Posted on 02/21/2003 9:36:25 AM PST by PhiKapMom
An Open Letter to Democrats at the DNC Winter Meeting from RNC Chairman Marc Racicot
February 21, 2003
In the 2002 elections, the American people told both parties they wanted solutions, not finger pointing. They rejected criticism without solutions. When Democratic leaders said no to presenting a budget, to a Department of Homeland Security, to terrorism insurance and to judicial appointments, the American people said no to Democratic candidates.
Election day polls showed Republicans with double-digit leads over Democrats on who the American people trusted on homeland security, keeping America safer, and having clear ideas.
On the most dominant issue for voters, the economy, Republicans held a seven-point advantage on election day. But, success is rooted in more than just positive policies. It was clear on election day that the President provided the necessary leadership. Americans continue to see the President as a strong leader today with 64% saying the President works well with both parties, 86% believe he is willing to make hard decisions, 76% believe he is a strong and decisive leader, 70% believe he is honest and trustworthy.
After every election political parties have the opportunity to listen to the American people and adjust accordingly. Without compromising our core values, both parties must outline our policies in a way that reflects the American people’s voice. It is a process of adjustment and renewal that gives life and endurance to our democracy.
Some Democrats argue that in 2002 the problem wasn’t their message, but that they couldn’t or didn’t get that message out. From complaining about a conservative media to decrying turnout tactics, these Democrats would rather blame someone else. Yet election day polls consistently showed that the public did hear, and in nearly every case reject, the Democrats’ message. The problem was the message was almost completely negative - from dealing with the economy and Social Security to a variety of other issues. The Democrats thought the best message was to just attack without offering a real alternative.
Despite the American peoples’ clear verdict, recent hyperbole by Democrat party leaders and Presidential candidates suggests that too many Democrats still don’t get it. Democrats assail the President on everything, including the war on terrorism going so far as to allege that the one person who is most responsible for the safety and security of all Americans, the Commander-in-Chief, has underfunded the war on terrorism.
That’s not only wrong, which is bad enough, it should be counterintuitive given the Democrats' unsuccessful efforts to politicize homeland security in 2002.
Healthy political debate should be unabridged and vigorous, but must also be honest and responsible. Its purpose must be to advance and improve the political life of the nation. Suggestions that Republicans have turned a blind eye to the war on terrorism are not only spurious, they fail to advance the debate or allay the anxieties we face as Americans. Ultimately, scathing rhetoric as pure political theater becomes transparent and those who rely on it are identified only by their naked ambition or opportunism.
Honest political debate is designed to distinguish the differences in governing philosophies represented by political parties. Then the people of this nation can either identify with or legitimately disagree with those philosophies. It is a process that makes America stronger.
The performance and leadership of the President of the United States is always subject to review and comment, but the Democratic presidential candidates should not confuse inaccurate and opportunistic attacks on America's leader with real policy disagreements.
It’s hard to unify around a positive agenda when you lack the White House or majorities in either house in Congress or a majority of state houses. It is even tougher when a large number of senior party officials are competing for their party’s presidential nomination.
Democrats should use the opportunity at their National Committee meeting this week to do a little soul-searching to determine if they are capable of articulating a positive agenda that will advance the debate between our parties -- not just to say no. Jockeying Democratic presidential candidates and other Democratic Party leaders would be well-served to remember the words of an old Democratic governor who once told me that "good policy makes good politics."
I get the distinct impression this letter was aimed for right betwen the eyes of us, the Republican base.
Same base responsible for handing this POTUS his job & tayloring his coattails.
Just a *friendly* reminder from our leadership they recognize the outrageous positions of the left as much as we, &, know well who merits making our "Most Wanted" from today's left.
Even if they won't go on the warpath in public.
If the right were really serious about going after the left with hammer & tong they'd start with Terry "The Weasel" McAuliff.
...a person who they've clearly got the goods on.
Good to know...I really hadn't been paying that close attention...is GOP fundraising up significantly? I know Racicot's MUCH better on the hustings than my ol' Guvnuh Gilmore was...LOL!!
FReegards...MUD
Needs to be repeated...and repeated...and repeated...MUD
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Why just send it to yer Senator when you can e-FReep them all, my FRiend...MUD
Then you hadta be in stiches after hearing Limbaugh's parody of "The Tommie D'A$$hole Show!!"
LOL and FReegards...MUD
I think yer right, my FRiend...there's a pentup anger building out here in Flyover Country and the RATS will Feel OUR Pain in November 2004...Dubyuh's settin' the hook, and when we roll into Iraq and RID THE PLANET OF SODDOM'sINSANE and find out how corrupt the FRenchies' Chirac is, the DemonRAT Party will be on Vast,LeftWingMedyuhWhore'd Life-Support to even stagger into the upcoming Presidential Election!!
