Dollayo on September 8, 2008 at 3:26 AM

Very nice post. “[F]rom Virginia to Baghdad….” Damn, that’s good, and so true.

I’ll add this about another Republican, Wendell Wilkie. He ran against Roosevelt in 1940 with a war going on around the world. He lost the election, but during the war he worked tirelessly FOR Roosevelt. Shortly before Wilkie died, he told a friend that if he could write his own epitaph and had to choose between “here lies a president” or “here lies one who contributed to saving freedom”, he would prefer the latter. Which backs up your post 100%. The Republican Party is now, and always has been, the Party For Freedom.

As long as their support helps to garner votes that propel Sarah Palin and the old guy into the White House, I could not care any less about wha they say.

Roger that …. gotta sabotage the marxist. We’ll figure the rest out later.

Every time you mention, “immigration” in derogatory terms, my eyes glaze over.

You can’t, with a straight face, tell me something shouldn’t be done.

Reform

We can’t possibly enforce the laws on the books, without jeopardizing the constitutional rights of citizens born of illegal aliens.

What would you do?

Make them wards of the state?

I will agree with one thing…Don’t even TRY to pass “comprehensive” reform.

But, reform can be compassionate…And, fair.

No one is surprised at the non-conservative domestic reasons that aligned these Democrat Citizens for McCain behind him and against Obama. Who expects Democrats, whether moderate or liberal, to “be” conservatives for McCain?

Ed is correct to remind us now that the Democrat/Independent voters for McCain support him beyond his rationale to direct our military and national security. They not only support McCain now to get him elected, but also when President Maverick enables their mutual liberal agenda: cap and trade on petroleum industry; global warming legislation that hurts American productivity; and immigration reform amnesty with all of its welfare baggage.

We appreciate their vote for McCain, the Country First candidate. But the GOP needs to come to an agreement with the “Citizens for McCain” to align with a unified platform that will not come to blows down the road. To forge the agreement clearly now would prove bipartisan efforts not only by McCain, but amongst his coalition of supporters; moderate, feminist, Independent, RINO, conservative social & economical. Before immigration reform, we must agree together upon enforcing Rule of Law always. Maintain a unified front at the border to prosecute and/or eject illegal aliens COD to their place of origin. Equal pay for equal work experience and performance regardless of race, creed or gender is a reasonable premise to barter for their support on big domestic off shore oil drilling/refining along with streamlining immediate nuclear plant construction in every state desiring it. Agree upon what we can agree upon, and fulfill those agreements. “Don’t bite off more than you can chew.”

The only way the Republican presidential candidate could win this year is if he/she ran as a pure reformer. The only candidate able to run as that is McCain. Palin is an incredibly good choice for that mind space, which turns out to be the winning mind space this year. We’re lucky that the Democrats chose an empty suit whose reform credentials are so easily dismissed.

If the next few years are relatively peaceful, and if McCain succeeds in producing genuine reform in several key areas of government, conservatism can begin to recover on the strength of new faces like Palin and Jindal. The culture war is not over, but that’s not the winning issue this year. We’ll fight the culture war again in 2012 or 2016.

Meanwhile, we need to start cleaning house. The Ted Stevenses and Mitch McConnells need to leave, the sooner the better. Old-style power brokering will sink the party for decades if we let it fester. If the last batch of Republicans had meant what they said about reform, the Democratic party would be an afterthought by now. If we manage to elect a new wave of Republicans and they do the same as the last batch, the Republican party will become an afterthought.

Her only talent is the ability to ruin companies (Lucent, and damn near HP) and to go on to a better job.

She isn’t a conservative either. She’s a Susan Collins type.

That says a mouthfull.

The transformation is amazing.

TheSitRep on September 7, 2008 at 2:46 PM

Indeed it is.

My father-in-law, a staunch democrat, a German immagrant (legal) is suddenly conservative…. in a democratic way…. sort of….

He loves Palin. So do I.
I wish I could say the same about McCain.

Today’s democrats are the party of George Soros and George Loony.

Afraid to admit it and ashamed by it, but it’s the truth.

theblacksheepwasright on September 7, 2008 at 3:01 PM

Half of those dem dorks went to Austin Texas.

It has become a bastion of liberal elitist. Hell even the Republicans there are libtards.

Having been in the electronics /semiconductor field for 25 years the negative business environment of Caleeeeeefornia has destroyed the valley’s tech industry for the most part.

What now dominates the valley is software.. all geeks all leftists like the founders of Google etc.. so to even believe stats could remotely be favorable to a moderate is a stretch…let alone a right of center consrvative..

We are talking the Bay area.. loon central..

As to Carly.. her style didn’t work but her decision to grab Compaq in the long run appears to have paid off..

I don’t mean to say that he is a yellow dog.

He is just a hard core Dem. He has always trashed every republican candidate and principle when we would have friendly debates.

He has all of the sudden started sounding like a hard core conservative.

The transformation is amazing.

I think this is happening all over this land and the press knows it and that is why they are on such an offensive campaign.

It is hard to believe, but there are some Democrats with some brain cells and conscience left. Who knew?!

Huge thing going on here, even if it’s only a fraction of them.

she would be good in a cabinet position. not sure where though – Drunk Report on September 7, 2008 at 2:12 PM

Dude…she nearly drove Hewlett-Packard into the ground. She’s radioactive…keep her far away.

This was an interesting concept, and it certainly could help the McCain campaign with centrists and independents, but the reasons these people have crossed the aisle won’t necessarily thrilll the base.

I know what you mean, but ……. think of this, if they are coming over to McC even with such a “dangerous” Righty in Palin on the ticket, just what the heck is going on with the dynamic?

Carly Fiorina, introducing Democrats who have decided to support John McCain instead of Barack Obama

Carly is just another corporate hack. The real titans of silicon valley support Obama. Perhaps the one exception is John Chambers who’s been a major McCain supporter since Romney lost.

This was an interesting concept, and it certainly could help the McCain campaign with centrists and independents, but the reasons these people have crossed the aisle won’t necessarily thrilll the base.

This year winning is winning. There’s too much at stake.