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Republicans Need More Crist and Less Limbaugh, Cheney and Palin
US News and World Report ^ | 5/13/09 | Bonnie Erbe

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: erbe; gayagenda; gaycharlie; gop; rinos; rumprangerchuck; yeahyeahyeah
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To: Red_Devil 232

I wouldn’t vote for Crist for dog catcher.


21 posted on 05/13/2009 5:21:14 PM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: wolfpat

“Who is bankrolling this conspiracy?”

Soros and the taxpayers.


22 posted on 05/13/2009 5:21:18 PM PDT by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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To: skeeter

I guess that is why I don’t know who she is. I never read U.S. News and World Report and never watch PBS and now I know why.


23 posted on 05/13/2009 5:21:24 PM PDT by golfisnr1
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To: SoldierDad
Who the hell is Bonnie Erbe, and what business is it of hers to make such an observation?

Just another stupid lib trying to tell the GOP how to behave......LOL!

24 posted on 05/13/2009 5:21:30 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This country isn't going to hell in a handbasket, it's riding shotgun in an Indy car....)
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To: pissant
"and supports civil rights"

I don't know of a republican, or even a conservative/libertarian that doesn't support "civil rights". What conservatives/libertarians oppose is special rights for certain favored groups. We believe everyone should be treated EQUALLY!

25 posted on 05/13/2009 5:21:56 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: pissant
"The GOP needs more Charlie Crists, fewer Rush Limbaughs, Dick Cheneys and Sarah Palins..."

Thanks cupcake. Now don't you have some water to carry or something?

26 posted on 05/13/2009 5:22:02 PM PDT by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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To: pissant
The Marxist DemoRat party organ is soooo caring and generous, to tell Republicans the secret to wining elections, becoming heroes to children and reclaim the love of dogs.

What would Republicans do without 'em?

27 posted on 05/13/2009 5:22:26 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Communism, let's give it one more chance, this time they'll do it right.)
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To: pissant

Pushing RINOism has to be working. If the push for people like Crist is on, I won’t be voting for any socialst RINO again.

No more nose holding, evah!


28 posted on 05/13/2009 5:22:29 PM PDT by dforest
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To: pissant

I guess she will have Engels over Marx...it is the Liberal way...RINO or Lib, same difference.


29 posted on 05/13/2009 5:22:30 PM PDT by wac3rd (In the end, we all are Conservative, some just need their lives jolted to realize that fact.)
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To: pissant

Funny how all the liberals are coming out of the sewers like rats to offer their suggestions on how the GOP can retake the majority.


30 posted on 05/13/2009 5:22:32 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: pissant
I wondered how long it would take the MSM to anoint Crist as the ‘new’ face of the Republican party. Crist’s wife wants it worse that he does.
31 posted on 05/13/2009 5:22:50 PM PDT by devane617 (Republicans first strategy should be taking over the MSM. Without it we are doomed.)
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To: pissant

Maybe they have a point, I mean Reagan was a moderate and all...


32 posted on 05/13/2009 5:22:51 PM PDT by americanophile
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To: The Good Doctor

The gays love him

He hasn’t come out yet.

GAY GAY GAY


33 posted on 05/13/2009 5:22:52 PM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: pissant

More “gay” RINO’s. Just what we need.

:o /


34 posted on 05/13/2009 5:23:28 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Northern Yankee

A populist? Isn’t that going back, way back into American politics?


35 posted on 05/13/2009 5:23:49 PM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pissant

Listen to Bonnie! She really knows what she’s talking about. Like this article:

http://www.seattlepi.com/opinion/267125_erbe19.html

“United States is no help to Iraqi women” By BONNIE ERBE
GUEST COLUMNIST

A new poll of leaders of Iraqi women’s-rights groups finds that women were treated better and their civil rights were more secure under deposed President Saddam Hussein than under the faltering and increasingly sectarian U.S.-installed government.....


36 posted on 05/13/2009 5:24:11 PM PDT by silverleaf ("Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal ( Martin Luther King))
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To: SoldierDad

Erbe is a radical abortion-rights feminazi who would not vote for any Republican ever, even a gay liberal one.


37 posted on 05/13/2009 5:24:11 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: brytlea

Exactly


38 posted on 05/13/2009 5:24:15 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: pissant
Al Gore 1984
39 posted on 05/13/2009 5:24:30 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan (I am defiantly proud of being part of the Religious Right in America.)
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To: pissant

Ewwwwwwwwwww...THE charlie crist?????? The one who helped to MURDER Terri Schiavo....I don’t think we need THAT creepy thug as a role model for anyone but liberals who thinks if it doesn’t function up to speed, or is inconvenient....KILL IT!


40 posted on 05/13/2009 5:24:45 PM PDT by Republic (Jedem das Seine)
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