Do they even know what those are anymore?

Republican ideals are a mixed bag. You have the elite power Republicans setting the agenda now. The conservative ideals (the ideals that won elections for the past 20 years!) are being quashed. The Republican power group is stuck on stupid by straying from the conservative agenda. Conservatism and freedom is what the majority of Americans want. This is not hard!

Bush lost the conservatives when he spent money like a drunken sailor. Lowering taxes was not enough to control the damage of his large spending habit. We supported him in the war efforts. But then stabbed conservatives in the back by trying to force the amnesty bill.

Bush ran as a conservative and we supported him. He stabbed us in the back with his spending and amnesty. The American public thinks all Republicans are like this. They are looking for politicians they can trust.

Note to the Republican power elite: SOLID CONSERVATIVE IDEALS SELL!

I re-read that not long ago and was amazed at how prescient Rand was. So that makes you Francisco, I guess? :-)

Laura on May 14, 2008 at 2:46 PM

Laura, I’m a lady, like you.

Unfortunately, we had a “twofer” in Louisiana: NRCC stupidity and a lousy candidate.

Pretty close, but I’d like to add/change the following:

How long do you think the funding for that war will continue under McCain when congress cuts funding and the economy of America is destroyed by his ‘Global Warming’ nonsense: Cap and Trade, No Drilling Anywhere, Dig holes to bury CO2 laws. (Which he will issue through Executive Orders, in the unlikely event that Congress has enough sense to not go along with him in the first place.)

“How many conservative supreme court justices do you think mccain will be able to get through a democrat congress and senate”. actually nominate in the first place?
McCain Will Not Nominate any Originalists; One more Originalist on the Supreme Court would shift the balance and McCain’s Beloved assault on the First Amendment via McCain- Feingold would be overturned as the Unconstitutional piece of feces that it is.

“Johnny is pandering to LaRaza. Funny, they must not be contributing much to the RNC”. They can’t contribute to the RNC… Every extra penny goes back to the family in Mexico.

LegendHasIt on May 14, 2008 at 4:31 PM

Yep, I LIKE the changes !

For all of you that are voting for mccain because of continuing the war in Iraq…. how long do you think the funding for that war will continue under mccain when congress cuts funding?

How many conservative supreme court justices do you think mccain will be able to get through a democrat congress and senate.

It looks pretty bleak. Still, Johnny is pandering to LaRaza. Funny, they must not be contributing much to the RNC.

stenwin77 on May 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM

Pretty close, but I’d like to add/change the following:

How long do you think the funding for that war will continue under McCain when congress cuts funding and the economy of America is destroyed by his ‘Global Warming’ nonsense: Cap and Trade, No Drilling Anywhere, Dig holes to bury CO2 laws. (Which he will issue through Executive Orders, in the unlikely event that Congress has enough sense to not go along with him in the first place.)

“How many conservative supreme court justices do you think mccain will be able to get through a democrat congress and senate”. actually nominate in the first place?
McCain Will Not Nominate any Originalists; One more Originalist on the Supreme Court would shift the balance and McCain’s Beloved assault on the First Amendment via McCain- Feingold would be overturned as the Unconstitutional piece of feces that it is.

“Johnny is pandering to LaRaza. Funny, they must not be contributing much to the RNC”. They can’t contribute to the RNC… Every extra penny goes back to the family in Mexico.

CK MacLeod on May 14, 2008 at 3:52 PM

Tryin to put lipstick on a pig…

McCain is part of the problem, not the solution. He is part of the reason we are where we’re at… He is a Washington insider… when most of us distrust Washington…

And I find it interesting that one of his biggest spokesmen, is someone who until last election, was a Democrat (Leiberman).

C-Low on May 14, 2008 at 2:13 PM

I was going to post, but C-Low said what I wanted to say. Good job.

Hope beyond hope for a realistic VP.

I don’t know why some of you guys hang your hat on a veep choice. McCain is not going to tolerate a ‘maverick’ conservative running around going off message. If he does pick a conservative, they are going to be like Joe Lieberman was to Al Gore; abandon prior positions and get their a** on message. Which means, they will have to support whatever lunacy McCain will inflict upon us; and that in turn will lead to that conservative being tarred with McCain’s brush and probably the end of his aspirations as a conservative. Don’t wish that on anyone you like in the party.

Otherwise, the success of Blue Dog Democrats is marginally beneficial to McCain, since it increases the apparent threat of a turn to the hard left under an all-blue government. McCain is precisely the kind of Republican President who could appeal to and work with BD Democrats, or even out and out Boll Weevils like Childers, to mutual benefit.

