Posted on 10/30/2009 9:34:48 PM PDT by SteelTrap
When we retake the majority, who do you want to lead the GOP in the House and Senate?
Understanding that this is largely a measure of who wants to be a leader (not all the peeps we like want the headaches that come with leadership) and who is persistant enough to get what they want, who do you want to see step up and take the reigns? I want my party to reflect my beliefs. The current leadership does not voice my beliefs and are not even close to voicing my burning anger at the corruptocrats that inhabit DC.
Boehnor is running on residual good will left over from the 90's. On the downside, he makes Michael Steele look like Reagan when it comes to getting our message out. Incoherent and inarticulate. Not a good combination.
McConnell is a mini-Trent Lott as far as I am concerned. He says things I agree with 100% but never delivers legislation that backs it up. He is Kay Bailey Hutchinson in reverse drag. A cheerleader that is too comfortable cheering to the visiting team.
What say you? Who do want to drive the bus?
Go, and Go
Out with both.
Bachmann in the house and Demint in the Senate, with Tom Delay advising them on procedural stuff, with Liz Cheney and John Bolton on foreign policy. Add in Rove just to irritate the libs.
1st, we need some real conservatives who truly believe in smaller government, less spending, etc...and not mealy mouth men with fat jowls and a red tie. If we don’t have candidates like that the Dems will retain control of the Senate and the House. Let’s get the conservative candidates entered into these races and then worry about who’s gonna be Speaker in the House and Majority Leader in the Senate.
Jim Demint in the Senate, Mike Pence in the house.
Sarah Palin in the WH with John Bolton as VP and Tom Delay as her chief of staff...oh yeah...
Boehner stay. McConnell go.
Boehnor doesn’t impress me. McConnell does, as Jack Webb understating an attempt to master “just the facts.” But I saw the first bailout last fall pointing just about where we are now, and begged the best man in the House to vote against it. He voted for it. Twice. I will support no one, and will vote for the best we’re offered, feeling more and more that the current presidency is likely to end very badly.
Make Joe Arpaio Atty General, Tommy Franks Sec Def and you got a helluva lineup.
Agree
vaudine
Boehner’s not a great speaker, but he may be a great Speaker. I don’t know who to credit, but the GOP House caucus is very conservative and very disciplined. I just can’t explain the RNCC to myself.
McConnell and Cornyn, however, deserve to anally raped by Satan with a pineapple for the rest of eternity. Fake conservative plantation lords doing everything they can to discredit conservatism.
Add:
- Ann Coulter for SCOTUS
- Karl Rove for Sec State
- Todd Palin at Dept of Energy
Disband the rest of the alphabet agencies.
I’d rather have a real Conservative party and forget about the GOP. When they are in charge they expand government and spending and give support for foreign meddling and wars.
LLS
Boehner is awful. How he reclaimed a leadership position AFTER he was bounced out of it in the ‘90s for a subpar performance is dumbfounding. McConnell is subpar as well.
I disagree fieldmarshal. With the exception of one vote he has been a solid conservative. He may not be a firebrand - but he is solid.
The problem with Boehner is that he was axed as House Republican Conference Chairman after a subpar performance. When he was elevated back to leadership 6 years later, I winced, because I knew he was NOT a good choice to become Majority Leader. Indeed, he's been a complete disaster. Since he took that job, the GOP has lost 54 seats. He should've been summarily fired at the start of the '07-'09 Congress, and it was absolutely inexcusable he was retained after we suffered even MORE losses for '09-'11. Under his leadership in the House, we've not gained a single seat during Zero's Presidency in a special election. Technically the one in NY, even with Hoffman's election would count as a LOSS, because Hoffman will not have been formally elected as a Republican (although he will caucus with us, which will still leave the gain at zero). Again, remember, this isn't about the voting record, this is about presenting an aggressive and unapologetic challenge to the opposition, getting more of your people elected, and the like, and he has failed categorically.
Don’t you think the hate Bush press had a bit to do with that?
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