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GOP Must "Accessorize" Says Strategist (RNC Deputy Chair Donatelli)
CBS - Transcript ^ | May 16, 2008 | Brian Goldsmith / Frank Donatelli

Posted on 05/17/2008 11:47:33 AM PDT by calcowgirl

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To: calcowgirl

<...I think we have to be true to our own principles...>

He THINKS? What happened to “I believe in being true to our conservative principles...”, huh?

Somewhere on this post it was said that the 527s are the groups to donate money towards. Yep. We’ve repeatedly, for three years now, told the RNC that illegal aliens invading our homeland was a major problem and we must lock the borders. And we’ve refused to donate money.

We even quit a 30-year long subscription to WSJ over their editorial board’s position supporting scoffing at the Federal Statutes concerning Immigration. (They believe that illegal aliens boost our economy, the dummies!)

A thought on why the Bushies have been hesitant to lock down tighter on the border - Mexico supplies us with a great deal of petroleum, in fact, I believe they are our #2 supplier behind Canada. Mexico may have threatened us with a cut off if we reasserted stringent border controls.

Any opinions on these suppositions?


21 posted on 05/17/2008 12:36:51 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: calcowgirl

OH my goodness! No wonder the GOP is in such big trouble. Where do they get these people?


22 posted on 05/17/2008 12:42:35 PM PDT by Cricket24 (ULTRA PATRIOT!!)
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To: stockpirate

A clown like this is speaking for the republican party and people wonder why we are in trouble?? Accessorize!! Unbelievable. I think I would have Jap-slapped him.


23 posted on 05/17/2008 12:44:15 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Oldpuppymax
I still have no idea who the RNC Chair is (and thats says something, because I always used to see the previous RNC Chairmen on TV making a case for the GOP))but if this is his Deputy, I can just imagine what type of incompetent is in charge.

Country clubbers have taken over the GOP again.

24 posted on 05/17/2008 12:55:14 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: calcowgirl
And I think we have to talk maybe more in specifics and not generalities.

Then he follows up with generality after generality after generality after generality...

25 posted on 05/17/2008 12:57:45 PM PDT by Rudder ("There is only one chief. Obey him." [Rush Limbaugh, April 30, 2008])
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To: Rome2000

I had to Google to find out who this joker is and all I can say is OMFG.

Small wonder the GOP is in decline.

I looked up country clubber bank owner with no idea how to play hardball and street fight against a domestic socialist insurgency and this guys picture came up.

Dark days ahead.

26 posted on 05/17/2008 1:03:24 PM PDT by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: stockpirate

RNCC/RNSC

I figured the third letter stood for communist and socialist. ;-)


27 posted on 05/17/2008 1:10:56 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Rome2000
I looked up country clubber bank owner with no idea how to play hardball and street fight against a domestic socialist insurgency and this guys picture came up.

Pity that the only people this guy knows how to shaft are the people who should be part of his base. But, then I guess that's always been the coward's way: screw over the people who don't deserve it, your friends, and cower before the people you should be standing up to.

People like him remind me of the Scottish nobility in Braveheart: They're perfectly willing to sell out their friends for titles and thirty pieces of silver instead of acting like men and standing beside them. (Viagra, anyone?)

28 posted on 05/17/2008 1:17:23 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Screw MacCain and the elephant he rode in on.)
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To: calcowgirl

Yep, the GOP needs more lipstick over substance. Reagan is rolling over in his grave.

29 posted on 05/17/2008 1:25:14 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (No mas Juan "Traitor Rat" McAmnesty)
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To: calcowgirl
Remember when Republicans ...

... had a REAL Chairman?

30 posted on 05/17/2008 1:29:39 PM PDT by FredZarguna ("I want that crazy uncle institutionalized, pronto.")
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To: calcowgirl
... it's kind of like we're a basic black dress. ...

And you kind of sound like a cross-dressing freak.

The Republican Party is doomed.

31 posted on 05/17/2008 1:33:22 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" White Guy)
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I can't believe no one's posted this yet:


32 posted on 05/17/2008 1:38:47 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The GOP death march to the gravesite is underway.)
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Vote all the sorry bums out and start all over with a Conservative slate in 2010. I'm so sick and tired of the big-spending, GOP Corruption-mongering, earmarking, pedophiles and bathroom cruise queens.......KICK 'EM ALL OUT!!!
33 posted on 05/17/2008 1:44:37 PM PDT by no dems (90% of Blacks vote for the only Black candidate; isn't that racist?)
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Oh, and I forgot Kevin Brady (R-TX) and New York Rep. Fossella (sp) and all the other drunk driving congressmen in the past two years.


34 posted on 05/17/2008 1:45:42 PM PDT by no dems (90% of Blacks vote for the only Black candidate; isn't that racist?)
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Where do they get these people?

I am afraid that the comments here are terribly uninformed as to Frank Donatelli's background, not that I think much of this interview. Let's see what TOWNHALL.COM says

'Donatelli is a long-time movement conservative who was a YAFer (Young Americans for Freedom -- not to be confused with another top-notch organization -- Young America's Foundation).

He organized the first several CPAC's, and also worked in three Reagan campaigns -- as well as in the Reagan Administration. In short, Donatelli is a bona fide movement conservative. The fact that John McCain elevated him to this important position is a very good sign that McCain realizes that personnel is policy. The RNC will serve a vital purpose for the McCain campaign, including coordinating party efforts on voter contact and get-out-the-vote programs.'

I knew Frank back in my YAF days, well enough that he purged me personally! It appears that Frank is the highest level hard right McCain staffer, who would be our main connection into a future McCain administration should there be one. He has to talk like this because he could hardly say what his positions are on the issues, he is a party staffer, and his job is to advance the party. We can hardly attack McCain for not working with conservatives, then condemn conservatives he DOES work with BECAUSE they are working with him.

35 posted on 05/17/2008 2:23:20 PM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (All of this has happened before, and will happen again!)
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To: calcowgirl; KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle; Condor51; Reagan Man; indylindy; pissant; SoConPubbie; ...
RNC Deputy Chair Donatelli.... "it's fair to say that, in 2008, we start off, just on a generic basis, behind by five or ten points"....

5-10 points behind? ROTFLMCO. Guy would be counting his lucky star if it's only 5-10 points.

Guess again, sucker.

Oh wait a sec----this "brilliant team" has yet to call on major McC backer, Rooty Giuliani, to campaign alongside McCain. (Giuli is still recuperating after choking on a Communion host when the Pope was here---sniffle.)

Maybe Giuli will share with McCain his own "brilliant" campaign strategy........how he "brilliantly" kicked conservatives to the curb, and that "brilliant move" to religiously cleanse the Repub party.

5-10 points down.......my Aunt Tilly. Without conservatives, McC is in Nowheresville, with Giuliani by his side.

ROTFLMCO.

36 posted on 05/17/2008 2:57:26 PM PDT by Liz (Without the brave, there'd be no land of the free. Senator Fred Thompson)
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To: stockpirate

“soCialist”

Is that anything like Cialis? I wondered what these guys were using to keep it up. It’s Really hard when you don’t have the goods.


37 posted on 05/17/2008 3:49:08 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We have become an oligarchy not a Republic.)
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To: calcowgirl
These Rockefeller, Country Club GOP types know exactly what they are doing.

They were always comfortable being in the minority just so long as they could make money.

They are embarrassed by those of us in the GOP that are actually Reagan Republicans and by our positions on the issues.

I fear my party is dying and beyond the point of saving.

38 posted on 05/18/2008 12:06:37 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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