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Anyone who follows BJG is probably aware that I detest RINOs more than just about anything else in the world. In many ways, I loathe RINOs even more than Democrats. Democrats are somewhat honest about their agenda – to turn our nation into a socialist third world cesspool. RINOs supposedly are on our side but usually end up stabbing us in the back and assisting Democrats in turning the United States into a socialist third world cesspool. The Stimulus passed because of Collins, Snowe and Specter. Cap and Trade made it through the House only because eight RINOs voted for...

About Us: Our vision is a Republican Party that is unified by the basic tenets of fiscal responsibility and personal freedom, but that allows for diverse opinions on social issues by its members. IMP-PAC is chaired by Christie Todd Whitman, a lifelong and loyal Republican and a leader of the party’s moderate wing, who served in the Bush cabinet as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January 2001 to May 2003. Prior to that, she was the first female elected governor of New Jersey, serving two terms from 1993 to 2000. Advisory Board: Congressman Mike Castle (R-DE) Susan...

Christine Todd Whitman's book, It's My Party, Too, was published January 27, 2005. Given publishing schedules, that means it was written when the conventional wisdom was that President Bush was going to lose the presidential election. The November election marked the 10th consecutive presidential election that Democrats have not been able to get a majority of Americans to vote for them. Without a freak event like Watergate or Ross Perot, the Democrats would not have elected a single President since 1964. In four decades, the Republican Party has gone from a party that was nearly outlawed by Democrats in the...

The party of Christie, Arnold, and George Pataki? Christine Todd Whitman, former Republican governor of New Jersey and EPA administrator, has surveyed the results of the 2004 election. She does not like what she sees. There is a vast right-wing majority out there, and it threatens the electoral fortunes of the Republican party. She profoundly objects to "social fundamentalists" who have undermined "core Republican values" forming, in effect, "a party within the party...the tail wagging the dog." She fears that these people "could even cause the party to lose its hold on the Congress and the White House before the...

Christie Whitman emerged from her first meeting with President-elect George Bush in 2000 full of optimism and convinced of his determination to build a positive environmental "legacy" - a belief reinforced moments later when Karl Rove took her aside and confided, flatteringly, that as the boss of the Environmental Protection Agency, she would be one of just three cabinet-level officers who would help determine whether the president would be re-elected in 2004. This she took to mean that "the work I would do in building a strong record on the environment would help the president build on his base by...

Whitman: Let's Get Moderate WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2005 This story was written by Linda Feldmann. It was a vision of big-tent Republicanism: At a panel discussion held around the GOP convention last summer, Christine Todd Whitman sat comfortably near Newt Gingrich - a standard-bearer of the middle engaging in measured discourse with a standard-bearer of conservatism. When asked about the GOP's longstanding drift rightward, Ms. Whitman was polite. The former New Jersey governor and EPA administrator stressed the breadth of the Republican coalition and noted that some of the biggest names to address the convention in prime time - Arnold...

She released a book entitled It's My Party, Too: Taking Back the Republican Party... And Bringing the Country Together Again in which she criticizes the policies of the Bush administration and its electoral strategy which she views as divisive. It has been suggested that this may be a prelude to a candidacy for president in 2008 as a moderate Republican. She's been going around several talk shows including Hannity & Colmes criticizing the President Bush. This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," Jan. 27, 2005, that has been edited for clarity. SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST:  Our next guest thinks...

STARVED for attention after a dismal stint as President Bush's Envi ronmental Protection Administrator — which itself followed a mediocre six years as governor of New Jersey — Christine Todd Whitman has penned a manifesto to radically remake the Republican Party and send it hurtling leftward. Predictably, the national press can't get enough of it: Newsweek featured a lengthy excerpt from the still-unpublished book, presumptiously titled, "It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America." Just as predictably, conservative Republicans — who don't think the future of their country, let alone their...

Former Gov. Christie Whitman's new book, "It's My Party Too" hasn't been released yet, but conservatives and Christian fundamentalists are enraged already, based on reviews and excerpts. "It sounds as if the author of the book is a Michael Moore radical, not a former member of President Bush's Cabinet," fumed Gary Bauer, a conservative activist and former presidential candidate. Rick Scarborough, a conservative Christian who is chairman of Vision America, wrote that Whitman's call to moderate GOP positions would be "political suicide" and that Whitman herself is a RINO (Republican in Name Only). Whitman argues that the rise of "social...

Christine Todd Whitman and the Rockefeller wing of the Republican Party just don't get it. At a time when Democrats are realizing that their party is out of touch with basic American values, Whitman is bemoaning the takeover of the Republican party by zealous "social fundamentalists." While her memoir It's My Party, Too: The Battle for the Heart of the GOP and the Future of America will be released on January 27, the product description on Amazon.com is disturbing. "Relentlessly pushing their ideological stances on abortion rights, race relations, the environment, tax policy, and go-it-alone foreign policy, the conservative extremists...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JAN 02, 2005 18:00:00 ET XXXXX BUSH BASH BOOK BURSTS IN TIME FOR INAUGURAL Christine Todd Whitman, the former New Jersey governor who was President Bush's first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has written a book that touts the importance of moderates to the future of the Republican Party and flays Bush and his team for ignoring the country's middle. Whitman charges on Page 3 that Bush's three-percentage-point margin in the popular vote is the lowest of any incumbent president ever to win reelection, the WASHINGTON POST reports in coming editions, newsroom sources tell...

Whitman says in new book that catering to GOP's far-right wing will hurt party Friday December 17, 2004 By DONNA DE LA CRUZ Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman writes in her upcoming book that if the far-right wing of the Republican Party continues to be a major influence with the GOP, the party will be seriously harmed. Whitman, who served as Environmental Protection Agency administrator for President Bush from 2001 until May 2003, also says in the book that she was often at odds with the White House on issues such as setting caps...