Posted on 05/09/2010 3:19:03 AM PDT by maine yankee
In a move that seemed to surprise many members of Maine's Republican Party, a group of tea party-style activists redefined the party platform at the convention Saturday
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.com ...
You're not picking up any bonus points in the grammar catergory either. :oP You need some more coffee.
Bennett, RINO from Utah, was thrown out of office by their conservative activists ONLY after their caucus demanded he be denied a place on the Utah GOP ballot.
Until the activists spoke up, it was going to be “business as usual” out there.
Just in case you missed this Maine Yankee...
Maine-iac7 posted Glenn and Rush’s email addys to write to.
Thanks Maine-iac! :)
glennbeck@foxnews.com
rush@eibnet.com
Well, it doesn’t surprise me too much. I wasn’t expecting it, though.
Politics in Maine does not seem to always be smooth and polished. There are conservatives in Maine. The Republican Party is not particularly strong in Maine. Add those all together, and you can get that outcome fairly easily.
I’ve never been involved at a local level and I might now.
Cool. I take that to mean that word is getting out already? Very good if that’s the case!
Or, were you involved in the drafting/passage? If so, thank you and Congratulations!
THIS is exactly what conservatives need to do nationwide....take over the GOP from the inside.
“I believe that there are provisions in there that will scare off many independents who you need to win elections,” he said afterward. “It will make it very difficult for the majority of Republicans to win.”
Oh my, so now sticking to the Constitutuion will scare off independents? Then , so be it. We need to fight FOR the Constitution or go down trying. BTW, I hear Cost Rica is nice this time of year.
“Maybe they can re arrange their RINO Senators.”
Good luck with that. As a Maine resident, I would love to see the stimulus sisters kicked out of D.C. for good.
Come election time, however, the democrats run ultra-left wing moonbats against both Snowe and Collins. As a result, Snowe and Collins look conservative in comparison, which, on most issues, they are not.
It’s nice to see a return to the constitution and rejection of progressivism. The awakening of the American Spirit has truly begun and marxism is on the run.
In the Territory of Conservative Stalwart Olympia Snowe? Shocking!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-N2FpwGDI
Literally a self-made man who worked his way up - now manager for Marden’s and Mayor or Waterville.
“People say you can't run a state like a business. I tell them that's baloney.”
Motto: “If it is to be, it's up to me”
If we win with this platform and this man for Governor - it will be a paradigm shift that will push the socialists off the cliff...
(Did you read item “j” of the Platform? I can hear the career politicians choking in horror ;o)
There are still a LOT of conservatives in Maine - but the 'big cities', particularly Portland, have been, over the last 40+ years, infiltrated by liberal flatlanders. They have taken over the 'cities', the largest of which would be, with about 62,000, considered a 'town' in most states.
During the '08 election, I took a trip 'up home' from I now live to further north in the state - a long rural route.
There were, of course, election "flowers" on lawns everywhere - but I saw only ONE for obama/biden.
Problem has been that conservatives respect individual rights and therefore tend to live and let live.
That is how the libs, who think it's their right, due to their self perceived superiority, to chose what is right for all of us, get the upper hand.
They didn't factor in that, although conservatives tend to be mellow, there comes a tipping point where they say: "That's enough." and come out swinging.
We have reached that tipping point - FINALLY
When asked about the evident rise of the Tea Party Movement in Maine, Snowe said that it was important for the state's Republican Party to work together."People are angry, and understandably so," she said. "The question is how do you channel that anger to be effective and successful at the polls?"
Two points: I can't recall any time in the last forty years that the Republicans have controlled the Maine Legislature; and what I've seen of the Maine party to date doesn't make me think that if they did control the Legislature they'd do anything with it besides extend the benefits of Big Government to an additional set of clients.
So, contra Snowe's implication that the changes are problematic, they may help Republicans to win and, more importantly, give some point to winning. They certainly aren't going to make the party any less effective.
Maine Republicans should “pick and choose” from among the Senate candidates—choose to send the “pickers and choosers” like Collins and Snowe into retirement, like Nevada Republicans did with Bennett. What a line from Snowe: “I spit on your grassroots changes to the platform, I don’t need your stink’n new platform, rubes, I’ll do what I please and you can just pound sand” is what she and her “veterans” are saying.
The grass rooters should shovel it back in her face.
Section j should have made Collins and Snowe’s heads explode. LOL
Maine, of all places. RINOs have been chucked in the trash.
Snowe’s opponent was a nobody, and Tom Allen ticked off the wrong people so Collins won by default.
> Maybe they can re arrange their RINO Senators.
Maybe they can remove their RINO Senators.
I don’t know Maine anywhere near as much as you do. I’ve been here a short time. And some of the stuff here is crazy.
I really do think that the Democrats want to completely depopulate most of the state, turn the land over to the Nature Conservancy, and they’ll end up using it for themselves.
What is this “stewardship” idea? What are “stakeholders”?
It seems like when anybody wants to do anything, there’s a long fight with Leftists who have apparently become “stakeholders” in something or other.
And what is this whole wild nature obsession?
Anyway, I really like the new message from the Maine Republican Party.
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