"You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right"
Posted on 05/12/2010 4:27:09 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
“There’s something happenin’ here, what it is ain’t exactly clear …”
— Stephen Stills, 1967
You see Utah’s Bob Bennett, who had a few moments of apostasy in the congregation’s eyes and dared to bow at the altar of bipartisanship, and he is brutally excommunicated.
You see Arizona’s John McCain, who couldn’t please the faithful as a presidential nominee and now is campaigning as a Joe Arpaio disciple, and he may be the next to be expelled from the Church of the Conservatives.
And, closer to home, you see Sue Lowden and Brian Sandoval, who are desperately trying to preach the right gospel and make the parishioners sing along, and yet they are getting crushed in straw poll after straw poll.
For what it’s worth, the moderate-cleansing in the Republican Party in these days of tea and poses could pay off in the short run for the candidates who can deliver the best conservative sermons and fool some of the small electoral universe on June 8. But four weeks before voters who don’t cast ballots early go to the polls, you can almost smell it in the air in the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial primaries — the scent of uncertainty, even of fear.
I expect liberals to be liberals, that's why I don't vote for them. But the republicans lied to my face to get my vote, broke their campaign promises and then helped break the country.
They are the enemy. I love it when they lose, get the boot and are replaced by someone who can fight the progressives and restore the country. Ain't karma a bitch?
Be alert to the fact that they may decide to team up with the Democrats to try and tamp down the Tea Party uprising in an effort to save their flabbly pink skins (stuff like McCain-Feingold, some version of the Fairness Doctrine, tarring Tea Partiers as “extremist”, etc.)
LLS
I voted for mcamnesty because of Palin... I still hate the sob. I hate rinos too... and I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR ANOTHER POS RINO.
LLS
Things are shaking out with regard to RINO's. There is no doubt what conservatives expect from our candidates and we won't accept anything less.
We can't dwell on the past. Rather we should learn from it and that's the good news.
I love the smell of RINO fear in the morning ;-)
NOW THAT IS AWESOME! I want a Tee shirt with that on it!
That's what this "R" at any cost party politics crap has gotten us. The GOP elites know they can throw left wing politicians labeled with the "R" at you and you will vote for them every time because you're so scared of the "D" winning if you don't go along with their game.
I recognize that game of fear for what it is and refuse to play it any longer.
As long as conservatives join Republican moderates (yes, including the RINOs that survive the primaries), the left Socialist Democrats don't stand a chance in November.
It’s pretty simple, isn’t it?
Vote/campaign against the RINO in the primary,
against the ‘rat in the general.
Rinse and repeat.
Thanks.
"You run one time, you got yourself a set of chains. You run twice you got yourself two sets. You ain't gonna need no third set, 'cause you gonna get your mind right"
In Texas it's easy as ABC... Anybody But Chet.
Vote out Chet Edwards the faux conservative democrap traitor and Pelosi butt-boy.
I believe that the electorate already had it's tantrum in Nov. 2008 and is now finally in a position to do something about it. Good observation my friend.
Yeah, right. But when you have the opportunity to blunt the attack, to soften the momentum, you come onto a conservative forum and tell the real conservatives to go easy on the moderates instead of removing those who have frustrated us repeatedly when they weaken and join the Left, giving them that one critical vote they need.
The scent of fear in the air is from those moderates who are finally, FINALLY, having the battle brought to their previously safe front doors. And you would like us to go lightly.
Your strategy sucks.
How do I agree with the article?
Well this paragraph is really what I agree with:
“For what it’s worth, the moderate-cleansing in the Republican Party in these days of tea and poses could pay off in the short run for the candidates who can deliver the best conservative sermons and fool some of the small electoral universe on June 8. But four weeks before voters who don’t cast ballots early go to the polls, you can almost smell it in the air in the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial primaries — the scent of uncertainty, even of fear.”
Concisely and precisely put. Worth repeating again & again ... BTTT.
Exactly!
LLS
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Might as well just vote them out because no matter how scared they are now, if they get voted back in, they will just revert back to their old ways.
Very well spoken! This is one of the things that depresses me, too. Its like someone hanging on to the sinking Titanic and a somewhat dilapidated boat comes along and they say no thanks, I’ll just hang on to this ship till one I like comes along.
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