Posted on 05/06/2007 11:09:55 AM PDT by penowa
Susan Eisenhower is an accomplished professional, the president of an international consulting firm. She also happens to be Ike's granddaughter—and in that role, she's the humble torchbearer for moderate "Eisenhower Republicans." Increasingly, however, she says that the partisanship and free spending of the Bush presidency—and the takeover of the party by single-issue voters, especially pro-lifers—is driving these pragmatic, fiscally conservative voters out of the GOP.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
apparently the lefty media and those who call their tunes and strategy have devised this tactic for their spin.....here is another article like this one that ran yesterday......
Republicans defect to the Obama camp
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829063/posts
More wishfull thinking being reported as “news”.
Eisenhower Obama-mama?
The dirty little secret is they've been voting Democrat since '96, and it took them 10 yrs. to get enough numbers along with the Democrats and fraudulent votes to effect an outcome as they did in '06.
I haven’t read the whole article, but these “rock-ribbed Republicans” sound awful Democrat-like. Besides, since does being a relative of Ike or T.R. make you any more relevant?
If a member of the Truman family voted Republican, would that signal a shift away from the Democrats?
Ha ha. Alligator tears. Newweak is lamenting th loss of GOP voters. LOL and ROTFLMAO
It's THEIR party, they inheirited it, doncha know? And now they're doing their best to wrest it from the hands of those awful Reaganites who've taken it over and turned it into a majority party! Failing that, they'll just join the other party. Yes, they are really "rock-rib" Republicans, but count them as anything but conservative.
That said, this article is just another MSM attempt to declare the Republicans dead. People who favor the industrial scale, for-profit killing of innocent early stage humans have been democrats for a long time. People who believe it wrong to resist Islamic terror—they object to the war on terror’s “cost”—have been democrats for a long time. What Newsweek really wants is two soulless, defeatist major political parties, one perhaps a bit less socialist than the other. The fact is “moderates” only weaken the Republicans. We would be much better off without the likes of Snow, Specter and Ms. Eisenhower.
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. —Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
Big Media has been throwing a tantrum about social conservatives ever since Reagan was elected. They still can't understand how anyone would vote for a socially conservative candidate even though Republicans have been dominating the prez elections since Reagan. And BushI would have won in '92 if Perot wouldn't have run despite his (Bush) tax-raising gaffes. After more than a quarter century liberals are still astonished that many Americans have conservative social values.
I saw this article....what a crock of crap. Nice try, News Weak...but your audience is already decidedly leftwingnutjobs, so this doesn’t really have an impact.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.