Posted on 05/16/2008 9:24:13 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
All week long, you and I have been blasting the bereft Beltway GOP leadership for their empty sloganeering and Obama-esque change obsession.
Now, the NRCC is hearing it directly on its website. Reader Fritz e-mails that the comments section in the NRCC blog post by chairman Tom Cole is sizzling hot with aggravated grass-roots conservative feedback.
Go check it out. A sample:
This is not the message I am looking to support. The message of the Replican Part should be fundumentally different than the Democrats. We don’t need to “fix” the government. We need the Federal Government to do wnat it is supposed to - protect our freedom. It should not try to be eveyones “Daddy” Healthcare is not the Federal Governments responsibility. If my new my situation, you might take these comments more seriously. I am not some rich guy who wants to pay less taxes and who can afford to pay for the high prices of healthcare. I just know that government, in general, is inefficiant and wasteful and would like to see less governement programs instead of more.
Posted: Steve Bryant on May 16, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Republicians think the way to Win is to Out “Liberal” the Liberals! McCain will be defeated by his views and disregard of Values. Obama will win. If we put up with Jimmy Carter for 4 years….Let Obama and the Dem’s take all the Credit for DESTRUCTION that will follow.I will either not vote or vote for Ron Paul. NO McCain.
Posted: Greatdanes on May 16, 2008 at 1:07 PM
PLEASE….you are kidding??!! John McCain is the republican candidate for President. So, which LIBERAL should I vote for. Let’s see OBAMA(Marxist), CLINTON(Marxist), MCCAIN(Open border/amnesty liberal). I have changed my party affiliation to independent. I will not vote for anyone who says one thing during the primary and when they think they have the nomination locked up, tell how they truly feel. John McCain “DIDN’T GET IT” after-all.
So if the RNCC is going to support this liberal RINO, then you and are at odds from here on out. No more money, no more support.
Posted: Terry on May 16, 2008 at 1:08 PM
No conservative American gets up in the morning looking for a government handout. They go to work and support their families. I have 2 questions for you. When everyone is collecting who will be paying? Why are we not using the resources for energy here in America that God gave us? STOP BEING RINOS. Either LEAD,FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.
Posted: Maureen McInerney on May 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM
All you guys have shown us is how to loose. The Republicans had the Congress and the Presidency and you debated flag burning! Where is our energy policy? Why are we burning our food supplies? Where is the debate on “global warming”? I can’t support you, you all need to go.
Posted: 19852 on May 16, 2008 at 1:16 PM
It’s rather evident, the Real Republicans are telling you the GOP, the RINO’s are in charge, they are no better than the libs and their values are not those of conservatives. We want the Republican platform adhered to and the speeches to reflect our values as Republicans, not fence sitting RINO ways.
Real Republicans do not have barb wire rash.
Posted: ONTIME on May 16, 2008 at 1:17 PM
Your message sounds like more big government. I am conservative and want a conservative message. I want to support conservative candidates. The three congressional seats that the democrats just won were won by democrats that had a conservative message. Republicans have lost their way. The party has gone back to the good old boy party of elite country club moderates. That is not the way to win elections or raise money. I will certainly read your e-mails but will not support any candidate that does not espouse a conservtive agenda. I hope the party will adopt that philosophy and then carry through.
Posted: Lynda Shackelford on May 16, 2008 at 1:22 PM
…I’ve got a Republican Solution for you: Tighten the belt or lose the pants. And here’s a Positive Agenda Item for you: I Positively DO NOT need a Nanny and am tired of you thinking that I do.
Here’s a thought: Why don’t you figure out what you stand for? You’re starting to sound like you’re falling for anything. I won’t be following you there.
Posted: Colleen on May 16, 2008 at 1:31 PM
…I’m sorry, but there is no way I can/will contribute until I hear the Republican party taking on the fight against the global warming HOAX, drilling in ANWAR, and absolutely protecting our borders against illeagal immigrants. As an example of what I would like to hear, every Republican senator should have jumped on Dick Durbin’s comment “we can’t drill for lower prices” after the amendment to drill in Anwar was defeated. In the circumstances we find ourselves, that is one of the most stupid comments I have ever heard from any politician. To the best of my knowledge, the laws of supply and demand have not been overturned by the liberal judges…yet.
Just one example of many that could turn the party around.
Posted: Rod on May 16, 2008 at 1:42 PM
I’m a middle-class conservative business owner who is still outraged that the GOP leadership in this country decided to make medications part of the entitlements available for all medicare recipients.
I’ve reached that golden age when I am eligible for medicare myself. A lot of us can and should pay for our own prescriptions. For those that are unable to pay, there is a place for this largesse.
Since the government got in the business, the price of my meds has increased 30% across the board. I live on the Canadian border and have friends and family on both sides of the border. Heaven protect us from the kind of “free” healthcare they must endure.
When has the government ever done anything as cheaply and efficiently as the free market?
I come from 3 generations of straight ticket Democrats. Jimmy Carter was the last time I voted for a democratic candidate.
I doubt I’ll be able to stomach voting for McCain unless he gives me some solid reasons why I should. His “reaching across the aisle” only demonstrates a big lack of judgment.
Celeste Colson May 16,2008 12:51 CDT
Posted: Celeste Colson on May 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM
So let me get this straight - I have a choice between McCain or Hillary or Obama? Did I just say I have a choice? I think I just had a 52 yr-old brain cramp. I do not vote for RINOs. None of these 3 are qualified to run this country. If the Repubs are not different than the Demoncrats then what is the use? We speak with our votes - we vote for someone else. Vote for a spoiler? No, we vote our conscience. If the MSM or the NRCC want to consider them a spoiler - so be it. Get a clue already!. Abandoning conservatism means no money, no support, no vote from me.
