Editorial: Thin the RINO herd

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | 2008-11-09 | Lowman S. Henry

[rabscuttle385]

Now what?

The Republican Party -- nationally and in Pennsylvania -- lies in tatters. Having lost the White House to Barack Obama, suffered historic losses in congressional elections, been almost shut out in statewide races and experienced further erosion in the state House, there is no doubt the GOP has hit rock bottom.

It is, most significantly, a loss for so-called moderate Republicanism. Party moderates have opined time and again that a more middle-of-the-road presidential candidate could win Pennsylvania. McCain was touted as that candidate. It was a double-digit trouncing.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Thin hell.Declare open season on the scumbags.What burns me up is having to vote for chambliss on 2 dec just to keep the commie martin from taking the seat.If and I say if chambliss keeps his seat I promise his staff are going to hate their jobs over the next few years.

[Rockitz]

Possibly assign number of delegates based on registered Republicans in a state as opposed to delegates based on total registered voters in a state?

[Mojave]

Party moderates have opined time and again that a more middle-of-the-road presidential candidate could win Pennsylvania. McCain was touted as that candidate. It was a double-digit trouncing.

That's why the RINOs are trying to make Sarah Palin their scapegoat.

[Dutch Boy]

Decimate means to remove 1/10th. I would rather we drive then to extinction.

[NewJerseyJoe]

You want to get rid of only one of every ten RINOs??

[Weaver95]

Party moderates have opined time and again that a more middle-of-the-road presidential candidate could win Pennsylvania. McCain was touted as that candidate. It was a double-digit trouncing. That's why the RINOs are trying to make Sarah Palin their scapegoat. Were you paying any attention at all? Palin isn't a 'scapegoat', she is part of the reason we lost. wake up and smell the coffee!

[captnorb]

We lucked out.....Libby dole is finally gone.. Don't know who is picking up the baton yet. My letter writing skills have to be brushed up and start letters to the editors and back to the county repub meetings to assure we push for a conservative candidate.

[Mojave]

Palin isn't a 'scapegoat', she is part of the reason we lost. wake up and smell the coffee!

Put down the crack pipe.

[skeeter]

Lingle said the national GOP needs to become less ideologically rigid and attract more ethnic minorities and women into its fold if it is going to recover after big losses in Tuesday’s election.

Do America a favor, Gov Lingle and change your party affiliation. We already have a party that panders to racial identities.

[penowa]

"there is no doubt the GOP has hit rock bottom."

I don't think so. The party will try to resurrect itself while still espousing the same creed. I'm just about convinced that it's time for a new party. I'm just not politically savvy enough to know how it's done."

I agree with you. The RINOs will try to breathe life into the DEAD thing - the Republicrat party. If they succeed, there will be no 2nd party and no opposition. I won't live long enough to see the formation of a 2nd party, but if there isn't one, the Republic is dead along with the Republicans.

[bdeaner]

Were you paying any attention at all? Palin isn't a 'scapegoat', she is part of the reason we lost. wake up and smell the coffee!

You are wrong. Without Palin, a lot of conversatives would have sat out the election or voted third party. Palin saved him from an even bigger and much more humiliating loss.

McCain lost because he ran on a platform that said, "Vote for me, I'm not really a Republican." I voted for Palin, not for him. Without Palin, I would have voted third party. A lot of people feel the same.

Now that all is said and done, I am actually happy McCain lost, because it probably would have done more harm than good should the party become associated with that RINO piece of crap.

[Thane_Banquo]

Ronald Wilson Reagan won Pennsylvania twice, running on hard core conservatism. Liberal Republicanism tends to be corporatist Republicanism, which puts off the Reagan Democrats. Conservatism attracts them because it tends to be what they actually believe in.

[Mojave]

McCain lost because he ran on a platform that said, "Vote for me, I'm not really a Republican."

Exactly!

[Thane_Banquo]

I say we do the complement of decimating. Remove 9/10ths of them, so we always have that annoying 1/10th around to remind us why we got rid of the 9/10ths in the first place.

[WOSG]

Begin by cleaning the voter registration ranks, cut public funding to partisan (left wing all of them) groups that subvert elections, and use the courts to go after any elected politician and .org that gets in the way.”

Since we are now a minority, this is impossible.
The Democrats will keep fraudulent voters on the books, put pork and earmarks to fund leftwing special interests, stuff courts with liberal activists so the third branch becomes a partisan advocacy arm for socialism.

It’s very troubling, and our only hope is to wake up the people in the middle of the road to the danger the left-liberal Democrats pose.

As of right now, the swing voters swung to give the Democrats all the power they want.

[AC-130 Gunship]

"I could no longer vote for the Republican party after Bush authorized torture in Gitmo."

So waterboarding Islamofascist terrorists cut you loose from the GOP? Really?? You must despise General George Patton as well - he actually slapped a U.S. soldier.

So tell me - Is your 8x10 glossy of Olbermann autographed?

[Lancey Howard]

What? The GOP can’t win with “rock-ribbed” moderates?
Who’d a thunk?

[Lancey Howard]

On the bright side, Connecticut’s Christopher Shays was finally jettisoned.

[Issaquahking]

Were you paying any attention at all? Palin isn't a 'scapegoat', she is part of the reason we lost. wake up and smell the coffee!

Hey troll, You and your attitude can't even recognize a conservative. I had the privilege of working as a volunteer on her campaign for a while. Guranteed, people like you shoot off your mouth with no proofs, arm chair warrior jerk. Even things you would consider proofs, are rumors and inneundo.

[Weaver95]

I believe in the US Constitution and the decree of the Founding Fathers. If they said ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ was a bad thing, then who am I to disagree?

Or if you want put a religious spin on it, you cannot be a Christian and be in favor of waterboarding. Christ didn’t give exceptions - He said ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ He didn’t say ‘unless they were terrorist suspects’.

Torture is always wrong. Always. there are no exceptions. no ‘outstanding circumstances’. When Bush starting making excuses for the practice, I stopped voting Republican.