Posted on 02/16/2009 2:58:25 PM PST by EveningStar
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.
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.
“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.
“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?
And btw I put my money where my mouth is on this - I supported Toomey in the 2004 GOP primary. Close but no cigar.
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.
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.
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