"The Party of the Rule of Law (or) No Controlling Legal authority?"
Bump for later reading.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Nice screenname!
Screw all these establishment moderate Republican collaborators, starting with every single Republican politician who is supporting John McCain.
That goes for Gingrich, Dole, Crist, Martinez, and both of my Senators - Chambliss and Isakson.
He may have been severely mistreated by the establishment, but a "conservative" is now "backing Yarmuth"? That does not compute. Run as a third party candidate, or whatever, but don't punish the constituents by supporting liberals.
I went Independent, though.
I guess we’re going to have to take a worse butt-whuppin’ in 2008 than we did in 2006 for the GOP to get back to it’s Conservative roots.
How did it ever come to this?
Party’s are not indestructible. Since the two party’s seem bent on fusion, there is coming a time when a new political party will have to rise.
Hegel Dialectic in action. 1st you have a thesis, in reaction to which forms an antithesis which over time combines to become the synthesis which then becomes the thesis developing a new antithesis.
In these terms the thesis was the Democrat party, which developed over time the anti-thesis Republican party. With McCain in the lead, the the purging of true Conservative candidates like this, we seem to see the Republican Establishment accelerating a fusion with the Democrat Party leadership. They are becoming a synthesis.
SO it appears the Republican-Democrats will form a globalist, interventionist European Socialist style party. That will be the new thesis.
In reaction to that something new will arise. An new Anti-thesis. It may be that Ron Paul is an out rider of that new trend. Perhaps indicating the coming rise of an Isolationist, limited Govt., Nationalist party of Libertarian-Conservatives to oppose the Corporatist Democrat-Republican party
A lot rides on this election for setting the course of politics for the coming generation. If it ends up being Hillary-vrs McCain it will be a matter only of the party’s arguing over the speed to which the US should develop a European style authoritarian bureaucratic socialist style Govt.
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He had to have known the best candidate for the race was the former incumbent, and it was her honor to seek a rematch, and she was likely going to have the party’s full backing. His public meltdown, switching parties and endorsing the moonbat incumbent showed he was not the right person to be running for Congress. As one of the local Republican leaders said, “He’s the Democrat’s problem now.” They ain’t gonna want him, either.
I feel like I am trapped in the bizarro world Free Republic. People going on about candidates they admit would be lousy President’s and a “blame America first” Pacifist who’s foreign policy resembles Bill Clinton’s....without the muscle!
I am going to go to sleep, pretend this was a bad dream and then return to the real world where those very “special” little men will be lucky to get 10% tomorrow.
I’m calling whiner also. A senator opposed him, roughly. Boo. Hoo.
He was getting outgunned, contested primaries can get very nasty. It’s a general rule that the lower the level, the nastier the fight (think intra-family squabbles).
He was running against a former incumbent, no doubt one that had more organization up and down than he.
Politics IS a power struggle. If you win, you must build - and even fight - for it. If you win, your team wins, you get to build more, the other team loses. This goes for both inside and outside party battles.
This ex-football player forgot how you have to fight for something if you want it bad enough.
And perhaps now we can guess why.
Well shucks, from reading the first part of this post, I thought it was about a run for Congress.
But apparently it was about a football game after all...
More and more lately it is the conservatives that are the RINO’s and the party continues its’ slide leftward.
I have no idea how good a “conservative” this man was, nor do I condone chasing people out of primaries.
On the other hand, Ann Northrup is no RINO. Her 2005 ACU rating was a 96. We can’t be pushing so hard for ideological purity that a “good conservatives” would back some liberal democrat against a republican with a 96 ACU rating.
So it sounds like something else is going on, and I don’t like it.
Thanks for the ping. I’ll be changing my registration to Independent after the primary. I’ve had it with the Republican Party. Mitch McConnell, John McCain & George Bush can all kiss my big fat a$$.
From reading the article, I don’t see where anything done to this guy was so terrible. The recording just had a guy who wanted to talk to him before he did an interview on the radio. So what??
Maybe the establishment was pushing for Northup to be the challenger. So what? Being a conservative means overcoming obstacles. As long as he had money, what can the republican establishment do? If he wanted the seat he should have kept on campaigning, not whined.
I agree about his assertions about the RHINOs from John McCain on down are trying to hijack the party away from the conservatives. However, in his instance it does not sound like that is what is happening. Mitch McConnell is one of our better conservative senators and a good leader. I don’t see him endorsing McCain, though I’m sure he’ll probably support him if he’s the nominee.