Posted on 07/08/2009 6:55:10 AM PDT by flattorney
A RINO is one who will simply vote for liberal stupidity, examples are Specter and the 2 senator hags from Maine!
Th RINO’s should simply join the Democrats and not play games that split conservatives from their party. So what is the conservatives don’t win any thing for a while...the natural destrctuin that is occuring under the system right now will make every day folks consider the conservative message. None of this morally liberal fiscally conservative crap either...if you are not morally conservative you can’t really be fiscally conservative!
Interesting.
I didn’t realize Minnesota even HAD a Republican Party!
(and I live here...)
1. Ditch the loser, boutique, vanity, designer, can’t draw more than 1% of the electorate candidates.
2. Control the purse, control the party.
3. 3 issues and 3 issues only.
I Palin builds it, I will come.
If Palin builds it, I will come.
But would Joe agree with you? Much of what he spoke about was being more inclusive.
If anyone initiates some kind of third party, or third party candidacy along the lines of Ross Perot or Ron Paul, you can say hello to Bambi and his crowd forever. Get that kind of thinking out of your collective heads.
I would feel better about a GOP party that would remove it’s head from it’s @ss and start concerning itself with winning elections rather than planning the next coffee klatch.
I’ve long thought that Kline, and not Pawlenty, was the real model Republican from Minnesota.
Who says he served exactly as a LT COL for 30 years...he probably worked himself thru the ranks and was a a LT COl. when he retired.
Could have been a voluntary return to AD. Not out of the question. Especially if he was a medical officer or in some other small density combat service support branch. It may also just be worded poorly. He may have served as a contractor or in civil service during OIF.
can not cleanse a corrupted vessel, it must be replaced.
new wineskins?
“The real problem is that RINOs have a deathgrip on control and money in the GOP.”
And if we start a Conservative Party, the Rinos will STILL have a deathgrip on control and money. You know what the difference is cripplecreek? The Rinos are SPINELESS COWARDS
and we are FIGHTERS. Reagan figured this out, and would not negotiate with the Bob Doles, and he won. We must kick Rino a$$!! If we do, they will cave.
“Somewhere there is a political party that isn’t bought and paid for by large financial donors or special interests.”
Sadly, no.
There must be a party in need of fiscally conservative, principled individuals who will work for the people of Minnesota and not for the blind political ambition of a few. I encourage like-minded Republican voters to join me.
The unfortunate result of this opus, will be continued losses.All other party choices have the same problems on a lesser scale, and will get you two percent of the vote if you are lucky. If you can’t change the Republican party, you have very few alternatives,
Switching to something else will not be a positive move, unless crowing about your small percentage gains in votes, and successes in getting candidates past the paperwork and signature nightmare just to get on the ballot, for third party turns your crank.
An example might be the principles of the Constitution Party, that got thoroughly mixed up when they decided GWB was a problem not a President, the gulf war wasn’t worth the fight, and the rabid side of pro-life took over the party. That proved to me all I wanted to know about third parties.
The Minnesota GOP sounds like the Pa. GOP.
Oh yeah! Start a new party, what will we call it? The Cut and Run party? If you don’t like what is going on in the GOP get together and fix it. If you run away like little girls you haven’t got a prayer of winning with a bunch of quitters.
“What you don’t seem to realize is that the scum have always run the GOP. It was only during the Reagan/Gingrich interlude that conservatives got energized and had some influence (not enough imo) in the party.”
Yeah, but the Rinos were always more prevalent on the east coast.
Reagan rose to power when we elected a left wing defeatist
who didn’t believe in American free enterprise. Ring a bell today?? The time is ripe for a positive candidate to defeat Obama’s Marxist defeatism.
I agree. I personally think Pawlenty’s decision not to run for a third term has national implications rather than any perceived shortcoming on the part of the Minnesota GOP.
I can’t speak to the Ron Paul issue other than to say I didn’t support him.
Minnesota voters are famous for their independence (unfortunately). You could say that the GOP is ineffective, but you could also say the DFL is impotent too since we haven’t had a Democrat governor in this state for over 25 years.
There’s no doubt that Dean Barkley’s candidacy hurt Coleman. The nuts and flakes voted for the Senator-Select and Barkley siphoned support off Coleman. That’s where the state GOP could have helped, but despite it all they couldn’t overcome those infamous ‘found votes’ Democrats are so good at conjuring up when they want to cheat their way to election.
But to the main point: I don’t see an impotent GOP in this state. I see a party that suffered, like many state parties did, in the 2008 electoral climate but which still elected a governor that singlehandedly stopped Democrat excesses in the Legislature this term.
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