"If the right were really serious about going after the left with hammer & tong they'd start with Terry "The Weasel" McAuliff. ...a person who they've clearly got the goods on."
Quite a different stand than I've seen you take on parallel threads, All-KnowingMachine...then again, I think you know deep down that that 8/13/03 bet's in more danger than you let on...as you know full well, 6 months is an eternity in American politics!!
FReegards...MUD
Due to the vociferous Nancy Pelosi, Joe Leiberman, Hillary and the rest of the Socialist Democrats, the whole nation and the world now know Democrats put Party before Americans and American principal. They want Socialism for our Republic and we ain’t a gonna let ‘em! Even ‘ol Al Sharpton is telling them how the cow ate the cabbage. Freep them all and tell them they are embarrassing America with their Cold War rhetoric of the ugly American – they are and WE aren’t.
Actual defense spending in eight years under Clinton dropped 37.5%!!! Totally unacceptable!
In just two years, PresBush has increased defense spending 14.2%. More is needed.
I *know* I'm right ~fw-that's-w.
"Quite a different stand than I've seen you take on parallel threads, All-KnowingMachine...then again, I think you know deep down that that 8/13/03 bet's in more danger than you let on...as you know full well, 6 months is an eternity in American politics!!"
Quite the contrary.
I maintained then as I do now nothing whatsoever will ever happen to the McAuliff theif. Ever.
Although admittedly -- & never mind just politics -- 6 months is indeed "an eternity" by any measure that kind of axiom (& its ominous implications in the context you meant) only apply to conservatives.
Certainly never to the Liberal-Socialist theives, murderers, connivers & liars!!
What's wrong with you, anyway?
You got rocks in your head?
You should know the drill by this late stage of the game.
OK, take this POTUS for example??
His fate will be an excellent study of how this *process* works or doesn't work, as it were.
~sigh~
Just think of it.
Dubya's entire political future now lies in the hands of a public who's possessed of a German Shepard-like short memory & and an insatiable hunger (& apparent eagerness) to swallow anything the mediots present to their bird-like gapping mouths.
Dog-short memories & bird-like gapping mouths is why 6 months can -- at times -- seem like an eternity.
Doesn't seem fair, does it.
Of course, the mediots have deemed ALL videotape of those jetliners packed with American citizens careening into the two WTC buildings as, "unacceptable."
So don't count on seeing [read: reminded ] of what happened to this nation just a few 6 month blocks ago anytime soon.
Right?
Well with that (I believe deliberate act of treason) the sting of precisely what this nation's up against is -- as I write -- in the process of being forgotten; or, "comfortably numbed," anyway.
Either way the resolve for justice slowly fades as the nation's psychological "protection mechanism" is kicked into high gear by Liberal-Socialist forces from everywhere.
Yup, we'll not only be made to forget what we started out to do; but, also -- & some would say even more egregious -- is just how soon we've forgotten, why.
Don't know whether to cry or run for my life, thinking about that one.
Allow me to ask you something, here.
Think the omission of the videotaped "facts" -- we're told is in lieu of or deferring to "good taste" & respectable family programming standards {spit} -- by the likes of the alphabet nets, is some kind of an *accident*, Mudboy?
Those Leftist-Socialist sons-of-bitches infesting the nets really oughta watch out for stray lightning bolts IF they'd have us believe our "best interests" lie behind their action(s).
~hehehe.
Yea-yea. :o)
I have, am, & shall remain supporting our POTUS because I "hired" him to do the job of running the nation & do so as HE sees fit, for four years.
To me as an American citizen, that'd only seem fair.
Think enough others from our own side are going to have that attitude; nevermind, the left?
We shall see.
Sorry about rambling, I'm still reeling over the unbelievable, shameless chutzpah of our supposed "allies," here.
If this POTUS & his advisors aren't already [seriously] examining an exit strategy -- & not *if* but *when* -- of our [read: The United States] getting the hell outa NATO?
Then I'll say right here & now the man seriously needs to have his head examined, often & a lot.
*Friends* like that no one needs.
Nonetheless & back on-point, my POV concerning the theif McAuliff has never wavered for one instant; and, the clock ticks on, my friend.
Make certain what you're seeing isn't what you want to see, bucko.
...as the old song says? :^)
if ignorance is bliss, it'll take surgeons to get the smiles off their faces, and they're singing zippidie-doo-dah out of their bums(and i don't mean their constituents).
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