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.
Mr. Cole,
I am a frequent poster to Free Republic and I spent several hundred hours working for the re-election of George Bush in 2004, unfortunately I must now say much to my regret. It is now unmistakably apparent that you do not understand that people know how best to run their own lives if only the federal government would get out of the way to let them do so and quit taxing them to fund the creation of yet another worthless blue ribbon committee. You refuse to advocate the principles of self determination and self reliance and instead propose yet another government solution. While the short term consequences will be distinctly unpleasant, it will be with great joy that I wake up to an increased Democrat majority in the House and a filibuster proof majority in the Senate on Wednesday November 5th, 2008. With President Barack Hussein Obama sitting in the Whitehouse and steamroller majorities in both houses there will be no escaping the consequences of their actions when the 2010 and 2012 elections roll around. By that time all of you you lukewarm, Rockefeller, plaid pants, country club Republicans will have been discredited and removed from the “Parliment of Whores” and we can get on with the serious work of rebuilding the United States of America.
Posted: Don on May 17, 2008 at 2:50 AM
Many GOP leaders are keenly aware of their deficiencies and the need to re-examine, re-tool and re-engage with the base. I’ve heard literally dozens of mea culpa talks from GOP leaders, and we’ve had plenty of back-seat advice from folks like Newt.
ANother one:
“will not contribute to any party or organization who’s direction is 180 opposite of mine. The members of the GOP in DC need to speak up immediately each and every time a Dem spouts their venomous lies on the floor of the House or Senate, the Capital Steps or nightly news. Take the gloves off. Enough of this PC bullshit. Stop backing down. Stop pulling your punches. Our Elected Republican’s have always let the Democrats and media walk all over anyone or idea that even sounds conservative. In the very beginning of the Clinton era, the liberals perfected the technique of Spin, Deny, Lie Lie Lie and Repeat Repeat Repeat until the masses believe what they are spewing is the truth. Never have the elected Republican’s, as a group, stood up and refuted the crap the liberals shove down America’s throat each and every day. When I try to enlighten my Democrat friends who believe the lies that come out of DC by giving them some facts and documentation which proves that they have had the wool pulled over their eyes, misled or lied to, more often than not I get the reaction of “O my God, I never knew that” “Where did you find this information?” “How come Action news never tells us this stuff?”. I’ve helped convert a dozen or so, but it’s like spitting into the wind because I live in a area that is a Democratic cesspool, and I must be out numbered by a thousand to one. We live in an age of perception and as long as the GOP allows the DNC to set the table and the voters to perceive conservatives as the cause of everything that is wrong with this country and nothing more that a bunch of mean, rich white guys who only care about God and money, our party’s future and the future of our country is on a very fast downward slide. It’s long past time for Conservatives to hold their ground, stand up and speak the truth loudly and often about what’s going on in this country and who and what are the true causes for the mess we all find ourselves in.I Don’t care too much for McCain and his stand on the 1st and 2nd Amendments, Amnesty or the Global Warming Hoax, but he’s better than Clinton or Obama. Not voting or voting for other than McCain would be like biting your nose off to spite your face.
RJ Balint
Ewing, NJ “
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It’s past time to get back to that common sense, common ground fight against the *real* political enemy, the leftists in the Democrat party. There are many many forces of power that are dangerous to our freedoms.
One definition of insanity is letting the most liberal Senator in the Senate get elected and expecting that to be a win for conservatives.
Ah, constructive “how to improve things” is “boring” while emotional venting is ‘interesting’. Never mind that it sheds no light, you like the heat.
Never mind that the Democrats are ruining the country daily from their roost in the majority of Congress, we need to have another flagellation over the sins of the GOP Congress that passed away 18 months ago.
“People left with no options to tend to lash out, like a cornered animal. “ No. Rational people can speak rationally, while emotional childish people react in such manner. Boring facts are often not found in rants because the complexity of truth would blunt the emotional resonance.