Posted: PEPPER on May 16, 2008 at 1:49 PM
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The LOTUS blog is selling a fitting t-shirt for the times.
At this point in politics, my husband and I would be delighted to attend such a protest and would drive halfway across the country in order to do so, if it were scheduled at a time that was not critical to our farm operation.
Well put...and as much as I think Obama is an empty suit, I will NOT vote for MacCain. I've been swallowing the GOP's mediocre candidates since 1988 and am now saying "No more!". They've given us mediocrity because that's what we've continued to accept. If the end of the GOP is necessary for a new conservative party to rise from its ashes, then let's pull the plug now and have done with it.
At the risk of sounding repetitious, I'll say it again. The GOP party leaders best resemble the dissembling, duplicitous Scottish nobility in Braveheart.
AMEN x 14
BWAHAHAH!!!
We are so far beyond screwed that it will take the light from screwed over 1 million years to reach us.
That was a quote from the website. Forgot the quotation marks. :p
Will Mr. McCain start working on the "secure our borders" thing before or after he speaks at the La Raza Convention?
See: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/05/mccain-to-speak-at-open-borders-la-raza-the-race-conference/
Will Juan Hernandez, McCain's Hispanic Outreach Director, who has been quoted as saying "We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.” be there to applaud?
See: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/25/john-mccains-open-borders-outreach-director-the-next-dhs-secretary/
How about Jerry Perenchio. He’s a National Finance Co-Chair of the McCain 2008 campaign, and anti-assimilation, pro-immigration.
See: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/28/open-borders-campaign-finance-hypocrisy-eco-radicalism-mccains-billionaire-national-finance-co-chair-jerry-perenchio/
Can you point out where McCain, through his many associations, has been pro-border security?
Every time a Conservative resigns and a not-so-conservative takes their place, the GOP goes a little farther to the left.
We need MORE conservatives at ALL levels if we hope to TAKE BACK THE GOP.
Otherwise, were just giving it away.
I’ll be laughing at Juan McTraitor on Nov 5 when McLoser rants about how Conservatives sold him out. Payback is a bi-otch. ROFL.
Not until Juanito, Jorge and Fat Teddy start letting me and my homeboys park ourselves in their living rooms whenever we want and eating and drinking from their refrigerators whatever we want, this remains a no-go. Just as Bush wouldn't surrender his daughters to any disease-ridden, gang-banging grade school drop out without a fight, he shouldn't expect us to surrender our fair land without one either.
“We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.”
You jumped to an invalid conclusion
The free flow of goods and services occurs within a tight network of custom, rules and regulations.
McCain is saying that the flow of people should occur in a similar but presently dysfunctional net of rules and regulations.
This, in a nutshell, is the primary argument against anything other than Reagan Conservatism. If we allow any two of the three pillars of conservatism to join with the RINOs in an election, Conservatism is lost.
This is precisely why none of the "electable" front-runners were, in fact, electable at all. None could serve all three pillars of Conservatism. There were only three Reagan Conservatives in the race: Hunter, Tancredo, and Keyes, and only one of those three remains.
Expedience trumped principle and left us with Republicanism gone amok.
The only path to victory lies in Keyes, not McCain.
A Conservative party is built from the ground up by Conservatives.
Most of the delegates in the local county GOP convention had no idea who DH was.
The GOP without Conservatives at all levels, is no different than the D-Rat party.
The media has blackballed Hunter, Tancredo, and Keyes.
And McCain is their favorite opposition.
If there were enough Conservatives in the GOP, they could boot McCain and give DH give the chance to give the D-Rats 2 black eyes and a bloody nose, something he could do without breaking a sweat.
Were really a long way up a dry creek.
(May God have mercy)
I doubt that Hunter is going to get a chance- even if the convention is a total blowout. any fall back candidate is going to take the shape of a Romney or Huckabee (neither of whom could win any better than McCain).
Too bad, too. I would have Hunter over any other.
Keyes, however, has renounced the Republicans and is running as an independent, endorsed by the American Independent Party. He is in position,and not beholden to the Republican hierarchy.
There's a raft of money out there that isn't going to go to McCain, It might as well go to the Reaganite in the race. The same with votes. How anyone would hold their nose for the likes of McCain, but not be able to vote for Keyes is beyond my comprehension.
With all the liberals and weekend conservatives voting for McCain, I fear a split vote and a D-Rat win.
We are in deep doggy-doo.
I fear nothing.
McCain is selling the same swamp water as Obama. Obama sells it much better, and is playing to his natural audience. Betting on McCain is going to yield a democrat anyway, in all likelihood, and if not, leaves us with a traitorous and ignoble Republican. Neither is sufficient in this time of need.
At the worst, Keyes blocks McCain from his win, and Conservative prove once again that the Pubbies will lose without them, which would suit me just fine.
At best, a true Reagan Conservative ascends with no ties to the GOP, RNC, or Republican leadership, and capable of uniting all three pillars of Conservatism (SHAZZAM!) If he proposes a contract with America (which he will, in some form), He can provide the coattails needed for Conservative congressmen. All of the above cannot happen with McCain.
So what's the downside?
The downside of a split vote is some D-Rat stocks the SC with judges who neuter the constitution.
Other than that, not much.
Unfortunately, it has been demonstrated that the media can effectively blackball a candidate.
As much as I loath it, the fact remains that McCain is the presumed nominee and the media is ignoring everyone else.
If Keyes is going to make it, he is gona have to pop the media such a good one that they wake up in the next time zone a week ofter the election.
Which Keyes are you speaking of? Alan?
I’m referring to the Keyes mentioned in 154.
I believe roamer_1 was referring to Alan Keyes.
So, yes. (I think)
But, politically, he's a waste of time.
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