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Who Hijacked the Primaries?
Human Events ^ | 1/31/08 | Brian Winterble

Posted on 01/31/2008 5:27:28 AM PST by pissant

With John McCain’s all-too-easy road to the nomination paved through Florida and now nearly complete one thing is clear: The Republican Party has been hijacked. Over the past month a new Axis of Evil has emerged -- not one based in Damascus, Tehran or Pyongyang -- but instead in Cedar Rapids, Charleston, South Carolina, Derry, New Hampshire and Boca Raton, Florida. It is the liberal and “independent” voters in these 4 states that have nearly completed a deed that makes Kim Jong Il envious -- the near crippling of the American Electoral System. These four states have combined their native liberal populism with an imported liberal electorate and have forced the GOP to accept a nominee so distasteful that in more than one poll -- the numbers of voters choosing not to vote and those choosing to vote third party actually exceed those who will hold their nose and vote for Maverick, War Hero, Amnesty Supporter, John McCain.

I can hear you saying, “surely you aren’t saying that South Carolina has gone liberal -- are you?” Are you kidding me? Drive through the Carolinas and count the number of license plates from NJ, NY and Pennsylvania. There is not much Dixie in the Carolinas; it’s more like Trenton and Long Island with fireworks. “But”, you protest, “New Hampshire, is Live Free or Die, it’s been a backbone of conservatism since the 1950’s.” No longer my friends -- NH has become an exurb of Boston, with Boston’s sensibilities and, ugh, their voting tastes. NH hasn’t been reliably conservative since Reagan’s first term. These voters would rather be loved by the Boston Globe, than respected by the Union Leader.

But the evidence continues, you say, “Iowa, that’s America, with small town values and homespun sensibilities.” Wrong again -- Iowa is just a state brimming with farmers on the federal dole, college students and ex hippie professors looking to con, libs in training at Grinnell.

And Florida? As my bubbies would say in Bay Ridge -- puhleeeez. It’s the 6th borough and has been since the mid 1960’s. Liberals have been sliding down the I-95 corridor since Kennedy was elected.

Sadly these 4 states have done more than set the tone for the other 46 -- they’ve dictated terms. Frankly I could extend the analogy to include Nevada, which is down to about 13% native -- but why beat a dead horse.

What we have is the sick and twisted dreams of Pinch Sulzberger, Don Imus, Maureen Dowd, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews come true: the GOP has been forced to choose a nominee designed to cause the base to retch, and thereby not vote. Guaranteeing 4 years of Clinton score settling or Obama socializing entire corporate sectors.

Its time to simultaneously bring back democracy to the GOP and defang the left and her Rockefeller accomplices in the new Axis of Evil. It’s time for the nuclear option -- its time for the GOP to front-load the whole freaking process into one date. Make every state vote on exactly the same day. Make every candidate compete in EVERY state at the exact same time and hold every single GOP primary and caucus on Super Tuesday. When NH and IOWA complain, take a page from the Democrats and refuse to seat their delegates, or better yet, declare renegade states as straw polls.

This would balance our nomination process out. There will be no more “Big Mo”, no more singular precincts in obscure Iowa towns setting the tone for the rest of the country. If liberals from Englewood Cliffs NJ want to vote liberal, it’s going to get cancelled out by conservatives in Chattanooga -- who might actually get to vote for Fred. Its time to let Nebraska count as much as New Hampshire. Let Texas matter as much as South Carolina, let Florida be canceled out by California -- as it should be. The only two groups who have benefit from the current process are the media flacks selling the drama and John McCain establishment hacks. Does anyone think Fred Thompson got a fair hearing? Or Duncan Hunter? John McCain does not speak for me…or frankly for any one else, I know.

Folks, we have let the liberals and RINOS set the agenda. Open Borders, Higher Taxes, and surrender to Kyoto-worshipping technocrats. This is the Republican Party? But hey, the McCainiacs counter, “John McCain is a war hero -- right?” Let me be the first to say it’s not about what you did in the 60’s sir -- it’s about what you will do to America in 2009 and beyond.

This is our party, not John McCain’s or Mel Martinez's, or Lindsay Graham’s. The Republican Party is THE conservative party dammit. Let’s admit it and take it back. RINOS and Liberals have taken the GOP plane hostage, and its time for us passengers to revolt…and do what has to be done -- Let’s Roll.


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KEYWORDS: 2008; duncanhunter; election2008; fred; fredthompson
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To: pissant
I have another thought. We should vote in the Dem primaries. I plan to vote for Obama. Had enough of us crossed over and voted for Kucinich, the nut roots Left would have had their dream candidate, and the Republicans would have had a landslide. Of course, voting Democrat is like putting your hands in a bucket of sh!t. You never feel like your hands are clean afterward.

Oh, well. Another missed opportunity.

21 posted on 01/31/2008 5:39:49 AM PST by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: Mr. Brightside

And the other problem is that out of those 4, only two are conservatives.


22 posted on 01/31/2008 5:41:30 AM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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To: pissant

He does have a good point - places such as Florida, where I live, are stuffed with liberal ex-New Yorkers and others (most of whom probalby still vote in both places). There’s also the geezer vote to deal with.

Geezers tend to love big government, are social liberals and are also somewhat nasty and crabby and have no interest in the future. They’re just voting for themselves when they vote for McCain.


23 posted on 01/31/2008 5:42:33 AM PST by livius
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To: pissant

Take back our party. Yeah, okay.
How?


24 posted on 01/31/2008 5:42:43 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
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To: pissant

The Republicans are doing what they always do. They decide whose next in line based on seniority and service. That’s how Dole got the nomination, and why we always run some old fart.


