Posted on 05/15/2010 12:57:52 AM PDT by The Watcher
“Why is the RNC so utterly deferential to libs and to the press? I mean, grow a pair ...”
Stupid vanity.
You get exhibit A of a Republican governor NOT being deferential to libs, suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous slanders, and STANDING UP to the press ... and in reaction to that, you say the opposite of what’s going on.
You say:
“I’m not one who really wants to be confrontational.”
WEll guess what, maybe there are good conservative public servants who feel the same way, but didnt want to let the libs run all over us. So they stepped forward.
Why couldnt a GOP minority stop obamacare? I mean SERIOUSLY - they have zero power to stop Democrat majority rule, the media is on Obama’s side, and you didnt know that? What do you expect, supermen with trained sharks with laser beams on their heads zapping the Dems?!? No, EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN OPPOSED OBAMACARE. They made good arguments, and the people responded and were and are on our side. COMPLAIN ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS REFUSAL TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE ... but complaining about the GOP is ‘concern troll’ BS, they have done well as an outnumbered minority and NOW is the time to support them in taking back the Congress.
Humans are fallible and the humans that make up the GOP are fallible too... if you can do better, pitch in and make it so. If you cant or wont, then your vanity is just that - vanity.
Well, screw them...
I was born with a spine. That is why I am not a Republican.
The GOP has failed the conservatives of our Republic. The McCain types need to be fired and replaced. If the GOP can’t do in Washington what they promise when they campaign, then are of no use! Why would people vote for them if they are not going to stop the Socialist agenda?
Think about it. What the hell has the GOP done about illegal immigration? When was the last time the GOP eliminated a single department in the Federal Government? What happened to being fiscal responsibility?
Oh yeah they talk a good game during the campaign and when in the minority in congress. Just looked at what happened when they were in the majority. Not jack $hit!
You are just plain ignorant. There is a TON of stuff going on that the GOP is doing to defend our freedom and future that you have no idea about.
HUNDREDS of good GOP Congressional candidates.
THOUSANDS of good GOP State-level candidates.
AZ Republicans just pass AZ immigration law - nothing?!? Look at the heat that got.
And Gov Christie going hammer-and-tong after NJ overspending.
just the tip of a huge pile of good things out of the republicans.
You are stewing in your own juice of ignorant cynicism.
Get educated first - know your congressional, state rep, state senate, US Senate and local candidates - know who your elected officials are and give THEM the earful - know that media bias is pervasive and their negative drumbeat against Republicans HAS gotten to you ...
and then ...
Lead, follow or get out of the way.
“Theres an army of millions of Americans who want to fix things and who would provide the muscle to make it happen.”
Each and every one of thse folks needs to find campaigns they believe in:
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/05/14/meet-larry-bucshon-r-cand-in-08/
“Republican office-seekers and office-holders must call this crap exactly what it is: blatant, corrosive, TYRANNICAL socialism/marxism/communism.”
Michelle Bachmann and others like her HAVE done that.
I am beyond annoyed at these armchair generals spouting off “this should happen” when they have no CLUE as to what is really going on.
Crist IS out .. now what?
Will you let him win as a Dem-leaning indie?
Or will you stop him by supporting Rubio?
“What the hell has the GOP done about illegal immigration? “
More ignorance. The AZ Republicans pass a tough bill, Obama calls them racists and you spout off ‘what have they done?”
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE - read the danged paper! Get educated!
Your complaints are SOOOOO 2006! Get with it, its 2010 already folks!
Jeez!
On a National level (Federal Government) and not State?
Answer: Nothing
Do you really believe the GOP is going to do something. LMAO!
Yeah vote for them and watch them do NOTHING!
The most outspoken people in this nation, and even Obama admits this, is conservative talk radio and web sites like Free Republic.
Obama is not afraid of the GOP at all. He knows they will bend over and grab their ankles. That is what they do! They are worthless!
i was for Lonegan in the primary, but some opposed Christie in the general.
