[EDINVA]

How many Steele-bashing threads are we going to have? We don’t have President Bush to beat up any more, so we’ll go for Steele?

Michael Steeele is not currently a candidate for office. The role of the chairman of the RNC is to get Republican candidates elected to office, not determine who the candidates are or their stances on issues. Those determinations are made by GOP voters in primaries and the candidates themselves.

Are we to relegate every gay in America to the Dems? Is there the supposition that all gays are liberal? I know several gays personally who are hard-core conservative and don’t follow the ‘gay agenda.’ Should we write them off as GOP voters?

Many GOP women are pro-choice. We’re to write them off, too?

The objection to reaching out to those who don’t fit the white-anglo-saxon-evangelical-older GOP stereotype is absurd.

Under this theory, the GOP can write off every office in the Northeast, the upper Midwest and the West Coast .. why bothere even to field candidates? We’ll hold onto SC/GA/AL/OK/TX, etc and the hell with the rest of the country ?

Are conservatives too dumb to emulate what Rahm Emmanuel did to achieve his majorities in the House and Senate? He forced locals to field more conservatives candidates who could win. The center of each party is what enables the more ideological to hold positions of power (chairmanships) and get their agendas thru.

But, oh, no .. we can’t have any centrists who might appeal to pro-choice women, to gays, to those who maybe think an assault rifle isn’t necessary for hunting. We are going to remain ideologically pure and a permanent minority. Yep, way to go.

[Smokeyblue]

“But, oh, no .. we can’t have any centrists who might appeal to pro-choice women, to gays, to those who maybe think an assault rifle isn’t necessary for hunting. We are going to remain ideologically pure and a permanent minority. Yep, way to go.”

Good riddance Rino Big Tent. Crapola is all it is.

[LibLieSlayer]

Don't let the door slam you in the rear on your way out!
Steele is the face and voice of the party... as was dean for his... and steele is a liberal... so I cannot and will not accept his ideology as mine... and if you did not notice... the press has only covered his liberal ideology. Either Reaganism returns to the republicrat party or millions of us with the $$$ will leave! I have already resigned from the national party.

LLS

[itsahoot]

But, oh, no .. we can’t have any centrists who might appeal to pro-choice women, to gays, to those who maybe think an assault rifle isn’t necessary for hunting.

Actually they already have a party, the Democratic party, which offers them much more.

What can we offer?

A car in every Garage?

A Chicken in every Pot?

[myself6]

For me...

Its not about appealing to people. Its not about having the republican party winning elections. its about abandoning a socialist nation.

As humans we have the RIGHT to dissolve the bonds that tie us to others when those bonds become chains and those bonds HAVE become chains!

There is no salvation in the GOP nor is there any in the corrupt system that exists in this nation. Those who believe in limited government (anti-socialist) CANNOT win given the current playing field. Giving in to the demands of socialist is no victory, only utter defeat lies down that path. Its not about “inclusiveness” or populism, or focus groups.. Its about Freedom from a monstrous government that controls our daily lives from cradle to grave!

Screw Obama, the dems and the GOP. They are all appendages of the same creature. The ONLY way we are going to get our freedom back is to TAKE it back!