Posted on 12/16/2008 4:15:40 PM PST by lewisglad
Dear Chairman Duncan,
I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a president-elect is preparing to take office in the midst of the worst financial crisis in over seventy years, that the Republican National Committee is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.
The recent web advertisement, "Questions Remain," is a destructive distraction. Clearly, we should insist that all taped communications regarding the Senate seat should be made public. However, that should be a matter of public policy, not an excuse for political attack.
In a time when America is facing real challenges, Republicans should be working to help the incoming President succeed in meeting them, regardless of his Party.
From now until the inaugural, Republicans should be offering to help the President-elect prepare to take office.
Furthermore, once President Obama takes office, Republicans should be eager to work with him when he is right, and, when he is wrong, offer a better solution, instead of just opposing him.
This is the only way the Republican Party will become known as the "better solutions" party, not just an opposition party. And this is the only way Republicans will ever regain the trust of the voters to return to the majority.
This ad is a terrible signal to be sending about both the goals of the Republican Party in the midst of the nation's troubled economic times and about whether we have actually learned anything from the defeats of 2006 and 2008.
The RNC should pull the ad down immediately.
Sincerely,
Newt Gingrich
Chairman, American Solutions
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Excerpt) Read more at marcambinder.theatlantic.com ...
No, we don’t want GOP to stand for “Government of the Petty”. But we DO want the GOP to stand for SOMETHING. (See my tag line)
The GOP is positioning itself to be the bitter house maid for the Leona Helmsley Dem House Frau. You know the role - the maid makes everything work (after a fashion) while taking every beating and berating that should rightly have been the mistress’.
It’s a role the GOP seems comfortable with. I have no idea why - perhaps the GOP “leaders” need to be private citizens for a while, instead of sitting up there in their ivory towers next to their dem masters. “Loyal opposition” is just another word for house slave.
It’s a good thing Obama wasn’t running against Jessie Jackson ‘cause he wanted to remove his beanbag.
Well, we disagree on this. USA first, party second, in my view.
But thanks for a thoughtful reply.
that is now what he said!!!!!!! he said there is nothing in THIS COMPLAINT that implicates obama. the indictment is yet to come. someone did offer blago something its just that he had to wait two years. read the whole complaint
21 phone calls from rhambo and blago! thats right 21 from sun times!
you want us to close ranks and 'get onboard' with a far-left, big government, liberal extremist,,,
who promises us much bigger government, much more intrusive government, more more controlling government, much more expensive government and a much more SOCIALISTIC government???
Yarite, Newt. SIGN ME UP!!!! (biggest possible sarcasm)
Conservatives will win when we provide sound alternatives expressed reasonably. As long as our brand is nasty, seering and petty then they will never have to discuss issues. They can point to those horrible, mean people who want to sneer rather then contribute. When the discussion is issues we win. Anything else, we are in for a long four, eiught, twelve, sixteen....who knows how many years.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Democrats, on the other hand were unified behind a clear and concise message conveying the finest, most modern thinking of the 19th Century. But instead of principled opposition; a positive vision of what America is and should be, the Republicans ran a negative and poorly-conceived campaign, and one largely about the past.
I still believe conservatives can reclaim the Republican Party as their own. What is needed is principle, vision and clarity, three things in short supply in recent years. You can't beat something - even a bad "something" - with nothing, or even worse: with the same damned thing, but less of it.
Yeah. Just like the 'RAT Aholes worked to help President Bush with the WOT. Obama and his Marxist 'RATS can all kiss my ....
I agree. The demographic changes in the last 20 years (which are accelerating as we speak) are devastating to the conservative cause.
With the current trend in demographics (which will contine to accelerate)--good luck with any 'deliverance from the wilderness'.
A sizable majority of morons, ineligible voters; uneducated idiots who ACORN registered.
PLUS who knows where he got his money AFTER he promised he would use public funds?
He thinks it’s OK to kill live babies; he’s evil, and he’s NOT my president. God will judge him harshly; so why should we help the Evil One?
We have a chance right now - in the next couple of years - to wrest control from the party apparatchiks and make the Republican Party once more the home of limited government, strong national defense, free enterprise, low taxes, and secure, defensible borders. Failing that, I have little doubt a third party will emerge for those of us fed up with the Europeanization of our continent.
Posting to me in FReepmail and telling me to “go to he!!”, is not something to be proud of. LOL
Its the sign of a coward and a troll!
What was his message that the idiot voters responded to? Most of them didn’t even know what he stood for; which was nothing. He’s an empty suit and we owe this evil Bastard nothing.
Screw this helping crap.
i havent seen the MSM, RINOS or libtards stop trashing and taking shots at Sarah Palin.
HE IS NOT MY PRESIDENT!
His very existence is a distraction for me.
If you’re for USA first, there’s now way you can support USA hater Obama.
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