MORTON KONDRACKE: GOP's first step is to ignore Rush

http://online.indianagazette.com/articles/2008/11/24/opinions/syndicated_columnists/doc492ae081cbe40826037764.txt ^ | 11-24-08 | Kondracke

[Ouderkirk]

OK Mort.....

Who then? Michael Bloomberg? Christine Todd Whitman? Huckabee?
George Pataki? Mitt Romney? William Weld?

Vichy Republicans all

I’ll quote Mark Steyn:

Republicans need to start their own long march back through all the institutions they ceded. Otherwise, the default mode of this society will be liberal, and what’s left of the Republican party will be reduced to begging the electorate for the occasional opportunity to prove it can run the liberal state just as well as liberals can.

[icwhatudo]

Since when did the rino mcCain ever listen to Rush?

Nice to see Whitman, the NY Times, and Mort all giving advice to the GOP lately.

[nmh]

Looks to me like the Dems are looking to drag the GOP down more, if that is possible. Dems don't want to be “holding the bag” as their disaster unfurls. Up yours, Mort. A Republican trying to be a Demoncrat has NOT worked. Nor will your sheering for more of the same help the GOP - and that is the idea - keep the GOP DOWN and have them to blame to for all your idiotic ideas. NOW is the time to delinieate conservatives form idiots like yourself. Yes, I knowintellieent people like Rush and Laura THREATEN you but hey, that's life!

[TheThinker]

The GOP is in a sufficiently weakened state to change it into a more conservative party. This is not the time to jump ship but to reinvigorate it. Starting a new party with little opposition available to thwart Democrats and without adequate name recognition and so many other advantages an established political party possesses just seems like suicide at this point.

[TADSLOS]

Mort’s a lib thru and thru. ‘Nnuf said.

[MarkL]

It seems to me from everything I heard, there were an awful lot of republicans and conservatives who sat this one out. After all, we heard about how energized the dems were, and how they had amazing turnouts. But it turns out that roughly the same number of people actually voted. That tells me that the difference was that the republican base, the people that Mort here is "dissing" sat this one out. Guess what, Mort. When the republican base sits out an election, the republicans LOSE.

Mark

[cripplecreek]

Gotta agree with you there. The media malpractice wasn’t a left wing thing only. They used it against the right as well.

[vrwc1]

If one governor would fully implement a widely circulated proposal to transform U.S. education — based on having most children graduate after 10th grade and using the savings to pay teachers like professionals — it could serve as a model for the nation and bring the United States back to world standards.

So let's not try to improve education or give families choices about where they send their kids to school...let's just pay the teachers more and filter out the kids that are deemed "unworthy".

That's got to be one of the most stupid things I've ever heard.

[Political Junkie Too]

The Outer Limits

There is nothing wrong with your television set. We control your candidate selection. We control your news. We control your radio.

-PJ

[Arizona Carolyn]

I agree... but to think anyone should take conservative advice from Kondrake is ludicrous. Laura Ingraham raked him over the coals on his comments Friday night on BOR and he didn’t have much to say for himself (that as worth listening to, that is).

[Tublecane]

“using the savings to pay teachers like professionals”

I don’t know what this means. Does he mean they should be paid like “professionals” in other (competitive) fields? They already get paid above market level, given that they work for a monopoly and have politically powerful bargaining power. Simply giving them more money won’t confer any economic benefit. If anything, it will encourage them to do more of what they’re already doing.

Now, if we opened the field up to some form of actual competition, then there would be an incentive to do better. Of course, most of the current crop of teachers wouldn’t like it. But they can be replaced.

[Dustbunny]

I’ve even had trouble reading Drudge anymore...

Us too.

[Eagle50AE]

Mort, ..

[MarkL]

First step is to ignore Kondrake whatever he says about political advice.

LOL, me too.

You want me to ignore your political advice? Well, if you insist...

Mark

[Retired Chemist]

As I remember, Mort was pissed that the Amnesty bill got clobbered.

[NoKoolAidforMe]

I lost all respect for Mort when he said the following on The Beltway Boys discussing embryonic stem cell research:

‘Well everyone knows that it isn’t really a baby.’

[ChocChipCookie]

True conservatives really make these RINOS angry, don’t they?

[Tublecane]

“just sawy screw the GOP and focus on a Conservative Party movement”

Maybe we should take over the Libertarian Party. Those people don’t know what the hell they’re doing either, but at least they’re marginally less cemented in politics as they are.

[TexasCajun]

"What the Republicans need are more John MeCains & Joe Liebermans! "

[mc6809e]

The question in all of this is whether or not Christian conservatism is a subset of the Republican Party or the Republican Party is equal to Christian Conservatism.

If the Republican Party is no more than Christian Conservatism, then lets just be honest and rename it the Christian Conservative Party.