Posted on 04/23/2009 6:37:10 PM PDT by topher
Yeah, they’re so committed that we’ve got Barack 0bama as president, and a Democrat super-majority in the Senate.
Either this committed pro-life base isn’t delivering, despite the fact that they’re the only ones the GOP courts anymore, or this is the best the Republican base can deliver, in which case perhaps it’s time the GOP found a new base, or at least got back to representing the Reagan coalition of limited government.
With all that is going on, why is this the issue Michael Steele chooses to speak up on? The taxpayers and investors, and everyone with a bank account are being looted by the government and the Federal Reserve, and a nominee's political position on abortion is where Steele makes his stand?
Seriously?
Governor Sebelius lied during the confirmation...
Other folks in this administration have been caught in lies on tax issues... Tax Cheats are the same as those who lie about campaign contributions...
One does not need to focus on Sebelius and her pro-abortion stance.
One just needs to focus on her "cheating" on campaign donation issues...
A coin has two sides. Flip it to the other side...
Some say the glass is 1/2 empty. Some say it is 1/2 full.
We have to use spin to help change some people's thinking...
Spin is not bad -- it can be used as an attention getter...
Play the game... And throw their rules in their face...
We now have tens of thousands of people who got involved in the Tea Parties. We now have to cultivate that energy into a new crop of people like the folks on FreeRepublic.comDude... the Tea Parties were protesting the Republicans just as much as the Democrats.
During the campaign, I attacked McCain. I was not happy with Brownback. And I attacked my former boss (Father Frank Pavone) and Priests for Life.
What the Obama folks did was go after the Catholic base. They would claim Obama is pro-life and that Catholics could vote for him... They muddled the issue for the average Catholic...
If a presidential candidate (Fred Thompson) were to get the Evangelical vote, the Catholic Vote, as well as the NRA 2nd Amendment folks, the Fiscal Conservative folks, as well as others, you have a winning team...
Obama used ACORN to infiltrate the Catholic Charities, and a number of Catholic Bishops are mad about that...
The Veteran vote is one that needs to be gone after.
We have a problem with the Military Vote -- it is continually tossed election after election. It might have won Coleman Minnesota, and it might win the election in New York. Except the votes are being tossed out...
Governor Sebelius lied during the confirmation...that is exactly what I'm talking about.
Other folks in this administration have been caught in lies on tax issues... Tax Cheats are the same as those who lie about campaign contributions...
One does not need to focus on Sebelius and her pro-abortion stance.
One just needs to focus on her "cheating" on campaign donation issues...
I don't disagree with that. There are Republicans that feasted on the Pork in the Porkulus bill...
Toss them...
House is up for election every 2 years... Start working today for 2010...
Governor Sebelius gave the committee that she only received $12,000 from Tiller. The correct answer was $38,000.
It was later found that Tiller gave her another $200,000.
That rates with little Tommie Daschle's tax problems in terms of his tax numbers...
The Daschle nomination was within for HHS... So the Republicans have been successful in helping to twart Obama appointments... The day I posted about impeaching him once in office, Obama withdrew the name...
His motto of I have not yet begun to fight sticks with me to this day...
If other folks want to be quitters, fine...
I will back conservative candidates as best as I can... I will attack Satan's helpers -- Obama, Hillary, Sebelius, et al, with all my might...
Wonders never cease! If he keeps this up I may have to return one of his weekly fund raising letters with a contribution...
Remember how the Democrats managed to turn Clinton’s impeachment into being about “sex” rather than about perjury and obstruction of justice?
Think about that.
Michael Steele’s current trajectory is taking Republicans back down that path.
After what the Dems did on so many of Bush’s nominations, the Republicans should filibuster EVERYTHING they can.
Michael Steele’s current trajectory is taking Republicans back down that path.
Then work to change that... There must be a lot of people looking to follow up on the Tea Parties...
Find out how, and pursue it... You claim that is what is wrong, so try to fix it...
I try to pass information along, and let people discuss things...
You can always do a vanity on Chit/Chat here on FreeRepublic for that purpose... Or put comments in threads to try to make more people aware of this...
Early on in the History of FreeRepublic.com I posted about having MinuteMen and MinuteWomen sitting at their keyboards -- ready to react...
At times we have done that well...
Followup on your own thoughts and ideas -- and, probably most important -- Godspeed!
Steele is a Weak kneed apologist RINO . The Republicans picked hoim for the Color of his Skin and one line in A speech . He is Useless
Well, I’ve said the same thing about Steele at least a dozen times since he was made head of the RNC.
But he did this ONE THING right, at least.
Yes, it will take more than one thing. But it’s a small ray of sunshine.
It’s like Pavlov and his dogs. The Republicans keep doing the wrong thing and get beaten for it. Then they do it again, and get beaten again. Now, perhaps almost by accident, he’s done the right thing. If he keeps it up, there may be a reward. Then maybe he’ll be encouraged by that to do the right thing again? Who knows?
Well, I agree. The Republicans badly need to even the playing field, and insist that the same rules apply to both sides.
I don’t disagree with you, and I have always faulted Bush on his economic fecklessness. He was pretty good on tax cuts—except for not holding out on making it permanent—but he was miserable on spending, and none of it really added anything to the quality of life. Quite the opposite.
The point I was making is that we all have our priorities, and the best way to go is to honor each others’ priorities if we can. I certainly support tax and spending cuts—although we will now need to go through a lot of suffering to pay for sins already committed. But my first priority is human life. I don’t find these two issues at all incompatible.
I also support a strong national defense. But that, too, rests on a healthy economy. At this stage, we may need to cut the military even if we don’t want to, until we get our economy in better order, because we just won’t have the financial resources we would have had without the sins of LBJ, Clinton, and I’m afraid Bush.
I think someone could point out to conservative Christians, for instance, that high taxes, government waste, and a declining economy have already cut back severely on charitable donations. In fact a lot of churches are probably going to have to go without roof repairs in the next decade or two, and soup kitchens will be underfunded. Which is better, throwing money into a massive federal bureaucracy which doles out food stamps, or using it for neighborhood charitable works? That line of argument could even reach some fairly liberal Christians, if they could just be made to think a little.
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