Posted on 11/08/2009 11:50:19 AM PST by Mamzelle
You apologize for what Rush says. You publicly grovel for some sign somebody you didn't know was carrying at a demonstration. You tell us no Republican will vote for Pelosi's monstrosity. You tell us that Rep Cao is the "face of Republican future." You support a Marxist for NY23.
I'm a Conservative who votes for Republicans and donates to them.
Apologize to ME.
...and here I thought Cantor was a rising star in the GOP....
Not for me he isn’t.
Or is this the some total of your posting skills. Ranting all the time at those who are 95% on your side while ignoring those 100% against your views?
l.
He is a face of the new republican party that is leading us into slavery to the state.
You do notice this is a rant, with out any documenting links, by one of our pretending to be Conservative while actually being a Democrat party PR agents right?
You do notice this is a rant, with out any documenting links, by one of our pretending to be Conservative while actually being a Democrat party PR agents right?
I did notice this is a rant and I’ve seen Cantor say stuff that made me cringe. I found him disappointing.
If Mamzell is really a rat I sure don’t know about it - I’ve seen her/his posts for quite a while and didn’t think that.
You said no GOP votes for the Pelosi Bill. YOU DID NOT DELIVER. Apologize!
After all, you apologize for everything else. Why not grovel to me, too? Rush says something, you rush out and scold him.
And somebody at a Tea Party somewhere held up a sign that somebody objected to. And you apologize and scold.
Representative Cantor and all you weak sister Republicans--these Tea Parties are huge gatherings of people who don't know each other. You don't know them. Don't apologize for them, because there is no possible way you can control what they do. They could be plants from the left, for all you know.
Practice, after me--"I don't know who they are, I can't answer for some stranger in a crowd." DON'T DENOUNCE THEM. It's **$$ing me off!
Next time you want to issue a knee-jerk apology. Think twice. Don't give it, it makes you look like a loser. And I'm tired of losers. Do not hold yourself responsible for something somebody else did.
Who asks Pelosi to denounce anybody? So lose the denunciations. And spare me the "new face of the Republican party." Unless treachery is the face of the GOP.
This is one of our usual, don’t focus on fighting the enemy, spend all your time shooting your allies in the back Democrat in everything but name Propaganda agents.
Well, we don’t need our leadership eating our own....that’s one thing the rats rarely do and we do it all the time.
LOL
I should have been hearing many hours of righteous indignation at this perfidy, instead he rails against Rush?
Useless and counterproductive for us.....works perfectly for his press clips.
Pretender or not I have heard Cantor apologize for comments and distance himself from comments Rush and with many in the republican establishment doing everything they can do undermine Sarah Palin it is sufficient evidence the party is corrupted and cannot lead us out of this march to totalitarianism.
As a VietNam Vet it makes me sick to say this but what I see is what I see.
Great post.
Cantor is a pretender.
Pence is real.
Ryan is real.
Palin is real.
Pawlenty.....maybe, I hope so.
If a Republican has to sell out his conservtive principles to atain his leadership position, he is not a conservative nor a leader.
As soon as Republicans start refusing to apologize, the demands will stop. It's easy, just refuse to be put on the defensive.
"Rush is a great American. He says what's on his mind. You should take your complaints to him. I'm not his mommy."
How hard is that?
"I don't know who carried that sign. The crowds are big. Do you really suggest I am responsible for somebody I don't know?"
"I'm not going to play the denunciation game, particularly since Democrats refuse to play, too."
These are pretty good alternatives to reflexive groveling!
Sorry - I generally am OK with Eric Cantor. I am not aligned perfectly with any of them - such is life. Right now I am focused on the enemy and not the imperfections of our front line.
I’m willing to support Cantor, even if he’s squeamish and ashamed of me, scary T-partier and all. He just needs to hide his squeamishness and shame and stop groveling. And if he’s struck by an irresistible urge to apologize, let him apologize to ME, for crying out loud, for NY23 and Cao—the Saturday Night Special Republican.
It's defensive. Who has to defend himself but someone losing?
How about you put half as much energy into attacking the left as you do sniping at your own political allies for not being 100% pure and flawless like you?
Gosh, you’ve read 100% of my posts? I’m touched, but that must’ve driven you crazy.
When our “front line†spends time making headlines about another front line soldier (Rush), instead of educating the public about this atrocity...then he will naturally hear about it from the troops.
Bad rhetorical warfare. It concedes to the premises of the left, that conservatism needs to be apologized for.
anxious to see how McDonnell works out.
You Freeper purists are so busy spending 100% of your time shooting at people who are 90% ON YOUR side you never have any time to EVER fight the people who are 100% opposed to your views.
And none of this is ever going to change until you all learn to focus on the relevant and quit wasting all your time and energy on the insignificant and the irrelevant.
I see you’re still responding to post #1—guess that means you have read no responses...
You purists habitually emote rather then think your politics
God is perfect, nothing organized by man is. Learn to live with it.
Because you all spending your time ranting and raving about the 10% impurities in your own side rather then EVER taking on the other side on anything is why your side is losing every single political battle these days.
I don’t know what Eric Cantor supports or whether or not he is a RINO, but I know that Scuzzyfuzzy was/is farther left than Blue dog Democrats. Heck, she’s right up there with Nancy Pelosi. Scuzzy would have voted the straight party line, the Democrat Party line, that is. The GOP does need anymore turn coats to make us look bad, like Olympia Snowe. As a matter of fact, I would like to see the GOP strip committee membership from any Republican who gets a less than satisfactory conservative rating.
It only works in so far as actually getting press when he does it. Does it even help Cantor's image? If he's so sorry about Republicans, why is he one? would be a legit question by the next MSM baiter. But I really feel that every time a Republican is thrown on the defensive, and in Cantor's case he embraces this defensive posture, we lose a little more steam. And the left gloats.
The left never allows itself to do this. Do Dems denounce Rangel? Does any Dem scold Olbermann?
Groveling only makes the left stronger.
Doesn’t even take 45 seconds to point out that my rant is about ineffective tactics, not issues, so “purity” is irrelevant here.
Cantor's certainly not what I hoped. This subservience that he assumes when around someone from the left just makes me cringe. Send up an Alpha dog.
This thread is and example of useful activism.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381507/posts
Your thread is an emotional hissy fit full of sound and fury but otherwise absolutely irrelevant and useless.
You are so busy looking for things to bitch at the GOP about, you have no time to actually do useful work.
Whatever. But next time you talk to Mickey, tell him that he’s only responsible for himself, and to stop apologizing for other people.
Yes, Cantor’s AARP comments made news at the Huff Po, but no major media headlined it.
BUT, his Rush comments headlined all major newspapers.
It’s just a matter of Republicans learning what works, and what does not. What info do they feel is most important to the public? Rush or teaching about the AARP?
I shouldn’t post on my own vanity rant? It’s not like I posted in Breaking news.
well you said he wasn’t educating the public about the health care debacle and that is not true. The media will run with what it wants to run with.
Get the HOOK for eric Cantor!! He is AWFUL...He’s a HORRIBLE speaker who can NOT think on his feet! They have put him in the front because he’s Jewish, but he is PATHETIC.
Pawlenty = Phony. Posturing to win the Presidency after he disemboweled the MN GOP.
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