Posted on 05/20/2006 1:16:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Conservatives, nationwide are getting angry about the loss of principle by GOP'ers in office. Big spending in Washington and Sacramento. The inability to control illegal aliens. Failure to protect jobs and the failure to stop the social agenda of liberals in our schools in finally causing conservatives to say NO to GOP incumbents, even if it means we could lose seats in a legislative body. The thought is simple, why protect a Republican running for office if their voting record will differ little from the Democrats.
In Utah, GOP Congressman Chris Cannon could not win his Parties endorsement for re-election--his opponent got more votes in Convention then he did.
In Nebraska, Congressman tom Osborne, and legend in the state, was defeated for the nomination for Governor due to his weak stand on illegal aliens.
In Heardon, Virginia, five incumbent city council members lost re-election due to their creation of a "Day Labor Center" for illegal aliens.
In the California 50th Congressional District Special Election, the Democrat is ahead of the Republican, since the Republican has been portrayed as more liberal than many Democrats--has even supported Democrats in the past.
But, Pennsylvania last Tuesday should have been the two by four to every GOP candidate and office holder in the nation.At least 14 incumbent GOP office holders, including the top two in the State Senate were defeated in a Republican primary, by Republicans. The good news is that if they had not been defeated, many GOP voters would have stayed home in November. This is a lesson for us in California, and the nation, GOP voters have had enough of Republicans acting like Democrats. Our candidates need to stand for GOP principles, then vote and govern that way once in office.
No longer will GOP voters settle for, "well at least they have a "R" after their name." There is a revolt going on in GOP ranks and it is moving across the nation.
We aren't "doomed"; but Newtie is.
You need to learn to look at a RINO like Snowe or Specter as a place holder until more conservative candidates can be elected. That might not happen in your state, but it is almost certainly achievable somewhere. The point is, you don't concede even a fraction of an inch to the democrats let alone a whole seat. You hold all Republican seats including the RINOs and look to add to them, pushing and contributing to the most competitive conservative candidates nationally, wherever they might be.
"You can count on a Dem doing enough damage that the conservative base will turn out and vote them out of office."
Key word is DAMAGE. Democrat damage is something I would rather not be exposed to.
I had not heard this.
Anybody have more info and a link?
Stevenson tried to make a big deal out of Mark's age, even sending out campaign literature with a picture of a treehouse, saying, "Mark Harris never paid property taxes, but if he did, maybe this is what he'd be living in" - with the implication that Mark was a kid who plays in treehouses.
At our polling place, both sides had hand-written placards attached to the door. Stevenson's said, "Brought $$$ into our district", Mark Harris sign said, "Opposed middle of the night stealth pay raise".
Stevenson can take his overfed carcass back to the "real world" and sell insurance or something, instead of leaching off the public by voting himself sickeningly-generous pay raises from the public largesse. Seventeen PA state reps got booted in this primary, from both parties.
Why it was just a couple of weeks ago that the weak-on-illegal-immigration RINO Sen. DeWine beat a tough-on-illegal-iimigration candidate in the R primary in Ohio.
DeWine beat him by a margin of 60 points (74% to 14%) or something like that.
I always work into the conversation, citizenship one way or another.
So you speak Spanish??
Cannon has been forced into a primary. His opponent pulled 52 percent of the delegate votes at the Utah State Republican convention to Cannon's 48 percent. It doesn't mean Cannon is out, but it does mean he's in the race of his life. Cannon represents the most conservative district in the most conservative state in the nation. The Democrat candidate will have no chance of knocking off the Republican candidate in the general election, whoever that might be. Thus the primary election in July will determine whether Cannon returns to DC or he is replaced by his Republican opponent. Primary elections are sparsely attended in Utah and turn on which candidate's "machine" is most diligent in getting its zealots to the polls. Cannon may have met his match.
I am not missing your point but it is a stupid, nothing kind of point that does more harm than good.
RINO's make the party more liberal and chase away conservative voters
~In a nutshell
~Party Koolaid
This sends a very loud message to Rinos. Kind of like a hard slap in the face. On the other hand, it only works if the GOP candidates who the primary WIN in November. There are another five months remaining. People need to write letters, make telephone calls, march in protest and do all manner of things to raise the banner high: "We Don't Want No More Border Jumpers!"
GOP Pins Hopes on Black Republicans
BOWIE, Md. - Hope springs eternal when black Republicans seek higher office, yet often the first question that hits them is what are they doing in the GOP. This election year, a man named Steele in Maryland and a former football star named Swann in Pennsylvania are among a small but determined number of black candidates trying to win one for the Republicans despite the Democratic Party's near lock on the black vote.
Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, a former seminarian with a law degree from Georgetown University, is seeking the open Senate seat in November. He is looking to translate one accomplishment — the first black elected to statewide office in Maryland — into another, as the only black Republican in the Senate.
Lynn Swann, a Hall of Famer with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1970s, is running for governor in Pennsylvania.
Black Republicans also are seeking the governorship in Ohio, the Senate in Michigan and seats in Congress and state legislatures from the Midwest to the Deep South.
more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060520/ap_on_go_co/black_republicans
So who you voting for in the Senate race, if not Snowe?
And we'd be even better off with rivers made of whiskey and trees with chocolate fruit. Back here in reality, we have to deal with what is. I think it's safe to say that a conservative majority that is also a DEM majority might happen....on the planet Xircon.
I don't see what's even to bicker about. In the primary, pick your favorite candidate. In the general, pick the best available.
Cannon voted for HR4437. Cannon has a perfect 100% ACU rating in 2004 and 2005.
Whats the problem?
Facts don't matter. /sarc
GOOD post, Free Reign.
Georgia had no excuse for electing a Democrat, except that 150 some-odd years later, they still favored the Confederate party. All I can say is I'm glad as hell the son-of-a bitch retired and got replaced by a Republican. The only good things I ever saw Zell do was betray his own party. But if he felt so strongly about it, why stay in a socialist party, helping the likes of Tommy Daschle attain the leadership position. Where was Zell then? Fat lot of help he did conservatives. Now, thankfully, he's retired. And you'd have to live in an upside down world to see Specter running as the R and Miller as the D in the same state. The guy who replaced Miller, Johnny Isakson , has a 100 ACU rating, and doesn't add to the Dem's numbers.
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