Posted on 12/29/2010 12:05:57 PM PST by rabscuttle385
I supported Chris Christie. But, let's be real...Christie is a fiscal conservative, not a social conservative.
Brown had Tea Party support in Massachusetts and won. That means someone far more conservative could have won the seat.
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Brown had the best possible environment and an inept opponent, and still only won 52-48.
Massachusetts is the state that made "Ted Kennedy's Seat" a lifetime position...it's the state that has re-elected live shot time and again.
It is the loser's mentality that you have the prevents any real progress from being made...
You are a funny guy...say some more.
If there's a difference between you and me, it's that I don't suffer from a bumper sticker mentality...and I don't believe in doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
There are some folks who, frankly, should be embarassed about their opinions, and have a greater awareness of their own limitations.
I guess this is the conservative version of the race card.
Hatch is squishy. Utah will send a more reliably conservative member to the Senate.
Surely I'm not the only person who remembers the various Hatch-RAT bills?
I don't know if this is the case, but I'm willing to risk it.
How about the most conservative candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning?
He was just reelected. He’s not up again until 2016.
Brown I can understand being Taxachussetts and all. Didn’t Maine just elect a Republican governor and legislature?
Kirk’s seat isn’t up again until 2016.
Hey, what a convention!!!! Delightful to hear. Your enthusiasm reeks through and that’s wonderful. Exactly what we need, as opposed to the down in the mouth crowd. It’s positively contagious. Congratulations! And the governor’s innauguration will be a feather in the caps of fired up Maine Republicans. Keep us posted. Very interesting and uplifting for freepers to hear.
You’re the fourth or fifth person that’s told me that and I’ve already confessed to not reading the article but only names.
I want Kirk out of the Senate before his term is up, maybe he will get caught committing some especially heinous crime before then. I expect him to come out of the queer closet any day now, the only question is, whether he does it before or after he switches parties.
Christie openly pro-life and has gone out of his way to defund Planned Parenthood in New Jersey. He opposes gay marriage and supports school vouchers.
It's also a state where Republican frequently win the governorship.
When the opportunity exists to take a Senate seat there, it is important a conservative rather than a RINO have the opportunity to take it.
Its hard to tell exactly how conservatives will be feeling in 2012. Snowe is popular with Democrats, not Republicans, in Maine. The tea party candidate may need a lot of out of state money to win the primary. If the people, here, from all across the country who constantly complain about how terrible Snowe is do contribute to her challengers campaign, it shouldn’t be too difficult to beat Snowe in the primary. Hopefully there will be one clear tea party candidate and everyone will be able to rally around that candidate. If I was Snowe, I’d want a lot of challengers to split the anti-Snowe vote. Has the tea party developed enough to have a “convention” where a somewhat official tea party nominee can be nominated?
> How about the most conservative candidate who has a reasonable chance of winning?
- Like FioRINO? (if they wanted a RINO who could win they shoulda picked Tom Campbell)
- Like Meg Whitman?
- Like Scozzafava, who, when it looked like she was not gonna win, ENDORSED THE DIMOCRAT?
The problem with RINOs is that they have no principles. They’ll turn on you and vote up odious legislation and then it’ll have that “BIPARTISAN” label when it is LIBERAL LIBERAL LIBERAL.
I like my enemies to be upfront and out in the open not shadowed and masked.
Make sure that every time you get a request for a donation from the RNC that you use the return envelope to send a note saying you will not donate until these repeat offenders are GONE- and that you are sending all that cash to real conservative candidates directly.
Add McCain and Graham to the list as well.
don’t forget the local level Republican Party organizations ;
these are the groups that send us these people and defy the Constitutional Conservative movements .
The clueless mainstreamers are merely extensions of those that propel them into office .
Look at Robert Byrd. He only left the Senate in a pine box. What are they, after all, if they leave the Senate? As pitiful as a retired 4-star general playing golf every day.
Pride is one thing,arrogance is another. Lugar gets further from his earlier self-every day he stays in Washington.
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