HEAVILY CENSORED!!!!!
Posted on 11/09/2008 6:38:00 PM PST by winoneforthegipper
Raggio, 81, a longtime Senate majority leader who was first elected to that body in 1972, said the GOP now must step back and examine what went wrong.
"Otherwise, we won't win another election, and there are some big ones coming up in two years," he
Time for an organized take back the helm movement!
They did the same thing in 76 after Ford lost. Complaining that Mr. RINO Ford was too conservative.
Reagan said the opposite and made a better case.
Whomever will be our standard bearer will do the same. Probably at the same place too: CPAC in February.
Anyone planning a mass gathering for those days in DC?
HEAVILY CENSORED!!!!!
On the list.
Yeah, there’s staying center and there’s moving right. The center just got it’s f@#king head handed to it. Methinks it’s time to be right....
What went wrong?
Hmmm....we’re losing the culture. Have been for some time, but now the center no longer holds. Its a stinker, as these things take generations to fix. Plus, the Left still has the momentum. No way they’ll just be “fair” and let the Conservatives steal it out from under their noses (like the Liberals did back in the 60s and 70s).
That, plus unrestricted immigration (a given under Obama), will ensure the GOP remains a permanent minority unless something really radical happens.
Bush was our last chance to put some things right and he just sat on his hands (especially wrt: immigration). Thanks fer nuttin, W.
“On the list.”
You just lost me...!
Yep. We lost the SOUTH because Republicans have been too damn conservative? The South. Supposedly the hard core GOP turf and McCain lost those states or made other conservative states competitive. Gee, who would have predicted that? But the answer is to continue to try to out liberal the liberals. I guess maybe they want to give Obama a 49 state landslide next time?
To all liberals in the party; SHUT UP or leave. You’ve screwed a majority conservatives sweated to build enough. You had your shot to prove us wrong, now we’re going to run this show.
Didn’t Duncan Hunter win the straw poll in Nevada? Seems like that would have been an indicator of which way to take the party. If not with Hunter then with a conservative at least.
Pay no mind to all those Conservatives that sat out this election because McCain did not speak to them. Moving to the left is a recipe for killing the party completely... take a look at New England.
Do you really think the base stayed home? Where the hell were they then? I don't think they're there anymore.
Does anyone think that there were 8 million conservatives who stayed home just because Palin was NOT at the head of the ticket?
I'm not sure that a Palin/McCain or even Palin/Thomson would've motivated more conservative votes in PA or VA or OH etc.
It sure as hell wouldn't pull any of the 65 million FREAKS away from Obama.
I think Ron Paul, did actually...not sure though.
There were no real issues taken on this election cycle for there were really no strikingly different views. So what was left was charisma, money and marketing.
To which McCain really had none of...lol!
Raggio, 81, a longtime Senate majority leader who was first elected to that body in 1972, said the GOP now must step back and examine what went wrong.
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I can tell you right now, for free...
There are some conservative state legislators in Maine.
I know at least two. If they don’t know about Free Republic they soon will.
There are some conservative state legislators in Maine.
I know at least two. If they don’t know about Free Republic they soon will.
If the socialist/communist Democrats want to destroy this country, let it be on their shoulders. Pity the conservative that compromises to promote the destruction of our nation.
The problem with the election was that Juan was pretty much the same as Baraka HUSSEIN Obama, only a lot older.
Many Conservatives either voted for Obama or Barr as a protest vote to "Teach the Republicans a lesson". If we hope for any future success we need to flush the rinos and make this the party of Reagan again. Considering the victory of the various states Constitutional Amendments we do know that Conservative Principles are not dead but needs to be re-energized with a candidate who is a Conservative. The Republican Party will never get a dime from me until they start fielding them.
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