Posted on 10/26/2008 7:41:48 PM PDT by padre35
I've had enough, after watching Gerry Rivers of all people, an inveterate Obama fan, throw dirt on McCain/Palin, I think the list of traiterous Republicans otherwise known as Vichy Republicans should be assembled before the election.
Laura’s radio talk show is one of the best.
Check out her site. http://www.lauraingraham.com/
She is heavy duty into the pro life movement
(This is up on her site for a must read)
Mother Angelica’s Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures
Raymond Arroyo (editor)
good good GVnana, this should not really be about what I think, the facts, the words, should speak for themselves.
Any ideas for substitutes for David Frum?
i’m glad she got another radio syndicator SoCalPol.
Last night I posted excerpts from Reagan's "Let Them Go Their Way" speech (1975). These things happen in elections, unfortunately. There's always finger pointing and recriminations. We simply need to remember who is with us, and who is against us, and go forward.
Nice, I have not heard that Reagan speech before.
IMO, it would be a great thing if you run across someone who can take Mr. Frum’s place.
No need to turn negative...post the facts, let people decide for themselves, when the Vichy got their heads shaved, everyone in the Community knew what they had done, and why they were getting the head shave..
Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.
Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the people’s earnings government can take without their consent.
Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help.
And let it provide indexing—adjusting the brackets to the cost of living—so that an increase in salary merely to keep pace with inflation does not move the taxpayer into a surtax bracket. Failure to provide this means an increase in government’s share and would make the worker worse off than he was before he got the raise.
Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.
Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.
Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.
Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.
And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.” We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view.
And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.
they don’t like Palin
She is charismatic Christian and fundamentalist and they can’t stand that.
Most of those on that list are either Jewish, Catholic or not much.
it always boils down to identity issues
some other not so great types have finally stood up for our side
Krauthammer after a painfully slow resistant start and Kristol..the NeoCon’s NeoCon has been pretty warm to Palin surprisingly.
Part of this is beltway elitism too
Thanks GVnana, this speaks to the thread:
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.”
And that, intuitively, is why the Vichy Republican list needs help, wheat and chaff.
Let's start with policy people:
David Frum's on the list already I see.
And Colin Powell.
Ken Mehlman, former RNC chair. (Closet case, secret enemy of the conservative wing
Bob Dole (former Sen., R-Kansas) and Elizabeth Dole (R-NC, former Sec'y of Transportation under 41; nominated together as a working "power couple"
Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, card-carrying Senate RiNO's from Maine.
Susan Molinari, former R-NY.
Mark Foley, former R-Fla. and Democratic foil in the 2006 Congressional putsch
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, pig-at-the-trough Big Government RiNO Deluxe
A bunch of Log Cabins:
Andy Smith, a national vice president for Log Cabin from 1992 to 1994 and president of the Austin chapter from 1992 to 1995.Charles Francis, gay RiNO insider, fundraiser, and self-described "grass tops" organizer for the gay-centric Republican Unity Coalition (now dormant since Bush's endorsement of DOMA)Robert Brown of Texarkana, the father of the Texas gay Republican movement and former Loggie
Gary Van Ooteghem, chairman of Log Cabin's Houston chapter and sometime local office-seeker iirc
Dale Carpenter, vindictive gay polemicist and former president of Log Cabin's Texas club and attorney with the power-lawyering firm V&E (Vinson & Elkins) in Houston, who once wrote a vitriolic face-dance for the Houston Chronicle op-ed page after the Lawrence abortion appeared (he has since moved to Minnesota and gone academic)
James Campbell, president of Log Cabin's Dallas chapter
John Loza, "out" GOP councilman in Dallas, and a Loggie
Steve Labinski, sometime president of the Texas Loggies
Mike McGowan, sometime president of the San Antonio Log Cabin
Gov. Rick Perry, RiNO-in-chief of Texas
Karl Rove, RiNO Mephistopheles (allegedly outed by Oliver Stone) who marginalized conservatives in the GOP (like Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., who was beaten by gay PAC's and 527's for reelection in Pennsylvania, after being left to twist in the wind by Rove and Bush)
Gov. Sonny Perdue of Ga., who used a Rovian "Sigma Nu" approach to Ga. conservatives (the "Four F's: Find 'Em, Feel 'Em.....", etc.)
The editorial staff of the Weekly Standard
Anyone named Bush. (Okay, argue with me; make your case.)
So, there we go, that should serve as a basis for opening discussion.
Like Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove and Christopher Caldwell did, by inviting the conservatives to stay the hell home and quit embarrassing them with our juvenile wacko non-issues?
Such a good, good post. Thank you!
Nobody can credibly claim to be a conservative if they support Obama, but, one can be a conservative and not support McCain. Conservative does not equal Republican, especially now.
I do not support McCain. I will vote for him only because it is a vote against Obama’s brand of Marxism. I’m not looking forward with any great enthusiasm to McCain’s brand of socialism, but at least he won’t deliberately undermine America. (He’ll undermine it thinking he’s saving it.)
McCain.
Rove
Card
Ridge
Oh good. Lets make lists dividing our own party. Then it will be a three party system.
How about we dont man the lifeboats quite yet. The water is only up to our knees.
The Republican party is dead it just hasn't fallen over yet. I will push everyday after the election to help them fall over. I will not rest until the the Republican party is dead and has a restart.
Oh and add Mel Martinez to the list along with W and all other Bush family members.
Reboot the Republican Party.
We are “at war” with Obama and the Democrats? And this is a core belief on this site? Hyperbole much?
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