[sully777]

Dane states: "Now this going from the sublime to the absurd, when the malcontents start using Kristol, who is a McCain backer."

What an absurd and thoroughly illogical process of thought! If I'm not mistaken, McCain is a republican that ALMOST won the primaries if it wasn't for Bush 43 pandering to the conservatives. Think about it. Bush pandered to the conservatives AND WON! Then Bush left them after the election, just like Daddy 41.

The conservative backlash clashing with socialist infiltration occurs whether they have an R or a D after their name.

[Uncle Jaque]

Hold the phone!!!!;

This just in from RNC HQ in response to our inquiry:

"In response to recent editorials in The Union Leader newspaper in Manchester, NH (which were then discussed on Rush Limbaugh's show), Chairman Gillespie sent the editors the following letter today.

The Union Leader

Attn: Andrew Cline, Editorial Page Editor
P.O. Box 9555
Manchester, NH 03108-9555

Sent via facsimile: (603) 668-0382

September 3, 2003

Dear Editors,

Thank you for your hospitality and I look forward to sitting down again with you in the future but would like to clarify a few things in the interim.

The party of George W. Bush is very much the party of Ronald Reagan--the party of lower taxes, less regulation, strong national security and, yes, fiscal responsibility.

Since President Bush came into office Republicans have rejected $1.9 trillion in additional budget spending proposed by Democrats while passing $350 billion in tax relief just this year. That’s just a fact, as I noted in our discussion.

Fiscal discipline requires leadership and this year President Bush proposed and the Republican leadership in Congress worked to pass a budget that limits spending growth to 4%, the same amount as family income. This accounts for important increases in spending required to continue our fight in the war on terrorism. In fact, non-defense discretionary spending only goes up 2%, a point I should have made but did not.

As I also pointed out, I worked with Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey in their effort to eliminate the federal Department of Education but these efforts were defeated. And so I noted that the issue is settled but I also noted that this administration has applied conservative principles to the now settled federal role in education, a point you neglected to mention.

As I also pointed out regarding Medicare, our choices are to maintain a health program for seniors where government makes decisions and delivers the care or a market oriented approach where patients make choices and private providers deliver the care, and that we could pass our modernization program over the objections of Ted Kennedy if necessary.

Not Reaganesque? I joined the Republican Party because of Ronald Reagan. I believe that conservatives and millions of other Americans are Republicans because they support our positive agenda and share our beliefs, not because they have nowhere else to go.


Cheerfully yours,

Ed Gillespie"

So there we have it, Sports Fans!