Posted on 01/31/2005 5:31:07 PM PST by wagglebee
Whitman was rewarded by Bush with a high-ranking post, and this is how she repays it. She, Specter and the rest of the RINO's should be shown the door as far as I'm concerned.
RINO's are an annoyance, but they serve one purpose. They win elections in liberal districts which would otherwise elect even worse 'Rats. So I'm willing to tolerate them, as long as they don't wield too much power.
But look at what Bloomberg has done in NYC, his leftist agenda went way beyond anything the 'Rats had ever even dreamed of.
As an Ohioan, I agree. And Blackwell is a conservative....a real, anti-tax conservative.
Wow. If she's a "moderate" conservative, I guess I really am the Neo-Con my socialist friends and relatives think me to be.
It's so confusing! ;)
I think the first black president will be Condi Rice. If it's not Rice, I think the 'Rats will continue to promote Barack Obama as a "centrist" and have him run as VP with Hitlery and then run for president at a later date.
I couldn't agree more, throw their a$$es out!
I agree that we have to accept a few RINOs. For instance, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe may be the best we can do in Maine. My problem is with the truly treasonous RINOs, like Lincoln Chaffee, and with their habit of trying to spread their influence where they're not wanted or needed.
Why on earth did we get Specter again, when Pennsylvania will just as easily elect a good conservative? It elected Rick Santorum, after all, although he may have damaged himself by agreeing to back Specter. Why didn't the RNC support Bill Simon when he had a shot at the governorship, which he lost by only a small margin even though he got no funding? What about Brett Schundler?
In other words, RINOs have a place in the cracks and crevices of the party, but we don't need them coming along with their big tent and trying to impose it nation-wide. That is a losing game, and it really infuriates the base.
I think in the coming decades, the 'Rats will join the Greens, and become an insignificant ultra-leftist fringe group and the GOP will be centrist to liberal.
People like us will go in two directions. Some of us will become Libertarians and many more will be part of an emerging strict-constructionist Conservative party.
I forsee a similar future. I think the Democrat party is effectively dead already. I don't see any way they adopt any sort of sensible politics without alienating large parts of their already-fractious coalition. I don't see any way to reconcile the anti-war cowards with Zell Miller Democrats (or even Joe Lieberman Democrats); I don't see any way to reconcile religious blacks with the militant homosexual agenda. The Democrat party is doomed, their time is clearly past with all their major policies proven failures.
Which leaves the GOP sitting pretty for a while. Naturally it will continue to move left, as being in control of the government provides the GOP with an incentive to increase the power of the government. The Libertarians won't be the alternatve that arises; they're too filled with kooks, crazies, implacable idealists, and nihilists. Some form of Constitutional constructionists or taxpayers' party seems to be the most likely to arise as a second national party.
Actually, it was. It was "conservatives" who sat home in 2000 and, according to Michael Barone, voted in the same numbers in 2004.
I attended a GOP banquet at our state party "convention" this past weekend at which Christine Todd Whitman was the featured speaker. The RINOs in charge of the state party in KS knew they were on the way out (conservatives took back the party:^) so when they were planning the banquet, they scheduled HER just to get to us! The only reason we decided to suffer through her speech was that our excellent, conservative Congressman asked us to be guests at his table. She droned on in a monotone about uniting around our core (her analogy was spinal bones) of common values. But it always seems to be THEIR core of values and not OURS that they want to unite around!
At least the food was good.
BIG BUMP!!!
.... and bookmarked.
Are Republicans that support the rebuilding of Iraq moderates or are they liberals?
I think it should be e-mailed to every Republican in Congress.
There has been a conservative and a liberal wing of the Republican Party since the 1870's. It has always been a struggle for control by the opposing forces. If you read the history of the Republican Party it's interesting to see that, for the most part, we were in the majority and wielded the power when controlled by the conservative wing. When the party was controlled by the liberal wing we never were able to gain majority status. If we don't learn from this we are doomed to repeat our past failures.
Bush has been stronger on social conservative issues than fiscal conservative issues, I grant you.
What I have particularly noticed, in line with what you say, is that segments of society that used to be conservative are now liberal. I think especially of the privileged classes and old money families of the two coasts. People with ancestors who came over on the Mayflower, people who used to run the country.
The families who sent their kids to prep school when I was a boy were almost all conservative, and so were most of the older families, although I knew a few flaming liberals even back then (I'd better not name them). But now, almost all the old blood and old money came out for kerry in the last election. The people who supported Bush were just ordinary folks without those elitist pretentions.
In a way, that's hopeful. The Republicans used to be the party of the rich and powerful, the country clubbers, and the Democrats still pretend that about them in their propaganda, but it's no longer true. The Democrats are now the party of privilege, with their welfare dependent servants; the Republicans are increasingly the party of ordinary people who raise families and work for a living.
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