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.
--gleefully sharing the inside garbage that insiders in the McCain campaign were fabricating and spreading about Sarah Palin
These people are beyond low...
“Most conservatives loved Sarah. But conservatives are a minority in America.”
I wouldn’t call 34% a minority. And the 34% is tired of having no representation.
Exit Poll Media Shocker: Conservatives Still Outnumber Liberals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126948/posts
Here are the relevant numbers (2004 here and 2008 here):
* 21 percent claimed to be liberal in 2004 versus 22 percent in 2008
* 34 percent claimed to be conservative in both 2004 and 2008
Palin is a phony. Most Americans now dislike her. The only possible way that Palin could win in 2012 is if Americans are worse off in four years than they are now. Frankly, regardless of who is in power, I hope that isn't the case.
Name one name.
It's emotional posts like yours derived from unnamed sources that keeps conservatives wondering in the wilderness.
A better way to let your displeasure be known is to call the RNC office at 202-863-8500. Tell them to pass along your message to McCain to SHUT HIS STAFF UP. It is cowardly to let her take the fall for the loss. She is the one who energized the Republicans in America.
True, but there were also many liberals who respected her. It’s a shame that our so-called conservatives at the upper levels of power won’t at least show her that same respect!
For me, I have contacted them and I for one will leave this party if this continues.
No, no, let them speak. And let them come forward and put their names and their faces to what they’re saying. We need to know whose careers need to go bye-bye. You don’t play a part in what’s been done to that woman over the last two months and get to walk away whistling a happy tune.
The Drive-Bys tell them to blame our candidates, and they do it.
Years of documenting the propaganda that comes from the Drive-Bys and these people still don't get it.
Now imagine the next four years around here with posters so easily swayed. I'm not going to waste my time correcting it.
I believe 34 percent are conservatives but the conservatives include two strains as far as I can see. A group of religious conservatives for whom issues such as abortion are up at the top of their list. And a group of less religious or secular ones more concerned with taxation, size of governnment.
And therein the conservatives can be split. It may be hard to have one from the first group elected in my humble opinion.
I don’t care about his religion. You shouldn’t even mention it, it just gives an opening for his bots to call you a “bigot”.
His LOUSY record as Governor and history of being a liberal is what matters.
How exactly can i tell the difference between a leftist and a RINO anyway? Face it,,our party in DC has been filled with people who picked Repub solely as a career path. They would have been just as happy as Dems.
I wouldn’t call 34% a minority.What a perfect illustration of the problem. 34% is a minority.
In the closing weeks of the campaign there was one and apparently he was fired for doing it.
I’m really, really tired of all of the vanities, but yours is very important. Let’s not let these McCain backstabbers get away with the blame game.
Show me another Republican who drew tens of thousands out of their homes to hear him/her speak? Were they all "smitten" or was her message of pro-growth, small government conservatism resonating?
You can ignore her because she couldn't immediately come up with an answer on prior USSC decisions in 10 seconds or you might want to listen to what her principles are. Sound bites are no way to go through politics.
Yes it's still a right-of-center country. Unfortunately there are still too many uninformed people. That's how we get Obama.
The fat lady in that performance is already doing her encore.
“Typ. Meant RNC.”
It was funnier with Newt heading up the DNC.
So easily swayed. Unbelievable.
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