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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: Responsibility2nd
Are you outta your FReeping mind?? just asking. I explained what I meant in that post. What is it about it that you think means I'm out of my mind? If you think we can win elections with what we got to come out this past one, you're the one out of your mind. Notice what I said--what is wrong with it?
101 posted on 02/02/2009 9:51:55 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
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To: chesley

You’ll never vote for ANY Republican again because of Steele’s comments? Right.

Tell me, Chesley, how do YOU propose the GOP regain a foothold in the NE and Pacific states? In those areas, the culture war is already over — and our side has lost. For all her faults, I’d rather have Christie Whitman running NJ than Cornine. Does that make me a traitor to conservatism, or does it make me pragmatic?


102 posted on 02/02/2009 9:52:00 AM PST by Gunder
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
Barf.

I've been a Republican all my life, but . . .

103 posted on 02/02/2009 9:52:22 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator ('Ashirah leHaShem ki ga'oh ga'ah, sus verokhevo ramah vayam!)
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To: BuffaloJack

OK all.. hear me out on this one. We in the GOP can accept and not judge the Gays and other leftist waywards. We don’t have to embrace their ideology or beliefs but lets not reject them openly. Let God do the Judgement thing....we are ALL sinners... We can be against gay marriage, abortion, etc... lets not be overly harsh against those who have lost their way. God gives grace and so should we....Michael Steele is a gracious guy.


104 posted on 02/02/2009 9:53:31 AM PST by tflabo
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Ah well - another 4 years of getting screamed at and insulted by the liberal Republicans on FR for not supporting their guy “because he can win”.


105 posted on 02/02/2009 9:53:38 AM PST by RabidBartender
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
www.gop.com/2008Platform/Values.htm

RNC, of which I allowed my membership to lapse under Duncan, hasn't changed its core beliefs.

I'd argue that Steele is being smart here. Attracting voters to the Republican Party is not, I will repeat that, NOT, the same as appeasing them or adopting their views as official Republican policy.

106 posted on 02/02/2009 9:53:39 AM PST by jla (Sarah! sarahpac.com)
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To: jla
Exactly!!
107 posted on 02/02/2009 9:55:15 AM PST by spectre (sw)
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To: PrincessB
Norm Coleman's office called me today asking for financial support to secure his stolen seat... I asked why the republican party is not involved... he said “good question”. The pubbies have offered nothing to Norm... not even condolences.

LLS

108 posted on 02/02/2009 9:56:02 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my president... NEVER!)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Well... that’s that.


109 posted on 02/02/2009 9:56:06 AM PST by Peter W. Kessler (Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Oh, crap! We are screwed!


110 posted on 02/02/2009 9:56:18 AM PST by beckysueb (Palin/Jindahl in 2012)
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To: Reagan69

Good point.


111 posted on 02/02/2009 9:56:42 AM PST by oldvike
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To: All

Look, this is idiotic. If this article was about a Demonrat leader saying how they planned to “reach out” to pro-lifers and 2nd Amendment activists — while not compromising their pro-abortion, anti-gun policies — we’d all laugh at how dumb that is.


112 posted on 02/02/2009 9:58:40 AM PST by Sloth (The tree of liberty desperately needs watering.)
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To: Troll_House_Cookies
Away from moral issues and more toward economic/freedom issues. maybe we’ll finally win an election. Its not always about abortion guys.

So, the next GOP presidential nominee should pledge to appoint activist judges who'll uphold Rowe vs. Wade and gay rights?

You want new emphasis to appeal to non-Republican voters in blue states, an emphasis that would alienate present Republican voters in red states that actually vote for GOP presidential candidates.

Great strategy.

113 posted on 02/02/2009 9:58:43 AM PST by Will88
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To: jla
>>>>>I'd argue that Steele is being smart here. Attracting voters to the Republican Party is not, I will repeat that, NOT, the same as appeasing them or adopting their views as official Republican policy.

You can't be serious.

"I don 't know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, "We must broaden the base of our party" -- when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents."
~~~ Ronald Reagan, 1975

Deja vu all over again.

114 posted on 02/02/2009 9:59:51 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: Darkwolf377

I’m sorry. I noticed after I replied to you that your tagline states you are an atheist.

Explains a lot.

Now you admit to being a Republican.

You are pro-gay. You are pro-choice.

You are in a small minority of thinkers here at FR as you state “what is wrong with it?”

Read the previous replies. There are a few dim-bulbs like yourself who are in favor of Steele’s position. A few of these pro-gay/pro choice replies drag Reagan into the mix. Funny as hell to see thinking FReepers shoot them down with rational answers.

Why are you here on this site? You should be here:http://www.democraticunderground.com/


115 posted on 02/02/2009 10:00:39 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: chesley

Mine too!


116 posted on 02/02/2009 10:04:06 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
I think a lot of pro-abortion people vote Republicans for fiscal or national security reasons or both. The most important thing is to keep the Republican Party as the advocate of protecting the life of the unborn and if pro-abortion people vote Republican for other than the abortion issue then so be it.
117 posted on 02/02/2009 10:04:22 AM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

well gee... that ought to help... keep 0bama and the dems in control

i’d swear, the people at the top of the RNC have no idea how things work. they think they can co-opt the liberal message, big tent it, and then the GOP is all things to all people.

only problem is, the vast majority of the US doesn’t like the left... and they just don’t bother to vote as the ‘leaders’ being promoted by the right are not inspiring.

put Sarah on a stage, and you’ll see someone that has been there and is living the example... thereby speaking for the people on the right... and then you’ll start to see real crowds come out to vote


118 posted on 02/02/2009 10:04:28 AM PST by sten
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To: Gunder

If I may join in, I would say that being “Pragmatic” is another code word for being a moderate socialist. Meaning you will gladly accept every attempt to tear down every principle that is the basis for Conservatism in the first place.

As far as trying to mimic the party that has spoiled the East coast in the first place, simply leave them to their own degradation. Before long, they will crumble from within their own design.

That is when a real Conservative steps in and turns it around like Reagan did. You don’t fight these people by joining them in other words, you let them stew in their own juices and fail miserably. The more you leave them to their own ideology, the quicker they fail.


119 posted on 02/02/2009 10:05:25 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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To: spectre
LOL - It can be difficult to get along sometimes though with the 'socially progressed Republicans'. I was at a function for Eric Cantor a few years ago and struck up a conversation with a gentleman there, I broached the subject of abortion, giving my opinion on that pernicious and vile act, and he went ballistic on me.
Here was a man who espoused the economics of von Mises, a strong nat'l defense, the 2nd amend., etc. yet read me the riot act over abortion, strongly exclaiming that "you people really have to stop bringing abortion up all the damn time!"..yada, yada, yada.
I calmly listened and when he was finished with his little tirade I asked, "want to know a really great book, one authored by Ronald Reagan?". He half-smiled and inquired, "what's that?". My reply to him was, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation" published smack in the middle of his campaign with Gore. Didn't seem to have hurt Ronald's chances in that election, eh?
He just waved me off and walked away. LOL
120 posted on 02/02/2009 10:06:19 AM PST by jla (Sarah! sarahpac.com)
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