Posted on 11/05/2010 9:40:41 PM PDT by pissant
At their new political high-water mark, Republicans have plenty of reasons to celebrate - and at least one large cause for worry.
On Election Day, voters shattered the Obama agenda of expanded public benefits and increased income tax progressivity, leaving the president to reassemble his goals with glue and tape. During this midterm cycle, Republicans became reacquainted with estranged friends: independents, seniors, college-educated voters, working-class voters, rural voters and suburban voters. The Republican Party will benefit from the infusion of diverse, attractive new leaders, including some, such as Florida Sen.-elect Marco Rubio, with Tea Party pedigrees.
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Damn... I’m old but not that old! ;)
Gotta hit the hay. IF I remember, I’ll respond to this one tomorrow.
G’night.
Pick a good one. Pick something real.
These neocons attacked Christine after the Primary. Gerson is one of them.
Podhoretz, Frum, Gerson, Brooks, Kristol, Krauthammer, Perino, Rove
'Nuff said by me on FR.
List the qualifications for becoming POTUS.
That is true in small circles, but not remotely like after John McCain nominated her.
So what? It doesn't follow that she wouldn't be near or at the top of the list here for the GOP POTUS nomination in 2012 if she weren't McCain's running mate in 2008. Did you ever study Logic?
This is like shooting Ducks in a barrel.
You're either a horrible shot or you're firing blanks. LOL
I’m one of the many independent swing voters who handed this election to the Republicans. In 2008, I sat out the election and watched Juan McCain - the handpicked favorite of the GOP establishment - crash and burn in states like Indiana, Virginia, and North Carolina.
Here in Alabama, the Republicans won big in 2010. They won the state legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. They won 6 out of 7 House seats (all but the gerrymandered black district), reelected Richard Shelby to the Senate, and elected Robert Bentley Governor.
This huge, historic victory in Alabama was due in large part to ... drumroll ... taking a hardline against immigration. “Dangerous candidates” like Boozman in Arkansas, Scott in Florida, and Deal in Georgia won in the South.
The fact is, independent and conservative Democratic voters in the South despise these Beltway types like David Brooks, Karl Rove, and Michael Gerson. The GOP did better in this election cycle THAN EVER BEFORE (and in the Midwest too) because of the perception, wholly attributable to the Tea Party, that these Washington insiders were finally losing power to independently organized grassroots conservatives.
That is the ONLY REASON the GOP has been given a second chance. If the Republicans we just sent to Washington govern in a “bi-partisan manner” on immigration like McCain-Kennedy and follow the sage advice of the likes of Frum on CNN or Gerson in the Washington Post, they can get used to being the minority party again.
Ditto.
It just chaps my a$$ that the RINO’s in charge are attacking Sarah and MB in Minnesota. These two gals were two of the few that carried the water for the republicans for the last two years. Neither one would back down in order to be politically correct, nor timid, never compromised their morals and never gave up no matter what the media threw at them. God bless these two.
As far as the Republican party goes and our house majority, they are on probation as far as I am concerned. Another “cleansing movement” may be required in 12.
Check out Chet99’s account.
This guy Gerson is detestable. Did Bush’s administration have any conservatives in it. NO MORE BUSHES. NEVER!!!!!!!
Pls just stop w/ the stupid advice crap...when the WaPo merges with the HuffPo let me know otherwise STFU!
Mitt Romney: "I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
Here we go with the PDS’ers bullshit, again.
“I think many of her supporters think she’s done that already. And walked on water the entire way.”
I wonder if Jesus appreciates your dig? I don’t, and I want to remind people like you that Governor Palin cleaned the corruption out of state government and got the oil companies to share profits with the PEOPLE - NOT THE GOVERNMENT - of Alaska.
How many politicians do you know who have accomplished good works? We see Gov. Christie (sp.?) of New Jersey doing that, or attempting to.
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