Posted on 01/09/2007 9:49:04 AM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON (AP) --
In a concession to the Senate's new Democratic majority, four of President Bush's appeals court appointees have asked to have their nominations withdrawn, Republican officials said Tuesday.
These officials said that William Haynes, William Myers and Terrence Boyle had all decided to abandon their quest for confirmation. Another nominee, Mike Wallace, let it be known last month that he, too, had asked Bush to withdraw his nomination.
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I call it a desertion and a failure of the party to do what was right.
And they did it all because they were miffed?
Next time you decide to shoot everyone in the country in the foot because you don't like what you see in the rear view mirror, leave me out of it.
Better yet, I think I'll leave you out of it.
The RNC is going to go through one hell of a change in the coming years, and new bunch of Buchanan losers will replace the old ones as the old guard fades away.
Things change. The electorate is no longer what it was, and the entire personality of the country is changing.
You cannot make them follow you. You have lead them, and understand where the momentum is to do it.
As it is, you are fighting with the voter, and that always leads to nothing accomplished and loss of power.
Very well said, Peach. BTTT
re: your comment about "faux conservatives"...I think some have redefined "conservative" to mean only those who agree with their opinions. Anything less is to be labeled a "rino".
Uh, no it was not.
I encouraged everyone on FR to vote for the GOP House and Senate candidates (with the exception of Chafee).
But nice job taking a specific retort to a specific statement and extrapolating it with no effort to connect it to reality.
Perception is reality. That's why the feckless theme of the 2006 election failed so miserably, to wit "Vote GOP because the other guys are so much worse." That's a losing theme, which only works against the party in power. To win back the majority, which, never doubt, the Dems only hold by the thinnest of margins, the GOP absolutely must come up with a unified agenda of what they stand for. Make a party platform and require its candidates to pay it some heed. If this is not done, the Dems will surely continue the strategy of co-opting individual races with ersatz conservatives. If we play the "all politics is local" theme, the Tip O'Neils will win. If we use the "Contract with America" theme (and FOLLOW THROUGH), we will win.
The Party owes its members a statement on where it stands on the issues. We cannot survive twelve different nuanced stands on illegal migrants, Federal social programs, foreign economic policies, military doctrines, sanctity of life issues, judicial philosophies, etc. It either stands for something, or it stands for nothing and can expect no one to vote for the "brand name".
not in my county, they turned tail and voted rat, so i hope there happy because ted, hillary and nancy are
I don't know if you mentioned that Samuel Alito, John Roberts, William Pryor, Janice Rogers Brown, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and many others were confirmed to lifetime, powerful courts which will likely have a huge effect on things in this country, even decades from now.
So much for the do-nothing Congress.
Not to be argumentative, and I may be wrong, but it seems that we lost the senate because "libertarians" and others who normally vote republican voted their "conscience" in Montana by a large enough number to give the election to the dim.
Still, it shouldn't have been that close, conservatives outnumber dims by a large majority in this country. I assert that the limp, leaderless, majority in the Congress caused most of us to wonder if there was a difference worth defending.
There is NO evidence nationally that conservatives either stayed home or that they voted D. Nor is there any evidence to that effect in my neck of the woods, where I am intimately acquainted with the election results.
Would respectfully suggest that such folks educate themselves about what actually happened in the election instead of imagining that conservatives threw the election. One starts fewer unnecessary firefights amongst political allies that way.
Shitte.
Are you sure you have the right post #? 13 was posted by Suzy Quzy.
That's what I would hope. Unfortunately, there are a few folks who don't care to have the GOP undergo some much-needed introspection as to where they went astray over the last few years.
I was one of those who spent time on the forum exhorting people to vote straight-ticket Republican.
But that doesn't mean I don't believe the reason why Repubs lost was because
A. Republicans compromised/sold out the conservative principles which Reagan/Newt built in the 80's and 90's
B. President Bush chose a limited "War On Terror" instead of an all out assault with the actual terrorist powers--, Iran, Syria, and North Korea, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
The limted war/nation building has gone badly. And unprinciple non-leadership by Repubs in Congress have damaged the party and the country.
Those are good points, and people, and they should be added to the list.
I can't disagree with anything you said, Ed. I don't like the direction the country is going in either.
Loathing of conservatives? ROFL
Well, bud, I've been here since 1998 and so it shouldn't be too difficult even for you to find one single post I've made that shows "loathing of conservatives".
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