Posted on 03/03/2009 7:15:44 AM PST by pissant
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You don't build additional rooms onto your house and welcome every Tom, Dick and Harry from different idealogies to come live with you in some Shangri-La Big Tent Utopia.
You preach the gospel of smaller, less intrusive government and self determination and stand by your core principles and the masses will beat a path to your door not wanting a room of their own but to be included in your family.
Thank you Paul Harvey for my new tagline. Heard your wonderful speech in 1977 and have never forgotten it.
R.I.P.
I would say by 2010. The amnesty fight in Congress will begin either this year or next. Palin must take a position sooner rather than later.
Pence is good. Gingrich has way too much baggage to run as a social conservative, and his global warming hysteria rule him out IMO.
Another one who thinks he’s going to be president.
I don’t disagree with what you said about “perceptions” but the Republican party should appear to be a party of ideas and not just the party for a subgroup of Americans. Government will do a much poorer job of looking out for you than you will of looking out for yourself.
We should return to the basic principles of protecting private property rights (which is what is violated with all this spending of other people’s money) and outlawing criminal behavior.
If we think we’re going to win over people who look to the government as their sugar daddy, no way, we can’t out pimp the Democratic Party.
Obama ran as a DINO and won.
True... but he was campaigning as a SOCIALIST!!
You probably right that Gingrich has too much baggage, but I do like to listen to him speak.
Oh. Nevermind!
Regards
Bonehead
Guess what? We don’t need weasels like Pawlenty. He can take a hike, especially after presiding over a completely corrupt (Acorn) senatorial election in his state....afterall he is the supposed governor.
I'm NOT a SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE, I am a SMALL GOVERNMENT Conservative. If my neighbor is living with his lover, why should I care? I don't. Divorce and homosexuality should not be the reason not to elect someone - if candidate A wanted less taxes, less governmental regulation and wanted to drill for oil in the USA while candidate B wanted more taxes, nationalized health care and wanted us to use renewable energy, yet Candidate A was a gay candidate and candidate B was straight - who would you pick?
I'll pick Candidate A.
That is where the Dems trump the Pubbies: The Dems 'appear' to be for the little guy; whereas the GOP 'appears' to be for big business.
You're exactly right. The first thing the GOP has to come to grips with is that Bush's banker bailout was a huge mistake. Sure, the Dems would have done the same thing - even more so - but the point is that the GOP alternative to the Dem agenda should be to get government out of the business of running the nation's business.
The GOP has to sell capitalism, but they have to define it correctly first. Capitalism IS NOT the "crony" capitalism practiced by the prior administration. Capitalism is enabling individuals to vote on economic winners and losers with their wallets, NOT the government deciding on the winners and losers.
People think of "robber baron" big businesses as being the outcome of too much capitalism, but they are actually products of government protected cartels and are INCONSISTENT with capitalism. Big businesses that ARE consistent with capitalism are those that give consumers what they want, and that profit from the productivity of loyal employees, engendered by treating them right.
Good list. I agree.
Pawlenty can forget about the presidency.
He came in second to last in the CPAC straw poll. Not surprising with a message like that.
He does have a good record on taxes in MN. He has raised fees but the income tax has stayed constant despite furious pressure from the democrats to raise it.
Actually, he is a traditional Republican, a loser. The Reaganites are the RINO’s.
Maybe the RNC is no longer conservative.
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