Posted on 03/06/2009 8:37:53 AM PST by chicagolady
GOP Not Fully Embracing Their Candidate for Congress Rosanna Pulido is the GOP's candidate in the race to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress, but her own party hasn't given their full support.
I will have to call RUSH LIMBAUGH!
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/GOP_Not_Fully_Embracing_Their_Candidate_for_Congress_Chicago.html
I think the conservatives are giving more support than the GOP.
Here is a live link to the video I hope.
They must like Freerepublic, they are checking all my posts for the past 10 years!!
BTT!
Have you heard from Lou Dobbs lately?
I despise the GOP leadership——it’s stuff like this that just makes me puke.
We need to hold Steele’s feet to the blazing fire even more and force the RNC to support chiacgolady.
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Can y’all help here?
I like your style!
BUMP GOP CONTACT INFORMATION,
thank you, thank you.
I emailed two of her former primary opponents, Kay & Anderson. I asked them to cooperate, to ensure that she defeats the Democrat. Kay offered to help, and Anderson said that he might help.
The Republican Party is a total waste these days. She’s against illegal immigration. Hence the Republican party has no use for her.
Well, I have no use for a party that has it’s head so firmly implanted, it can’t see the light of day.
Here we are in the midst of a total melt down, Obama is completely out of control, and you hardly even hear a concise objection from the leadership, as if there were any.
The RNC could close it’s doors and we wouldn’t even notice for two or three years.
We’re going to need to throw conservative cash around candidates representing our values. Liberals have done this for years-going outside and around party mechanisms.
Over the past several weeks, the media has been dutifully repeating the
White House talking points in seeking to depict radio host Rush Limbaugh as the
true leader of the Republican party opposition in the USA. This type of
rhetoric has been going on since Limbaugh was interviewed by another conservative
radio and television host, Sean Hannity, and indicated that he wanted to see
Obama’s far left, socialist policies to fail. The White House seized upon the
sound bite and distorted the quote in an effort to damage Limbaugh.
Limbaugh has vocally and effectively attacked the bogus economic stimulus
package that was enacted without a single Republican vote in the US House and a
mere three Republican votes in the Senate. More recently, following a wildly
successful speech by Limbaugh at the Conservative Political Action Conference
(CPAC) sponsored by the American Conservative Union, White House operatives
again tried to vilify Limbaugh and to provoke a quarrel between the radio
host and Michael Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National
Committee. It proved to be a tempest in a tea cup, but the liberals have
chastised Steele for apologizing to Limbaugh with alacrity. Steele claimed that
his careless offhand remarks were misinterpreted by the media.
Apart from pleasing readers of the Daily Kos, how does this flap help
advance the Obama agenda?
For those of us old enough to remember, there once was another newly elected
president who challenged Rush Limbaugh in an open and defiant manner. As
soon as President William J. Clinton overreached in terms of his liberal
legislative program and social policy agenda, talk radio hosts began to give voice
to public opposition to expansionist schemes to nationalize the economy,
increase taxes and to socialize the health care system. While Clinton derided his
opponents as obstructionists, the hastily assembled moderates and
conservatives began playing defense and coalesced in a manner that would have pleased
Knute Rockne and Vince Lombardi.
“The National Review,” the venerable conservative magazine published by the
late William F. Buckley, Jr,, likened Limbaugh to the leader of the loyal
Republican opposition. An illustration of the radio broadcaster graced the
magazine cover which depicted Limbaugh dressed in nineteenth century attire as a
contemporary of such statesmen as Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. Clinton was
thoroughly humbled at the next election.
In the midterm elections of 1994, the Republicans achieved a sweeping
victory that was likened to a tsunami. That Japanese word, which refers to a
massive tidal wave, was a new addition to our cultural and political lexicon.
Across the country, Republicans made gains in state legislatures, including
electoral wins in some states that had not voted for Republican candidates in a
half century or more.It was the first time that the Republicans held majorities
in the House and Senate since 1954 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower was
serving in his first term in office. Newt Gingrich became the first Republican
Speaker of the House since the late Joseph Martin of Massachusetts held the
position.
The Republicans even managed to elect a representative from a district
centered within the City of Chicago in 1994 for the first time in thirty-six
years. Michael Patrick Flanagan, a one term wonder, upset the powerful and scandal
plagued Dan Rostenkowski that year. Flanagan became the first and only
Republican Congressman since two incumbents, Timothy Patrick Sheehan and Emmet
Francis Byrne, were both defeated in their reelection bids in 1958. A former
State Representative by the name of Rod Blagojevich recaptured the seat for
the Democrats two years later.
