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The Rise of the Metro Republicans
How McCain, Romney, and Giuliani may redraw the red-blue map.
The Weekly Standard ^
| February 19, 2007
| Noemie Emery
Posted on 02/11/2007 5:15:12 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: freedomdefender
Too Hillary???? Red states going for the cold and joyless one....name one.
To: McGavin999
ROFLOL!! That is one problem on here -- some Freepers speak before knowing anything about a former candidate or office holder. They assume if someone was Conservative they must be a social conservative -- wrong assumption.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:26:50 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Broken Glass Republican -- Rudy 08 -- Take back the House and Senate in 2008)
To: Beagle8U
LMAO, Are we really as bad as they say ? /s
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:26:55 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
To: freedomdefender
"I would like to see the "Law and Order" candidate throw his hat in the ring." You can't be talking about Rudy, the "sanctuary city" candidate.
Uhh... No.
I said "the Law and Order candidate":
To: imahawk
And we just cant seem to find it in our hearts to get behind a real conservative and so the rinos want us to get ....
When Allen and Santaram lost the social right was left without a QB going into the game. The game clock is ticking super Tuesday is less then a year away. The candidate will have to have an entire ground game and 100 mill raised NOW. There is no one who fits the bill.
If you want to be in denial about it.
To: PhiKapMom
Goldwater is from Arizona, I know the history of the man very, very well since I was raised here all my life.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:29:09 PM PST
by
McGavin999
("Hard is not Hopeless" General Petraeus)
To: Blackirish
Oklahomans will not vote for Hillary in enough numbers to win. If Rudy is our candidate, expect Oklahome to be very red once again. Rudy was one of the first people to call Gov Keating after the Murrah Bombing and vice versa after 9-11. In fact one of the firefighters killed in 9-11 led a team to help out OKC. Oklahomans gave NYC teddy bears for the children who lost a parent(s) and a firetruck that still bears the words "Spirit of Oklahoma" so Oklahoma will stand with Rudy in 2008 in the general election.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:29:55 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Broken Glass Republican -- Rudy 08 -- Take back the House and Senate in 2008)
To: McGavin999
I don't think abortion was an issue in 1964 and Goldwater was silent until later years.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:30:57 PM PST
by
streetpreacher
(What if you're wrong?)
To: imahawk
I don't know. To them we are. Big scary people that drink beer and own guns.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:31:38 PM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Jimmy Carter changed me into a Republican.......Ronnie made me DAMN proud of it!)
To: McGavin999
I can remember reading the book Conscience of a Conservative and wanted to do a book report but it was turned down! :( So I did one on Eisenhower!
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:31:40 PM PST
by
PhiKapMom
(Broken Glass Republican -- Rudy 08 -- Take back the House and Senate in 2008)
To: Luke21
No kidding, conservative mag my ass, cancelled my subscription some time back.Gaaaak, I love that.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:32:17 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
To: Blackirish
Too Hillary???? Red states going for the cold and joyless one....name one.
If by "red" states you mean states that went for Bush, I can name a number where the margins were close enough that the outcome next time will be different if the GOP nominee is someone who makes social conservatives stay home. Start with Ohio. Bush squeaked by last time - and it was on the strength of a no-gay-marriage amendment that brought out the social conservative vote. IF the GOP is running a candidate who believes in "gay marriage", you can say goodbye to those social conservatives, or at least to enough of them that the state could very easily go "Blue."
Of course, political calculations aren't the only reason I fear the nomination of Rudy. My concern about the future of our civilization - western civilization - is an even bigger reason. Homosexual marriage - which he supports, apparantently - would be the sign of a final downward spiral, by destroying the insitution on which civilization rests and by elevating perverted behavior to the status of normality. You don't have to be a fundamentalist anything (I'm not), to understand that -- and enough voters understand it that Rudy's gay agenda will sink his candidacy (and the GOP if it nominates him).
To: Clintonfatigued
You are probably correct in your assessment.
To: streetpreacher
Nah, he wasn't silent, it just wasn't something that was talked about much until after Roe v Wade and that was, what, around 1973?
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:33:11 PM PST
by
McGavin999
("Hard is not Hopeless" General Petraeus)
To: freedomdefender
the "values" voters will leave the GOP and the GOP will return to minority status.
True, but my rather pessimistic view point is just how many values voters are there anymore? Sure the south is there but the evangelicals are now the "new" evangelicals. They are not the solid conservatives of the Reagan years. I hope I am wrong about their social conservatism having gone the way of being much more open minded and accepting/tolerant or another way of putting it is"anything goes". I am talking about the 25 to 40 age range. Younger families going to the user-friendly, purpose driven, and emergent churches looking for a more do good social club than a repent of your sins and live right with God and man. I think most people are pretty unaware of this side to the church/evangelical movement out there right now. I work in an industry that has experienced first hand this change.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:33:58 PM PST
by
Bittersweetmd
(God is Great and greatly to be praised.)
To: freedomdefender
Homosexual marriage - which he supports, apparantently ......
At every speach he gives Rudy has come out AGAINST gay marrage.
To: TommyDale
It is kinda hard not to notice isnt it. Unreal
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:37:52 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
To: Beagle8U
I like it, I like it.Big scarey people who drink beer and own guns.LOL
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:42:49 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
To: Bittersweetmd
"True, but my rather pessimistic view point is just how many values voters are there anymore?"
70 million Evangelicals is the last count I saw and most vote Republican. Add 45 million gun owners who also vote mostly Republican.
But what the heck, run them out of the party by nominating Fruity Rudi and hope he can steal every rat vote from Hildabeast.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:43:37 PM PST
by
Beagle8U
(Jimmy Carter changed me into a Republican.......Ronnie made me DAMN proud of it!)
To: PhiKapMom
"Rudy was one of the first people to call Gov Keating after the Murrah Bombing and vice versa after 9-11. In fact one of the firefighters killed in 9-11 led a team to help out OKC. Oklahomans gave NYC teddy bears for the children who lost a parent(s) and a firetruck that still bears the words "Spirit of Oklahoma" so Oklahoma will stand with Rudy in 2008 in the general election." That qualifies him to be President? I would hope that Oklahomans would see his social liberal record and vote for a candidate that speaks for their values, not just because he has a (R) after his name.
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posted on
02/11/2007 7:45:25 PM PST
by
TommyDale
(Who do you trust? An ex-mayor? Or the ranking member of the House Committee on Armed Services?)
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