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Look no further at all our problems than this group. Until we kick them out kicking and screaming this party is dead. Check out the website it will make any conservative angry. Republican Main Street Partnership Congressional Members 109th Congress Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia Sen. John McCain, Arizona Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Sen. Gordon Smith, Oregon Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska Rep. Charles Bass, New Hampshire Rep. Judy Biggert, Illinois Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, New York Rep. Mary Bono, California Rep....

Former Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman’s loss in the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary may have grabbed the headlines, but Republican Congressman Joe Schwarz’s primary loss on Tuesday may create political waves just as big. Tim Walberg pulled off the rare feat of defeating an incumbent Congressman (by a 53 percent to 47 percent margin). The message from Michigan: the conservative base is tired of big-government Republicans. Schwarz of course was backed or praised by much of the GOP establishment and business lobbying community. He also received help from liberal groups, labor unions, and the union-allied Republican Main Street Partnership. Schwarz’s...

Idaho Republican Mike Simpson’s influence with fellow members of Congress is what makes him a key player in this year’s election, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Senior Vice President Rob Engstrom said Thursday. Besides earning high marks on the chamber’s rating scale, Engstrom said, Simpson has the trust of dozens of men and women in Congress. That makes him valuable to the chamber, which can’t individually reach out to each member, Engstrom said. Simpson is being challenged in this year’s election by Idaho Falls Republican Bryan Smith, who has the endorsements of groups such as Club for Growth, The Madison Project...

After exerting its influence on the budget, the conservative Republican Study Committee is gearing up to flex its muscle politically. The group has created a new political action committee, the House Conservatives Fund (HCF), with the aim of electing more conservatives to Congress. HCF’s first fundraiser is scheduled for later this month. Organizers of the effort, which is being led by Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.), said that, with conservatives now billing themselves as the “majority of the majority” after wins in the last election, a greater political presence was overdue. “There had been a lot of discussion about the need...

NEW YORK -- Pardon the rant here but my colleagues in the media have lost it. After attempting to ignore and then reluctantly being forced to cover the charges of the Swift boat vets about John Kerry's lies about Vietnam, charges which have absolutely hammered him in the polls, reporters have seized on the disconnect between the conservative Republican platform and the RINO bent of many primetime speakers like a bunch of crazed wolverines. Huge protests full of lewd sentiments, teeming with barely controlled rage? Yes, but what about Republican hypocrisy? Former New York Democratic Mayor Ed Koch endorses Bush...

Yesterday, the House passed the largely non-controversial Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations (MilCon) bill for FY 2012. Unfortunately, it is these non-controversial bills which provide a safe haven for meretricious policy initiatives through the rapid fire amendment process. While everyone was focused on presidential politics, the House passed an amendment forcing government contractors to use labor unions on federal construction projects. Oh, and like most bad legislation, this amendment passed by one vote, with the help of 27 Republicans. In 2009, Obama used his signature power grab tool; an Executive Order, forcing all private companies to sign a project labor agreement...

THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Republican Party must temper its emphasis on moral issues like abortion and same-sex "marriage" if the party is to regain seats lost during the 2006 congressional elections, a new poll says. Fifty-three percent of Republicans say the party "has spent too much time focusing on moral issues such as abortion and gay marriage and should instead be spending time focusing on economic issues such as taxes and government spending." "The results of this poll confirm what we have long believed — that what holds the GOP together is a belief in core economic principles," said...

By JIM ABRAMSAssociated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP)--Moderates hope their slightly greater presence as a result of last week's election will lead to both parties putting aside some of their strident political differences when a new Congress convenes in January. The largest group of Republican moderates in the House says it will have about 70 members, an increase of half a dozen and about one-fourth of the total GOP contingent, in what will be the 108th Congress. In the Senate, centrists were celebrating the victories of Republican Norm Coleman in Minnesota and Democrat Mark Pryor in Arkansas, saying they will add...

"Republican Main Street Partnership" Congressional Members 109th Congress This the list of 'moderate' Republicans who are funded in part by Soros. The ones who pulled ANWAR drilling, the ones demending that terrorits have full US citizenship rights, the ones that Bush can't count on for anything which is MOST of his problem. These are the ones that must be defeated. From http://www.republicanmainstreet.org/members.htm Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Rhode Island Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia Sen. John McCain, Arizona Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Sen. Gordon Smith, Oregon Sen. Olympia Snowe, Maine Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Sen....

Republican House Speaker John Boehner will spend next weekend at a Ritz Carlton event hosted by an anti-tea party group devoted to fighting conservatives within the GOP. Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will be among 28 House members attending a $5,000-a-head event hosted by The Republican Main Street Partnership’s advocacy group, Red State reported. Donations will reportedly go to the anti-tea party super PAC Defending Main Street, which by February had received most of its funding from labor unions. The event will be hosted at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island in Nassau County, Florida. The Republican Main...

1. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R.I.) Once approached by Democratic Leader Harry Reid to switch parties, Chafee has long supported liberal policies. He backs legal abortion, gay rights, federal-funded health care, strict environmental protections and a higher minimum wage. Opposes ANWR drilling. Also was the only Republican in Congress not to endorse the President’s reelection and one of three who tried to gut Bush’s tax cuts. 2. Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine) A self-described “centrist,” Snowe scored a 100% pro-choice voting record as scored by NARAL and consistently votes with Democrats on social issues. 3. Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) “Snarlin’ Arlen” warned...

SAN DIEGO — It’s January 2015, and a newly elected House member from California walks side by side with his male partner to be sworn into office in Washington. The young lawmaker is a supporter of same-sex marriage. He believes the government should keep abortion legal. He considers himself an environmentalist. He's also a Republican. . . Despite his potential of being a maverick if he makes it to Congress, DeMaio is not a fringe candidate. He has early support from the party establishment — the National Republican Congressional Committee, the official party group responsible for electing Republicans to the...

On August 20, I endorsed Christine O’Donnell for the Delaware Senate GOP primary race. As I said on Sean Hannity’s TV show last week in repeating that endorsement, she is certainly far from perfect (who is?). But I think nine terms are enough for duck-and-hide, cap-and-tax liberal Republican Mike Castle — and it looks like GOP primary voters in Delaware are coming to the same conclusion as the primary looms tomorrow. I repeat: Entrenched incumbency is not an argument for more entrenched incumbency. Castle’s campaign questions O’Donnell’s trustworthiness. GOP primary voters need to question Castle’s. He was just one of...

Google and Archive Links Still Show Soros' Donation on MSIF Website Michelle Malkin has the update on a 527 organization's attempt (Main Street Individual Fund) to hide the George Soros' $50,000 donation to moderate Republicans (Republican in name only - RINOs) who are essentially against President Bush. This organization funds "Main Street" moderate Republicans. Even if the Google cache is supposedly gone (Soros) you can always try the Internet Archive site to find the cache where it would look like this. Click on any of the three that were archived in 2004 and see that Soros' name is still there....

(Washington, DC) – “Nancy Pelosi should make sure that Pat Toomey is on her Christmas card list. Once again, Toomey and the folks at the Club for Growth are doing Pelosi’s work for her by undermining the GOP majority,” said Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, head of the RMSP PAC. “The Club for Growth’s vicious and deceptive campaign against Congressman Joe Schwarz shows just how far the Club will go to destroy our party. Congressman Schwarz’s loss tonight is a loss for Reagan Republicans everywhere.” “During the campaign, Tim Walberg and his backers at the Club for Growth worked hard to hide...

p>The Talk Shows March 17th, 2013 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN); Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks; Steve LaTourette, president of the Republican Main Street Partnership.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Reps. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.; Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.; Cardinal Francis George of Chicago.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.; Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman.THIS WEEK (ABC): House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio., and Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Reps. Mike...

Lori Mitrick is the wife of a doctor and a practicing Catholic. Back in the 1980's her involvement in a crisis pregnancy service of her church was known in the community. She was the kind of person you might consider to be a candidate in an election. But what launched her political career was not the pro-life issue, but opposition to a shopping mall near her wooded and seculuded neighborhood in the suburbs of York, Pennsylvania. Around 20 years ago the York Galleria Mall was constructed amid her persistent and vocal opposition to the plan. Her leadership in opposing the...

Schwarz Could Face Primary Fight Freshman Rep. Joe Schwarz (R) is preparing for another rough primary in his Republican-leaning, south-central Michigan district. And he is readying to again do battle with the Club for Growth, which supports anti-tax, free-trade Republicans, often in GOP primaries. Last year the club funneled $275,000 into the campaign coffers of attorney Brad Smith, who was one of six Republicans vying for the seat being vacated by his father, then-Rep. Nick Smith (R). Schwarz, a moderate who is a physician and former state Senate President Pro Tem, won the GOP primary and the seat mainly because...

Dismayed at what they see as a lack of strong conservative principles on the other side of the Capitol, a group of House lawmakers is laying plans to elect more conservative Republicans to the Senate. More than 20 House conservatives met recently at the Hunan Dynasty on Capitol Hill to discuss how to put some conservative backbone into the Senate, among other political and legislative priorities. Many of them believe that Republican centrists in the Senate are as much to blame as Democrats for their policy frustrations. For example, centrist GOP Sens. Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Lincoln Chafee...

7 Republicans Voting Against: Jones [NC] McHugh Ney Paul Smith [NJ] Sweeney Wilson 7 Main Street Republicans. They accept George Sorso's Money: Gerlach Johnson [CT] Johnson [IL] Leach Ramstad Shays Simmons Main Street Individual Fund, 2004 Election Cycle The Main Street Individual Fund (MSIF) is a New York-based group founded to help elect moderate Republican candidates. Among those candidates it supports in the 2004 elections is Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa), who is fending off a tough primary challenge from Rep. Pat Toomey. MSIF raises funds from individual donors and is affiliated with another 527, the Main Street Fund, which solicits...