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Six ways the GOP can save itself
Politico ^ | May 15, 2008 01:07 PM EST | Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen

Posted on 05/15/2008 10:48:53 AM PDT by MovementConservative

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To: MovementConservative

Illegal immigration: Close the border and deport the illegal aliens.


21 posted on 05/15/2008 11:26:26 AM PDT by donna ("Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.")
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To: MovementConservative
> Former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney says it should be a modern edition of Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America.”

There it is.

Thats all six reasons rolled into one. - Nobody is listening.

22 posted on 05/15/2008 11:27:34 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: theFIRMbss

[shrugs] I am quite sure
four (or eight!) McCain years
will scare the splitters

who’d rather stay on the plantation.
than admit the world doesn’t
revolve around them.


23 posted on 05/15/2008 11:28:49 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: SoConPubbie
>This is a Conservative site...

Ummm, yeah, I know that.
I've been here five years longer
than you have, my friend.

But the childish
notion that conservatives
can only vote for

individuals
who mirror all their private
likes, dislikes and whims

is wrecking not just
the Republican party
but conservatives

as a social group.
Pretty soon "conservatives"
(I mean whining ones)

will pick some joker--
a type like Lyndon LaRouche--
with no chance in hell

of winning big votes
but because the guy presses
all the right buttons

the "conservatives"
that have to be spelled with quotes
will splinter for good

and conservatives--
real conservatives, smart folks,
can get back to work!

24 posted on 05/15/2008 11:29:16 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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To: MovementConservative

A better question is can the Democrats capitalize by moving to the center and embracing soldiers, small businessmen, hunters, and last, but not least, Christians? A: probably not. So they will fail as well and the pendulum will bounce back.


25 posted on 05/15/2008 11:32:10 AM PDT by palmer
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Conservatives have to take back the party or start a new one.

We're now working on the latter.

26 posted on 05/15/2008 11:33:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (The formerly grand OLD party has completely Whigged out.( Join the new one: SelfGovernment.US))
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To: MovementConservative
Republicans desperately need to cook up some new ideas and craft an attractive agenda to have any chance of success.

Uh ... that's what they've been doing to get into this mess! Cooking up new ideas? crafting attractive agendas? How about trying that which works - CONSERVATISM! the point of which is that we _already_ know the answers, and problems stem from deviating from them.

27 posted on 05/15/2008 11:37:19 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (The average piece of junk is more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. - Ratatouille)
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To: MovementConservative
How can the GOP be saved?

The RNC and Republicans in Congress could save the party by stopping sodomizing the Conservative base and appeasing the liberals at every turn.

28 posted on 05/15/2008 11:42:49 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Antoninus
Not one word about the border.

Actually McGore announced today that the border problem has been solved.

29 posted on 05/15/2008 11:44:36 AM PDT by itsahoot (Global Government is coming because, I guess we want it.)
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To: itsahoot
Actually McGore announced today that the border problem has been solved.

No, he didn't. Read his speech again.

30 posted on 05/15/2008 11:46:24 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (From "hooah!" to "meh..." in only three weeks' time...)
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To: MovementConservative
Save Yourself
31 posted on 05/15/2008 11:50:30 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: Grunthor
Good point and worth pondering. My current prediction is that most Conservative Republicans will not vote for the pubbies, period. They are finished as far as this election is concerned and as I said on a previous thread, “Good Riddance”! McCain might still be elected, but it will be by Democrats.

So, is this real bad? maybe not. Four years of liberal trash in power will take this country down a path most people cannot begin to comprehend and by then they might just wake up and put real Conservatives back in power. We would have the added benefit that by then the pubbies would have cleaned house, in spades!

32 posted on 05/15/2008 11:57:12 AM PDT by Eighth Square
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To: Eighth Square

“and by then they might just wake up and put real Conservatives back in power.”

And hopefully those candidates will be able and willing to articulate a strong, intelligent conservative message. Not just “we suck less, vote for us.”


