Posted on 01/12/2009 8:06:34 AM PST by thinkingIsPresuppositional
Here are a couple of reasons why throwing your support behind Micahel Steele is FAR more important than wasting another moment explaining why Chip Saltsman didn't "do anything wrong."
Michael Steele for RNC Chairman!
AnyStreet: The Michael Steele Project
And here is what you do to make this happen. Don't wait—please do it now!
It’s like watching the same car crash over and over and over again. This car just happens to be brown.
Actually, McCain lost precisely because he was a RINO, specifically on the economic collapse, he reminded everyone of his RINO colors and acted like a RINO. If he played the Conservative hand when 80% of the public was against the Wall Street bailout, he may have won.
Blackwell is the only one actually discussing reclaiming the Conservative nature of our party instead of ‘reaching out’.
I think you’re whistling past the graveyard.
Hope you’re right and I’m wrong, but I don’t think I’m wrong.
And why do we want to “attract independents and moderates” anyway? That’s what caused the defeat in the last election.
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Attracting independents and moderates caused the defeat in the last election? Doesn’t that sort of defy logic? Attracting additional voters of any ilk increases the vote count.
What am I missing? The GOP attracted moderates and independents and lost. Would that not suggest that the GOP would have lost even bigger without attracting independents and moderates?
The so-called base, by itself, does not command the numbers to win without others joining in. Some of those folks are moderates and independents. Seems counter productive to weed them out.
Independents and moderates nominated John McCain. We need a conservative in the mode of Haley Barbour, and his name is Katon Dawson.
No. He supports affirmative action.
Quite correct. A brown non-descript minivan, to be precise.
What you are missing is that “independents and moderates” and the Rockefeller Republicans put Juan McCain in place. We had better candidates than him.
I sincerely hope your analysis is correct.
I fear it is not.
As opposed to weeding out the base?
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Who said anything about weeding out the base? If the base cannot cope with folks who don’t think just like them, they will be forever an also-ran party.
How many people, not of the base, voted for Ronald Reagan? Quite a lot. Some were moderates and independents.
You lose the base you lose period. If you like to call the Clinton socialists “independent and moderate” so be it but you’re only driving the GOP left and the democrats further left.
Agreed. Steele can get elected in Maryland. That should tell you all you need to know about him.
I originally was thinking of Steel being I am in Maryland and he helped us win the governorship. But his recent statements about “reaching out” have me concerned. Do we continue to reach out by promoting Jack Kemps and McCain’s approach to apologize for own party (being conservative and racist) and then take liberal positions to make up for it? Only specific wedge issues have a hope with certain groups.
I know Steel has got national conservative attention from Hannity’s show, but I now don’t trust Hannity for anything anymore. His (Hannity) pro-Bush, pro-UAW positions, basically big government, big deficit, near-socialist positions makre him look pathetic going after Obama on his stimulus package(even Colmes couldnt take it). Hannity was saying last night he was at White House the other day and repeated some dribble that GWB fed him. It was non-sense about his principles.
What about Ken Blackwell?
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