Posted on 10/02/2010 9:43:07 AM PDT by calcowgirl
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Whitman is representative of an emerging Republican type what you might call the austerity caucus. Flamboyant performers like Sarah Palin get all the attention, but the governing soul of the party is to be found in statehouses where a loose confederation of uber-wonks have become militant budget balancers. Just as welfare reformers of the 1990s presaged compassionate conservatism, so the austerity brigades presage the national party's next chapter.
Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana who I think is most likely to win the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, is the spiritual leader. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey is the rising star. Jeb Bush is the eminence. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Rob Portman, a Senate candidate in Ohio, also fit the mold.
These are people who can happily spend hours in the budget weeds looking for efficiencies. They're being assisted by budget experts from the Hoover Institution, the Manhattan Institute and freelancers like Bob Grady, who did budgeting in George H.W. Bush's administration. Members of the caucus have a similar sense of the role history has assigned them. "This state had a party for 10 years and I'm the guy who got called in to clean up the mess," Christie says.
Christie is the Hot New Thing in the group . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Bravo!
And maybe you're just plain wrong.
Props to SoConPubbie for refusing to back the progressive RINO Whitman, and up yours to any and all fair-weather conservatives who wish to bow down for the progressive RINOs!
...says the n00b who was helping Cedric (now zotted) in 2008 compile hit lists of FReepers who refused to support the RINO McCain.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119926/posts
Calcowgirl is totally awesome, and any attacks on her (such as yours) I take as attacks on me.
So, in conclusion: up yours, troll!
Nicely said, NormsRevenge. ncalburt, are you listening?
But, believe me, I know only too well how hard it is to refrain from wandering onto threads where you simply end up embarrassing yourself. I do it all the time.
Anyway, ncalburt, you are very wrong about calcowgirl.
Have a good day, all!
This lashing out at anyone on FR who dares to criticize anyone in the GOP is sad. One poster compared Cedric (can't ping him because he is zotted) to Madame Lefarge, who imagined enemies everywhere she looked, in "The Tale of Two Cities."
We all hate the Obama regime, but RINOs can do just as much damage as Dems. For example, if one R had voted for Obamacare, Pelosi could have allowed Stupak to vote NO, and then Stupak could have campaigned for reelection as a "pro-life opponent of Obamacare."
Don't get me started on Schwartzenegger.
Bingo. I loathe Rbots.
” ...says the n00b who was helping Cedric (now zotted) in 2008 compile hit lists of FReepers who refused to support the RINO McCain.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119926/posts
AHA!!
An ‘ ENEMIES LIST “ troll, eh, ncalbert?
” and up yours to any and all fair-weather conservatives who wish to bow down for the progressive RINOs!”
And up yours, dip$hit who doesn’t bother to read threads before acting like a fool. If you’d read mine you’d know that’s not my position.
Now I am really p***ed. I didn’t make their Enemies List? WTF?
Ya just aint livin’ right, LOL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119926/posts?page=24#24
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119926/posts?page=28#28
Heaven forbid one would post that they thought McCain was going to lose in California, LOL.
Cool! Can I just forward them to you? (Just kidding)
Thanks for the kind words.
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