Translation: Nominate Rudy and lose, nominate Fred and win.
I already changed my affiliation due to the immigration fiasco. Maybe someday.....but for now call me “Independent”.
The religious and social conservatives are a relatively recent ‘pickup’ by the Republican Party.
Translation: General Election FAIL.
Ya think?
“...would not let the national party distance itself from religious and social conservatives stands or saw no indications of that happening.”
In the current two party system, where are they going to go?
Social issues will be even less important in this election cycle. This time around, it's "Security Stupid" ... making Rudy Giuliani very electable in the general election, and Fred Thompson less so.
“Is GOP Straying from Conservative Base?”
Has been for a while now, to varying degrees.
“The Democrat policies clearly are antithetical to what religious and social conservatives believe in.”
True, but faced with a choice of two abortionist, gay-loving, gun grabbers? I’ll sit it out.
Inquiring minds want to know how the Republican Party can move away from its base.
With out the base there is no Republican party.
These stories about movement this way or that is no better than those anyone would find about Republicans in The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic or the LAT.
In fact, many of these stories are nothing more than planted falsehoods by the kook fringe, with an agenda of trying to discourage Conservatives.
I claim to be conservative in thought and I claim to be a Republican for now.
The only way the Republican Party is going to move anywhere is if I stand idly by and let the current smucks calling themselves leaders make all the decisions with out my thunderous contribution.
The quandary with the Republican Party is that we in the base got complacent about who we let run the party.
Sorry Democrats but the Republican Party belongs to the base unlike the Democrats who belong to the Far Left Fringe.
Just the lowly opinion of a red state wannabe.
National R.N.C. headed by my P.O.S. Florida senator mel martinez who pushed for the amnesty bill.
Yeah the r.n.c. is turning away from its conservative base.
I refuse to give them a penny.
It takes these guy FOREVER to get a clue.
Boy these guys are sharp. Wicked sharp I tell you!
If you see one, remind him to keep breathing, he might forget. Just a safety precaution for those 'special' ones among us.
I see two possible courses of action brewing in the RNC:
1. Shift further left and hope to garner more of the liberals and soft conservatives. Won’t work - as we have seen in the past.They will alienate the conservative/Christian base.
2. Return to the base and stand up for conservatism - both fiscal and social.
As I see it, the only viable option is #2. If the Republican party moves away from the conservative Christian base, then they will not win another major election.
The GOP left it’s conservative base back in 1997 for BIG MONEY DONORS after the Christian Coalition was sued and Jim Nicholson called the Council of Conservative Citizens RACISTS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1829933/posts?page=27#27
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1829933/posts?page=28#28
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1829933/posts?page=30#30
QUOTE from
‘’A member of the party of Lincoln should not belong to such an organization [Council of Conservative Citizens],’’ said the chairman, Jim Nicholson, FORMER Secretary of Veterans Affairs as of 10/2007.
The Republicans strayed from the Conservatives years ago.
No!
The GOP has been sprinting away from its conservative base for some time now.
Lack of border security, the drugs-for-old-people program and Americas taxpayer's dollars being wasted as if Congress were a bunch of drunken sailors on leave might have something to do with the current unrest in the ranks.
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(The above comment was not intended to offend any drunken sailor.)
Then, Anuzis and others better be working hard to defeat Guiliani.
Why do I get the impression these people do not see reality.
This RNC meeting must have been for rank and file with the REAL leadership doing back room meetings which go for the amnesty and weak kneed trent lott style contry club elitism with the oposition.
JD Hayworth?
Jim Ryun?
It's difficult on the one hand to speak as much as we do here about our declining standards of morality, and maintain this notion that the social conservative road is the one to victory.