No Room for RINOs

Wall St Journal ^ | 11-19-08 | Brendan Minitor

[Wegotsarah.com]

South Carolina's Mark Sanford is one of three GOP governors now being widely mentioned as potential saviors of the Republican Party between now and 2012. All are conspicuous for calling on their own party to live up to its principles. Most notably, none have advocated the GOP move to the left.

Mr. Sanford is a two-term governor known for vetoing spending bills, pushing market-oriented policy reforms (such as moving his state's Medicaid system to a private account-based model) and criticizing the lapses of the national GOP. "Some on the left will say our electoral losses are a repudiation of our principles of lower taxes, smaller government and individual liberty," he wrote on CNN.com after this month's elections. "But Tuesday was not in fact a rejection of those principles -- it was a rejection of Republicans' failure to live up to those principles."

In the same op-ed he took a swing at Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, identifying him as someone who "personifies what went wrong in the election. . . He was a proud champion of pork barrel spending and bridges to nowhere and stayed so long that he developed a blind eye to ethical lapses that would be readily seen by scout leaders and soccer moms alike."

Two other leading lights for a troubled GOP are Govs. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. Before she became John McCain's running mate, Mrs. Palin was best known for challenging her own state GOP to cure its spendthrift, corrupt ways. She unseated a sitting mayor in her first bid for office and became a giant killer by knocking off the high-handed, free-spending Gov. Frank Murkowski in a Republican primary.

[rabscuttle385]

And there were several McCainiacs on this very board who attacked others for having unwavering principles. A shameful period.

Very.

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[rabscuttle385]

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[AmericanInTokyo]

RINOs need to have their collective asses kicked out to the street.

We need a counter revolution within the GOP.

Let them know at RNC. Threaten that your funds will not go to them anymore but to independent conservative PACs and single candidates. Seize control of local party machinery. Field GOOD SOLID conservatives in 2010 primaries against RINO incumbents, and start to get them funded and grassrooted NOW (23 months comes quickly).

[upchuck]

Gov Mark Sanford and Sen Jim DeMint, two more reasons I'm glad to live in South Carolina.

Freako Grahamensty, on the other hand, is a major embarrassment. Damned RINO POS should resign!

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