Permit me a brief digression: Since the Fifth District was cobbled together
from the old Eighth and Eleventh Districts following legislative
redistricting in the earlier Nineties, one of its representatives has been imprisoned,
one has been impeached while serving in a different elected office, one has
been reduced to a trivia question and the other has had to deny calling the
impeached former governor of Illinois to parley on behalf of a favored Senatorial
hopeful looking to be appointed in the place of President Barack Obama. Is
there something in the water? Maybe Michael Quigley will prove to be an
exception to the rule (Quigley faces two opponents, the Republican nominee Rosanna
Pulido and Green party candidate Matt Reibel in a special election next month
to fill the vacant Congressional seat).
Following their inauguration ceremonies, the newly elected members of the
Republican majority in the US House of Representatives named Limbaugh as a
honorary member of the 104th Congress in recognition of his influence during the
preceding two years when the party was in the wilderness. Limbaugh capitalized
on his success and expanded his audience in the process. Now, Rahm Emanuel,
his alleged former landlord, pollster Stan Greenberg, the husband of
Representative Rose De Lauro (D-Ct) and the annoyingly loudmouthed Cajun, James
Carville, want to take Obama on a stroll down Memory Lane.
Perhaps Barack Obama can be excused for not recalling 1994. As a recent law
school graduate and a newly admitted member of the Illinois bar with less
than three years actual experience as an attorney, we can forgive Obama for
being wet behind the ears in terms of this recent political history. But what
about his staff members? How capably are they advising him in terms of
encouraging a battle with Limbaugh?
Emanuel should have been cognizant of the historical facts: Flanagan had
represented the Fifth Congressional District that the carpet bagging Emanuel,
the self described “life long Chicagoan,“ by way of New Trier Township, later
called his political home after Rod Blagojevich left Congress to run for the
governorship; Emanuel was also a servitor in the Clinton White House when the
Capitol dome collapsed on the Democrats; nevertheless, “Rahmbo” has taken to
excoriating Limbaugh on the Sunday morning talk shows.
Even more to the point, Emanuel might vaguely remember the long term
embarrassment that accompanied the Democratic losses in 1994. In his next State of
the Union address, President William J. Clinton swallowed hard and announced
that “the era of big government was over.” Numerous incumbent Democrats simply
retired from politics, including such notables as Representative Dick
Gephart. For the balance of his presidency, which included a successful reelection
campaign (Clinton won a plurality of the popular vote against former US
Senator Robert Dole and H. Ross Perot), Clinton had to content himself with modest
initiatives and scaled down centrist proposals. Clinton’s advisor, Dick
Morris, referred to this poll driven, middle of the road approach to politics as
“triangulation.”
The strategy frustrated the radical left wing of the Democratic Party.
Grumbling was the order of the day as Clinton opted for political survival and the
visionary members of the American left complained about a wasted presidency.
The Republicans managed to hold the US House for twelve years. It was the
party’s longest uninterrupted period of majority control since the Roaring
Twenties.
Obama conducted a stealth campaign during the primaries and the general
election. He carefully avoided putting his radicalism on full display until after
the polls were closed and the votes were tabulated. A portion of the
electorate is beginning to feel duped and the Obama team is busily trying to
discredit their critics in a manner befitting Saul Alinsky.
In terms of promoting a war against talk radio and recommending the
reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, the Democrats need to tread carefully. Just
ask Bill Clinton.
There is an old warning that needs to be heeded on Pennsylvania Avenue:
Be careful what you wish for. You may get it.
The RNC COULD use this race to highlight the corrupt cesspool that is Chicago politics.
The author makes clear what the history of this District has been.
This is a “teachable moment” and the “teacher” should be the RNC!
Sorry ChicacoLady, I didn’t realize I was posting this to you directly. Good luck to you.
So, the WORST thing they can find is the “Klan with a Tan” comment?
And, that seems to be a quote, from someone else, not something she thought up on her own.
Amazing!
National party gave up on an incumbent conservative and great guy in my district, Tim Walberg. If they helped, he would have survived. Walberg lost by 2% despite no help by NRCC, and despite a bitter sore loser from the 2006 primary endorsing the democrat.
We need to compete everywhere, and in special elections, every single district should be competitive. The New Orelans district is more democrat than this one, and went Republican. Rosty lost here in 94.
It's time for national and Illinois GOP to stop chickening out and to do the right thing. I took one for the team with McCain, now it's time for the liberal republicans to take one for the team in this candidate.
You go girl!! My small contribution is on the way.
LOL
Don’t give up!
Don’t let them get you down!
Stand up for your beliefs and never apologize for them! Its your fundamental right as an American! Change your opinions if you like, that’s your right as well!
wow. the GOP wants conservatives to vote for them but they always diss the conservative candidates.
Now why would we still be registered Republicans?
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