Posted on 05/29/2008 2:55:38 PM PDT by redwill
Distraught by congressional spending, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said that Republicans have lost their courage to clamp down on waste and deserve to lose seats this year.
"Those people who are fiscally conservative, Republican or not, we don't have many years left that we better fix this, and we better be about it now," said Coburn on CNN Headline News Wednesday. "So [it's about] holding the Republicans accountable. And we're going lose some seats. There's no question about it. We deserve to."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
” He’ll probably do a pretty good job of defending the national security of Iraq, but that’s not the same as the US of A national security AT ALL. “
Sure, a WMD building, terrorist supporting, neighbor-invading tyrant who was soon to get his sanctions lifted while firing on our jets weekly was no threat to the “US of A national security AT ALL” with half the world’s oil supply two days drive away from him. He’d never do anything crazy like set it ablaze... no, wait...
“Senator Coburn: We ‘deserve’ to lose seats”
Just look at your buddy Juan for the main reason.
Enough of it is.
Nope, its over. Once the party becomes tainted at this level, theres no hope. You can't convince a society that has been bombarded by entitlements that a small government is good for them, especially when a huge majority of them are hitting retirement age and expecting SS to kick in.
History says otherwise...we were much more down in the dumps in the mid 70s, with a disgraced, resigned President, a RINO head of the party (Ford), Congressional minorities depressed and with no hope...and then came Ronaldus Magnus.
The conservatives who had hoped 15 years earlier with Barry Goldwater finally were heard in the party.
It is NOT too late; we are the people who make America work, who make things happen, and who can make the Republican party anew. We can, and we must.
Like our soldiers say, failure is not an option.
You do make a good point.
Only problem with that is that Reagan was lurking in the shadows for 20 years. Who do we have like that? People are going after Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin as the last great hope when they have only been govenors for 2 years! The movement that Buckley started is dead! we have been reduced to nothing more that Keyboard Leonidous’ that talk a big game but do nothing to play in it!
(How come your eye/brain doesn’t think it’s turning counterclockwise sometimes?
OOOOoooo, it does if you make your eyes go in that direction. NEAT!)
I am still trying to digest the bile that you have thrown. Congratulations, you are the most inane poster of the day !
Bile? Are you aware of what I was speaking of when I posted my comment? I think not.
The problem is that to counter the (false) accusation that the GOP is the party of the “rich”, “Big Oil”, and “Wall Street” they think that must mean you have to turn against the most productive people in society and become a populist.
Reagan realized that there is/should be a natural connection between business and workers, between Main Street and Wall Street, that we all benefit one another mutually, as long as we all have the same basic goals in mind.
Now, BOTH parties are guilty of some version of class warfare.
I summarized it for you.
How does a day old duplicate thread get moved into “Breaking News”?
McCain would say it's a gerkin.
Good post.
I'm sorry, but as long as people keep saying they will hold their noses and vote for McCain because he is better than Obama - that is NOT putting pressure on the man! He knows he has the votes no matter what he does.
This is from the guy that let Obama compare him to Bill Ayers. Yes republicans have lost their courage and that includes Coburn.
They would be, if GOP legislators would actually DO something about illegal immigration, energy, and the economy. They had all three houses for 6 years... and did what? Nothing. Coburn is correct. Until the GOP finds candidates who will "walk the talk", they deserve to become more and more irrelevant. If they don't turn it around, eventually the voters will simply find a new party. I know I'm certainly paying a lot more attention to third parties than I have in decades.
That’s a keeper.
Our “leaders” of the past 20 years or so have fallen, been defeated by the massive war room of MSM/DNC/Hollywood/Academia, they have been blackmailed into moderation in exchange for “good press coverage”, they cannot win elections with ads and faux news reports being run against them being called; polluters, racists, bigots, cruel, heartless, warmongers, etc.
Make no mistake, the 24/7/365 political campaign run by the liberal war room makes it impossible to govern, no office holders has the money, time, logistics, or the massive PR firms it takes to run a year round campaign.
Instead of sniveling about the fallen, we should be figuring out a battle plan.
How to defeat the UnAmerican Democrat Party war room that have ruled our lives for 40 years running!
They won't and they can't. They need the exact same people that are already in the Republican party. You can change the name if that makes you feel better but the fact is we must get sufficient converts to join with us. The only viable route is for us to band together in the Republican party and fight like heck to get our people elected in the primaries.
I don't blame anyone but ourselves. We simply need more numbers.
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