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Die-hards and the damage done: Hugh Hewitt likens McClintock recall race, Buchanan bid
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| Wednesday, September 17, 2003
| Hugh Hewitt
Posted on 09/17/2003 1:44:36 AM PDT by JohnHuang2
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Hugh Hewitt MEGA PING!!
To: JohnHuang2
I know George H.W. Bush, and Swarzenegger is no GHW Bush.
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posted on
09/17/2003 1:55:05 AM PDT
by
XHogPilot
To: JohnHuang2
I still say GHW Bush would have been re-elected had he not run the second worst campaign in the history of popular elections, Buchanan or no Buchanan, Perot or no Perot. GHW Bush lost the election; he didn't get beat.
The worst campaign ever? Bobdole, four years later. Thanks to the GOP for screwing conservatives and foisting those to yutzes on them.
To: XHogPilot
No but he is preferable to socialists like Large Breasts. Hugh Hewitt's point is "my way or the highway" conservatives have let the Left rape this country because they placed ideological purity above doing the right thing for our country, even if it meant we couldn't get everything we wanted right away.
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posted on
09/17/2003 2:25:25 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: XHogPilot
You nailed the response I was going to make almost to the word.
Hugh's gone over the edge.
To: Cacophonous
And you would have conservatives go where, exactly? The reality is we're going to have to settle for getting what we can now and fighting another day for the rest.
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posted on
09/17/2003 2:27:06 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop
Hugh Hewitt's point is "my way or the highway" conservatives have let the Left rape this country because they placed ideological purity above doing the right thing for our country, even if it meant we couldn't get everything we wanted right away. Blame the defenders of conservative principles while heaping glory on the compromisers of it.
Such illogic is breathtaking in its boldness.
I'm in awe.
To: goldstategop
So, if we would just stop this crazy practice of standing for principle, our principles would prevail, eh?
To: JohnHuang2
BTTT!!!!!
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posted on
09/17/2003 2:47:37 AM PDT
by
lainde
To: JohnHuang2
Hugh is practicing here the most cynical of guilt-by-association smear tactics--tactics which should be deplored by thoughtful and fair-minded conservative leaders.
This sort of thing is going to do more to damage to the Republican coalition than you, or he, can possibly imagine.
What this does is further the effort to make Arnold Schwarzenegger the new standard for Republican candidates...but it is a bridge too far.
To: JohnHuang2
If it wasn't for Ralph Nader, we'd be fighting the War on Terror with Al Gore as the commander in chief.
*shudder*
As the enviro-purists found out, you either choose the lesser of two evils, or you wind up with the greater. Refusing to vote for 'that corporate sellout' Gore allowed their antichrist into office. Around election time, they said that there was no difference between the two, so they had to vote their conscience and support Nader. I doubt they feel that was such a hot idea these days.
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posted on
09/17/2003 3:07:04 AM PDT
by
Steel Wolf
(Too close for guns, switching to missiles!)
To: goldstategop
I know what you are saying. But Conservatives have been waiting to fight another day since forever; Reagan was the exception, not the rule, and the mainstream GOP (and certainly not the Dems) will not let that happen again. Even the current President Bush is more moderate than conservative, though he has done some good things. He also has done some things that make traditional small government conservatives cringe.
The only way to change is for conservatives to get together behind the conservative candidates completely; the moderates are not enough. Now, I know what you would say: the liberal dems would wind up winning. But losing may be the only way to turn the GOP to the right.
Otherwise, if the Conservatives continually roll over and elect the moderates, the GOP has no incenive to move to the right. And the country winds up with policies that are only marginally (if at all) different from those of the left.
Tell the GOP: elect the Conservatives, or watch from the sidelines.
To: Cacophonous
We do elect conservatives in states where Republicans have a voter registration edge. In California Republicans have a 10% deficit in comparison to the overall electorate. So we have run someone fairly moderate to win or risk having the Democrats keep the whole enchilada. I've been asked before, is Arnold an ideal candidate? No. But is he better than the Democrats? By a mile. The Democrats want to tax and spend our state into oblivion. Arnold wants to reduce the tax burden and get spending under control. I don't agree with all of his views but his fiscal and economic views are right where they should be. Am I saying we give up our principles? Never. But we should tailor them to attract crossover votes from sympathetic Democrats and indpendents who don't want extreme liberalism and want a middle of the road government here.
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posted on
09/17/2003 3:17:25 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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"...Whenever a visitor's eye turns to the picture, I point to Pat and say, there's the man who put Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court. Only the politically inclined get it: Pat Buchanan's primary challenge to President George H.W. Bush in 1992 bled the incumbent and opened the door to Perot. Perot, of course, put Clinton in the White House, and Clinton put those justices on the highest court...
...The die-hards ought to think about Breyer and Ginsburg as they launch rhetorical salvo after rhetorical salvo at Arnold. These attacks are very similar in tone and detail to those hurled by the Buchananites against the elder Bush in 1992. Whether they will result in the declaration as unconstitutional of such laws as a ban on partial-birth abortion remains to be seen, but Pat Buchanan clearly didn't set out to destroy such protections with his candidacy of 1992.
But he did." - Hugh Hewitt
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posted on
09/17/2003 3:17:29 AM PDT
by
RonDog
To: goldstategop
Am I saying we give up our principles? Never. But we should tailor them to attract crossover votes from sympathetic Democrats and indpendents who don't want extreme liberalism and want a middle of the road government here. Ah, tailored principles.
This is getting downright sophisticated.
Quote:
"I am an extreme liberal..."
-Arnold Schwarzenegger
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WOW! WOW! WOW! This is Hugh, and Hugh has hit another home run!
I hope Hugh's wisdom isn't completely lost on the McTicktocker's, but history has a way of repeating itself, particularly in GOP politics.
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posted on
09/17/2003 3:35:03 AM PDT
by
onyx
To: goldstategop
I'm not going to argue the relative merits or demerits of Arnold (although in his vows to reduce the tax burden and provide for everyone at the same time, I'm betting that taxpayers will lose).
The percentage of registered Republicans has little to do with it. It appears to me - a non-Californian - that if you add the numbers, Schwarzenegger plus McC bests Cruz. But the ones who are going to wind up sucking it up are the principled conservatives who will get stuck with either Schwarzenegger or Cruz. In either case, California gets a liberal, and the GOP has either a whipping boy if Arnold loses, or no incentive to change if Arnold wins. And Conservatives take it in the shorts again.
And California cements its status as one of the three dumbest states in the union.
To: onyx
I hope Hugh's wisdom isn't completely lost on the McTicktocker's, but history has a way of repeating itself, particularly in GOP politics. I see Hugh is hitting his mark.
Tis an evil dart...
To: RonDog
Oh right. Like O'Conner, Souter, Kennedy and Breyer will help unborn babies. There are only two justices on the SCOTUS - Scalia and Thomas - that are worth a damn.
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