Posted on 11/12/2009 11:30:40 AM PST by Puzzleman
To regain its strength, an out-of-power party like the Republicans needs ideas to fuel its recovery and leaders to promote and deliver them. In this war of ideas, those committed to presenting a sensible, philosophically grounded conservative case to Americans play a special role. Because conservatives are distrustful of concentrated power, it is awkward to select just seven Washington power players, but here are my picks...
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Yes, he was pretty good for Bush, but he was pretty bad for the Republican party, and he was devastating to conservatism. Honestly, I'm kind of sick of the guy.
Great list :)
a huge DITTO!
Thanks for the mention JPL. Frankly I’m sick of a lot Republicans these days. They’ve been a party to what has been taking place in Washington, and I think it’s highly self-defeatist as a Conservative to be in denial over it.
We have to own up to our own party’s complicity, if we ever hope to right this ship of state.
Frankly, we fault Democrats for not making statements like this regarding their own party, yet we are reluctant to do it ourselves.
There’s a whole lot of smackdown needed in Washington, D.C., and it’s not limited to people proud to be leftists on the record.
I agree with most of your comments, but I have a serious problem with Hannity and the way he grovels for the RINOs (McCain, Rudy, etc).
Why give those losers any facetime???? They're so yesterday!
Rove is a jerk, he should STFU. Come on 2012.
Thank you, and please note post 64 here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2384913/posts?page=64#64
O'Really is a poseur.. a shill.. a political vampire..
Rove could’ve included himself among this group.
I’d also throw in Mark Steyn if the “powerful” connotation means influential.
ROFL
what a dumb list of losers.
Where is Palin and Governor Perry? The two most probably 2012 candidates?
Jindal is a dork that has no chance of winning national office, I still can’t get over that awful response he gave after the state of the union address.
“I was joking, I like Sean but have trouble with the fact that he has a man crush on Newt to RINO. I turn his show off any time Newt is on, TV or radio.”
I agree completely, I can’t handle Newt now. He is well spoken and a great thinker but the NY-23 story was the last straw. He needs to feed away and Hannity does have a man crush on him and keeps bringing him on the show. Newt is a great historian and he needs to teach history and write books and make videos on American history to combat liberal lies. His days of electoral politics are over and he would be much more effective behind the scenes. The other Hannity issue is his ongoing McCain love. I suppose he has to given the needs of his TV show and in a strange way this makes him more palatable to women. In the big scheme of things Hannity is a solid asset to our side with his inoffensive personality doing a lot to combat the image of the mean conservative.
“Corin Stormhands” is not on the list.
Rove is clueless.
The only one I agree with him on is Krauthammer (although he’s not a fan of Sarah Palin). The rest of the list Rove got from Newt.
I agree with your take, however I think the problem is Sean has way too many RINO’s on his show who he touts as conservative.
He needs to have Graham, McCain and Newt on the same show at the same time. Now that would be funny, the stupid looks those three have would be too funny.
No Mike Ditka?
Or Ted Nugent?
Or Chuck Norris?
What about Batman?
Graham/Snowe 2012
Yeeeee Haaaaaa
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