Posted on 02/17/2005 9:04:47 PM PST by BigSkyFreeper
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Karl Rove, President Bush's top political strategist, on Thursday pronounced conservatism the "dominant political creed in America" and coached fellow conservatives on how to support his boss.
"The next time one of your smartypants liberal friends says to you, `Well, he didn't have a mandate,' you tell him of this delicious fact: This president got a higher percentage of the vote than any Democratic candidate for president since 1964," Rove said.
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Rove told a gathering at the Conservative Political Action Conference that Bush is committed to the members' ideas of fostering morality and values, including protecting the culture of life for every human person - a goal that generated applause from the crowd at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center.
"Conservatism is the dominant political creed in America," Rove said, adding that more needed to be done.
He also said the administration was committed to spreading democracy across the Middle East and reforming and modernizing Social Security, health care, public education and the tax code.
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Another member of the Bush administration, Vice President Cheney, dropped by Thursday evening to thank the conservatives for their political support and he promise the administration would continue to pursue consistent economic and foreign policies.
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Members of Congress are debating whether Social Security taxes for the wealthiest Americans should be increased, but Cheney seemed to suggest that was not an option.
"We cannot tax our way out of this problem," Cheney said to cheers from some of the administration's core supporters at the CPAC meeting. "We must not increase payroll taxes on American workers. Higher taxes would only buy time and then future Congresses would need to come back and raise taxes again and again on our children and grandchildren."
I agree. The Republican Party needs to stay fired up.....and elected Republican officials need to stay tough.
Rove is right to send out the charge.
There are many on the Republican side that are too willing to give in after an election is over.
Sometimes I think the GOP slogan should be...
"We Waste Mandates"
The question remains: Are Bill Frist, Orin Hatch, and all the other spineless, weenie Re-pubi-cant's listening?
bttt and new tagline
The best way to keep repubs fired up is to contact your states repub representatives. It doesn't matter if you live in their district - you live in their STATE.
Letters, emails, faxes, you name it - keep them coming. We need to let our reps know that we expect them to support the conservative agenda.
Wanna send DU into a chaotic, hand-wringing tizzy? I mean, even more than normal? Post that you read that Rove has vowed to stick around after Bush and get a Republican President elected in 2008. They fear NOBODY like they fear Rove over there.
That's a great link - thanks!!
I use it all the time.
I agree. I don't think Rove is going to go anywhere anytime soon after President Bush finishes his second term. Rove may stick around and advise the next Republican candidate for 2008.
LOL. Riiiiight
Note to Rove: We're not the world's policemen, Rove. Our Constitution says to let our foreign involvement be rare. The founders are right.
Now, how about this little item:
"A couple of weeks ago, at a private gathering, Karl Rove walked up to a Republican member of Congress who has publicly criticized the Bush amnesty plan, and said, "You know what your problem is? You just don't like all those little brown people coming into the country."
I don't trust this guy. I have to question why so many Austrians of foreign birth have managed to rise to such places of influence in our nation.
Madeline Albright, Karl Rove, Arnold Swartzenegger, Henry Kissinger (technically a German) and there is one more whose name just will not come to me.
Are there no American citizens of honor and ability who could fulfill these rolls? We know there are. So why are these people seated in the halls of power? Why are they influencing us with a "global" vision?
You know too much. Vat iss your name? Vere do you liff? Is it safe?
Coming from Rove this could be a very positive sign.
While he is obviously good at his job, and loyal to the President, I hadn't been sold on him being a solid conservative.
Pay attention to immigration polls on Free Republic or even CNN...homey.
Good Grief, out damned spot, you have gone over the cliff on that one.
Sean Hannity was probably right afterall.
Hey Hanoi Kerry!
Hope you see Karl Rove has busted you on your lies in April 1971!
Look for things to get hotter!
LOL You loser!
Thanks for the ping!
Its going to get very hot. Lurch feels he is the front runner in 2008. He's got blinders on. He doesn't realize the people that came out to vote for him weren't so much voting for him ,just trying to get rid of Bush.It'll be fun seeing him duke it out with Hillary, and whatever other losers they can come up with in 2008!
Do you have a source for that? That does not sound like Rove at all.
For a career politician, Kerry is remarkably clueless about politics, and about the American people, who will never elect him President.
And can you imagine what Lurch is going to look like in 2008?
""The next time one of your smartypants liberal friends says to you, `Well, he didn't have a mandate,' you tell him of this delicious fact: This president got a higher percentage of the vote than any Democratic candidate for president since 1964," Rove said."
Hehe, love that little added "smartypants."
Considering the relentless drumbeat of negativity against him, the distortions, outright lies, and constant character assassination directed at him, he did pretty good, and if "we the people" were so mad, why do we keep expanding his party's majority when he's "dragging this country to Hell?" He's got a mandate, and a lot of people got bs'ed into voting against him, the rest are commie weasels of varying degrees.
My guess would be the source of that quote is American Patrol.
The majority of Americans know in their hearts that there is good and evil and right and wrong and are sick and tired of moral equivalence.
Hey Karl, Ronald Reagan knew as much over 40 years ago. What took you so long to catch up?
BTTT!!!!!!!!
The Republicans should not relax until the Democrats are thoroughly crushed - that is to say, shattered like the Whigs in the 19th century. It is extremely clear that the Democrat Party is a criminal organisation, as Chicago, the Washington Governor's Race, and the Wisconsin Presidential Race showed.
It would be best for all if they were destroyed - the far left can join the Greens, the centrists form a new party (taking the RINOs with them) and the Republicans as the conservative party.
Regards, Ivan
It's one of the most irresponsible posts I've ever seen on FR.
If you had any character at all you would either document it or ask the moderator to remove it.
Still waiting.
Quit being a bully. You oughtta change your name from bayourod to lightning rod because you've become one with your open border fanaticism that no one supports.
I don't support open borders and you've been informed of that in the past.
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