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The real betrayal of Specter, Collins, and Snowe
Hot Air ^ | February 16, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 02/16/2009 2:58:25 PM PST by EveningStar

...No matter how big a tent the Republicans need to pitch, they still need to stand for core values — and among them should be fiscal responsibility and smaller government for greater individual liberty. Porkulus fails on both counts...

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: collins; snowe; specter
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To: WOSG
I have never ever ever heard of the DNC chair kicking some elected official out of the party. Ever. It’s done through primaries.

I think our point of disconnect might be coming from the issue of elected office versus political party affiliation. The primaries are the means of electing someone into or out of elected office. Party affiliation is the domain of the RNC or the DNC. They're not the same thing.

I don't know if that helps either of us resolve the disconnect we seem to be having or not.

61 posted on 02/18/2009 4:31:36 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: WOSG
No point throwing rocks at *him*.

I'm not throwing rocks at Michael Steele. From what little I know of him, he seems to be a good guy with a solid conservative foundation. If I am throwing rocks, it is at the office of RNC chairman if all it is is a figurehead position that primarily engages in fundraising activities and doling out "soft" money versus "hard" money contributions.

We arfe in desperate need of someone at the top of the Republican Party who reminds Republicans what we stand for. We lost track of that under Bush and, so far, there appears to still not be a leader of any sort in the Republican Party.

62 posted on 02/18/2009 4:36:24 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: DustyMoment

“Party affiliation is the domain of the RNC or the DNC.”

Wrong. You dont have to go to the RNC to file as a Republican. You could be a lifelong Republican and file in a Democrat primary, nobody can stop you. A blatant liberal Democrat filed and won a GOP primary here in Texas to frustrate the republicans. He had a safe-sounding name that was the same as a real Republican running that year.

The ONLY thing you can do is get them defeated in elections. Short of that would be a refusal to caucus with them or deny them committee assignment; and short of that is what I proposed - censure resolutions.


63 posted on 02/18/2009 5:36:41 PM PST by WOSG (Oppose the bailouts, boondoggles, big Government)
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To: thirst4truth

“Every conservative that I knew in Oregon said no to Smith and now we have a liberal Democrat. “

How’s that near-filibuster-proof majority working out for those conservatives now?


64 posted on 02/18/2009 5:38:01 PM PST by WOSG (Oppose the bailouts, boondoggles, big Government)
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To: DustyMoment

And btw I put my money where my mouth is on this - I supported Toomey in the 2004 GOP primary. Close but no cigar.


65 posted on 02/18/2009 5:41:01 PM PST by WOSG (Oppose the bailouts, boondoggles, big Government)
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To: TheWasteLand
You do realize that these 3 pieces of shit have been doing this for the last 10 years.

The fact that W and the GOP have done nothing speaks volumes.

I blame the GOP and the RNC more than I blame them, you should too.

66 posted on 02/18/2009 5:42:57 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: EveningStar

67 posted on 02/18/2009 6:35:21 PM PST by End_Clintonism_Now (POLITICAL DISSIDENT as of 11/4/08)
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To: WOSG

Not sure what I said that pi$$ed you off, it wasn’t my intent.

I take it that our discussion has come to a close.

Thanks for indulging in the exchange, sorry we couldn’t reach any kind of an agreement.


68 posted on 02/18/2009 7:30:58 PM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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