Posted on 02/16/2009 5:12:51 AM PST by bogeybob
The Senior Senator from Maine.
Ohio is key to any GOP presidential election, we have to win in Ohio. Too many states are being turned over to Dems...run candidates with broad appeal...conservative and others.
The other problem for national elections which no one has mentioned is Florida...how are we going to win national elections in Florida?
Even Goober Graham seems to be waking up. This is not going to be easy. Do not look left, nothing but evil there.
Not to mention the RNC will not support any party challenge to a seat, no Republican challenger, conservative or not, can expect any money or other assistance from the party ... but he can expect the RNC to try to demolish a primary campaign challenge.
As to Snowe and Collins... the problem is with the voters in their own states, same as South Carolina where they re-elected Lindsay Graham last November.
Since you seem to think running actual, non-RINO, Conservatives is a problem, why are you even on this website ?
As for Blackwell, you ignore the fact that he had already won statewide THREE times (1994, 1998 & 2002). You also ignore the RINO establishment HATED him and tried to ramrod their RINO standard-bearer, the ethically challenged Jim Petro. The establishment did NOTHING for him for the general election when he thumped Petro. Bob Taft the Turd crippled the GOP brand thanks to corruption, and sullied Blackwell with it, even though those two might as well have been from two different parties. You also forget that the Democrats hadn’t won the Governorship in TWENTY years at that point, and party fatigue inevitably sets in. And lastly, I believe RACISM played a part. You add up all those things, and you’ll see why Blackwell lost as he did. Of course, the media wouldn’t charge racism, because voting against a Black Republican — a CONSERVATIVE Black Republican — is perfectly fine. But vote against a Marxist Black rodent, and THAT is racism.
In 2010, the GOP should take some seats...very rare for the party in power not to lose seats...Pres. Bush bucked this trend but few have. With any luck, we might be able to get a GOP Senator in Ohio even. If we don’t, we better sit down and take stock of our situation...the Dems got back in power by running DINO’s...tailoring the candidate for the state. We may have to do this...as Reagan noted better to have someone who votes with us 75% of the times then against us 100% of the time.
We need to donate to candidates who will knock Olympia Snowe and her evil twin sister off their perches in the state of Maine.
Santorum similarly pissed off the Conservative base by endorsing Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey (how’d that work out for him ? Arlen sure helped, not). Bob Casey, Jr. (who had won office in PA statewide three times) marketed himself as the second coming of his dad, who was revered by Social Conservatives for his pro-life activism (who didn’t just talk the talk, but walked the walk). A lot of old timers thought Casey, Jr. WAS his dad. Add up those two and an overall decline in GOP turnout, and the Casey win wasn’t a huge surprise.
Look, politics has always been the art of the possible. I agree with standing on principles but to make a political difference you also need to win elections. That doesn't automatically mean sacrificing principles, it means presenting your candidates and positions in a manner that appeals to as many people as possible, within your base support and beyond it.
Hand in hand with that goes defeating your enemies. To achieve that means sometimes having to deal with a less-than-optimum choice of candidates. McCain certainly wasn't the best choice IMO but he was a better choice than Obomah. Likewise, in my state, DeWine wasn't the optimum choice on all counts but he was a better pick, on balance, than Sherrod Brown. We often have to play the best hand we're dealt. We can and should make whatever efforts we can to get those closest-to-ideal candidates, but it doesn't always work out that way.
Add that our party failed to remind the public which party was in charge of Congress when the economy tanked. I guarantee you more than half the voters, when they went into the voting booth last November, did NOT know that the Democrats controlled Congress.
I would remind you that Ohio voted for a liberal BLACK president which made it impossible for McCain to win...we all knew on election night after Ohio went that it was over. Not all states can be won by the same tactics...yes it tactical. I don’t care how good the conservative might be, he/she can not win Connecticut, or New Jersey for example...but a GOP candidate with decent conservative values and broad appeal just might.
Maine is populated by idiots.
I don’t think it mattered about Congress...president’s party is always blamed.
Well that’s a good way to win friends and influence people in Maine to vote GOP.
The problem is you talk out of both sides of your mouth. With me, you get what you get, straight. The sheeple like that, especially in a conservative. Somebody like that wins every time....
Too many states are going Dem because the GOP gone squish. I don’t know what you mean by “broad appeal”, that’s almost a meaningless phrase. Broad appeal sounds as though you want to run Republicans who stand for everything, which means they stand for nothing. A recipe for disaster. Democrats don’t run “broad appeal” candidates, they run liberals. What we need, simply put, are strong and compelling candidates that actually stand for something.
Really, then why is Specter still there and Santorum is not? I have heard this argument before, and I don’t buy it. Casey-a pro-life Democrat was a perfect candidate to run against Santorum. As for conservatives not supporting this candidate and another candidate...the result is always the same...a Democrat wins...hardly an good outcome.
How about by repealing RINO Gov. Crist’s order to allow FELONS to cast votes ? And we wonder why we lost Florida.
Consider Reagan...he had broad appeal...this is the sort of candidate we need. He was a conservative but appealed to many who were not conservatives.
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