The Line: A Resurgent Republican Party (WaPosts Top 10 Influential GOPers)

I couldn’t pick John Cornyn out of a lineup.

I watched the videos and this sounds very much like goooh.com (Get Out Of Our House). I’m going to a meeting about that next week.

Washington comPost is trying to torpedo the GOP again.

The rest of the Lunatic Fringe Media will follow their lead.

Their “Top Ten” list has 11 names. Sort of the like the Big Ten conference in college football.

Only WaPo would list all those RINOs

Freds my favorite. I hope he runs again.

I wish he could, but I’m afraid he’s just too old.

OUTSTANDING!

As Edmund Burke once declared, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

I think combining forces of these two efforts might be advantageous down the road. Have you heard of GOOOH?

James Carville (DNC): "It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 pts. days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

No. I’ll search their site. Thanks for the heads up.
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Neat graphic.

I found that website a couple of weeks ago and have been waiting for an opportunity to use it. Unfortunately depressed in 06 became the victim of my smart-assedness. You can use it to send a similarly obnoxious message for any search term someone inquires about.

lmgtfy.com - (let me google that for you)

woops.......

lmgtfy.com

Yep, LOL

WaPo has its Top 10 most influential republicans. Keep in mind, the list is based on what has the person contributed to the party in terms of fundraising and infrastructure.

I believe that none of those on the list stand a chance in this new era of Americans fed up with professional politicians. We have to field new candidates, in possibly a new party.

My list would include; Alveda King, Steven Broden, Rick Perry as #1; Bobby Schindler, Jim Robinson, Joe Wurzelbacher, Ken Hutcherson, and from Montana- General John E. Prendergast(ret.).

Freds my favorite. I hope he runs again.

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I love Fred. I still have his bumper sticker on my SUV. I donated to him three or four times, but I won't again. As much as I would have loved to see him as our president, I am sorry to say that I will invest in another candidate next time around.

Thanks for the laughs.

10. John Cornyn: The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has quietly put Senate GOPers in position to benefit if the national political environment goes south on Democrats. Cornyn has recruited serious candidates in Democratic-held seats in Illinois, Colorado and Connecticut, and still may land top tier recruits in North Dakota and Delaware. With seven open seats to defend, Cornyn understands that he must play offense in a few states if he hopes to position the party to make major gains in the 2012 and 2014 cycles — both of which, by the numbers, are far more favorable for Republicans. (Previous ranking: 8)

9. Sarah Palin: The former governor of Alaska has been very quiet of late — except for the occasional comment issued via her Facebook page. Palin’s decision to skip this weekend’s Values Voter Summit — where she would have been given a rock star’s reception — is the latest piece of evidence that those who believe a presidential run is inevitable are sorely mistaken. Regardless of her future political plans, Palin could do for a few more months outside of the spotlight. (Previous ranking: 2)

8. Mitch Daniels: Daniels, the governor of Indiana, would be far higher on this list if he had given something short of the airtight “I will not run” pronouncement regarding 2012. Despite that pledge, Daniels’ reform-minded populist approach to government is already sparking imitators (see state Sen. Josh Penry in Colorado) and is the direction in which many GOP strategists believe the party must move to have a chance against President Obama in 2012. Watch to see if some sort of “Draft Daniels” effort emerges and whether the governor dismisses a run out of hand or looks for a way to hedge on his past promise. (Previous ranking: N/A)

7. Mike Huckabee: The army of Huckabee supporters have carped for months that we are overlooking the former Arkansas governor’s influence within the party. Maybe. Huckabee clearly has a somewhat large group of loyal and active supporters and retains significant name ID — as evidenced by his showing in national polls testing 2012 matchups — from his 2008 candidacy. The less Palin looks like a candidate (and she is nowhere to be found at the moment), the more Huckabee benefits; without Palin, Huckabee is THE voice of social conservatives in this country. (Previous ranking: N/A)

6. John Boehner/Mitch McConnell: The Republican leaders of the House and Senate, respectively, deserve credit for how they’ve dealt with the difficulties of being the minority party. Recognizing that there is little they can do legislatively, Boehner and McConnell have focused on counter-punching against proposals made by the White House. And, due in no small part to the smallness of their respective conferences, Boehner and McConnell have been able to keep the GOP in near-unified opposition to the president’s major proposals. (Previous rankings: Boehner 10, McConnell 9)

5. Michael Steele: When no one was looking, the chairman of the Republican National Committee suddenly became relevant again. Steele has kept his occasionally erratic media personality in check of late and, as a result, has turned into one of the party’s better communicators. Steele’s pushback on the allegations of racism made by former President Jimmy Carter was well timed and kept the story alive. Perhaps most surprisingly, Steele’s RNC continues to be solid on the fundraising front. The committee has raised $52 million this year and just announced that it would drop $7 million into the Virginia governor’s race. (Previous ranking: N/A)

4. Newt Gingrich: For anyone who thought Gingrich didn’t have an eye on a national run, the $8 million he raised in the first half of the year through his American Solutions 527 group or the new Hispanic-oriented website he has started should dispel those notions. Gingrich remains the biggest brain and best ideas guy on the Republican side but his personal baggage may be too much for him to be a real factor in his own right in 2012. Regardless of his presidential plans, Gingrich is and will continue to be one of the prime players in the ongoing message debate within the party. (Previous ranking: 7)

3. Haley Barbour: While most people in Washington are focused on the battle for the House and Senate in 2010, the 39 governors race on the ballot between now and next November are by far the most critical contests in terms of the long term futures of the two parties. Barbour, the head of the Republican Governors Association, is tasked with recruiting and funding those races. He has already shown impressive results — putting top tier recruits in places like Nevada, Wisconsin and Iowa (assuming former Gov. Terry Branstad runs) among others. Talk of a Barbour 2012 run has died down in a bow to political reality. (Previous ranking: 5)

2. Tim Pawlenty: Give Tpaw credit — he recognized that he had to quickly get moving if he wanted to emerge as a national leader, and he has done just that. Pawlenty has been somewhere close to ever-present on cable chat shows and has generally weighed in on national issues with gravity and smarts. (His decision to suspend any expenditure of state dollars to ACORN backfired a bit when Minnesota’s ACORN representative said the organization didn’t get any state cash.) Pawlenty has a prime speaking spot at the Values Voters Summit tomorrow night; if he does well, expect the buzz factor on him to rise. (Previous ranking: 6)

1. Mitt Romney: No one in the Republican party at the moment can match Romney’s motor. The guy is simply everywhere. During Romney’s visit to Washington this weekend, he will address the Value Voters Summit in Washington on Saturday, raise money for his Free and Strong America PAC and collect cash for — among others — former state Attorney General Bob McDonnell, who is running for governor, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, and Republican consultant Barbara Comstock who is seeking to unseat a Democratic state legislator in McLean. Couple that packed calendar with the favorable reviews Massachusetts residents are giving to the health care plan Romney signed into law as governor and you see why Romney continues to hold the top slot on the Line. (Previous ranking: 1)