Posted on 11/08/2006 11:54:25 AM PST by Ol' Sparky
"Allen looked like an idiot."
I predict Sen. Allen is the first, and will be the only, politician ever to have lost a race partly due to the disputed translation of a Tunisian-Jewish word.
We should kick non conservatives out because of their failures and weaknesses. Conservatism rings true and as soon as we s$%t can ideas like McCain '08 the better we are. People need to look in the direction of conservatives with a strong military background. Duncan Hunter is the best choice out of the prospectives for 2008. I like Rudy, but some folks don't like him. But the mindset that McCain is better than Hillary is demonstratively crazy. A RINO doesn't trump a liberal and we need to abandon the lesser of two evils philosophy especially during primaries.
It's time we all grow a set the size of grapefruits, take off our gloves, and pound the liberals down into the ground.
I guess we shouldn't blame Burns. After all Abramoff's money got forced into his hand, right? He can't be blamed for the fact that he's a crook.
/sarc
Too bad Rush didn't put down the Vicodin bottle and re-read his "Undeniable Truths of Life" a year or two ago....
Maybe now he'll start to remember what a CONSERVATIVE looks and acts like and start supporting them EVEN IF THEY AREN'T REPUBLICAN....
...or he can just refill his prescription. I really don't care...
Listen, in liberal states, if we have a RINO in office, you can accept that. You can work to make that state more conservative over time, so that it can become a state eventually that will accept a conservative, but until then, a RINO who is usually with us is better than a Dem who is not. Where we need to improve is in removing RINOs from holding office in conservative states. This is unacceptable. Lindsay Graham and Chuck Hagel, this means you. They should be removed in PRIMARIES, and the national GOP should stay the hell out of the race.
This is a winning strategy--persuade in liberal states, consolidate in conservative states, and use primaries to replace, not general elections against socialists. Oh, one other thing--
Go libertarian hunting all you want. They have cost us the Senate, and endangered the US as a result.
I don't agree with that, I believe Iraq was far and away the biggest issue. But let's look at what Rush is saying. From the start of the Virginia Senate campaign, I and others here were going nuts at the attacks on Jim Webb for his writings about women in the military. What kind of conservative has a cow when a guy expresses his opinion that ground combat is no place for a woman?
I prefer that we refrain from the blame game, but if we have to play it, I'd like to bring Elizabeth Dole into the discussion. Her NRSC campaign put out an ad attacking Webb because he called Tailhook a witchhunt and a feminist something or other. Well folks it was both of those things, and I am sure this lost Allen a good few thousand (if not more) votes in the military area of the state. This ad was released just before Novelgate, and I believe that it was not Novelgate that backfired, but her ad.
George Allen is supposed to be a conservative. Somewhere in the post mortem there needs to be a discussion of the lunacy of running him as a radical feminist sympathizer.
What is the Republican platform? And what is a "Conservative"? I always thought I was a conservative Republican. I know I'm still a Republican.....but maybe I'm not really a conservative...as defined by the majority of FR.
Memo to the clueless: the big losers last night were conservatives.
Evidently the American public doesn't agree with you.
Yeah, those damn voters exercising their sovereign right to choose their elected officials, who do they think they are? ;-)
"Ohh, so that's why Santorum lost... sarcasm off"
Exactly! We have some running around saying they weren't conservative enough. Others saying we're not moderate enough. Blahhh...blahh...Until the exit polls are broken down, we don't know why things went the way they did. Glenn Beck was claiming the exit polls did not suggest it was a referendum on Iraq -- but then he went on to point to conservative issues on the ballots that passed, not the exit polls. Huh????
Well said!
I didn't listen today (I will get the replay later), but by reading this transcript, it sounds like he is saying that since you have a biased press, you have to fight back in ways that the GOP did not do. He is not blaming the press for the loss per se, he is accepting that they are always a hurdle to overcome.
"I like Rudy, but some folks don't like him. "
I have big doubts about Rudy's positions. But ya know, he would have taken a bunch of the crap the Dems were spewing and shoved it down their throats. As for McInsane, no way in hell.
Maybe 2008's presidential campaign will pit Daschle vs. Santorum in a battle of ousted Senators who are out of step with their states but considered great within their parties.
There are (or were) a lot more "conservatives" than RINOs.
"Actually the biggest issue was corruption. Mehlman last night admitted it last night without shading on NBC."
I read the same thing. Corruption.
People who read every political play in terms of left-right are a small part of the electorate. A bigger part look for results.
Republican majority for 6 years gave them corruption. Solution=change it. They did.
So called rinos had/have nothing to do with it. JD Hayworth lost in a red state.
This was a "toss the bums out" election. In this case, Republicans OF ALL stripes were the bums.
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