Posted on 11/07/2008 3:38:25 PM PST by goldstategop
RUSH: Man, things just keep falling into my lap here. Politicians of both parties unwittingly make me look like the genius I already am. Christopher Shays, moderate congressman from Connecticut who was sent packing on Tuesday, there are now no Republican members of the House from a northeastern state. So Christopher Shays decided to go on MSNBC and tell the Republican Party what it needs to do to win, after it just got wiped out. He was on with Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington. "We saw what happened to Sununu, had a lot of support, a lot of good marks in the Senate, but he couldn't go against what was going on in New England as well as on the Senate side."
SHAYS: Sue Collins had a terrific victory. She got more votes than Barack Obama, and she ran against a very competent opponent. So I think our party is going to do fine. Ultimately it's going to figure it out, and it's not that they weren't conservative enough, maybe in some areas being fiscally conservative I would agree, but being socially conservative to religious right, no, you're not going to be in the majority that way. You gotta reach out to African-Americans, you gotta reach out to Latinos, and you gotta be an inclusive party, and we aren't right now, but we will be, or we will be extinct.
RUSH: I don't know what to say to this, except good riddance. We just had our clocks cleaned. Congressman Shays just had his own clock cleaned. And this, by the way, typical Drive-By Media, you go to a Republican who lost and ask him how to win. He's as moderate as a Republican could get and he lost. We didn't reach out to Hispanics? Have you ever heard of amnesty? Have you ever heard of comprehensive immigration reform, meaningful, meaningful, comprehensive immigration -- have you ever heard of that, Mr. Shays? We didn't reach out to blacks? This is just typical northeast elitist attitude, "We cannot win with the religious right. You're not going to be in the majority that way." How the hell did we do it in the eighties? How the hell did we do it in 1994? So this is just classic. Go to a candidate who lost, ask him what the Republicans need to do to win. This guy is as moderate as you could get. He's reaching across the aisle; he's reaching out; he's doing town meetings, swept away. In the midst of having the party's clock cleaned, the architects of the clock cleaning are now telling us that we didn't do what we did that got the clock cleaned in the first place, we need to do more of what we already did that got the clock cleaned!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It was a very poor idea for Chris to try this.
What isn’t being said, is that the RNC is going to do it’s best impression of this version of him over the next six months.
By the end of that period I’d like to see many grass route efforts doing an end run on the stupid party well on their way to victory by 2010.
If he voted for the obscene bailout, he isn’t qualified to advice anyone.
I heard RUSH elaborate on this “moderate” and his BS this morning...
Rush rocks.
It’s likely Chris Shays followed his own advice - and lost. Only RINO’s and their MSM-fellow travelers could think Conservatives will follow Shays’s advice.
You never win Hispanic voters by pandering them with Illegal Alien Amnesty
McCain, the most pro-illegal alien candidate, lost Hispanics 2-1 nationally.
The real telling stat is that conservative voters pct went down in this election....cant win without conservatives turning out
Whenever a GOP says “bipartisan” he is a liberal
lolololololololololololol.
Listen to what he has to say, and then do just the opposite.
Clearly we need to make brilliant political strategist Christopher Shays the new RNC Chairman.
/SARCASM
Maybe Ann Coulter will run for his seat :-)
Wasn’t it Shays that folded during the Clinton scandal?
” “Reach across the aisle,” “practice bipartisanship,” “get the minorities,” “ditch the Religious Right,” and just get the Left to like you. Yeah, that’s a winning formula, alright! Thanks, Chris, for those profound insights. (laughing)”
Seriously, that’s the Meme that is being shoveled out today. It was an editorial in our rag this morning, (Yes, I gag at breakfast, but somebody has to read the screed.)
I think the left is afraid of the blowback coming. They also do not know how it is going to come about. Reminds me that Satan while he know certain things is not omnipotant.
Neither are the dems.
A good point, but, I think that Shays is saying that we should employ the Rahmbo strategy of recruiting candidates that adhere to constituents at home. They stick to the big stuff with the party and pander to the folks at home on the little stuff. Is it sleazy, probably, is it dishonest, definitely, but, we are talking Bolshecrats. If you have a litmus test for who can be in your party, it is going to very small and very unhappy. The point is not to bicker over who is the most Republican, but, to point out where the opponent is wrong. Don’t fight yourselves, batter the other guy.
If the entire Republican delegation in the House switched party could they name the next speaker. Blue dogs and bluer dogs rule. I expect we would have the spectacle of the Bolshies deciding who can be members.
Right. The blowback will come and I think that by this time next year all the air will be out of BO’s promises. Reality will bite.
IDK how he voted but the fact that he just got smoked says it all as far as qualifications to make prescriptive statements about winning is concerned.
YO SHAYS ... all you taught us was HOW TO LOSE!!!
Take your RINO Butt and run somewhere as a DEM ..for DOGCATCHER!
GET RID OF EVERY REPUBLICAN RINO IN THE PRIMARIES IN 2010~!!
YOur vote has 100 to 1000 times the effect in OFF-YEAR PRIMARIES!!!
Because only a small a percentage of people will vote in 2010 and even fewer in the primaries.
In my precinct 6 people voted last cycle. (all day long!!)
So 10 of us getting together could have changed the outcome to CONSERVATIVE
GRASS ROOTS EFFORT IS NEEDED STARTING NOW TO REPEAT 1994
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