Posted on 03/01/2009 5:15:05 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
Either:
A. Use “moderates” to regain an electoral majority, then move them to the back of the tent...
B. Purge the RINOs and sweep to victory behind pure conservative candidates...
C. Become the “motivated minority” which has often steered the course of history.
I turned on Meet the Depressed for a few minutes and Gregory did seem quite fair. I might even watch next week.
That might be just another way of saying that the GOP is not a party that conservatives should support. Put in a different name and party to see what I mean. "I think a chairman like Dean is about all we conservatives can expect or deserve, given our decided lack of electoral clout in the DNC currently."
Not to say that the GOP is as liberal as the DNC, it obviously isn't. Each voter gets to decide if the party is worthy of support, and the party has the chore of adopting positions that maximize support.
I'm sure there are GOP-inclined voters who agree with Steele's candid comments about Limbaugh's speech. The challenge is to pick up more than one voter, to make up for each voter that is driven away.
When we have a majority, they don't mater so much. When we have a minority, they don't matter much, either. BUT, when there is a close vote (like the stimulus) they are able to undermine the actions of the GOP with their defection.
It's hard to know what is the best course for dealing with people like that. If they get beaten in the primary, it's quite likely that the winning GOP candidate would be defeated in November. I don't know the answer to this, but it definitely is a conundrum.
I agree with you but the AL GOP is not interested in closing them.
Here goes John King doing the same thing with Mullen - Paraphrase: “Do you agree with Obama or Cheney on closing Gitmo?”
“Well, John, Pres. Obama has made it very clear what his polcies are, and we are working diligently to execute those policies.”
Dear God, now it’s “How do Bush and Obama differ in their styles as commander-in-chief?”
Barn-burning, John.
In fact, we are now trying terrorists — picked up in foreign countries — in U.S. courts. How’s that going to go? “I move to dismiss my interrogation statement because I didn’t receive Miranda warnings prior to making it.” Are the guys from CSI going to crawl around the next Tora Bora picking up evidence?
I never hear these anti-GITMO ego-maniacs acknowledge that Clinton & Gore just dispensed with all this by engaging in rendition.
John is being sloppy - he’s pointing out that the dangers from Iran & North Korea are significantly escalating. Even the average cud-chewing CNN viewer might be led to wonder whether that couldn’t be attributed to the differences in “style” between the most recent & current commander-in-chief?
Which tells me they do not want conservatives.
Should say, “I move to exclude...”
Couldn’t agree more!
Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state and governor candidate would have been much, much better as RNC chair. He’s also Af-Am
Here is the video of Cantor getting sucked in to a repudiation of Rush.
http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=402
He was doing okay until then.
We need to start a Rebel Republican movement to drag the GOP our way. Or perhaps its time for the Turd Party? What have we got to lose?
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure
So many weekend trolls on this thread it’s hard to keep up.
Silver lining time. What Steele said will force many thousands of people who didn’t see Rush yesterday to watch the video. THAT is a very good thing.
Did Michael Steele read a "synopsis" of Rush's speech om "Media Matters" or on the DU website?
If someone is reading this for Chairrman Steele, please tell Michael to sit down and view the Video of Rush and digest it before offering any more dumb and ill-informed comments! May GOD BLESS RUSH! Our New Commander in Chief:-)
I’m going to crawl out on a limb here and opine that nobody is reading this thread for Chairman Steele.
I’m sure he’s reading it for himself.
Morning AB,got out of there just in time.
N.Fla., S.Ala. are God's country but have their share of "tough to deal with" weather.
Rush's speech was awesome, one of the most awesome deliveries of a political speech ever!.
There is no way to say enough about it.
If there was any problem with it at all it's that it puts tremendous pressure on our potus candidates to live up to anywhere near what he did yesterday.
Limbaugh is and remains the true leader of conservative America and we are lucky to have him!
These rat/clowns have it all figured out and it's the same ol BS. There mantra is we talked about it so that's all we have to do. Whether it's Bush's budget deficit, Bush's crazy spending or anything and everything else they can possibly blame on GW for who knows how long.
These clowns will suck the country dry, run us into bankruptcy and then blame it on the rich if there is no one to stop them.
Thank God for Rush exposing every dirty trick they try.It must get frustrating for Obozo's handlers!
I am trying not to get too emotional. It doesn't do any good to go off on a tirade, but it seems like every time we get a positive experience from our side, someone pops out to tell us why it was wrong. It reminds me of when President Bush said "Wanted, dead or alive" and then we had to be told that that was the wrong thing to say. And after 8 years they even got President Bush to regret what he had said.
Most of what Rush said I agree with. We shouldn't apologize for who we are, nor should we be on the defensive. We DO need to stress how much we like people and want them to succeed.
And I think we should ask Newt what part of Reaganism does he think is dead. Lower taxes? Pride in the country? Strong national defense? Trust but verify? Trying to have a smaller government, even if it seems hopeless? I would like to hear his answer on that.
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