For one thing, Republicans need to draft legislation which prevents C-levels and board members from drawing huge compensation from public corporations that are being driven into the dirt.
..that was the original problem
No need to read any further.
New contract for America, citing exacly the GOP positions and intentions - ammended and updated to highlight / reflect the opposite of what the new administration will surely do. (Pointing out thier libtardation)
We need the legislative back in 2010
That was a tsunami?
Talk to me when a candidate gets 75% of the popular vote.
I stopped reading there.
The left is trying to brand this as a Reagan-Carter type of landslide. It wasn't McCain got more votes than Clinton did.
58 million voted against Obama.
Why does the left think that conservatives will take advice on how to change the GOP from leftists who would rather see us locked up in jail than winning elections?
The title itself sounds like one of Zeros vapid platitudes recycled for Republican consumption. I am not sure how one gets more "middle" than John McCain. The middle is filled with some common sense, yet more mediocrity and a telegraph that says, "We have lost our will to fight and will compromise our beliefs for political expediency." What you do is govern, legislate and lead in such a way that the middle comes running to you. Our problem isn't that we need a re-branding. No, our problem is we have forgotten what our product was and have a done a poor job selling it to American voters.
Tsunami? 52% to 48%.
Just another RINO that has to excised from the party.
If you can’t be Republican and believe in Republican principle like smaller government and maybe just maybe actually being partisan why be a Republican?
Sam's a poster boy for the problem with the GOP.
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In other words, more of the same, tired good old boy one way bi-partisanship. Whatever it takes to keep screwing Americans. Yeah, that's the change we need, Sam. Idiot.
Sam Reed certified the theft of the WA Governorship by the rodents. He’s nothing but a trojan horse Democrat.
If the GOP heeds these Chuck Hagel Republicans, the Conservative Party will finally be a viable third party in the US.
Cowardly Conservatives.
What is a cowardly conservative? First, they seem to cast themselves as pragmatic. But as an identifying feature, what they do is find and then stick a giant magnifying glass in front of a real bogeyman (or just fabricate a sufficiently large bogeyman from whole cloth) and then get the people to agree to all manner of insanity in order to be “protected” from the “staggeringly enormous threat”. Health-care costs, retirement funds, terrorism, mass bankruptcy, mass foreclosure, deflation, economic collapse, global warming, etc. Coward conservatives differ from liberals not in methods, but only in the targets for their manufactured fears.
This is how these "conservatives" sell activist federal government - by suggesting that the absence of intervention will always lead to a crisis, and that the government is merely "protecting" people from some threat (attaching to liberty a very low value, or perhaps treating it as a harmful liability) - mind you, it is not to protect our liberties, but to trade our liberties in for "less risk". It is an outgrowth of the 1930-1960 era Democrat party, where entitlement programs and additional government spending were announced to be necessary in order to head off some impending disaster. Both groups feed off of uncertainty and fear, and IMO both groups are largely sincere in their motivations (which makes it really sad).
When you see a Republican willing to trade YOUR liberties for something - security, subsidy, equality - call them by their chosen name:
Cowardly Conservatives.
The choice is between cowardice (activist government) and principle (limited government). The people who founded this country loved liberty more than they feared death. Quite a contrast against where we have sunk to today.
“Obama Tsunami”
OMFG! STFU REED! 52.5-53% is a Tsumami? What a dingus!
It's been quite a few years since we've seen that. Instead, we have the likes of Sam telling us it is "narrow ideological dogma, negativism and unhelpful government-is-bad rhetoric" while politicians think bailouts of private industry, amnesty for illegal aliens, and global regulation of greenhouse gases are somehow a "pragmatic" view of the future. Pffft!
Dump the "rebranding" rhetoric and get back to basics.