Posted on 11/04/2008 10:23:01 PM PST by quesney
No. more. RINO's.
Whether it's Palin, Jindahl, Joe The Plumber or someone as yet unknown, we have to be focused on reforming the decrepit GOP.
We must find the next Reagan, because this country is going to need him or her and true conservatives will not tolerate another Bush-Dole-Mcain ever again. Ever.
Marc Sanford!
What happened to the PUMAS...was that a joke? I think it was and we all fell for it.
it was real, it was just not big. There were Hillary voters that were pissed off. I met some. I always wondered how many there were. Obviously it was not a big group. Most remained party loyal.
I think Bobby Jindal is the one with the right mix. But even he couldn’t get rid of that witch Landrieu.
Exit polls showed it was close to 20% in key states. That’s a decent amount. With 25% we win OH, FL, IN, NC. Without them the margins would have been even bigger.
I think the next Thatcher has been right on stage in front of us during this campaign.
I hope Romney fades.
On a bright note, Biden is out of the Senate. Of course, he’s about to become the Vice President of the United States.
Yep. One of the good things to come out of this election is it discredits both the Bushes and McCain within the GOP. It’s time for new leadership to take shape.
I think the world of President Bush as a man. But his whole family should ride off into the sunset as far as politics are concerned.
This party, this movement, the nation needs new leadership with new ideas. We need to get back to our core values while at the same time learning to connect with people better.
If McCain (or better yet- someone else less useless) had run as the “save the economy” candidate he would now be making his acceptance speach. That is what people care about at the moment.
They were all weak because they pandered to the right wing.
We need a candidate who represents true conservative principles, rather than just a partisan like Bush and Nixon.
Not necessarily. The rat guv may appoint Biden Jr.
There you go... Mark’s a great guy and definately can articulate ideas... got the chance to intern for him. But, in the near term we need a Congressional leader not a Governor. I think Paul Ryan’s interview on FoxNews is the perfect attitude we need.
In the next few months we have got to just sit back and let them govern. We should work with them on the things we can agree with them on and steadfastly oppose those things that we disagree with him on. We should not politicize it though. Let them entangle themselves in their own liberal web.
After a few months, when the people of America realize they are not the Party of Perfection, we can begin to articulate why we oppose them and why they are wrong to drive up their negative numbers. As we go into 2010 we then must begin to articulate why we believe what we believe and persuade Americans that real conservatism is the right direction.
keep in mind,
it’s a lot easier to be a Reagan or Thatcher when you’re running against the failed liberalism of a Carter or whoever was the labor PM before Thatcher then it is to run aganist the failed conservatism and Republicanism of Bush. It was much easier for Reagan to run against Carter in 1980 than it would have been for him to run in 1976 trying to continue the Nixon legacy.
It will be much easier in four years if people can see what the effects of Obama’s liberalism are rather than just being so sick of Bush right now that they’re willing to chnage course.
So long as we have the evangelical litmus test of proper denomination, proper church attendance, etc, I honestly don't see a manner or method that we reach a conservative who can unite the party, and the nation, against the expansive federal government. In the present climate, there is no way Ronald Reagan would ever have become president. He signed abortion into law in California as governor! He flip-flopped and was extremely pro-life! Burn him at the stake, especially for his Hollywood connections!
Nope, not going to happen. I am, by no means, suggesting evangelicals be tossed under the bus, but religious affiliation has to come off the table in the defining of who is a conservative, or we'll continue to have just useless RINOs who represent /none/ of the ideals of the conservative movement, religious or otherwise. We will continue to split our votes and let these ‘middle of the road’ leftists take over.
When the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party)-controlled bureaucracy and the MSM get through with Jindahl and Palin it will make what they did to Joe the Plumber look like adulation.
I’m officially starting the Tim Pawlenty 2012 campaign right now... He has the experience and charisma to take down NObama in four years, especially after America wakes up and realizes that NObama could not deliver on anything he promised... God forbid he raises taxes for the “middle class”, it’ll be 1992 all over again.
I don’t know what no one here is talking about Pawlenty much but I think he would be a great candidate and he’s NOT a senator... No more senators! Pawlenty 2012!
Who’s with me?!
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