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Team of rivals: GOP base rips new group
Politico ^ | 5/7/09 | Andy Barr

Posted on 05/07/2009 3:37:24 PM PDT by pissant

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Not just social conservatives, how about rock ribbed all around conservatives that think grown men in the late forties to late sixties should KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY AND THE PARTY STAND FOR.
1 posted on 05/07/2009 3:37:24 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Cantor, Palin and Jindal have all damaged their standing with conservatives. And for what? Just to hang out with McCain?


2 posted on 05/07/2009 3:39:46 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
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Palin spokeswoman Meg Stapleton then said Palin would indeed join the GOP group. That inspired an Associated Press story declaring that “Palin has joined a list of Republicans who will take part in listening tours across the country.”

So, I asked Stapleton, is Palin heading out on a listening tour?

No, she said, Palin's not going on tour and has no events scheduled with the group.

http://community.adn.com/node/140924

3 posted on 05/07/2009 3:39:49 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to become slaves of Washington.")
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To: pissant

They should call it what is is ‘Dimocrate Lite’ no taste and no substance just filling!


4 posted on 05/07/2009 3:40:46 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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Cantor is just another twit, get him in the background where he belongs. At present, we have one viable Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. We have no others, at present. Maybe someone else will surface, but I don’t see any signs of a single politician with enough guts, other than perhaps the Texas governor. But I would rather he stay in Texas, in case I need to move there. We all might need to move there.


5 posted on 05/07/2009 3:40:51 PM PDT by raptor29
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To: Zhang Fei
See my post above. And no... she has not "damaged her standing" with anyone. If she wants to be a national candidate, she has to work with the RNC. You can't expect from her to run on her own for Presidency.

Regardless of that the scope of her involvement has been (surprise) been overblown.

6 posted on 05/07/2009 3:41:26 PM PDT by SolidWood (Palin: "We do not want to become slaves of Washington.")
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To: pissant

There’s nothing grass roots about John McCain, or any other member of Congress for that matter. It defies the whole definition of “grass roots”. But, John McCain, more than anyone, needs to ride off into the sunset and stop hurting the GOP for his own ego.


7 posted on 05/07/2009 3:43:15 PM PDT by kenth
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"the National Council for a New America"

A newAmerica...I don't even like the name. This sounds like progressive Obama BS...we want the best of the old America, not a new country with new values...hence 'conservatives.' Thanks just the same. DOA.

8 posted on 05/07/2009 3:43:45 PM PDT by americanophile
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She is not going to ANY events with them, how is that damaging her..if she were hanging with these people, yeah maybe I would see your point, but she has not gone to any of their events and has no plans to. She is just playing it safe, she doesn’t want to piss off everyone in the Republican party. She does need allies ya know, even if those allies are dirt bags


9 posted on 05/07/2009 3:44:17 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: pissant

Cantor is absolutely pathetic. He needs to take a hike.


10 posted on 05/07/2009 3:44:46 PM PDT by Shady Ray
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Cantor is my guy in congress and I think he’s terrific, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why he would align with McCain.

And oh the irony of inside-the-beltway career politicians creating a “grass-roots movement”.


11 posted on 05/07/2009 3:47:17 PM PDT by vamoose
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We don’t need a group. We need individuals who have what it takes to be honest about who they are.


12 posted on 05/07/2009 3:49:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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We need grown men that have studied American Histroy, know what it means to be conservative, and are able to articulate the pro-America, pro-conservative viewpoint without having to “listen”. The people follow leaders. If you are a mish-mash of incongruous nonsense, they will follow a demagogue who lies well.


13 posted on 05/07/2009 3:53:48 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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"National Council for a New America," say HELLO to Pres. George H.W. Bush (2nd term); President Bob Dole and President John McCain.

Oops, I forgot, none of these "moderate 'New American' GOP" candidates got elected.

Could it possibly be that they were just the kind of "Republicans" that Colin Powell, Eric Canter and others believe we need in the Republican Party???

Leave them in the Party -- just don't run them for top spots. They've already proven they cannot get elected to office!

14 posted on 05/07/2009 3:54:10 PM PDT by zerosix (native sunflower)
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We don't need moderates and democrat, McLame, all we need to do is get the base back. The base that YOU abandoned! People who left the party left because you LEFT them, and me as a matter of fact! And we will not be back, nor will we support you financially, until we see action, not just words.
15 posted on 05/07/2009 3:54:35 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: vamoose

I watched him being interviewed by Regretta Van Sustren the other night. He was so PC and RINOISH in the interview I was screaming at the tv, “And the difference between you and the democrats is???” You are the lets do it on the cheap version! He blabbered part of the democrats talking points for the last 20 yrs. If your spouting your enemies talking points as something you want to do, something is clearly screwed up in your head!

If this is the best the republicans can come up with God help us they are scared of their own shadows when answering a question, less they come across as conservatives.


16 posted on 05/07/2009 3:55:03 PM PDT by sarge83
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AMEN to that pissant. And pressuring Palin to come on board will not “pacify us” as it is intended to do. We know you are using her, again!


17 posted on 05/07/2009 3:55:51 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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Even the name of the group sounds ghoulish.

The National Council for a New America...

Give me a break.

It will take about five minutes for that name alone, to alienate every single person not already a card carrying Conservative, they could have hoped to get behind the agenda.

How about something like the Council to Study and Reconnect With our Founding Principles. Thus it would indicate the strengthening of individual liberties, state’s rights, and the proper role of the federal government.

By the way, do we want a new America? No, we want the old America, sans the things that our Founding Fathers were unable to eliminate at our founding.

Damned if these puddin’ heads didn’t trash our nation in one fell swoop. New America? Good grief, even they seem to think our Founding Principles were faulty.


18 posted on 05/07/2009 3:57:55 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Pres__ent Obama's own grandmother says he was born in Kenya. She was there.)
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To: SolidWood
See, they are trying to pressure her now, AFTER they slammed her. She may have too much class to get into fights with other Republicans at this point, but I hope she doesn't “join” this tour. If they don't know what they stand for, or what we stand for, after how many years of telling them, they never will.
19 posted on 05/07/2009 3:58:07 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: raptor29

Mike Pence is GREAT, but again, we need him where he is, and Congressmen don’t usually get elected to President. But then until the annointed one, Senators didn’t really either!


20 posted on 05/07/2009 3:59:53 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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