Posted on 02/02/2009 9:17:17 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior
Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee wants the GOP to reach out to candidates who support gay marriage and are pro-choice. Steele told Fox's Chris Wallace that it was "important" to reach out to those voters.
WALLACE: You are one of the co-founders of something called the Republican Leadership Council which supports candidates who favor abortion and gay rights.
STEELE: Yes.
(watch video)
WALLACE: Does the GOP needs to do a better job of reaching out to people who hold those views?
STEELE: I think -- I think that's an important opportunity for us, absolutely. Within our party we do have those who have that view as well as outside and my partnership with Christy Todd Whittman was an effort to build a bridge between moderates and conservatives.
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It seems it would be beyond his pale to reach out to the family Democrats some of whom just might be union members [like the pilot and the crew in the Hudson]. You remember those, they were the folks who won elections for Reagan.
Human life shackled by the unwanted debt of the leaders of a previous generation has no liberty
It has nothing to do with being a Christian, conservatives can come in all stripes, I know many hindu Indian engineers who are WAY more socially and economically conservative than their Christian counterparts.
You’re missing my point, its not that the party needs to change its fundamental principles, but that it needs to broadcast the message that the party is not an all or nothing proposition. If you want to come to the party for the low tax message you should be able to, if you want to come to the party for the pro-life stance then you should be able to. We shouldn’t be excluding people because they don’t subscribe perfectly to what YOU choose to define is “conservative.”
I don’t know why we are debating Michael Steele’s ideology. I’m not sure that he even has a firm ideology, and I don’t really care because that isn’t part of the job. His job is to raise MONEY. Remember Terry McCauliffe? Well, that’s the equivalent. Do you think that McCauliffe had any influence on Democrat policy during the Clinton years? I don’t think so. Michael Steele is the Republican equivalent of Terry McCauliffe.
I can’t even make it to the end of this first page. Grrrr!
I agree, reaching out is not a problem. Excluding those who do not share the same viewpoint has been the problem and will always be the problem.
This is so true, praise God.
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Silly me. I thought the point of two or more parties was to oppose the other parties’ agendas. The GOP may as well drop the pretense and advocate merger with the Democrats to form a one-party state. The People’s Democratic Republic of Euphoria here we come!
I know what you mean.
Move on, like I have! :)
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Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LLS
You know the Arch Bishop of Canterbury recently stated that disbelief in the Virgin Birth of Christ, should not be a barrier to becoming a Christian.
Somehow I see a correlation to your position.
The problem is not that the GOP hasn’t been ‘reaching out’. The problem is that the drive-by media and their cohorts in the entertainment industry are hell-bent on destroying all things conservative AND Republican.
We could have a party filled with John McCain and Arlen Spector types and the enemies of the Republican party would STILL do their best to marginalize them. This has nothing at all do with the GOP’s ability to reach out to different beliefs. This has everything to do with the Republican party allowing itself to be BRANDED by the opposition because they chose to fight with themselves instead of their opponent. Surely there are very specific things within the Republican party that we can all agree on.
LOW taxes? Simplified Taxes? Immigration? Amnesty?
The fact is, the Republicans are not fighting for capitalism, controlled spending, lower taxes. They joined the democrats in socializing this country. Then they allowed their opposition to define them.
LLS
I’m done with the GOP.
I’m tired of fighting my own party over the bare minimum basics. I’m tired of McCain/Bush/Kennedy Amnesty crap. I’m tired of reaching across the isle to pander to morons. I’m tired of compassionate conservatism, I’m tired of “Islam is a religion of peace” crap. I’m tired of progressive Rinos. I’m tired of being called a racist, bigot or homophobic from my own party members. This country is on a suicidal path. Europe is much further along but I we are not that far behind.
I always voted straight Republican because I figured getting punched once a week was preferable to being whipped daily. No longer. I’ll never vote Democrat but Goodbye GOP. Hello New Party or third party.
There is really only one solution here for real Conservatives (not the Rinos here at FR and in the GOP) and that is to start a new party with all the traditional planks of the “former GOP.”
No need to get fancy. Just a good old fashioned, Reaganesque platform (excluding Reagan’s regrettable amnesty snafu).
It can all start here.
The younger age groups are far more pro-life than their predecessors, which is good. They are also far more gay friendly than their predecessors, which for most here is not good.
You compare my post with the Virgin Birth of Christ?
I’m flattered.
“The dirty little secret is that people still commit murders regardless of how much legislation there is.”
If the law will not defend the innocent it is merely another instrument of oppression.
Just goes to show if you don't stand for something, you'll stand for anything.
Since when did the Republicans buy into moral relativism? I thought that was a Leftist thing?
Make the Republicans into something Democrats will vote for, and the Republicans won't be worth my vote.
I have always thought those skid row Churches could attract more attendees with free whiskey, than free food. Just saying.......
Insanity. Whoever voted for him is either suicidal or homocidal.
I am sick - SICK! That such a freaking RINO non-conservative got picked. The GOP and me have NOTHING IN COMMON ANY MORE!
They either WANT TO LOSE ELECTIONS or they are just liberals.
SICK SICK I AM SO ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am going to communicate with the RNC and tell in no uncertain terms that they will NEVER GET A THIN DIME FROM ME AND I AM NOW VOTING ONLY FOR CONSERVATIVES! No more lesser of two evils. I am sick.....
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