Posted on 11/03/2009 9:22:41 PM PST by tricky_k_1972
Moderates are PLENTY FINE.
Before someone something ridiculous, lets clear up a few points:
Snowe is not a moderate. Spector was never a moderate. Scozzafava is liberal.
Do we have to break out the pledge wipes again?
NY-23 is a large, rural district, but it still has local NY issues. I’m curious to see how hard Palin campaigns for GOP candidates next year - or if she supports third-party, Conservative line candidates.
2010 will give us the best indication of where Palin is headed, whether it be elected politics or punditry. If she is going to remain as a candidate, will she lend her power to the GOP, or will she boost the clout of a current third party? Or start her own?
You’re correct in that third party candidates often have a disadvantage. Even the most successful one of the past twenty years - Ross Perot - couldn’t build a win or a lasting National Party on the basis of his own standard-bearership alone. Any third party will have to have the same connected foot soldiers that you find in the GOP or Dem organization. Is Palin going to build an organization? Or will she attempt to grasp the GOP reins? After Hoffman’s loss, and her very public support of him (”Hoffman, baby, Hoffman!”), a lot of the GOP organizations are bound to unwilling to follow her lead. Are Conservatives poised to take over the GOP infrastructure in toto? That will require a lot of organizing and running for local committee organizations. Is this being planned?
Obama couldn’t pull it off for Corzine, but he may have been responsible for the continuing Dem grip on the NJ Assembly. It’s going to be hard for Christie to get anything done with that Statehouse. Even his expected veto of the Medical Marijuana act could well be overturned. So while Christie’s electoral win is a victory, it may be mainly virtual, rather than actual. Let’s see how much he can do, aside from positioning himself for national office.
Perhaps if Obama had campaigned for Owens, Hoffman would have won.
May we see this pledge?
We don’t have a choice between a static society and radical chaos.
It’s choice between minimizing change and radical chaos.
Goldwater was the last true uncompromizing conservative.
Reagan learned the lesson.
It's just a shame? WHAT IS WRONG WITH SOME. This is not a win situation ... it was a LOSE LOSE situation. The conservative lost and the seat went democrat. NOTHING AT ALL TO CELEBRATE.
“The conservative lost and the seat went democrat. NOTHING AT ALL TO CELEBRATE.”
And yet the conservative Republicans who could see this coming and who refused to hop on the third party bandwagon, are vilified here. A third party coming from the Right will always help the Democrats. Not that hard to figure out.
Goldwater is the CONSERVATIVE, without him, there would have been NO REGAN (something many here do not want to admit)
I agree with GOLDWATER more than any other so called conservative - To bad some on this site have no respect for GOLDWATER.
Well son of a gingrich!
And a second party that constantly moves to the ‘middle’ purely to obtain power will cease to look like anything but those it wishes to supplant. Not that hard to figure out, either.
You are the one who seems to have an issue figuring it out. Are you in love with a party or do want principles? I mean, you wanted a left wing so-called Republican to win in the 23rd just so you could dance around and “wooo hooo” about how a Dem was beaten in the race?
Even though the Repub is more liberal than the Dem who won?
How would that be a win for anyone EXCEPT liberals?
Exactly. The compromise is always expected of conservatives in the Republican party to the point we are today...more taxes, more screwed up social policy, a flat out socialist for President. Being left wing lite in order to say a Republican won is DUMB.
...and yet, here we are now...
“”That’s pretty big talk for someone with a Marxist POTUS, a Marxist Congress, dozens of unelected Czars, a La Raza SCOTUS”
That is the result of YOUR way...
Its time for a change. REAL change.
One article I read said there were about 10,000 outstanding absentee ballots—must all be union related for Doug to concede before they were counted!
IF upon counting those ballots and somehow Doug comes up with the numbers, does his concession count? Or will he be the new member of congress? Not sure how these things work...
Yup. When a party decides its principles will be nothing more than obtaining, and maintaining, power and control, it consciously lays the foundation for a party of secular religiosity, and ultimately statism.
Your wrong.
Ill explain this again...
We are at war with an ideology (socialism / marxism / collectivism). Supporting a zealot of that ideology in an attempt to garner the votes of people who will only vote for candidates who are zealots of that ideology, in an attempt to do anything other than PROGRESS the ideology that we are at war with is more than just insane. Its contemptibly ignorant and PROVEN failure of a strategy, as per the observations of another in your clan...
“That’s pretty big talk for someone with a Marxist POTUS, a Marxist Congress, dozens of unelected Czars, a La Raza SCOTUS”
Please notice that the above dire situation arose as the result of DECADES of following the criminally insane strategy outlined above.
Purge the Rinos!
And this will embolden ACORN and the Unions next year.
And their guys have 12 months to help them rig the next election.
Believe it when I see it.
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