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Steele: GOP Should Reach Out To Gay, Pro-Choice Voters
Video Cafe (via Fox News) ^ | Feburary 1, 2009 | David Sunday

Posted on 02/02/2009 9:17:17 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior

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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Correction to last post

Well he f***ing go again!should read, Well here we f***ing go again!

I was hoping this guy would be different but he is the same old moderate, left leaning type of RINO we have been getting. The party better get out their shovels because they are dead now without the conservative base.

81 posted on 02/02/2009 9:46:11 AM PST by calex59
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To: Retired Greyhound
Some of you folks are funny.

If Reagan is truly the model, please tell me when he ever refused to work with somebody over a difference of opinion on gay rights or abortion issues.

If the current Republican Party shared Reagan's views on government's role, I might agree with you.

Unfortunately...

82 posted on 02/02/2009 9:46:48 AM PST by WrightWings (Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...)
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To: chesley

Count me out.


83 posted on 02/02/2009 9:47:19 AM PST by bmwcyle (I have no President as of Jan 20th 2009. No Congress either.)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

What a disaster. Steele immediately exposes himself as a RINO. Conservatives need to make it clear that there won’t be any campaign contributions flowing in as long as this is the position of the chairman of RNC.


84 posted on 02/02/2009 9:47:23 AM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

I have to remember to send a ‘change of address’ notice to the RNC so they send their crap to somebody else’s address. For three years I’ve been throwing their solicitations in the trash unopened, but I don’t even want to waste that much effort anymore.


85 posted on 02/02/2009 9:47:27 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

I have no problem reaching out to those people as long as we don’t compromise our position on those issues.


86 posted on 02/02/2009 9:48:16 AM PST by oldvike
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To: God luvs America
reaching out to these voters versus adopting their agenda; whether it be for political or genuine purposes, are night and day...

How exactly do you "reach out" and appeal to such people without moving their agenda forward?

87 posted on 02/02/2009 9:48:22 AM PST by Sloth (The tree of liberty desperately needs watering.)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

I am a lifelong conservative Republican. If the pro-life, pro-family, less government, pro-free enterprise tenets of the party are going to be abandoned, you’ll never find me in the voting booth again. Good luck America.


88 posted on 02/02/2009 9:48:36 AM PST by veritas2002
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To: Salvation
Unless he is talking about hating the sin and loving the sinner.

How do you do that politically without giving into their sin.

Steele either renounces this position or he needs to be forced to resign.

89 posted on 02/02/2009 9:48:44 AM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: LibLieSlayer
Embracing the issues of your political enemy is wrong headed and serves no good purpose.

"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers."

~~~ Ronald Reagan, 1975

90 posted on 02/02/2009 9:49:11 AM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Does the GOP “reach out” to these groups by supporting FOCA and homosexual marriages?


91 posted on 02/02/2009 9:49:43 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Oh Brother! . . not this again. I’m so sick of republicans. Other than Palin, I can’t stand the deceitful big tent McCainiacs. Call me a constitutionalist or whatever but don’t associate me with RINOS and Godless democrats. Pro-murder people and proud degenerates belong in the democratic party, not any party of mine!


92 posted on 02/02/2009 9:50:01 AM PST by 2nd Amendment
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Sure we can reach out and be polite; but we should not change our pro life or anti gay marriage positions.


93 posted on 02/02/2009 9:50:10 AM PST by kenmcg (cOMMBYAH)
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To: ForeignDude

The problem with Steele’s pronouncement is that it will drive away social conservatives....who are the strongest voting bloc

You do not win elections by driving away your strongest voting bloc....you win on core principles

If you truly want to bring in non-traditional Republicans....you do that with a commitment for lower taxes and job creation. In 2010 and 2012 those will be key issues.


94 posted on 02/02/2009 9:50:32 AM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (The UnHoly Grail of Anti-Americanism: Illegal Aliens, Globalism, Free Trade, WTO, UN,)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Well, that’s disappointing. But we’ll see what happens. It’s tough to tell with the media landscape being what it is today, whether people are actually saying what they mean or have to curb their words so they’re not labeled Uncle Tom and such.

I believe what you’re saying, but I am going to wait and see what he does. If he starts pushing more of the same crap like we’ve seen over the last decade or more, then I dunno...maybe it’s time for me to pack up my interest in politics and get into fishing or something.


95 posted on 02/02/2009 9:50:35 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
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To: ForeignDude
Your opinion is what caused pubs to walk the wilderness for 45 years (minority status) and you will be walking the wilderness for another 45 years. Try to get enough gays and baby murderers to replace the majority of the base of your party... and try to do without all of the $$$ we Conservatives have given. I am through with your pathetic party and its satanic weaknesses. I am no longer a member of the National republican party.

LLS

96 posted on 02/02/2009 9:50:39 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Heck, I think we ought to reach out to child molesters. They pay taxes, too, right?

< / sarc >


97 posted on 02/02/2009 9:51:00 AM PST by Sloth (The tree of liberty desperately needs watering.)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

The “Bridge” between Conservatives and “Moderates” is built by Socialists. It ain’t gonna happen!


98 posted on 02/02/2009 9:51:03 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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To: oldvike

We have nothing, absolutely nothing, to offer these people that the DEMS don’t already give them.

They will continue to lose until they return to conservative values. Period.

I’m OUT !!


99 posted on 02/02/2009 9:51:53 AM PST by Reagan69 (No Representation without Taxation !)
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To: All

I think there is a solution here- all these issues are not national, they go back to the States.

The GOP should adopt one single campaigm plank– wrest all this corrupt, centralized power out of Moscow on the Potomac, and give it back to the States where it belongs. Now, the person who disagrees with that is a real political enemy.

As long as voters agree with me on that one plank- they’re my national allies——


100 posted on 02/02/2009 9:51:54 AM PST by VinL (VinL---former username (wegotsarah.com))
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