Obama on video campaigning for Marxist "cousin" Raila Odinga, Kenya's "Agent of Change"
Posted on 10/26/2008 2:07:09 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the first President Bush, dismissed Mrs Palin's critics as "cocktail party conservatives" who "give aid and comfort to the enemy".
He told The Sunday Telegraph: "There's going to be a bloodbath. A lot of people are going to be excommunicated. David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. The litmus test will be: where did you stand on Palin?"
Mr Frum thinks that Mrs Palin's brand of cultural conservatism appeals only to a dwindling number of voters.
He said: "She emerges from this election as the probable frontrunner for the 2012 nomination. Her supporters vastly outnumber her critics. But it will be extremely difficult for her to win the presidency."
Mr Nuzzo, who believes this election is not a re-run of the 1980 Reagan revolution but of 1976, when an ageing Gerald Ford lost a close contest and then ceded the leadership of the Republican Party to Mr Reagan.
He said: "Win or lose, there is a ready made conservative candidate waiting in the wings. Sarah Palin is not the new Iain Duncan Smith, she is the new Ronald Reagan." On the accuracy of that judgment, perhaps, rests the future of the Republican Party.
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Noo...a thousand times “No” Bill Krystol, for all of his flaws, has stood behind Governor Palin, for my disagreements with the man, he has never attacked Sarah Palin.
Make no mistake, I watch these things like a hawk that is starving, and Bill Krystol is not the problem...at all.
Remember, McCain IS from the "RINO" side of the party. If he does lose it will be a repudiation of THIS side of the party. It will not be Sarah Palin's fault, it will not be George Bush's fault, it will not be conservatives fault. It will be the fault of the "RINO" wing of the party that told us we could only win by going moderate this election cycle.
I honestly believe that McCain would be up 10% in the polls if he was a Ronald Reagan conservative who stood by free-market principals instead of twisting with the political winds. He may still win, I hope he does, but he is NOT a Reagan conservative.
And these RINO idiots expect us to swallow whatever moderate POS they choose for us. Maybe McCain wasn't "moderate" enough, maybe they will give us Lincoln Chafee in 2012, or maybe after 4 years of earning their Obama kneepads they will endorse Obama as the republican nominee as well as the democrat, just like in the old Soviet Union.
After all, the RINO wing DOES have such an impressive record of electoral success...
1976 Ford (RINO) - Loses
1980 Reagan (conservative) - Wins
1984 Reagan (conservative) - Wins
1988 Bush I (ran as conservative Reagan heir) - WIN
1992 Bush I (governed as a RINO) - Loses
1996 Dole (RINO) - Loses
2000 Bush II (conservative) WIN
2004 Bush II (conservative) WIN
2008 McCain (RINO) - ???
According to my calculations the RINO's are batting 0 and 3 and may well be 0 and 4 after November 4. While Conservatives are batting 5 and 0. And the RINO's want us to follow them ?!? /rant off
I think there’s going to be a blood bath either way. If McCain wins, blacks have been encouraged to riot by jerks like Al Sharpton. I think if he wins they’re still going to riot. That’s the time when they can loot to their hearts desire, and they’re not going to miss out on that ‘opportunity.’
I am one of Sarah’s Soldiers. Count me in.
I no longer read anything produced by effete RINOs.
There is also going to be a worsening of the war on the MSM/DBM. For this, we need to recruit many more fighters.
We need to rebuild the conservative party based on the principles embodied in the words and deeds of RR. Rush and Mark Levin are spearheading this movement. I believe we would benefit by reading Burke, Kirk, Heritage Foundation, and AEI. It would be great for National Review to create a CD of every one of their issues that are indexed to issues......i.e., education, foreign policy, health care, etc. etc.
What a great description !
Lets pass it on.....VICHY REPUBLICAN
Hagel is packing it in, if he were not, he would be on the Vichy Republican list.
Conservatives have long memories and long knives, most don’t remember...we do...
Of course, you can nominate Chuck Hagel, as long as you have solid evidence against him either saying he will vote Obamao, or simply trashing Gov Palin in a majority hit piece...
Agreed.....give Billy Boy a pardon...for now...but keep your eye on him!
I think McCain is waffling on his membership in the Washington establishment. He does seem willing to rattle his campaign as needed to move ahead, but in between shaking them up, I have the impression that he delegates most of the tenor.
