Posted on 11/06/2008 7:57:12 AM PST by jessduntno
"With the selection of Rahm Emanuel [as White House Chief of Staff] I think Sen. Obama is sending a strong signal of partisanship," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour. Emanuel has been offered the job, according to Democratic sources, but has yet to accept it. "He's a hardball player if there ever was one. That doesn't say much to me about this ‘post-partisan' presidency.' "
"I hope there is a strong focus on recruiting candidates for governor as a top priority for 2010," said Bush. "A reform conservative agenda can be shown at the state level regarding education, health care, and environmental policy while the liberals advocate the status quo, just more of it, in Washington, D.C."
"We have to have actual ideas," said Pawlenty, 47. "The Republican idea factory has dried up. And we've got to catch up on the key issues of our times -- health care, renewable energy and education."
"We need real solutions," adds Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, 37. "It's not enough to be just against single payer health care, for example. We've got to discuss how we promote private coverage, to apply our principles to the issues that affect people's lives."
"The other side is worse," said Jindal, is "not a very inspiring bumper sticker."
Translating the theoretical to the practical is key said Rep. Eric Cantor, a Virginia congressman who began a campaign this week to be elected Minority Whip, number two in the party's House leadership.
"We shouldn't be talking about lower taxes because supply-side economics is better for Americans but because it puts more money in people's pockets," said Cantor. "Where we have to focus is on reconnecting with people across this country where they live."
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Oh! I am scared to death. Those bozos will screw it up so bad people will be on their knees begging Rush Limbaugh to take over.
Haley was a good messenger for the party. He should consider a more visible roll to help in this effort.
This nation is in decline. We have just elected ourselves a muslim president. Not to mention his wife’s poor taste in clothing. She looked like a black widow in the pictures posted of that fateful night. They wore clothing indicative of Nazi Germany, and the USSR, defining the weathermen from the 60’s our domestic terrorists thanks to liberal courts and judges they are educators in our u niversities.
Have fun with that one. We have lost our nation, we have lost our party. There may not be any more elections. We have turned ourselves into Cuba. Thanks dems.
What is worse is our youth are so poorlly educated by the same liberals from the 60’s, there will be no reversing this. Been planned for more than 40 years...
Good luck ? We’re gonna need it.
What gave him the clue?
stock market down almost 200 already.
Decline?
Who would have thunk it?
And here I though everyone was enamored by a yellow stripe down the back.
The GOP is flatlining while the party doctors are busy running around flailing their arms wondering why.
Until we get some young, energetic fresh blood in there to re-start things, we will continue to be a minority party.
“”Not to mention his wife’s poor taste in clothing. She looked like a black widow in the pictures posted of that fateful night. “”
She certainly did. I have to comment whether it is PC or not (to heck with PC), there is something really wrong with the way the oldest “O” daughter walks - haughty? I can’t find the right descriptive term but there is definitely something “showy” about it...I’ve noticed it each time she walked on stage during the campaign. Almost as tho’ she’s practicing to be a runway model. If she were my daughter, it would have been corrected many years before now.
Time to retire the “old guard” who have been too sheepish and accommodating. and they are all too old anyways.
I have only seen stills, I cannot bring myself to watch live. I’ll have to check it out.
I have only seen stills, I cannot bring myself to watch live. I’ll have to check it out.
Amen.
No more compromise!
As soon as McCain was our nominee, I knew right away it was a Bob Dole all over again. Nice guys, but old and stale.
The fundamental problem with the GOP is that they are simply phoning it in with tired rhetoric and a lack of fresh ideas. Jindal is on to something. If you can’t show the American people how much a privately run health insurance system will cost them then they are not going to trust it or you. There needs to be a little honesty here. If the goal is to get government out of the things they should not be involved in then you have to have an alternative that works. Telling people everything will be fine with a private system and then standing aside while Americans get screwed by the companies who we trusted to do what they said they would do is not going to make many friends among the population and certainly won’t garner votes.
Vote For Us Because We Say So is a bad campaign strategy.
‘Party in decline’? Pfff. Psyops. Don’t let the media a-holes bait you. We got creamed in ‘92 to come back in ‘94.
Now’s the time to purge the RINO’s.
I think we are headed that way.
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“Vote For Us Because We Say So is a bad campaign strategy.”
It worked for BHO.
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