Posted on 01/31/2005 3:16:14 PM PST by srm913
Whitman: Let's Get Moderate WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2005
This story was written by Linda Feldmann. It was a vision of big-tent Republicanism: At a panel discussion held around the GOP convention last summer, Christine Todd Whitman sat comfortably near Newt Gingrich - a standard-bearer of the middle engaging in measured discourse with a standard-bearer of conservatism.
When asked about the GOP's longstanding drift rightward, Ms. Whitman was polite. The former New Jersey governor and EPA administrator stressed the breadth of the Republican coalition and noted that some of the biggest names to address the convention in prime time - Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rudy Giuliani - favor abortion rights.
Now it's no more Ms. Nice Gal. In her new book, "It's My Party Too," Whitman takes off the gloves and lays down her manifesto to prevent, as she puts it, "the extreme right from run[ning] away with the party."
"It's time for me to get radical moderate," she says in an interview. "I've been going along to get along, to a degree."
The GOP, she says, has to get back to its core principles of fiscal responsibility, individual freedom, protecting the environment, and US leadership in the world based on strength and wisdom, or it will lose its middle and be relegated to the minority.
"Over the years, more and more people have come up to me and said, look, I've been a good Republican all my life, I don't want to leave the party, but it's getting harder and harder for me to stay," she says with a tone of urgency.
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Dear Ms. Whitless..
The republican party is ALREADY too moderate for my tastes.
Essentially, they are a slightly more conservative version of the Democrat party.
The interesting question is what will replace the Republicans.
It's not your party, Christie. You want the party with member's whose IQ's are in the 70's. That would be the dem party - they will make you feel extremely intelligent. Run, don't walk into their arms. They have no problem killing babies. They've been doing it for years.
Actually, being "moderate" in political speak means supporting the destruction of the traditional family and unbridled access to abortion.
Let's get Horse Teeth.
This is exactly what this compromised "Two-Party Cartel" is supposed to do. Remember Caroll Quigley, Bubbas mentor at Georgetown. His prediction was to make it so that when opposing parties changed in the White House that there would be little, if any, real change in administrtions so the elites can run the people in the same fashion as the past. So watch - we will be debating this SSI crapola for months all while the judges don't get confirmed, the Supreme Court keeps these elitists on board, then Hillary comes in & all of these elites leave & The Hildabeast puts all of her slobs in.
Right I agree, BUT they are gaining strength for their cause it bears watching by the GOP. Progressives are bored with the left so now they are planning to infiltrate the right. A divide and conquer strategy.
And GW has been taking away all of dems issues, which proves my point about Quigly & the elites.
But do you think the GOP could run a REAL Conservative in New Jersey and win?
We are winning, we control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, and are expanding our numbers in Congress.
So let's change what we are doing, and move our politics to what the loser Democrats are doing?
Sorry Christine, that doesn't sound like a winning strategy!
How about LET'S GET LOST.....you go girl!
Christie couldn't run for dogcatcher and get elected in NJ
Only if he's a bond salesman
Yee-hahh.
Cool. Then we can stop providing taxpayer funding for all abortions under all circumstances, for anyone who demands one? I guess this also means that we are going to quit forcing business owners to pay for health benefits to "domestic partners" too?
I love "fiscal conservatives". Let's get going!
Shot--
Shot out.
Ann Coulter:
"In any event, asking Whitman about judicial nominees would be like asking Bill Clinton for marital advice."
"If Whitman had chosen judicial nominees by randomly pointing to names in a telephone book, New Jersey would have been better served."
LOL!!!
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