Posted on 11/06/2008 7:01:49 AM PST by ODDITHER
To the McCain staff and Republican Party leaders:
My family has been Republicans since before the civil war. One of my ancestors lived in Arkansas and is described as a Moral Abolitionist. Originally from South Carolina he brought his Family to North West Arkansas and started a community named The Lord’s Vineyard. Here he taught both his children and the slaves he brought with him as well as the slaves he inherited or bought in South Carolina to read and write. Once they reached 21 and were able to read and write and had learned a skill, he gave them a piece of property and helped them set up a business. He once said that his children were no more prepared to live in a world without slaves than the slaves were to have freedom. He is it was his duty to ensure that both could be free and successful. He created uproar when he gave one of his slaves a business before his son, because his son had not become sufficiently humble.
I believe through my family, I have earned the right to speak as a Republican and believe my thoughts reflect many other Republicans.
The McCain staffers who did not agree with Sarah Palin, would you please just Shut Up!! You must understand that most of America loved Sarah, she energized long time Republicans who like myself was not enamored with John McCain as the candidate. When he won, I had decided to sit this election out, I would vote for him because he was the lesser of two evils but I was not going to walk the streets and volunteer my time and money. Sarah changed that for me. I worked harder to get Senator McCain elected than I worked to get George Bush elected. If you’re an example of what the insiders in Washington have become, we deserved to lose!!!!
Americans are starved for someone that can clearly articulate our agenda of lower taxes, limited government, protecting the unborn children and our personal freedoms. Sarah Palin is that person and you are trying to destroy her. We will not allow that to happen, not this time. She will not become a George W Bush because you have hurt feelings. Our message was schizophrenic at best and liberal at worst. We must get back to being the party of ideas.
We must accept the fact that when liberals wage a campaign of personal destruction they win. They not only have the backing of the press but many in Europe. People who want to see American power in the world diminished back the liberal agenda because they know that liberals are the best avenue to destroying everything we hold dear. When liberals are forced to wage a campaign of ideas they lose. American values are center right not left. Every liberal that won, did not discuss issues but instead focusing on their opponent’s personal life and distorting their values. Republican’s who wage a campaign of personal destruction always lose.
If we move to the left, Americans will keep electing Democrats, we need to unite, and start presenting our party as the party of ideas and taking our case directly to the American people. We need every Republican united in that cause.
Shut up and get to work or get out of the way.
Who did you support in the primary?
What do you mean, so easily swayed? Swayed about what, the fact that the Republican party has moved left?
Yes the Inman handle got stuck on us in June of 2007, but you and I and others were talking about Romney as early as his name was mentioned as a potential POTUS candidate. We were attacked and we know WHY, don’t we?
EXACTLY!
Here's one of McCain's handlers.
John McCain has succeeded in poaching some political talent from Mitt Romney's turf, hiring a Boston political operative with intimate knowledge of Romney and his shifting political positions over the years, the Associated Press reports The operative, Rob Gray of Gray Media, will advise McCain on "New England strategy," the AP says.
The kicker is that Gray is mainly useful to McCain because he was a top political adviser to Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey, who ran a failed campaign last fall to succeed Romney as governor -- a failure that's partly attributable to the fact that Romney recently begain adopting more conservative positions than the ones he and Healey ran on back in 2002. So Gray has detailed knowledge of the vulnerabilities created by those shifts by Romney -- a body of knowledge that McCain evidently views as rather useful to him right now.
Which is why we need to all become precinct delegates and elect good party leadership at the local, county, state, and RNC committeeman level through the conventions. We must do what we can do.
How do you become a precinct delegate, and what does a precinct delegate do?
Maybe we conservatives should look at the Reform Party. After all, Sarah’s experienced in reform.
I couldn't disagree more.
I can see the 24/7 media bash of Palin "scandals" had its effect with you. Troopergate was an anchor?
Can anyone imagine the scrutiny of Reagan in an era of 24 hour cable? They would have massacred him.
The media and the RINOS know she is a threat merely by the numbers she attracted. McCain, without her, would have had zero turnout in the final days.
Meanwhile, the real scandal: the Marxist headed for the White House is still being lauded by the very same media. Imagine a Republican having an illegal relative living in public housing? (just one example of thousands). You folks are trashing the wrong person.
Out of curiosity , who would have made a better VP choice at a time when folks were willing to vote for Al Franken. Frankly, I'm surprised the ticket did as well as it did. I credit Governor Palin for that.
Vacant positions can be filled in in those precincts at the county conventions by a vote of the other precinct delegates. That's not hard to do. Just get involved in the local county Republican Party, and you'll probably eventually be appointed if not at the next convention if there is an opention, one in the future.
No. That's a failure. I'm not interested in suicide missions and falling on my sword like the Libertarian Party, Constitution Party, Green Party, Natural Law Party, Socialist Party, Worker World Party, Bull Moose Party, Reform Party, and every other 3rd party since the 1856 collapse of the whigs.
Now I voted for Palin more than McCain. I'm pissed off as you are about what Wallace and the rest are doing to Palin and the RNC. Can we do anything about that? Yes!
What WE can do is first become precinct delegates, elect good county leadership, become a delegate to state convention (which I have done every time I ran for it), and through that, elect good RNC committeemen and other party leadership.
It takes time and effort, but it's possible, and I do my part.
Newt couldn't get elected dog catcher, much less Governor.
How is the Newt/Hillary Universal healthcare plan coming along? So much for conservative values.
So. That doesn’t mean he’s Romney’s guy. It is a Republican politico from Boston who resented Romney’s shift to the right because it made it harder for his guy to win.
So. That doesn’t mean he’s Romney’s guy. It is a Republican politico from Boston who resented Romney’s shift to the right because it made it harder for his guy to win.
Pretty much nobody. The only support I had to offer was my vote, and by Super Tuesday it was pretty much a joke. I ended up voting for Romney, because that is what the conservative talkers were saying was the right thing to do. It was all I could do to bother showing up. I knew Fredmania was a crock.
I dont have time right now to go into it, but let's just say Im concerned about the way people seem to want to go about this process.
Re: Palin. I kept my mouth shut til the votes were counted.
No, I’m not saying Newt is the standard on values. In fact I am aware he has personal flaws that are not good. But he is a good example of some of the qualities I would look for. He is persuasive, and knowledgable on all the key issues. I guarantee if asked the SCOTUS questions Palin was asked, he’d have answers on his first try. I’d lke to see them debate. See if Palin can beat him in a debate.
Please clarify. We are talking about the McCain operatives who are trying to destroy Palin.
In 4 years there will be a LOT more 'new voters'!
Dang
He found out!
Now we’ll have to ....
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