25 posted on 01/31/2008 5:43:02 AM PST by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: pissant

“Folks, we have let the liberals and RINOS set the agenda. Open Borders, Higher Taxes, and surrender to Kyoto-worshipping technocrats”

Amen!!


26 posted on 01/31/2008 5:43:54 AM PST by kenmcg
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast

Here is my method of choice:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961828/posts


27 posted on 01/31/2008 5:44:36 AM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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To: pissant

The “Buzzword” is get McCain out of there or we are stuck with all these illegals.
This is our party, not John McCain’s or Mel Martinez’s, or Lindsay Graham’s.


28 posted on 01/31/2008 5:47:22 AM PST by sweetiepiezer (Card carrying member of the Vast Rght Wing Conspiracy)
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To: pissant

Don’t RINOZ me bro!


29 posted on 01/31/2008 5:47:35 AM PST by shove_it (and have a nice day)
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To: Hacklehead
The Republicans are doing what they always do. They decide whose next in line based on seniority and service. That’s how Dole got the nomination, and why we always run some old fart.

Go back to the Ford - Reagan primary. Ford wins, Reagan is the nominee next time. Reagan runs against Bush in that primary. Reagan wins, Bush is the nominee next time. Bush runs against Dole in that primary. Bush wins, Dole is the nominee in the next primary. GW Bush runs against McCain in the primary. Bush wins... and McCain is the nominee in the next primary? I sure see a pattern. If the pattern holds Romney will be the nominee in the NEXT primary.

30 posted on 01/31/2008 5:48:17 AM PST by rhombus
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To: pissant
The second paragraph rebuts his thesis and provides the real answer: there just aren't that many conservative voters any more. Ronald Reagan's base of WWII veterans is long gone - the average voter today went to school in the Sixties and Seventies, sang "Kumbaya" and engaged in "Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF", makes more money than he is worth in an office job with an extremely uncertain future, and feels very threatened economically and by urban crime, which he believes is caused by the existence of guns and lack of school funding. He'll pay any amount of taxes he believes necessary to reduce those threats.

The conservative message of independence and self-reliance isn't selling to this crowd - which is why Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter were the only ones trying to sell it this year. Ending up with a cast of apparent RINOs was the only logical outcome - unfortunately, the one with the most famous name is beating out the one who would make the most capable administrator.

31 posted on 01/31/2008 5:51:14 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: pissant
Sierra-square, Delda-square.

McLame wants to 'change Washington', but he has been part of that cabal for years.

McLame thinks running an air squadron is equal to being CinC, but it really means he was an instrument of someone else and only held rank.

Oh, on another thread I said RP and Huckster would be garnish and irrelevant in the debate. Notice how Huck and RP kept getting pushed out of the 'debate'?

Tuesday may be a surprise for JohnnyMac. It's possible none of them will have enough delgates to win th nomination.

Then anything can happen at a brokered convention.

32 posted on 01/31/2008 5:51:17 AM PST by Pistolshot (Those with a lively sense of curiosity learn something new every day of their lives.)
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To: pissant
He may be pissin in the wind on this one. I don't think the RNC has any problem whatsoever with how things are going

I would like to think they will get the point when they can no longer count on the base for contributions. However, I am not sure even that will have any effect. I know that I have not sent anything their way since 2004. I believe that most conservatives closed their wallets to the RNC long before that.

33 posted on 01/31/2008 5:52:04 AM PST by outofstyle (My Ride's Here)
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To: snarkybob

“I don’t think the primaries were hijacked. Instead the party was so splintered that the largest small group set the pace.”

The RNC wants a liberal nominee, why do you think they have the earliest primaries in the states with either open primaries or the liberal Rockefeller type repubs? Why don’t we have the first primaries in Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and other conservative states? Because the GOP dosen’t want a conservative to get early traction.


34 posted on 01/31/2008 5:53:22 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: pissant

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35 posted on 01/31/2008 5:53:38 AM PST by servantboy777
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To: Mr. Brightside

Yes, the conservative base is fractured...and not too savvy. A vote for Huck is a vote for Juan.
The base should be behind Mitt.


36 posted on 01/31/2008 5:54:27 AM PST by JaneNC (I)
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To: pissant

I agree.


37 posted on 01/31/2008 5:54:42 AM PST by Bibman (Still American and still here.)
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To: pissant

Nothing will get better until we have excellent conservative candidates. Once George Allen was sidelined it was obvious that we didn’t have a single conservative with stature and name recognition who was not carrying heavy baggage. In Duncan Hunter’s case it was simply the fact that he was a congressman. The Republican Party is doing a lousy job of promoting its best conservatives for higher office.


38 posted on 01/31/2008 5:56:17 AM PST by carola
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To: pissant
It's amazing how we get the same old "non-choice" crap every election.

Nobody for border control except Romney who doesn't really mean it anyway.

Prediction:

McCain will win.

Hillary is toast. Romney's best line: "The people can't stand the idea of Bill in the white House again with NOTHING to do!"

We won't elect a Black man if people listen to his nutso pastor and also really look at the racist black "do nothing" administrations everywhere in government and school systems designed to further black interests rather than be inclusive.

Folks will see that Romney is a "slickie" who says what folks want to hear.

That leaves McCain as a winner and his stance on imigration is scary and oil prices will continue to climb, ruining what's left of the economy.

Not a pretty outlook!

(Donning flame protection)

39 posted on 01/31/2008 5:56:38 AM PST by FixitGuy (By their fruits shall ye know them!)
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To: pissant

The RNC is happy, but I’m not. IMO, Huckabee is just in as a spoiler now.


40 posted on 01/31/2008 5:57:19 AM PST by cake_crumb (If Mitt's a lib, why did the ACU prez endorse him over McCain?)
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