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Are we ready to do what it takes to reclaim the Republican Party?
http://www.freerepublic.com/~dangus ^ | 5.30.07 | Dangus (Vanity)

Posted on 05/30/2007 11:10:08 AM PDT by dangus

"Rebuilding" is a very trying experience for baseball fans. It's what owners do when they decide that the current team is overpayed, underperforming, and irreformable. They clear out the current regulars and make room for new talent. In the meanwhile, though, fans have to suffer through a few seasons of not even hoping to win.

When done well, it works. The New York Yankees found themselves paying the highest salaries year after year in the 1980s. Although they had the best winning percentage overall for that decade, they had no division titles, let alone World Series championships, to show for it. They rebuilt in the early 1990s, and ended up winning four World Series in five years, largely based on the performance of new, home-grown stars like Bernie Williams, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera, and Andy Pettitte.

That the Yankees did undergo rebuilding was amazing, since George Steinbrenner always ran the team like there was no next year... and that's what the puppet-masters in Washington rely on the party faithful acting like each election.

It's time to say: no more. For five years, the Republican Party controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency, and we have nothing to show for it but a few trillion more dollars of debt.

One positive that has come out of this immigration deal is that the faces of the Republican Party have been revealed, and my God! are they hideous! The GOP establishment has made plain that they have nothing but contempt for middle Americans, regarding us "racist," "prejudiced," "nativist," and "ignorant." It's time they go.

We must rid the GOP of the likes of Sens. Lindsay Graham, Dick Lugar, and Chuck Hagel. They are from deep red states, and still rule over us like Marxist overlords. They voted to permit local governments to obstruct justice by harboring fugitive aliens, including terrorists. We must defeat them in primaries at all costs. We know who the enemies of America are.

The hatred of the GOP establishment for America is more widespread than those two, however. I believe we have to go after Senators from purple states, too, to declare, once and for all, that betraying America is not an acceptable strategy to hold on to control. As they come up for re-election over the next six years, we must reject the RINOS like Sens. Olympia Snowe, Arlen Specter, and George Voinovich, but also the fake conservatives like Pete Domenici, and John Warner.

Don't fall for ratings like those from lobbyist clubs like the American Conservative Union. Too often, "85% conservative" means only that the senator's vote was needed for treachery only 15% of the time.

Yes, in the short run, there may be more Democrats elected. But we have to recognize that there is a difference between electing loyal Americans and electing Republicans; and there is no difference between having Arlen Specter rule and having Pat Leahy rule.


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To: Perdogg
Living in Massachusetts means that I do not have the luxury of not voting for a Republican for just about anything.

I have lose-lose before me every time that I go to vote.

I think that it is time to hold our noses, vote out the bastards, let the chips fall where they may, and immediately after commence with the clean up. It may sting for a bit, but things can get better if we all agree to rid ourselves of the real problem first.

The current crop of skunks does us all no good service, and they need to be seriously rebuked.

61 posted on 05/30/2007 12:42:59 PM PDT by Radix ( Honey, I shrunk our Carbon Footprint.)
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To: varon

I have been hearing radio ads against congressman Mahoney. Out of curiosity I checked and he won the disgraced emailer’s seat. He links to a document of 20 targets. So while those here are amusing themself with sophomoric self-indulgence, the Republican party is on the make.


62 posted on 05/30/2007 12:43:49 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: nyconse

I really understand your anger and frustration. However I’m truly afraid you will find out the difference between Republicans (even RINOs) and a Hillary Socialist administration.


63 posted on 05/30/2007 12:45:46 PM PDT by PicWzrd (Run Fred Run!)
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To: tgusa
True conservatives are fed up with being dissed by elitist Republicans,

I'd rather be dissed by elitist Republicans than by Hildabeast/Hussein Obama.

64 posted on 05/30/2007 12:50:23 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Fred Thompson for President)
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To: dusttoyou
>If we had a Republican president instead of an elitist snob who thinks conservatives are racist, sexist, ignorant hicks, we wouldn’t have to worry ???

There's a disconnect
among the right-wing fringe groups.
They don't realize

they are the fringe and
instead of being happy
with Republicans

who don't call them nuts,
they want Republicans who
implement their views!

Even Bill Clinton
didn't give a damn about
the left-wing fringe groups

(in practical ways)
once they put him in office.
And the left-wing nuts

were happy simply
to get lip service from 'Rats.
Republicans won't

be a solid bloc
until somebody forceful
beats down right-wing nuts.

65 posted on 05/30/2007 12:50:48 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: joylyn

How many sliced, diced and hamburgerized babies would you regard as enough? Or is it that 50+ million already are not enough and no number ever will be? You don’t mind being Republican so long as the (Demonratic policy of maxiumum) babykilling rolls on unimpeded? Help us understand your desired policy here.


