News Flash to RNC Candidates: It’s Not Your Gipper’s GOP Anymore

North Star Writers Group ^ | January 8, 2009 | Bob Maistros

[TomGuy]

As I predicted, they accept no blame and learn no lessons.

We got a clue of that in the 2006 losses. They remained clueless.

We got a clue of that again in the 2008 loss. They remain clueless.

As far as they are concerned, it is business as usual.

[xcamel]

Your comments exactly expose why the RATS are in power now.

[TomGuy]

The sooner everybody gets off this bandwagon of government doing everything for everybody all the time, the sooner sanity will return.

Which porker are you going to kick away from that trough first?

[prismsinc]

Maybe the GOP should change their mascot from elephant to goat. After all, the media only uses the GOP as the not-liberal-enough scape-goat party. Elect Dems, blame Republicans, dismiss conservatism as a legitimate position. Good going there, RINO Bob!

[EternalVigilance]

[TomGuy]

chose an unknown, Gov. Sarah Palin, for a running mate and she spurred on the GOP

And she sent panic and fear through both the mainstream media and the staunch good-ole-boys club Republicans.

They know she is 'real' because she, unlike them, is untainted by the Washington establishment.

That makes her formidable. She connects with the average person -- whom the Washington establishment has made careers out of hoodwinking.

She is dangerous -- to the Washington establishment. No wonder she is getting all the "INCOMING!". She is a real threat to the Washington establishment.

[KC_Conspirator]

In the last eight, you took a budget in surplus, an economy headed for mild recession but fundamentally sound, and a nation at peace . . . and left trillion-dollar plus deficits, the longest recession in 76 years, and a divisive war that took five years to get right.

There never was a surplus. This is a lie. Throw this article in the trash.

[TomGuy]

why the RATS are in power now.

The RATS are in power now because the GOP brand failed.

When you have 2 major parties and you want to make changes, to the one party in power, about all you can do is elect someone from the other party.

The GOP controlled much of Washington for the last 3 decades. They don't deserve a pass. They deserve the ire and scorn they have earned.

[Always Right]

Funny, when the GOP was in control of both Houses and the Presidency and most of the Governorships, there were not hundreds of articles how the Democratic party was dead....Really odd......

[Pessimist]

Invisigoth: “9/11 - which had the potential to completely destroy our economy and plunge us into a world war”

I don’t buy that. While 9/11 was a terrible tragedy, I think it’s overused as an excuse for anything and everything.

“Everything” didn’t change - at least not because of the terrorist act itself. What was much more damaging was our use of it as an excuse to “change everyting”.

How could the

[Vermont Lt]

9/11 - which had the potential to completely destroy our economy and plunge us into a world war - seems to have vanished from the minds of people like the writer.

Don't worry. Methinks that with the dismantling of our intelligence agencies, we will be reminded again.

[Doohickey]

Shouting from the soap box about tax and spending cuts won’t cut it anymore.

I disagree. However, voters recognize hypocrisy when they hear it. No sitting GOP congressperson or senator has anything conservative to say about taxes or spending after their despicable behavior as the majority party from 2001-2006.

[Stentor]

I doubt if the moocher tax taking slobs will ever vote away their largess.

What they get will never be enough. "What am I going to do with $500.00?" Who was the politician who mocked the stimulus as only being enough to buy a muffler?

[Theodore R.]

It’s called Lost Opportunity Which Never Returns.

[Theodore R.]

That’s what was once said of the French Bourbons.

[Theodore R.]

Ultimately, it is GWB who produced Oprah’s
choice, not even the widly popular and much beloved Oprah.

[Theodore R.]

How said that it’s mostly a fight between the D and R letters of the alphabet. The people will never learn.

[longtermmemmory]

the problem is that idiots like mccain think they can fool us.

(ie when they put out the BS flag burning vote instead of the marriage amendment vote)

There are too many in the RNC who don’t give a rat’s posterior about the rank and file.

(iow the party is just a clique for power not a union for principles)

[Knitebane]

His attack on MicroSoft helped to reduce CV funding which encouraged the tech bubble to deflate. Some economists estimate that this alone took 6 trillion dollars out of the economy.

1. The anti-trust suit against Microsoft started under Bush I.

2. The "economists" that claim that reigning in the Microsoft monopoly has harmed the economy are full of it.

3. Microsoft, through it's monopoly, has harmed the economy to a much greater extent than any foolish "scaring off the funding." By keeping the price of the dominant operating system artificially high, Microsoft has slowed the rate of hardware sales.

4. Paradoxically, by keeping Windows at approximately the same price today as DOS was in 1990, Microsoft artificially opened a price niche for expensive "boutique" niche players like Apple. Apple manages to maintain that niche because it is primarily a seller of hardware and basically throws in the OS for free. If they tried to compete on price Microsoft could easily lower the price of Windows and push Apple right out of the market.

The complaints that Apple's are expensive are funny considering that Windows takes up nearly the third of the cost of a new PC. If Microsoft was forced to reduce the price of it's OS through competition, like the price of every other software package in the last 20 years, it would cost about $20 retail.

5. Through it's monopoly status, Microsoft has repeatedly destroyed innovative technology simply by advertising that it was entering a market. For example, in 2005 Microsoft advertised that it was going to enter the anti-virus market (no real product, mind you, just SAYING that it was going to play) and tanked the stock of both McAfee and Symantec. Microsoft has routinely done this in many markets.

[Altura Ct.]

“”Wrong-Way Corrigans and racist, Christian Right kooks””

This guy is the epitome of the PC Neo-Con & socialist embracing GOP. Either we need a new party or they need to join the democrats.