Posted on 04/19/2009 8:16:05 PM PDT by lqcincinnatus
NRSC Set To Back Specter This snippet from the Washington Post's overview of Arlen Specter's candidacy stuck out at me:
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, has written a letter to fellow Republicans asking them to support Specter. "While I doubt Arlen could win an election in my home state of Texas, I am certain that I could not get elected in Pennsylvania," Cornyn wrote. "I believe that Senator Specter is our best bet to keep this Senate seat in the GOP column."
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Further evidence that no one is listening to us.
Specter is a disgrace.
His single vote could have stopped the stimulus bill.
As for Cornyn, it ticks me off - but . . .
I’m going to have to give him a pass on this. He’s the head of the Senate Election Committee, with the single purpose of increasing the number of R’s in the Senate. He may be right about Specter having a better chance to win. That being said, I’d rather lose the seat than keep another faux conservative. Of course I’m not the head of the Senate election committee !
I have NO problem with the party supporting the CANDIDATE - once the contest becomes one of Republican against whatever... I do have a problem with INCUMBENTS being propped up before their party BEFORE challengers have had a fair go at him.. The PEOPLE should choose their candidate, NOT to good ole boys club in Washington or elsewhere.
But the Republican candidate has NOT yet been chosen by the people.... Steel as well as all party hacks should keep their freaking mouthes SHUT until the people have chosen THEIR candidate from amongst several Republicans.
Time for Specter to go.
Because I expect more.
EMAIL Michael Steele and tell him what you think.
Hopefully sometime later this year I’ll get a face to face with him when I’m in Baltimore.
I’m disgusted with Hutchinson already and NOW Cornyn. What the hell is happening to my state? Cornyn will get an earful if he sends me a letter asking to support the re-election of Specter and Cornyn is definitely on my extremist list. Left wing extremist that is.
SARAH!
Where ‘er she goes.
I keep reading this “vote them all out” rant and I disagree.
For instance, my house rep is absolutely the most conservative intelligent person anyone could wish for.
In an adjacent district is another really great conservative who has been in office for probably 30 years.
There are many others, some in my state and many in other states.
Voting them out would be the classic case of cutting off your nose to spite your face....
Or as the old timers put it, pissing in your own well. If you can't sort out who the good guys are from the bad guys, do the rest of us a favor and stay home on election day. You will do more harm than good.
Good video. I’ve seen it before. The future of our Republic lies in our hands. We need to stir passion in others to fight for our Country. It is sad that though we are the majority, we are less passionate about our beliefs than liberals/marxists are.
“and pronounced a key concept word from the blurb and the book ‘statist’ to rhyme with ‘mat-ist.’”
That’s the way I pronounce it too,’cause that’s the way it is commonly said. I realize the root word “state” has a different pronounciation. Also, everyone says “nihilist” like “high-ilist,” me included, when I know very well that the latin root is pronounced “knee-hilist”.
Most of us just follow the crowd.
Spectre has done more damage to the GOP and the country as a GOP senator than any freshman Dem senator could have.
From consistently arguing against conservative judges to brokering deals to crush GOP solidarity. He’s gotta go.
“Specter sucks but that’s not Steeles problem. Winning R elections is Steeles problem.”
That’s kinda the problem with political parties. They exist to win, not to believe in stuff.
But what’s the alternative? I have a sinking feeling all term limits would accomplish is rotating RINOs at a higher velocity.
If the GOP is hitching that horse to their wagon, they need to understand that we will not give them one thin dime. They need new leadership.
I had already decided that I will drive into PA and campaign for whoever is running against Spectre - regardless of affiliation.
The Roman Senate, inhabited by elitists, deflected all attempts to tax their patrician class. Since the poor have no money, the working classes - the potters, the bakers, the weavers, the millers (small businesses) were heavily taxed to pay for the increasing costs of the Republic, and then the Empire starting with Augustus Caesar.
By the end of the 1st Century AD, families began to sell themselves into slavery to avoid paying taxes. By the beginning of the 3rd Century AD, there no longer existed a middle or mercantile class within the Roman Empire. The greater part of the Empire's population was made up of slaves, and of those the majority were from outside the Empire, namely non-native.
No matter how much Romans tried later to bring back the Republic and its values, they couldn't achieve those ends, as the original Roman populations no longer existed. Europe drifted into the Dark Ages and much of the technical knowledge of the ancients would be forgotten.
It is very important to keep in mind that the United States is NOT like Rome. We have a public that is far more literate and educated than Rome ever had, with a top literate percentage never exceeding 14% even at its apogee in the 1st Century BC. Today we have science based on rational thought (mostly!) and empirical proof, while the Romans were highly superstitious pagans.
“Michael Steele is a RINO too”
I am starting to think he is a “plant”.
+1
you need to watch a great monologue in Team America. Your question reminded me of it.
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