33 posted on 05/15/2008 11:59:58 AM PDT by Grunthor (Juan agrees with Ted Kennedy on Amnesty, Gore on GW & says Hillary'd be a good POTUS)
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To: theFIRMbss
What's with the formatting? Is that supposed to impress someone? Intimidate with those bold words?

It's annoying, childish, and likely to go unread.

I've been here two years longer than you -- so what?

34 posted on 05/15/2008 12:00:21 PM PDT by browardchad ("We are all mavericks now." -- Rush Limbaugh)
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To: DaveyB
small government, protection of private property and the common defense. The constitution is a good place to start!

Along these lines, the Pubbies need to figure out why Ron Paul took such a big bite out of the voting and why his new book is at the top of the charts. Having discerned the truth they should embrace it.

One piece is absolutely missing and has to be face up to. First, tear the administration to bits for not telling true statistics on inflation. We all know what has happened to food and energy and derivative products, even if statistically massaged Commmerce statistics try to hide the truth. Second excoriate Bernanke and Paulson for deliberately seeking hyperinflation as a way to bail out Wall Street. The health of New York investment bankers is not identical to life liberty pursuit of happiness and protection of private property in the US (excluding NYC and DC). The subprime mortgage mess as part of the overall financial mess leaves an awfully big lump under the rug. Standing around claiming innocence while looking guilty is not a solution.

35 posted on 05/15/2008 12:00:54 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: MovementConservative

I have just one suggestion: Stop listening to The Washington Post, The New York Times, and their spin-off, Politico.com. Start listening to the folks back home.


36 posted on 05/15/2008 12:11:41 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Who would McQueeg rather have mad at him: You or the liberals?)
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To: Grunthor

Amen!


37 posted on 05/15/2008 12:11:55 PM PDT by Eighth Square
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To: MovementConservative

I don’t know that I can come up with six ideas, but here’s a few...

1) On the war: Have the guts to tell the American people “Grow up!” We’ve been at war with Islamofascism since before Jimmy Carter left Plains to pretend to be President. Whining and bitching about the war won’t end it. It ends when we kill the bastards who started it or they kill us. There’s no in-between. You may not like the way George Bush has run the war, but at least he had the balls to actually do something about it. Can you say the same thing about any Democrat who’s not named “Lieberman”?

2) On “Family values”: Stop carping about them! The GOP spends way too much time worrying about who’s schtupping whom and in what position. We wind up sounding like a bunch of Church Ladies and get little done to actually promote the values we claim to support. Government can’t promote family values. The best you can hope for is that it does as little damage as possible. Don’t whine about Britney Spears flashing her goods outside a nightclub. Instead, point out that she and her fans are overtaxed and that this harms all families. Then point out that the Dems think that we’re all undertaxed.

3) On man-made global warming: This is a tough one since most of our idiot neighbors buy into this myth. But whatever we do, McCain’s stupid carbon tax crap isn’t the answer! Killing off the American economy won’t change the Earth’s surface temperature by a single milliKelvin. Instead, hijack some of the Greenies’ ideas and promote them from a national security angle. Reducing fossil fuel use won’t affect global temperatures, but it will de-fund our enemies. (Giving the Saudis money that they, in turn, give to Al Qaeda is pretty stupid.) If it turns out to benefit the environment, so much the better. But point out that the Democrats’ only plans end with the US economy in the crapper.

I can probably come up with more; so can others here. But in any case, it’s a sure bet that the Stupid Party won’t listen.


38 posted on 05/15/2008 12:12:54 PM PDT by Redcloak (The 2nd Amendment: It's not about sporting goods.)
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To: MovementConservative

Mark.


39 posted on 05/15/2008 12:14:07 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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To: AndyJackson; JasonC
Along these lines, the Pubbies need to figure out why Ron Paul took such a big bite out of the voting

How big a bite was that?

Second excoriate Bernanke and Paulson for deliberately seeking hyperinflation as a way to bail out Wall Street.

Just look what they did to M1!!!

Weimar Germany........

40 posted on 05/15/2008 12:28:07 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Why are doom and gloomers, union members and liberals so bad at math?)
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