal social policy like fully funding aids and homosexuality, welfare and entitlement increasing support, carte blanch teacher pay, abortion on demand for any reason whatsoever, etc.

In fact it is precisely those "moderate" social policies which have ballooned budgets over the years, and yet the so called Republicans are too scared to do what they must.

58 posted on 04/18/2006 4:23:20 AM PDT by Edit35
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To: Coleus

She's an imbecile BUMP. The Republicans are in trouble because they are acting like they are from the RINO Party.


59 posted on 04/18/2006 4:29:09 AM PDT by conservativecorner
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To: NormsRevenge

Why doesn't she just go on and join the rest of the socialists and take Mccain with her.

We who joined the Republican party did so BECAUSE of their take on social issues. Liberals take a "broader view" on issues that demand taking a stand on the issues and sticking with it. Otherwise we are not two parties we are one party.


60 posted on 04/18/2006 4:30:09 AM PDT by stopem (Head to the border and plug the leak!)
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