IOW, I don't think McCain is furious at the status quo in his campaign. If he was, he'd rattle them up. There is no harm in doing so at this point in time. And too, since he is waffling on in/out of the Washington establishment, he may be wary of Palin as a potential thorn to some of his policy objectives -- I'm thinking particularly of immigration, mineral exploitation, environmental issues, and "shrinking" of government. At this point, I'm pretty sure he sees her as a strong ally -- but he may have some small concerns in the background.
One way or another, Newt needs to find a way to be involved, no matter how the left attempts to savage him.
Being nice to liberals merely emboldens them to stab us in the back. Trent Lott's committee sharing debacle some years back is just one illustration.
You mentioned: “Rush, Sean, Beck and Ingraham for me. Who needs more.”
Mark Levin will be included in that mix, front and center.
I agree with that. He fancies that he has sort of "made" her into a national figure, with his praise and recommendations. Bill Kristol is a go with the flow opportunist and centrist. I don't mind his support of Palin, I just see it as self-serving and not a measure of his inclination to have the GOP reject the "compassionate conservative" approach to federal government.
The way I see it mick, after the election, we sort the wheat from the chaff, we are not all about giving ammo to the Vichy Republicans, we are all about holding people accountable.
There should and hopefully be a “acceptable” and “unacceptable” list that is based first on dumping Vichy Republicans, then moving on to Obamao Sycophants in the Media.
Once we know the geese from the ganders, we start pumping up our friends, and describing our enemies.
We start inhouse, the so called opinion leaders, then we move to politicians.
On November 5th, we start the Vichy Republican thread, so save up and document them, expose them, know them.
Dump those waiting for Reagans 2nd coming.
The Jews already have the waiting issue covered.
That is it in a nutshell, right there. No matter how many attacks on me, how many screeches, the sad truth is that many businesses got more profitable while employees' incomes were buying less and less. The real inflation rate is higher than what those doofuses in Washington want us to believe. People are really hurting.
Voters are just barely smart enough to realize that nothing is trickling down anymore. With the multinationals downsizing and outsourcing, and profits going overseas, we're pretty screwed. And while our tax rate is high on corporations, voters are smart enough to realize how many pay very little tax, if any.
I used to come to to this board long ago and warn that there would be a revolt over issues like healthcare, and I'd get laughed at. Well, see how you like Obama's plan when he wins. We had years to fix the system, and no one did a damn thing about it.
Meanwhile, we're just finding out that the banks that were too big to fail are now going to use the "bailout" money to buy out other banks instead of using that money for loans. Bush lets this happen, and I'M STAYING HOME.
Capitalism works badly when money is concentrated more and more in fewer and fewer hands. People are tired of seeing lobbyists for the one percent run the country. Until the republican party can attract the middle class again, it's toast.
As for me, I resigned myself a long time ago that until the republican party got its act together, the dems were going to gain power. The corporatists have been using Christians since the 1970's. Well, let me tell you folks something. Most of the powers that be don't give a damn about abortion.
It will be interesting to see what happens four years from now. We've got a real pro-life woman who can't win the presidency as the next heir apparent. I'm sorry, but she's just not bright enough. Where are the pro-life leaders who can win an election? Where are the pro-life leaders who care about the middle class? I don't want a tax cut from Obama, but I would like our salary not to be eaten up by the higher costs of healthcare, college, groceries, etc.
Add Kathleen Parker to this march of morons, BTW.
“...but has some limitations as evidenced by the degree to which the McCain camp has kept her away from the media.”
Maybe. But did it ever occur to you she is “kept away” (as you put it) because they realize she will be sandbagged by the MSM as was done in the Gibson and Couric interviews? You never see the MSM ask Obama or Biden the kinds of picayune questions Sarah was asked, nor are either one of them challeneged in any meaningful way as was Sarah. It was those 2 interviews more than anything that led to her being unfairly portrayed as a bubble head.
Compared to Joe “Kinnock” Biden, who has trouble remembering how his wife and child died, and invites people to visit him at restaurants that are closed, she is a genius.
Ed Rollins masterminded Ronald Reagan’s thrashing of Mondale? I never knew that! The things one learns from a media-type.
Disagree, Krystol may consider himself the Palin Genesis, but if so, he has not shifted and then said “I made a mistake”, which would buy him into the good graces of DC Elites.
After all, if he is most responsible for Gov Palin being nominated, he could also then bow to Obamoa and break her with a recantation of her selection.
He never did, neither did Charles Krauthammer, neither did Jonah Goldberg, neither did Mark Steyn.
Boost our friends, name our enemies, let’s get it done.
So you want the government to set wages and profitability? Good grief! Well, anyway, chances are really good you’re going to get a chance to see how bad things can really be when they try to do just that.
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