Recieved by email from Williams...
Didn’t the Huckster claim he lurked on Free Republic? Hey Huckabee! This means you!
Ping!
McCain will seek to merge the GOP with the Democrats, a Unity Party. He might choose Lieberman as his veep
How nice. So, where’s the link so we can read JB Williams latest column? A link would be nice, yes.
bttt
Luckily, I got an e-mail from the good ol’ GOP yesterday, asking me what I thought about certain issues.
I answered their questions, and added a few suggestions. I unloaded both barrels on ‘em.
I will not vote for whatever crappy candidate represents the GOP in November. They do not represent me, because I did not even get a chance to vote for a conservative candidate.
Stuff that in your ballot box, GOP!
Should it even be necessary to say it?
The one guy Republicans won't vote for is on the verge of winning the Republican primary. Conservative candidates, combined, could not total more than 12% or 13% of the vote. If you are a conservative you've just watched your party being hijacked. Either that, or we really are only 13% of the membership, which is a whole other problem.
This is the real story. The LEADERSHIP decided that the Reagan Revolution needed to stop. THEY sold us out because they don't WANT us in the party.
They have told us to go home. We are not wanted.
I don't think he understands the difference between "Republican" and "conservative." They are not the same.
Republicans still control the process. The eventual nominee will still be a Republican. He just won't be a conservative.
How the GOP has failed
1. failed to deliver on contract w/america
2. rolled over for dems when GOP had power
3. elected GW, he certainly has rolled over for the dems
4. Allowed GW to have second term w/same vp. Missed opportunity to place incumbent vp as front runner.
The whole county is having a big open party with out any
care for who is paying the tab or when it will come due.
My March 5th Mississippi primary vote seems pretty pointless now.
This author nails it pretty good. The Republican party is broken, and it may have to “hit bottom” like an alcoholic who wakes up in a dumpster one afternoon before it can truly begin the road to recovery. McCain appears to be just what the GOP needs to “hit bottom”, and it may be best (shudder) for real Republicans to try to ride out a Democrat in the White House for four years and then get a conservative candidate for the ‘12 contest.
Personally, I will never vote for McCain.
Exactly.
The ten most Republican states in 2004 (a Republican year) were Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Nebraska, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Alabama, Kansas, Alaska and Texas, in that order. Yet only one of these states has held a primary thus far, Wyoming. Before the rest will get a chance to vote, all Republicans are out of the race.
***Right there is the biggest clue to how party primaries ought to be run. That should be the ORDER of the primaries, based upon what the highest percentages of republican votes. Those states that have high percentages of republicans would encourage more turnout in blowout elections because the results count towards primary order.
I'd like to know what he thinks is the short term solution.
....The second factor is a broken primary process. McCain is not being nominated by conservatives or for the most part, even by Republicans. He is being nominated by liberal voters from liberal leaning states who hold the earliest primaries and vote to eliminate all conservatives from the race before “fly-over” Republicans get a chance to cast a single vote.......And that’s the reason I’m sick of this. A few months ago there’s no way in hell someone could have told me McAmnesty would be leading after the thrashing he got on amnesty! Thats why all those states moved their primaries up then????
That’s a proposal to create a geographically regional party that will consistently nominate presidential candidates to the right of the general electorate.
In a parliamentary system, such a party can wield considerable influence by coalition.
But in ours, where a simple majority allows a party to set the agenda in Congress and the president is elected by a system that roughly mirrors the popular vote, such a party has to depend on the opposition to consistently nominate weak candidates and consistently do politically stupid things.
IMO the best such a party could hope for would be to find itself in the position of the “Dixiecrats”, and that only worked because racism was an electoral glue stronger that other sorts of self-interest - a situation not likely to be repeated on the basis of current issues.
How about this idea states get their primary date based on past election results. Those that had the highest Republican turn out in the last National Election go first and so on. Finally only registered Republicans can vote in the primaries.
I think we would see a much different result.