What’s this about the GOP falling on their swords? They need do no such thing. Not only can they win on attacking entitlements, they can GAIN ELECTIONS as well, while doing it.
If Dave Ramsey can obliterate every liberal idiotic notion in 3 minutes on tv or radio, and gain audience, then why the hell can’t some experienced speakers who have the whole insides of government and it’s research get off their duff and do it even better?
If the leadership of the GOP started acting like they had a pair between the 40 of them, THE PEOPLE would have their backs, no problem. But they have to LEAD, not just become masters of the house and senate rule book. Yeah, that stuff is important, but leadership is planting yourself in front of the movement, pointing the direction to go and then starting off in that direction. And NEVER RETREATING. Bush was so spineless that he actually retreated on a great idea and in so doing discredited himself and discredited wisdom and prudence. It’s like the worst of all worlds, to first start toward something ,and then when criticised, run from it. You just told your enemy you agree with them. What a putz.
For all those RINO’s... The leadership of the GOP should be on radio, on TV, on the web, directing the masses of TEA Party types and using their knowledge from the inside to so overwhelm the RINOs that they are gauranteed to go along. A little taste of two million people bringing every office, staff, phone, etc, in your RINO’s organization to a screeching halt and refusing to call off the dogs until they go along.
It’s called “hardball” and my version of it is called “enriched uranium explosive propelled pitching”.
Or, perhaps these twits just don’t care, don’t believe what they say, or haven’t got collectively a pair sufficient to stiffen anything, least of all spine. Every damn thing has been given to them. millions of activists you can trust to stand for the right things, millions who will travel the country to make the mobs you need, and never retreating. In other words, hardball so hard that Obama turns whiter than Lohann’s hiney, and the SEIU runs up the white flag. THAT would be growing a pair, in my world. Anything less, is just playing games. Either you intend to win, by crushing, overwhelming, irresistable force... Or you just wanna play games.
I watched the video of Gov Christie talking to the reporter and it reminded me why I just can’t be in the GOP.
But why can’t the GOP be something besides simpering, terrified lapdogs, afraid of their own shadow?
Life’s confusing sometimes.
you said:
OK....you lost me right here. Overall, a fine piece, I must say.....yet you openly admit to being one who doesn’t want to be confrontational.
So, you want someone else to do it for you? You feel that the mess we find ourselves in will be rectified without confrontation?
What I said was that I am not normally a confrontational person. I don’t go seeking it. I don’t WANT power, because with it comes responsibility. Christ, in the Garden, sweated blood praying “ If possible, let this cup pass from me”. We all know He still did it. There’s nothing wrong with not being of a nature that doesn’t seek confrontation.
But if you run for office... and you get elected... YOU OWN THIS MESS AND YOU HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO FIX IT. I’m known in my world as a “really nice guy”.
IF I were to be in office, then I would have a sacred obligation to not just be a little confrontational - a la Gov Christie and some shmuck reporter - but to be the toughest, meanest, most devious, determined and unflagging General there ever was. To rally every troop determined to fight and to fight to the last man standing in the best and most effective way possible. To use every possible weapon at my disposal to do the right thing.
After all, what needs to be done is not just the “Right thing”, but the imperative, due to the consequences.
SEIU thugs are naturally confrontational, but they’re just bullies. Put good men, with good conviction with their backs to the wall, and they truly fight. Even if that’s not their first nature.
No, I’m not a GOP member because the GOP leadership has no spine, no convictions, and no courage, whatsoever. And I’m reminded of it because Gov Christie made the ever so slight rebuke of an idiot, in a situation where there’s likely no consequences. Just enough hint of manhood to remind us what real men do when the going gets tough.
Where’s the GOP holding up the “lower taxes, less regulation, distributed empowerment” theme to back up Chrstie? I’m in Oregon, I see nada. Experience says they’re hiding somewhere, hoping he can have some success to coattail on later.
So we can give the GOP leadership an army to retreat with? Or to fight with, demanding further and further "compromise" in the name of "bipartisanship"???? Please. Might as well just shoot both feet.
We need people who are willing to fight, you just want to give up.
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