These are all perspectives, and if people feel emotion for whatever reason so be it, but you have a curious lack of curiosity for solutions that are best for USA and conservative unity, and a curious desire for only those emotions and views that would, to me at least, harm both.
“Chastising them for it and saying they need to ‘calm down’ is pointless” I agree. With 4 children of my own, I know that telling a child that they are behaving childishly is pointless. Nevertheless, I wont be blackmailed out of calling a spade a spade.
I agree with you on everything EXCEPT immigration reform.
It should be enforced as is, period. No tears, even your foreign freinds who came here illegally must face the inevitable - GO BACK HOME!
Tom Cole’s post reads like it was taken right off the Democrat Party’s web site. It’s more of the big government, nanny state, crap that cost the party the majority in both houses of congress and will probably cost them the presidency.
Lee Atwater once said, “You can’t out Democrat a Democrat. You don’t win elections running on a Me Too agenda.”
Conservatives better take the party back from the liberals who are running it or the party is doomed.
An even better, more accurate (and relevant) definition of insanity is: "Any political party either genuinely believing that the voters 'need' them more than they need the voters, or else acting as if they believe it."
This will all mean a good deal more to you on the morning of November 5th than it does right now, I assure you.
Wow. I read most of the posts. It really is Blistering!
bttt
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
“John McCain has taken great pride in developing a reputation as someone who enjoys sticking his finger in the collective eyes of conservatives. Well, as one of those conservatives, I have a message for him and the rest of the NRCC that uses one of my fingers. I only regret that you can’t see it here.”
You deserve to lose and you will. You stand for nothing. [...] You are wealthy, totalitarian elitists. We already have a party full of those. We may have the Bolsheviks in power this November, but we will send you spineless weasels back home to live in the slop you created. Juan McAmnesty is a great nominee for such a putrid failure of a party. Take him and go jump off something high.
Posted: Luke on May 17, 2008 at 3:50 AM
YIKES!!! ;)
This is fun...
“One more former Republican here - I have never seen a bigger bunch of ******* in my life.
Unfortunately, it seems the only party with the will to fight are the communists - I mean, Democrats.”
Evidently, we're nowhere nearly as "fringe" or "unrepresentative" of other conservatives, nationwide, as Team Juan's online apologia squadron continually brays. ;)
It certainly is comforting.
Did you get a load of the moron saying that everyone posting was a Dem plant?
Wonder what his FReeper name is?
Those posts are too full of rage and vitriol, as well as GOOD solutions, to be from leftists.
Keep right on insulting members of the angry and disaffected conservative voting base, by all means. Spit out that their genuine, most heartfelt social and/or political concerns are "pointless," or "drivel"... and make absolutely certain they can actually feel your seething, contemptuous scorn for them as voters; as conservatives; as countrymen; and (most essentially) as people.
It's costing you so dearly in campaign donations, both individual and from the business community, the Republican candidate has no option left open to him but to meekly accept matching federal funding... whereas The Magic One, in the meantime, is pulling down between 40 and 80 million in online donations alone per MONTH.
Oh, yeah... and: the Republican party is 0-for-3 thus far this electoral season, even in what were (formerly) regarded as being reliably "safe" seats.
But: you go right on with the whole "open, naked loathing thing," do.
Why stop at simply shooting off the stray, sockless toe or two... when, with just the eensiest li'l extra bit of effort: you can blow the top of your own electoral skull clean off?
Not my problem, either way. Not anymore.
My serious concerns are what are conservatives truly supposed to do next after both the Fairness Doctrine is fully implemented by both the next President and the next Congress and illegal immigrants throughout the U.S. are not only allowed amnesty “to the max”, but are also legally allowed to vote in all future U.S. elections? How does “U.S. conservatism” truly and successfully recover from the full enactment of these two terrible things? Truly abolishing a political ideology is a very dangerous and very stupid thing to do, and the U.S. is truly on the verge of totally eliminating all of “U.S. conservatism” forever!
Once these candidates destroy the US economy we'll all be living in Ford Falcons.
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