Posted on 05/13/2009 5:15:49 PM PDT by pissant
The GOP needs more Charlie Crists, fewer Rush Limbaughs, Dick Cheneys and Sarah Palins as it seeks, phoenix-like, to rise from the funeral pyre.
Crist has agreed to do the party a major favor and run for the Senate, instead of for reelection as Florida governor. As CNN reports:
The Senator from Texas and chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Tuesday reeled in a big catch as popular Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced he'll forgo a re-election bid and instead run for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez.
Crist is a moderate, a tree-hugger (by Republican standards, anyway) and supports civil rights, unlike high-profile members of the Bush administration (Cheney et. al.) who seem to revel in trashing them. From Time:
Crist is a peppy populist who has bucked his party on the environment, civil rights and the stimulus bill.
Go, Charlie! You're just what the party needs to start reopening the doors of the big tent.
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That’s it! That’s what the GOP is missing as part of their “rebranding”.
Good question.
Don’t give them any ideas.......
I think that happened on November 4, 2008. You see what happened.
vaudine
Nope. THe RNC needs MORE Limbaugh, more William F. Buckley, more Milton Friedman, more Ronald Reagan with veto pen power, more Scalia, more Clarence Thomas, more Walter Williams.
The RINOs need to embrace the fact they are liberals and join their democrat liberal cousins. Let them spend their time asking the libs to change and compromise. we’re done with them. They can all seriously have sex with themselves with a splintery broomhandle.
“I have a confession to make: More than 25 years ago I used an illegal narcotic. I’m not running for President, nor any political office for that matter. And the statute of limitations has surely run out on my transgression. So it’s safe to come clean. I won’t make you guess about which drug it was. It was heroin. And here come the gory details. I snorted it — no, I didn’t inject it. I was caught up in the drug culture of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, which I state as a reason, not an excuse. And, oh yes, prior to trying heroin I smoked a lot of different types of marijuana and hashish (yes, inhaling all the time) and took a wide variety of hallucinogens: mescaline, LSD, you name it. Well, I not only survived that stupor, I excelled at high school studies and extracurricular activities during it.”Groovy.
You know, of course, that Hatch, like Arlen Specter, started out as a Democrat and switched parties only because there was an opening on the Republican ticket.
The leftist are trying to divide us. They are looking for anyone on the right that might be easily lead astray. (like most of there kool-aid drinkers are.) Conservatives need to stand firm on the constitution, not be afraid to speak the truth about what Obama, the dems and there comrades in the media are; communist. If only the public school had taught people what the communist party is all about and how many millions of people they murdered in the last century.
“You know, of course, that Hatch, like Arlen Specter, started out as a Democrat and switched parties only because there was an opening on the Republican ticket.”
They are opportunist.
Missed the BARF warning!
I did NOT know that, but it does NOT surprise me....I wonder if there’s a list of the “opportunist” switchers somewhere....
He’s gay, his wife is a beard. He hangs out in Key West with his boyfriend from what I’ve heard. Supposedly he’s helping him open a boutique there.
Surely you accidentally forgot the “/sarc” tag - right?
Reagan was NOT a moderate; he was a conservative through and through! He believed in small government, state based decisions and the STRONGEST defense is the best defense!
If that is moderate, then hey - we need more moderates. But heck in that case, JFK would be a Republican by today’s standards!
I guarantee that he won’t vote that way in the Senate.
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Oh please, give me a break! He will vote with the Dems every time. he isn’t a RINO he’s a Dem. NO TO CRIST NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know who Bonnie Erbe is, but one thing is for sure, she doesn't have anything swinging...if you catch my drift.
5.56mm
He’s gay. He has been seen in Key West with gays. Ask Bruce Jordan and Jason Weatherington. I’m sure if he’s elected he and odumbo will have some late night trysts in the WH basement.
Be AWARE please this is part of the plan. Get RINO’S elected. Then there is NO chance to stop this train wreck except a revolution and drag the traitors to the Constitution out of DC. If we don’t elect real Republicans we are doomed.
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