On looks, I'd vote for Tom over JFK anyday.
Something about those Kennedy mouths. Eeeek.
Reminds me of Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf... "My, what big teeth you have..."
Posted on 11/20/2010 3:07:16 PM PST by rabscuttle385
More than a year ago, Pollster Frank Luntz stood before a group of about 40 House Republicans in a cramped conference room. “I need to tell you something,” he said. “I’ve been looking at polling data from Congressional districts across America for the last three months. I’m convinced that you are going to be in the majority next year.” After a long pause, he added, “This time, please don’t screw it up again.”
I don’t think we will.
The message of the last two elections could not be louder or clearer. Great parties are built upon great principles and they are judged by their devotion to those principles. From its inception, the core principles of the Republican party have been individual freedom and constitutionally limited government. The closer it has hewn to these principles, the better it has done. The further it has strayed from them…well, my God!
In the aftermath of the Bush debacle, House Republican leaders resolved to restore traditional Republican principles as the policy and political focus of the party and they achieved something no one at the time thought possible: they united House Republicans as a determined voice of opposition to the Left and rallied the American people. Republicans rediscovered why they were Republicans, and Republican leaders rediscovered Reagan’s advice to paint our positions in bold colors and not hide them in pale pastels.
(Ironically, in Reagan’s home state, Republicans tried to campaign to the left of the Democrats and the result was disastrous. While the rest of the country was celebrating historic Republican gains -- including a shift of at least 61 U.S. House seats, 6 U.S. Senate seats, 680 state legislative seats, 19 state legislatures and six governors -- the statewide Republican ticket in California imploded. Republicans nationally now hold more state legislative seats than in any year since 1928. In California, they hold fewer than at any time since 1978!
House Republicans were unfairly criticized as the party of “No.” When somebody is driving you off a cliff, “no” is a handy word to have in your vocabulary. But it can’t be the only word in the national debate over the future of the country and Republicans know it.
Over the last two years, House Republicans laid out detailed plans to revive the finances of our government and the prosperity of our economy, to return freedom of choice, competition and affordability to health care, to restore the integrity of our borders, and to return to our states their rightful powers and prerogatives.
A Republican House cannot alone enact such laws, but it no longer must labor in the obscurity of minority irrelevance. It now has the opportunity to elevate the national debate by putting forward these plans at a time when Americans are alert to the danger facing the nation and eager for an adult discussion about the fundamental mechanics of freedom – how freedom works and how we can put it back to work.
In 1858, Lincoln warned the nation that two antithetical philosophies, freedom and slavery, competed for the future and reminded us that a house divided against itself cannot stand. “I do not believe the house will fall,” he said, “but I do believe that it will cease to be divided.” Today two incompatible philosophies, freedom and socialism, compete for our future and the stage is set for one of the greatest debates in the history of the American Republic.
Upon the outcome of that debate rests the question of whether the United States of America will fade inexorably into history or whether it will begin its next great era of expansion, prosperity and influence.
Rep. Tom McClintock was first elected to the California 4th Congressional District by a margin of 1,800 votes in 2008 and re-elected by a margin of 70,000 votes in 2010.
LOL! Yeah, a real beaut!
But Nixon lost in 1960, not long after a TV debate where he had refused make-up and started to sweat when verbally sparring with a cool, collected and handsome JFK.
Cornyn & Co. went out and recruited Carly and put all the energy and money behind her. Ditto with the CA GOP “leadership.” It is hardly an “open primary”, i.e. a choice of the voters, when the party stacks the deck in favor of one candidate over another.
As to Fiorina, she was on the wrong side of all of today’s issues. Extension of unemployment benefits, DREAM Act, START Treaty, repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and on and on. She may as well have run as a Democrat.
On looks, I'd vote for Tom over JFK anyday.
Something about those Kennedy mouths. Eeeek.
Reminds me of Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf... "My, what big teeth you have..."
I agree. I never thought JFK was handsome for precisely the reason you mentioned, but everyone else seemed to. (Same with Clinton.)
I like Tom better than JFK in EVERY way, including looks. But I wasn't the one who brought up "the eye thing". It was, however something that I had noticed, too. People like you to look them in the eye and it makes them feel uncomfortable when you don't -- or can't.
I'm so sorry! ;-)
just kidding - I hope you meant in looks, only. :-)
A movement to draft McClintock for VP in 2012 is needed.
He was four years older and according friends, a Viking god. My mother, a Black Irish woman, she said, “He Is Mine!” And so, If you don’t Understand Black Irish, a race apart, ain’t religion, he was hers.
Thats good. Tom’s thoughts wouldn’t be worth as much if he wrote a daily blog. I appreciate when he has something to say and he says it. He is right on to me quite often. I voted for him for Governor in 2003, even knowing Arnold would likely win due to his name recognition and Hollywood image. The CA electorate collectively is quite stupid and shallow. Maybe naive is a better word. For whatever reasons, they are politically clueless.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.