Posted on 11/06/2008 7:34:55 AM PST by icwhatudo
Edited on 11/06/2008 7:44:32 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Blunt to step down as #2 Republican in house. Cantor to replace him-Breaking on CNN
I have mixed feelings because of the very same thing, but I am willing to give him a chance..especially if they put Pence in the leadership role.
It doesn't matter - 2008 was probably the last election where the GOP had a chance to win nationwide.
The demographics have swung hard against us, and it would be another 30 or 40 years before enough of the Caucasian Baby Boomer nihilists had died off and we might have been able to reclaim the government again [although, by that time, the set of all Caucasians might be an absolute minority in the USA, at which point you'd simply have South Africa or Zimbabwe].
But Obama & the people around him [Ayers, Wright, Sunstein, Axelrod, Soros] are really hard-core Bolsheviks, and the USA as we knew it won't persist for much more than another five or ten years - if that.
You people simply don't realize quite how bad things are already, nor quite how ugly they are about to become.
It will probably require a shooting war to re-establish some semblance of a Free Republic in North America, and whatever emerges will not be the USA that we knew.
With this very nice changeover our conservative party is taking further shape. We have to lift up our heads, put Tuesday behind us, and conservatize the GOP into a true party of values, strength, and decisive action.
He voted for the sell-out to socialism. You don’t need to know anything else.
If the Republicans want to change their leadership in such a way as to make me refer to myself as a REPUBLICAN again, instead of a conservative, then, every last member of their leadership that voted for the socialism giveaway should be demoted from leadership positions. And none should be promoted.
There were PLENTY of stand-up conservatives in the House from which to choose real leaders.
You can’t be a ‘true conservative’ 95% of the time, and sell out the cause when your principles are put to a real test.
Maybe there’s still room in the Big Tent for those that made this HUGH and SERIES mistake. . . but not at the front.
Learn your lessons or stay a minority party forever. IF McCain had opposed the sell-out, he’d be President-Elect today. Everybody that ran headlong off that cliff with McCain is responsible for the result: President-Elect Marx.
Every last one. That deserves something other than to be rewarded.
Cantor replacing Blount in House leadership.
We’ll see :) That little tantrum he threw was disheartening and..odd..but he deserves a chance and I’ll give him one.
That is a lot to digest. Thanks for your answer.
Uhhhh.... he was asking a question.
You aren’t alone. I’m celebrating that Blunt stepped down, not that Cantor stepped up. I remember him selling out on the bailout.
Pence stood against the bailout. But Pence sold us out on amnesty soo...far as I’m concerned both guys have something to prove. Right now I’m more partial to Bachmann.
From all accounts I’ve heard, Cantor is a very good conservative (other than going weak on the bail out). He bodes well. Let the cleansing and return to core values continue!
Cantor would have been a great veep choice for McCain.
He’s a good guy, for sure....or, you betcha!
Me too! I love Bachman and I am really glad she’s on our side- she’s feisty and committed.
I dont know seemed to work well for the dems when it came to putting our judges in place.
Mine too. I consider him a good Rep for us but I think we need someone with a more combative spirit as Whip going forward.
I suspect Christopher Bond will retire in two years. Governor Matt Blunt (Roy's son) might run for that seat but if he does not his father might choose to.
No. I'm not that naive. Of course they can. I was just speaking about the technical majority. And who knows, maybe we'll get lucky. (OK, so we probably won't get lucky.)
Here’s a list of Republicans in the House from which to choose the new leadership (pulled from those that voted against the sell-out, may still includes those that might not be in the next Congress):
When conservatism demanded a roll call, THESE are your leaders that stood up to be counted:
Aderholt
Akin
Bachmann
Bartlett (MD)
Barton (TX)
Bilbray
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Broun (GA)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Burgess
Burton (IN)
Buyer
Capito
Carter
Chabot
Culberson
Davis (KY)
Davis, David
Deal (GA)
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doolittle
Drake
Duncan
English (PA)
Feeney
Flake
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Gallegly
Garrett (NJ)
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Graves
Hall (TX)
Hastings (WA)
Hayes
Heller
Hensarling
Hulshof
Hunter
Issa
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Jordan
Keller
King (IA)
Kingston
Lamborn
Latham
LaTourette
Latta
Linder
LoBiondo
Lucas
Mack
Manzullo
Marchant
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moran (KS)
Murphy, Tim
Musgrave
Neugebauer
Nunes
Paul
Pearce
Pence
Petri
Pitts
Platts
Poe
Price (GA)
Rehberg
Reichert
Renzi
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Roskam
Royce
Sali
Scalise
Sensenbrenner
Shimkus
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Stearns
Tiahrt
Turner
Walberg
Westmoreland
Whitfield (KY)
Wittman (VA)
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Darell Issa (California 49th Congressional District) would be a good leader as well. Big proponent of securing the border and hard-core pro-military being a veteran himself.
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