Posted on 11/26/2009 9:55:25 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Apparently there are still some posters on FR who are fast asleep. Wake up! Dammit! We are in the middle of a conservative rebellion! While you were sleeping we, along with millions of other freedom loving grassroots Americans have participated in hundreds of tea parties all across this great land and fully intend to keep it up until all of America is awake. We are fed up and mad as hell! We grassroots Americans are delivering a message to the ruling class: NO MORE!!
No more big government! No more high taxes! No more government bailouts! No more government takeovers! No government healthcare! No more corruption! No more global baloneyism!!
We're sick and tired of liberals and RINOs running roughshod over our God given Liberty!
We want our country back! We want our freedom back! We want it all back!!
No more socialism!!
Cut the taxes! Cut the spending! Cut the government!
Restore the constitutional limits on government! Restore our freedom!!
And not only no, but HELL NO to liberals and RINOS!!
Free Republic will not support RINOS!! Rudy McRomney, et al, can go straight to hell!!
The strategy is we win, they lose.
Any questions?
I’m beyond RINOs now, I’m holding the flame to conservatives too. The only strategy that’ll work in 2010 is for Republicans to stand up, end this tax spree, end this spending spree, and they’d better demonstrate it in their own office before I’ll believe they’ll do it in Congress. That means opting out of congressional retirement - want to retire? Get a real job, or live on social security, which they can start contributing to. Opt out of congressional health and buy their own policy with that overly generous salary they end up with.
Show us they know how to be fiscally conservative and slash their own office budgets down to fy 2000 levels. Forgo perks and pay for their own cars, their own flights. If the hubby or wife has to cut back on beauty treatments, or they can’t afford $500 hair cuts, then tough luck. But it’s pretty dang hard to find a congresscritter who hasn’t become a millionaire while in office.
And they’d better be ready to fight. The cards are stacked for a huge blowback by the people against big government, and whomever wants my vote, well, they can side against big government, and go after the Democrats. And if that means that I don’t vote for a single Republican again, that’s how it’ll be. My party may want to rent itself out to RINOs, but my vote comes with a huge cost.
Principle before party, period. And if that means someone Obama over Rudy, so be it. Why? Because it won't be conservatives that put Rudy on the ticket. It will be RINOs. So don't blame those who hold true to conservatism. Blame those who sold out their principles for political expediency.
Ok..Ok...I get it.....
But can I still get cash for my clunker??? :^)
Hopefully nothing. She doesn’t have a history in politics so there’s unlikely to be some vote or position she took 15-20 years ago to get her in trouble. Alaska wasn’t a hotbed of political activism, so she is unlikely to have been caught being friends with someone or supporting some cause without thinking about what it would mean on the national stage.
(Example would be the charges about Palin supporting Pat Buchanon in 1996, which may have hurt her for a little bit but if I remember turned out to be largely untrue).
As Governor, she didn’t have to deal with a lot of the hot-button issues of our time, and fortunately for conservatives, the few she dealt with she was on our side. About the only thing I can think of that I know has been used against other candidates who had other flaws before would be if as Governor she enacted programs passed by the legislature that she disagreed with.
But anyway, I wasn’t talking about attackes by the left, which were many — I’m talking about something surfacing, or her taking some position on an issue she hasn’t had to work on before, which turns out not to be the “conservative” position.
If there is such a thing though, I do hope it comes out earlier rather than later, so it can either be dealt with before the major campaign (unlike the Fred Thompson case).
in You can tell them it is raining and they will still walk outside like it is a sunny day because it is not part of the playbook. And that is despite the thunder and raindrops pounding on the roof...
We have a freakin’ Marxist, Islamophile in the White House and you claim that the Republicans are AS bad.
Name one.
You can keep your 'anyone is better than Obama' lie too.
Jim ? the MitBots are hard of hearing, they won’t “ GET IT “ in what you just said.... just like the Obots.
Given that McCain was her running mate, it isn’t surprising she’d donate money to him. Hopefully not for next year’s senate primary if we have a conservative in the mix.
Other than the “liberal female” you don’t have a name for, while I dislike many of the positions of at least two of those three candidates, and would like to see them primaried away, I wouldn’t call any of them ‘RINOS’ (a term that applied well to DeDe Scozafossa, but which I think otherwise is way too overused as a substitute for “not conservative enough).
IF you presume the nation is divided into two political parties that have a chance of winning, and that everybody could be placed into one or the other, the voting records of those three clearly puts them on the Republican side of the line.
Only if you argue that there is a large group of people who don’t get to join EITHER party can you say that McCain is a RINO in it’s literal definition.
However, that’s the last I’ll argue the term here in this thread, because I kind of know what is MEANT by the term in this context, so while the term is not being used accurately, it is conveying a message that is understandable.
Might I suggest that it appears VERY obvious, at least to me, that the reason that your posts about this are so RUDELY ignored is that plenty of those RINO-enamoured posters are actually PAID to "chatter" here, to make it look like there is massive grassroots support for their Employer?
Because they can do whatever they want online with utter impunity & anonymity and because they have millions upon millions of dollars behind them, I don't expect the chattering and fake identities to end anytime soon...
Actually I didn't. I said that RINOs are every bit as responsible for the mess we are in now as the 'Rats.
Think you'll ever get the hook out of your mouth?
Absolutely, no more RINOs. For me, that begins with defeating Charlie Crist in the primaries!
There were several weeks when Hoffman was being supported solidly by conservative groups, and we were discussing whether Palin was ever going to endorse him or not.
So while she certainly didn’t “dilly-dally” in the same way that Pawlenty did (or Romney, who as far as I could tell was still “dilly-dallying” when the election was over), she was pretty late to the game, compared to the organizational players and people like Fred Thompson, who beat her by almost a month.
From a strategic point of view, having endorsements come to you in a staggered fashion is often a good thing, it shows momentum that can sway people toward the end.
In that both posters are quite correct, the GOP has done little to stem the tide towards socialism.
Whether it is by design or inaction, whether it happens sooner rather than later matters little, the results are the same.
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