66 posted on 05/30/2007 12:52:01 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: PicWzrd

Honestly, I don’t see how it can get much worse. Taxes are going up, Amnesty is here, Repubs are demanding a ‘pullout’ date in Iraq, ‘hate crime/anti-free speech’ is soon to the law which will allow police to arrest Christians who speak out against homosexuality.


67 posted on 05/30/2007 12:52:07 PM PDT by nyconse
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To: Parmy

Now it’s not a matter of “not getting anything of value,” it’s a matter of getting nutzoid, Pelosi-fied legislation with enough nuts to pass it.


68 posted on 05/30/2007 12:52:57 PM PDT by JennysCool ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
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To: Perdogg
Oh! We did that in 2006 and now have no majority in the House to stop this insane immigration bill.

Are you referring to the Republican crafted and supported Insane immigration bill? You know, the one the Republican President backs and lectures his base about complaining about it? Is it the same insane immigration bill a Republican congressman calls conservatives bigots for not getting on the bandwagon?

Is that the Republican majority who is going to stop this insane bill?

I don't think so.

69 posted on 05/30/2007 12:53:29 PM PDT by CharacterCounts
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To: theFIRMbss

Let me say this-no Republicans will be elected without the support of conservatives ie right wing etc. I say, we have been treated disrespectfully in the Republican party by people such as yourself so fine, I’m out of here. I am now an independent. Have a nice election. Hope you woo many of those swing voters.


70 posted on 05/30/2007 12:54:45 PM PDT by nyconse
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To: joylyn

Big tent republicans are what got us into the mess we’re in right now.

No thanks, if the Republican Party endorses liberalism in any shape or form, it will lose me and I dare say, a great many other conservatives and will be the minority party for a long long time.


71 posted on 05/30/2007 12:54:59 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (Famously frisky)
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To: nyconse
Republicans are no more principled than our Democrats.

I'll ask Justice Alito and Chief Justice Roberts about that and get back to you.

Parties are not all the same, and elections have consequences.

72 posted on 05/30/2007 12:55:55 PM PDT by JennysCool ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -Mencken)
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To: Radix

I agree with you...I have voted for the lesser of two evils for too long.


73 posted on 05/30/2007 12:56:31 PM PDT by nyconse
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To: Perdogg
or we are going to be a one party dictatorship

Kinda seems that way now already.

74 posted on 05/30/2007 12:57:15 PM PDT by kevao
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To: JennysCool

Do you really think Pres. Bush could get through anymore conservative justices? I am sorry; I have never missed an election in 30 years, but now I just don’t see the point.


75 posted on 05/30/2007 12:59:50 PM PDT by nyconse
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To: brownsfan; dangus
brownsfan: Dangus and I have been known to disagree as often as not. I disagree with him on the immigration but it does not matter since that issue is over and the immigration won. You are forcing me to ally with Dangus.

If conservatives focus on gun rights, right to innocent life, marriage being one man and one woman, cutting the welfare state with an eye toward eliminating most of it, stopping voter fraud, building grassroots issues groups and umbrella groups, and removing layers of elitist dimwits from leadership of the GOP, we shall handle Her Heinous IF she gets as far as the Demonrat nomination.

We do need a long term plan to recreate the conservative cadres that nominated and elected Ronaldus Maximus. Like the Yankees (as posited by Dangus), we can rebuild while being normally dominant.

Always bear in mind the old wisdom that the perfect is the enemy of the good. It was a major guideline of Ronaldus Maximus.

76 posted on 05/30/2007 1:02:39 PM PDT by BlackElk (Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
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To: Perdogg
Perdogg: You're looking at this realistically. We have to get the best we can. We surrendered to the RATS last election and see what we got. We now have a larger hole from which me must try to dig ourselves.

The "teach-them-a-lesson" strategy does not work.

We have to fight it out in the primaries and then stick together to defeat the RATS. They're even worse than these RINOs.

77 posted on 05/30/2007 1:04:12 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: dangus
Are we ready to do what it takes to reclaim the Republican Party?

People who find Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Richard Lugar unacceptable have never controlled the Republican Party, and they never will.

You cannot reclaim what you never had.

78 posted on 05/30/2007 1:05:53 PM PDT by Jim Noble (We don't need to know what Cho thought. We need to know what Librescu thought.)
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To: fr_freak
The only way to save the Republican Party, if it can be saved, is to purge the RINO office holders.

OK. Spell it out just exactly how this is going to work. Give us your plan. Speak in specifics--not generalities.

79 posted on 05/30/2007 1:07:54 PM PDT by Conservativegreatgrandma
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To: dangus

Buchanan for President.


80 posted on 05/30/2007 1:10:21 PM PDT by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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