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.
You don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression.
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Well, then, Romney better sit 2012 out then , hadnt he ????
When Hillary was the favored Dem candidate in '07 and after she had won some Jan primaries, I tried telling other FReepers to look out, that the amount of $ Obama took in for month of January was overwhelming...and if the Repubs tried to pit the likes of Romney vs. Obama, it'd would be a disaster.
We kept saying back then: Imagine the media + the Obama folks pitting Obama vs. Romney -- a man who when he was 30 yrs old belonged to a church that denied blacks to be part of their priesthood. I predicted, along with others, that it would be a media bloodbath against Romney.
Sure enough. I was right. Obama, not Clinton, won. Sure enough, time is showing exactly how the other side and the mainstream Media will go after anybody in the way of their agenda -- the ad attacks in CA, for example, against the Mormon church for its support of Prop 8...the protests in SLC for the same reason.
If the attacks are fast & furious for baseless reasons (Prop 8 right now), just think how the attacks would come during an extended 2012 campaign where the attacks based upon Mormon racist doctrine would actually have some basis.
That is not strength. That would be playing into the hands of the Democrats who want to turn everything into a referendum on racism. That is pure weakness!
My great X11 grandmother was Pochahontas and i believe I have the right to speak for all Indians.
it’s true actually
aside from your hyperbole, i do agree that Palin should be supported.
imagine her really let loose on the media one on one
49% is a minority. Liberals and moderates outnumber conservatives by about 2:1. If conservatives are to win elections, they must pull more than 50% of the moderates over to their side. If they have only conservatives, they lose.
Just wanted to use a little leverage that I care what happens to the good people within the party.
The only difference between the very left and the very right is the race they proclaim as supreme. If you take a leader of the Arian Nation and Rev. Wright and switched speaches just change the race, you wouldn’t see a difference.
Bigotry is bigotry no matter what color your skin is.
there are very few white supremacists left
meanwhile black leaders like Wright and those that follow including our new president are legion
...Let...me....join.....? :o
Ok...
But there is a litmus test.
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