Posted on 02/26/2009 6:35:59 PM PST by neverdem
corruption ping
the bushes never were “conservatives”.
D’Amato... who moved the rock where he was hiding?
He seems to have lost his mind.
Nice expose on the campaign-industrial complex in two states.
I hope he does Ohio next.
They don’t call them the “Political Elite” for nothing.
*ping*
Reference about Slick Willard’s thug operative in South Carolina.
Hey, come on. Slick is a man of principals. (What one’s you want? Slick’s bought a truck full. Take your pick)
Yeah, rag on Al D’Amato all you want, he is not a pure conservative, but he WAS chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee when Republicans took back the Senate. He was an effective politician and a champion fund raiser. If only John Cornyn performs as well.
Ew, no. I bought two of them awhile back and they gave me the $hits.
Poll: James Tedisco Leads in Race for Kirsten Gillibrand's Former Seat
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Crawling from the wreckage is right.
From what I see, there are a few different types of republicans:
1) Free Market/Defense
2) Christian
3) RINOS
4) Hard right (protectionits)
5) Traditional conservatives (like Eisenhower and Nixon)
Of course there is some overlap in various individuals, but these are some of the clear differences I see.
They all seem to crawling out of the wreckage in different directions, pointing fingers, but not quite yet leaving the scene of the catastrophe.
The hard right is blaming the free marketers and capitalists for the financial chaos and what they perceive as net job losses over the last 20 or so years.
Free marketers are blaming the Christians for being too intrusive, the hard right for alienating LEGAL immigrants who otherwise vote republican, and traditional concervatives for not doing anything to remedy anti-competitive economic policies to grow the economy enough to cover their spending, and just spending too much along with the RINOS.
And most of them are blaming RINOs for corrutption and out of control spending.
Well, I think we all need to kiss and make up. United we stand, divided we’ve fallen and can’t get back up. We still have common core values about what the role and responsibilities of government(except for maybe RINOs) that make sense to prioritize at the top of our list. After all, we didn’t fail because there is something wrong with our core values. We failed because they weren’t put into practice by those we elected. That is our fault as voters for not replacing underperforming incumbents.
And sure, we will have to put up with a few things that we can’t all agree upon should we ever get back to where we were before everything got all messed up. From my point of view, however, we will never get there if we can’t unite; and having to put up with some stuff the hard right wants and get most of the other things I want has got to be far and away better than what we are getting right now. Heck, I’d even go back to the way things were 4 years ago than have to go through this.
Hold on now!
Deroy Murdock supported one of the biggest RINO’s of all time -— Rudy Giuliani!
I was more interested in the Tompkins expose.
Al Scum-Auto is worthy of his nickname. To think, he thought that he could win 40% of the Jewish vote against Schumer.
You know what?
F*** politicians.
The day they decided to make a career out of the position — treating it as a full time pursuit instead of an interlude they were forced to take to serve their country — is the day this country started to go down the tubes.
The only answer is term limits — one or two terms and you get to go back and earn a living under the laws you enacted.
Think about it.
They also need to have their pensions tied to the value of the stock market instead of a set value forked over by taxpayers regardless of economic conditions. Make good policy, get a good pension. Make bad policy and get screwed along with all of us scrubs.
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