If the Dems had been able to nominate someone taken as a centrist – like Bill Clinton and like the latest incarnation of Hillary – then they might really have swept to power. What’s really laughable, though, is the idea that McCain would have a chance this year running as a hard right conservative. If he ran as a more lively version of Duncan Hunter, as some here seem to want and expect, then in the current climate the landslide could be overwhelming up and down the ballot, meaning an explicit repudiation of what conservatives stand for and a mandate for Obamamaniacal Democratic Socialism in its place.

McCain’s a military man. His political troops are divided, wounded, under-equipped and -supplied, demoralized, distrustful, disrespectful, angry, threatening mutiny and desertion. In their desperation, many seem to favor a frontal attack with zero likelihood of success. Instead, he’s attempting to soften up, divide, and misdirect the opposition, while waiting for his real opportunity to appear.

The overreaching Obama campaign is like a salient on the front that expands for a time, but can’t be supported. At the end of the battle, if Obama is cut off and destroyed, the lines may be about where they have been, and it will be trench warfare for at least four more years. In my observation, conservatives need at least that long to ready themselves for major new initiatives. As for now, once McCain’s done roiling the base and separating himself from the much-despised Bush brand, he’ll likely focus on a very small number of key issues that a centrist Republican president can handle even against an adverse Congress, otherwise trading movement on some issues in exchange for a check on Democrat excesses.

Maybe that Bobby Gendal in La. has the moxy to make things happen and get things done. The current GOP leadership aint got it.

Don’t count on it. His recent ethics reforms were gutted to the point of being nearly unenforceable by a change of a few words and he seems content to let that slide by. In fact, a majority of Republicans voted against an effort to tighten it back up, and so far Jindal hasn’t reacted. I’ve been a big Jindal supporter all these years, but I’m becoming a little less enthused every day.

It’s a mistake to think that staff tweaking is the answer.

Democrats have had the advantage of “being in the negative”, and have not really laid out any grand agenda — they run against Republicans, and that won’t last much longer as a strategy.

1. Really?

but not that it matters because….

2. It won’t have to last long. Just long enough to get super-majorities and a President with sugar plums dancing in his head.

BowHuntingTexas on May 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM

The GOP is going to have to take out the trash, and get some sharper leadership to pull off a new age Contract with America.

Maybe that Bobby Gendal in La. has the moxy to make things happen and get things done. The current GOP leadership aint got it.

here’s an idea, all these blue dog Dems, make ads with their Face and Name right smack next to Pelosi’s Mug. And simply explain a Vote for the Blue Dog is ultimately a vote for Pelosi and San Fran Values!

If anything, it’ll force the Dem to reject Pelosi publicly so even if they get elected they’ll be a lame duck in 2010

jp on May 14, 2008 at 2:32 PM

Hannity tried that, from about April to November of ’06. It failed, mainly because all people saw were pictures of Mark Foley.

McCain? Meeting with La Raza and his amnesty fiasco shows he definitely does not want to win as a conservative Republican.

The rest of the GOP? Good luck with that boys. You lost me somewhere around March of 05 when the GOP president came out and compared citizens attempting to protect our borders with “vigilantes”.

By the say, March of 2005 was before your huge losses in 2006 … hint, hint.

Can someone decipher that for me?

BigD on May 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM

Sure… easy… we have no clue, so we’re going to try to outDem the Dems…

Can someone decipher that for me?

BigD on May 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM

Sure thing…changeity-change-change-change, change change. The Dems want not only change, but also the credibility of changing the change. Of course the greater issue is how the change changes the change agent’s policies, whereas real change based on family values can simply go change itself.

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San Dimas High School football rules!

No drillin gonna happen now… and they just made it so the courts can now kill anything they please, due to its impact on global warming, and thus the poor polar bear…

We should do this with each blue Dog Dem and explain the “game” of politics briefly and how its a Team Sport.

jp on May 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM

Sadly, it’ll take an 18 month voting record for these lying douches to have to run for reelection defending those votes. Time moves slow in this sense, and giving them a big majority will provide the Blue Dogs with a lot of wiggle room on votes.

The problem isn’t change but credibility. They will roll out policies on family values later today, and the debate will make differences plain.

I interpreted that statement as “they” – RNCC – will start to trumpet the “Family Values” spiel again today – abortion, traditional marriage, anti-drug, controlled federal spending (?!),etc.

I suspect that having a bunch of drunk, gay or thrice-divorced congressmen who like to have sex with their 17 year old interns while writing billion dollar earmarks is going to undermine that message somewhat, Tom.

But maybe I misunderstood.

I’m going with them, Atlas Shrugged.

I re-read that not long ago and was amazed at how prescient Rand was. So that makes you Francisco, I guess? :-)

We should do this with each blue Dog Dem and explain the “game” of politics briefly and how its a Team Sport.

We should drop the elephant and adopt the Rhino as our mascot.

The Race Card on May 14, 2008 at 1:45 PM

How about two mascots, then? The Invisible Man works for me…