Posted on 11/06/2008 4:17:01 PM PST by Josh Painter
Thanks, that is a very good list. Some of these good people I have not heard about before. Some good information on here. Will be keeping this list and probably adding to it.
That's what you whippersnappers think, huh? LOL!!
OK, not young, but his star has been rising because his values are so exceptional. He is a stickler for economic integrity in the Senate and Congress.
Right, someone who repeatedly blames the financial crisis on "greed and corruption on wall street" and fails to metion Fannie and Freddie is really a small government conservative.
And if you think she's a fiscal conservative, you've got a thing or two to learn about the way the budget works in Alaska with its royalty revenue slush fund.
What may be a viable idea is to form a PAC for the “Young Turks” on the list (and those not yet on the list). A PAC that could provide the funding and internet resources to get the “youngsters” names, faces, and ideas out to the greater electorate. The problem that Sarah faced was that she was little known outside of Alaska and fora such as FR. We had to introduce her the American public late in the game. If she had been in the public eye sooner, we could have had a well-formed public image set in place and more of the populace would have been familiar with her.
Many of us are very conservative.
I'm 5 years older than Coburn.
bump for later notation.
We need more, younger, attractive men, women of all races, ethnic backgrounds.
I say “we” as a conservative since I’m not a Republican.
As long as they uphold conservative ideals, I could give two squirts whether they are Indian, female, male, Asian, African American, etc.
The GOP party looks white and it looks old. I’m sure people will hammer me for that, but them are the facts.
Jindal - Palin or Jindal - Ryan in 2012.
Yeah, like the redneck, populists here in central NJ. Please take your Murtha garbage elsewhere.
Alaska is a state that was built upon its natural resources which belong to all Alaskans, it sure would be a shame to give some of the profit back to the people of the state, right? Please.
There, fixed it for you. The "big tent" approach was just tried and it was an abysmal failure. If not for Palin, it would've been a humiliating Obama landslide.
The woman is a leader who stands for something, and that is what attracts people. It's what pulled so many Democrats to Reagan.
MM (in TX)
Rural values huh, you mean like believing in whats right and whats wrong, believing in values and in life?
I'm so tired of the moderates and RINOs telling us how to win elections. See where we got with the stupid "Big Tent" approach...Obamanation.
I assume you mean all of us "bitter people" in "flyover country" who "cling to our guns and religion"?
Are you sure you're in the right place?
Troll!
The reference is to what is essentially the Reagan coalition of Economic conservatives, foreign policy hawks, and social conservatives. Many of us fit comfortably in all three categories, but the successful coalition means including people who may only fit on a couple of the legs. Go back 40 or 50 years and the coalition was only of the first two. Reagan managed to bring many Catholics and southern and western and otherwise rural evangelicals along and that has made the difference between success and failure. As with any coalition, there will always be some tensions. Huckabee just didn't appeal to all three legs and hence couldn't pull it off (plus his abysmal ignorance of foreign affairs became too obvious). Thompson probably had the most appeal across the board, but came in too late and too disorganized. He best articulated the coalition, however.
Yes, she is, and though the snarky Republicans feeding carp to the press think they are going to diminish her, they're doing exactly the opposite, among conservatives.
I was about to post that.
J.C. Watts?
I believe she will be relected Governor, then she can think about running for President, if not in 2012, then most assuredly in 2016. She lit a fire under the Republican party, and the only ones who seemed not to like her, were the ones who never liked conservatives, anyway, and wanted to keep the party as a Moderate party.
Thank you for the broader explanation.
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