the bushes are liberal republicans.
mccain-feingold 2008 is a liberal republican.
bob dope 1996 is a liberal republican.
YES,YES, YES, I have been saying this since late 2006. THANK YOU!
Right about now I am glad he lost. Now we can really draw a bright line between socialism and capitalism. Out with all RINOS!.
Uh... because Republicans don’t want to vote for a DEMOCRAT
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Ronald Reagan showed the way to win, crystal clear conservatism, attract the center to your side. Of course, you have to be conservative to have any chance of that strategy working in the first place.
I worked as a get-out-the-vote volunteer for McCain and can attest to the inferiority of our effort relative to the Obamites. No question about it, they beat us like a rented mule.
How many "Christian" folks voted for Obama because they were totally stupid and ignorant of his stand on abortion/late term abortion and his voting record of allowing abortion survivors to slowly die?
Maybe if RINO McCain would have hammered him on that, they'd have not been ignorant of it.
RINO McCain performed almost exactly like those of us who were unhappy with him being chosen as our candidate were afraid he'd do. A long career of kissing rat butt made him a LOSER!
His concession speech proved that - just what exactly are the 50 million of us who voted against Obama supposed to unify with the rats on? Abortion, Taxes, Surrender in Iraq? More welfare? Bigger government?
Thanks for posting! Michael Reagan has nailed it!
Five things the Republicans must due by 2010:
1) Make Mike Pence or Thaddeus McCotter the minority leader in the House.
2) Make Michael Steele the RNC chairman
3) Take out John McCain in the 2010 Arizona Republican Sentae Primary
4) Destroy Mitt Romney and his camp
5) Provide Sarah Palin the forum to allow the country to see who she really is.
Good on Vice-President Cheney!!!! How many times did lord McCain stand up for and stand beside President Bush and or Vice President Cheney over the past 7+ years.
lord McCain spent these past years throwing one temper tantrum after another and to be accusing President Bush as the one siding with liberals for the spending removes responsibility from those that write the legislation to spend it in the first place.
I am really tired of the bash Bush/Cheney when this nation has been protected from any more terrorist attacks. I cannot say I believe this will continue. lord McCain is allll about closing gitmo and moving those terrorists to Forth Leavenworth, Kansas. Oh I did vote for Sarah!
If the party doesn’t end open primaries there is an excellent chance that another Dole/Bush/McCain will be nominated yet again in 2012. And conservatives had better start identifying and supporting candidates that hold conservative views and running these against RINOs. This will take unity and unity is achieved by agreeing to a minimum set of principles that makes a conservative a conservative. This does not have to be long or complicated but it must embody the overall principles of conservatism. Things like supporting strong national defence, support for a pro-life agenda, fiscal responsibilty, low taxes and limited government would likely be on such a list.
There is a lot of things bash worthy about the Bushes, BUT, John McCain, “Republican” candidate for President campaigned against George Bush, assuming everyone hated him (stupid).
I bet you a LOT of the Republicans who stayed home did so for that reason, I have a ton of problems with W, but there have been no attacks, not even a car bomb in America since 9/11. You could have won millions of dollars after 9/11 taking that bet, credit where credit is due.
If he credited Bush with keeping the country safe at every rally, I’m sure he would have gotten millions more votes.
There was never any Straight-Talk. McCain never named names. The whole economic crisis McCain was absent. This was an opportunity to lead, and he failed to be a leader.
Now his incompetent advisors are trying to shift the blame from themselves onto Palin. These imbeciles should have been Standing Up and Fighting Obama, instead of waiting until after they lost and backstabbing a Republican.
The Republican Party and the Bush White House walked away from Republican ideals
The Party, the Bush White House, and the McCain campaign, save Palin, were not even in the same ZIP Code/Area Code/County/what have you with true Republican ideals, IMO. The poster that pointed out how Reagan campaigned and drew centrists to his position was absolutely right on point.
There was not even a nodding acquaintance with real conservatism among that pack of RINOs and it didn't take being a charter subscriber to National Review to understand that basic premise. I suspect that even Joe the Plumber could have told them that.
Obama ran what is tantamount to an affirmative action campaign. The usual vetting was simply not applied to him. He was given special treatment, a dark horse (no pun intended) who remained dark up to the day he was elected, right down to the document he is protecting from view in Hawaii.
(2) Bush had a chance to pick any issue he liked to fight his second term on, and he picked one that split his own party wide open, out of pure political arrogance.
(3) Paulson had a chance to prevent the market slaughter before us by preventing a disorderly bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, and he insisted on doing nothing instead, to cater to doctrinaire libertarian puritans and duck populust flack over bailouts for bankers, for one week.
Those three policy mistakes, all reflecting collosal arrogance, ideological stridency, contempt for pragmatism and long experience, and a smugness about the consequences of world-historical proportions. All were entirely unforced own goals. All were violently opposed at the time by wiser men and rammed through anyway.
Now don't say we didn't tell you so.
Bush had the bully pulpit but failed to use it, and the Democrats walked away.
Shockingly, John McCain failed to use the most potent weapon in his arsenal — the culpability of Barack Obama and his friends in the wholesale looting of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that led to the current debacle. McCain had the goods, but wouldn't exploit them.
Also, I will add my own point:
Governor Sarah Palin out-staged McCain and McCain limited her to keep the spotlight from going off him. He failed to use Governor Palin effectively I believe, because it would make him seem less effective. When Gov. Palin was allowed to get media exposure, it was not well thought out. They let her go on taped interviews, which allowed her comments to be twisted by editing tactics. Not a smart idea. For those who get paid the big bucks to run a campaign, they should have been fired immediately for this failure.
The McCain campaign did not meet the task countering the media campaign against Gov. Palin. She was assaulted with a barage of issues from stupid things like the clothing cost to the Saturday Night Live barbs. The McCain campaign sat on their thumbs and acted as if the media war was not happening. They should have given top priority to the media destruction effort against Sarah Palin. It showed McCain campaign was not up to the task of countering the media war. If McCain thought this media war was tough, he showed that he was not up to the task of what he would experience as President. Those on his staff who let this failure happen should have been given their walking papers.
Contrary to what Michael says, Ronald Reagan would have never voted for Obama, even though he would have been disappointed in the Republicans. Reagan would have seen that Obama was an enemy of the freedom that is the foundation for America’s success.
Ironically, though, it was Reagan’s selection of George H.W. Bush, which was a capitulation to the notion that conservatives needed to please the moderates, that is at the bottom of our current problem. Without this selection, there is no George W. Bush and the “compassionate conservatism” which has brought us the Medicare prescription drug bill, the excessive spending, the failed immigration reform, the bailout, and a host of other problems. While I believe that President Bush did the right thing in Iraq for the right reasons, his presidency has been a mixed bag for conservatives, as he told us it would be from the start. I wish President Reagan had selected somebody more firmly on the right.