Posted on 05/14/2008 6:43:50 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Ping!
Now the crap is piling up so fast they need wings to stay above it.
The current crop of gas bags need to bet fired by new conservative talent that needs to be developed at the grass roots level.
John McCain and his buy-in to the ‘global warming’ theory really helps the Pubbies. NOT!
The RINO clowns never learn. They are content in the monority.
Instead of changing their ways, they decided to change the party to fit their folly.
Hence the outcome.
"The lack of motivation comes from a disgust with a Republican Party that still hasn’t learned why it lost the majority in 2006. They lost those mid-term elections not because voters stopped supporting conservative principles, but because the House GOP stopped supporting conservative principles."
But will they face the reality of the situation that conservatives are leaving in droves or will simply ignore the problem that the GOP today has turned left and the left have turned marxist?
A big bump to that post.
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So: upside, a little. ;)
Y'all got that? Threatening me with Barack Obama is NOT going to get me to vote for McCain. So don't bother!
Obama or Hillary ???
This is distressing. Remember how Mark Foley and harrassment of male pages in Congress was all over the news in Sept. and Oct. ‘06 leading up to the election? That contributed to Republican losses that year also. That was also the “macaca” election loss for George Allen in Virginia.
Turnout was very low too in ‘06 mid-terms I thought, due in part to discouragement by Republicans. Hillary brags she got 67% of the vote in her re-election to the Senate, but she actually got fewer votes in her re-election than her original election because turnout was so low.
Well, hopefully we’ll pump up turnout this year, with the prospect of an Obama liberal Democrat pres. and majority in Congress awaiting us. Republicans should stand up for principles and values, not the mushy middle.
Pfft. I survived four years of Jimmah "Mr. Peanut" Carter, and nearly an entire decade of the Clinton crime machine. I'm too blamed old to be frightened overmuch by the spectre of four years under "Jughead" Obama.
The conservative movement in this country grinding to a complete and irreversible halt under Juan McCain, on the other hand: now, that prospect genuinely terrifies me.
It’s going to be exceedingly difficult to increase turnout with a candidate at the head of the ticket whom nobody likes.
The last real momentum was in 2004, an extraordinary turnout for a second term election. Then the RINOs and George Bush started kicking everyone in the teeth, and the voters are so discouraged now many of them probably won’t bother to go to the polls.
I am not advocating that. But I fear that is what will happen. And like 2006, it will be the fault of the RNC and the Powers that Be.
Agent of change? What kind of change? McCain says he supports the tax cuts, yet he votes against the tax cuts. He says he is a conservative yet he disses conservatives at every turn. The only change I can see is he will be a Republican president who governs like a Democrat. The MSM will love him, the moderates will love him, the liberals will use him and we are a people without a party.
Republicans should stand up for principles and values, not the mushy middle.
That's something I can't see them doing right now. They haven't been hurt enough yet to be brought back to reality. They are still wearing blinders and going along with the ideologies that closely resembles dems. Some day they'll get their wake-up call. Sometimes the only way to tell which party they are speaking from is if there's an D or R behind their names. Other than that - they are the same.
I will always remember the George Bushes as the presidents who drove the conservatives from the Republican Party and thus destroyed it as a positive force in America.
Look at my post #18. You've hit the nail on the head.
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