Posted on 05/13/2007 10:31:31 PM PDT by goldstategop
Let me change the “RINOs” to CINOs....i think RINO confuses people that Republican actually stand for some kind of conservatism....not lately as i see it.
No, it’s pretty much Bush. His actions have cast a shadow over every Republican in the country and have caused great damage to the conservative image - without any conservatism on his part. The RINOs find it easy to be RINOs if they know there will be no resistance to the liberal agenda whatsoever in the Executive.
The RINOs find it easy to be RINOs
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no argument there...
I think we got compassionate conservatism with a heaping dose of open borders and co-opting of the democrats agenda all sandbagged safe and secure behind Osama’s mayhem.
What is a RINO? A spineless GOP’er that drinks with Ted Kennedy and hopes the Washington Post never puts their name in print.
That is very true, the GOP seems aimless right now.
Reagen also had been Championing Conservatism for many years before he was elected, the only one who has been doing that in the Presidential race (specualtively running anyway) is Fred Thompson.
One of the problems with Conservaitsm at the moment is instead of relying on the Heritage Foundation for mental firepower we now are leaning to Neocon think tanks.
“If” Ru7dy drops behind Hilliary in the polls, can you see him making up the gap? For myself I don’t, Rudy seems particularly wandering just over Abortion.
Relying onm polls 18 months out seems strange.
I still would vote for them, there’s no way I wouldn’t vote against Hillary Clinton in two years given any opportunity. There’s bad and there’s worse. Agree with the people (and Starr) who think the primary’s the time to de-RINO. First, we have to stop amnesty and get a “real” conservative in there, find the best possible, RINOs will destroy the GOP if left in control.
this is easy...
Privatize social security and medicare
Repeal the 16th ammendment and pass the Fairtax
Appoint constitutional judges
oh yeah.. they already had their oportunity..and i think they wound up...BANNING INTERNET GAMBLING!!!!
I’m for Reaganism — minus Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor, Jim Baker, and quite a few others too.
It's Bush alright. But it's H.W. Bush that started it all with the "New World Order" and no new taxes lie. Then the GOP nominates the only person on earth that could lose to Bill Clinton. Bob Dole one of the most boring and uninspiring people in politics. Now along comes W to totally destroy any hope of a conservative agenda. He also had help from the pubbies that were elected in '94 with a promise to leave after their term was over. They just couldn't stand to give up the power so it was taken from them by the Dems.
Is this because there are so few conservatives left (like in 1964-1965), or is it that rank-and-file conservatives are just as uninformed as the electorate as a whole?
It is interesting that liberals hate GWB when he has performed pretty much like a liberal Democrat would have liked to perform. Of course, the verdict may be favorable yet on Alito and Roberts (we shall see); it surely wasn’t favorable on Anthony Kennedy and Sandra D. O’Connor.
Particularly, minus George Herbert Walker Bush and the legacy he left, GWB.
Apparently Reagan “advisors” sold him on the idea that he could not win with a divided party in 1980 and that he “needed” the runner-up, GHWB, on the ticket to defeat Carter and Mondale. Reagan bought that line. Many thought Reagan would have chosen Kemp in 1980. Then after Kemp’s disaster in 1996, who knows?
Supposedly, “party leaders” said it was Bob Dole’s “turn” in 1996, and he got the nomination — with a lot of help from deceived Republican primary voters, I presume. I guess it was all over when the ND primary returns reported that Dole had carried that state.
It seems to me that if GWB wore the “D” label, most of his current defenders would excoriate him, and most of his current critics would become his newest defenders. It’s all in the “D” and “R”, that’s all most people can remember.
You can’t vote against HRC. What would the people of NY, AR, and IL think of you if you did!!!!!
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