Here is a good analysis - - mass media vs blogosphere vs website visits - - from a conservative website/writer:
(Just do a quick flypast over the Dems data and scroll down to the GOP!)
http://thetomoreport.blogspot.com/2007/10/2008-presidential-media-showdown-how.html
The results are pretty surprising and are presented in a visually brilliant graphic!
Another RINO Establishement love letter for GW Bush lite.
Who owns the GOP?
It’s an interesting question.
One group that might be said to own it is the party pros—long time policians, staffers, advisers, the RNC, and so forth. They are the insiders who run the show and set the policies and decide which candidates to fund.
Another group that partly owns it is the big contributors and lobbyists, who regretably are largely country-clubbers. They give the big bucks, and without their support and consent it’s hard for a candidate to make his way.
Another group that has a claim to own it is the Republican voters. They tend to be more conservative than the rich donors, and when the pros and donors ignore them or kick them in the face, then they stay home and allow the Democrats to win. Is that their fault, or is it the fault of the pros who just kicked them in the face? Maybe a little of both.
It’s pretty hard for a party to succeed unless all three groups respect one another or at least agree to work with one another. For instance, the voters demanded many years ago that the party should pass a pro-life plank, but the pros and the donors recurrently talk about Big Tents, back RINOs, and try to undermine that plank. It’s self destructive behavior, because they are undercutting their own power base, but they just can’t seem to help it.
There’s no way for Republicans or conservatives to win unless they agree to work together and support each others’ bottom lines. As insiders, the pros and the donors are always in a position to pull a fast one, and they often do. But then everyone pays for it, as we saw in the 2006 election. The conservatives could pull out and start a new party, but that would take time, and the new party would soon have the same problems as the old one. It’s human nature. So, better to work together, if we can.
And that means, among other things, respect life, respect family, respect the Constitution, uphold the law justly, and cut back on taxes and spending. Although not all Freepers may agree, it all begins with respect for life, which is the bottom line, the first of all constitutional rights, the one thing that can’t be compromised.
TaxhikeMike is NOT acceptable.
This question [the title of the piece] on it’s face is an ugly one to ask and in the way that it’s asked. It goes to show us just how far party members have devalued the concept of individual liberty, instead embracing the nasty side of collective bitterness and the internal squabbles within the group — a group whose focus has shifted from promoting freedom to conrolling behaviors of others. This is sad!
UH, SINCE WHEN?
His non-stop RECORD of Open Borders and Amnesty is there for all to see. He is up to his eyeballs in Tyson control, which wanted the OBL...and Mexicans labor to displace Americans.
Guess where he is on the Texas Trans Corridor....
Huckabee is the one candidate acceptable to all factions,”....
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Not so fast, buckaroo. The Huckster is definitely not acceptable to those of us who see the problems involve in lax border control.
The Saudi Royal Family, China, corporations with deep investments in or with those nations and Rockefeller Republicans who's bottom line is pleasing those three for their stock portfolio's sake. They own the platform and control the policy and media exposure along with the RNC. The GOP ceased being owned by voters in 1995. It has yet to correct course or recover from the liberal takeover of 1995.
“Who Owns the GOP?”
It’s a co-op. No one group can get what they want without the other.