Sanchez to DeMint: What the hell do you mean, “the biggest tent is freedom?”
posted at 8:35 pm on April 28, 2009 by Allahpundit
A little bit funny, a whole lot jerky. I’m almost surprised he didn’t call him a “teabagger” too. DeMint’s doing damage control here, obviously, but not very well: Yes, it’s true that Obama’s more popular than his policies, and yes, the tea parties had a nice turnout, but to pick the day when the left’s on the brink of 60 to insist that America’s trending back towards its small-government roots seems a tad too nuanced by half. Granted, there’s a chance that Toomey will make a race of it in Pennsylvania, as DeMint predicts, but the odds are still way against it; as I reminded you earlier, if even the chairman of the NRSC is pessimistic about picking up seats, you shouldn’t get your hopes up. What’s most discouraging, I think, is how much of his argument here depends on simply waiting for the Democrats to overreach. That’s true of the party generally at the moment, too. There’s no discussion, really, of wooing new voters to accelerate a comeback; it’s all a matter of biding our time until the left alienates enough people to give us back a majority. How long are we prepared to wait?
His point at the end about the public’s appetite for checks and balances doesn’t really work, either. If that were true, how do we explain last year’s election results?
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Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.
William Amos on April 28, 2009 at 8:37 PM
That should be “back to the Democratic Party”. Specter only became a Republican for political purposes in the first place. He started his career as a Dem.
amerpundit on April 28, 2009 at 8:39 PM
It should be the biggest tent, but “what’s in it for me?” has taken the lead.
JohnJ on April 28, 2009 at 8:40 PM
Sanchez still has a job?
Oh, CNN? Right.
coldwarrior on April 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM
By people getting caught up in a historical moment, that’s how.
Richard Romano on April 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM
That’s the only thing we have when we have exactly zero power until the 2010 election. We have no other options. We can’t even use the filibuster.
We wait until they overreach. They will do this; they are democrats after all.
Hell, they have already overreached in my opinion.
carbon_footprint on April 28, 2009 at 8:42 PM
Wait till the taxes go up. The times they will be a’changin’.
John the Libertarian on April 28, 2009 at 8:43 PM
As Mark Levin said earlier, the tent is bogus. Look where the Big Tent got us; our so-called moderates end up putting us outside of the tent.
carbon_footprint on April 28, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Sanchez peaked while hanging on a light pole during some hurricane…
d1carter on April 28, 2009 at 8:45 PM
As long as we’ve got leaders like Rush demanding that the party get smaller, it will.
jgapinoy on April 28, 2009 at 8:47 PM
I’m thinking more like…………..
………….. how many people will die in major cities by this man made “Swine Flu” due to close proximity, subways, sky scrapers, buses, taxis, public housing, and cramp airplanes because the NOTUS Administration thought it was more important to be politically correct and not close down the borders for a few days,
and those left in the heart land of the United States will be left to vote in a new Majority of Conservatives, and try to fix what was broken in only 100 days…………
Seven Percent Solution on April 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM
I think you are forgetting something, O Creator of Worlds, He Who Pastures the Stars….the little matter of the demographic timer running out in 2020….when caucasian becomes a minority.
;)
strangelet on April 28, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Sure it wasn’t driving into a light pole…
coldwarrior on April 28, 2009 at 8:49 PM
OK, so I guess the right approach is to simply say “screw it you’re living in a Marxist/communist state, now get used to it.” . Oh, and by the way, about half of the citizens of this poor sick Republic have absolutely no voice in the decisions of the government. Next question is: “How long can warm blooded organisms exist under these conditions?” As for Sanchez . . . he’s a slobbering cretin
rplat on April 28, 2009 at 8:50 PM
He’s still huggin’ a pole though.
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM
As I understood it, during the campaign that was the tactic of a lot of Republican voters, too. Wasn’t it? I remember a lot of “let them get both Congress and the White House and the public will hate them so much they’ll want Republicans again”.
Right?
Didn’t a lot of Republicans stay home from 2006 and not vote for McCain because they wanted the Democrats to overreach?
MayBee on April 28, 2009 at 8:51 PM
Fixed that for yah.
;)
strangelet on April 28, 2009 at 8:54 PM
This site is a microcosm of the problem. Gays and abortion are the only issues that really get most the GOP going. Other than that, I’m not so sure there is any real opposition to the government being our parents.
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM
I’ve been to the Circus and it doesn’t smell very good inside the ‘Big Tent’.
thomasaur on April 28, 2009 at 8:55 PM
This Sanchez guy is a real sand bag.
blatantblue on April 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM
allah,
You must have missed all the blue dog dems that ran as fiscal conservatives in the South so the dems could take back the house and senate. Or maybe you missed ObAMA RUNNING AS A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE DURING THE CAMPIAGN. the fact of the matter is the reps won as fiscal conservatives in the 1980′s, 1990′s and 2000′s it was only when the reps lost their way under Bush and became the party of big spenders did their fortunes take a nosedive. The reps thought is was about taxes. keep the taxes low and they could spend to their heart’s desire to buy votes. they found out that Reagan was more than tax cuts. It is about frredom, limited gov, and less spending, less corruption. Demint is correct that the nation is having a backlash over the spending. the tea parties were only the tip of the icberg. There is alot of anger out here. Obama was able to ride that anger because he campaigned as a fiscal conservative. the dems are playing with fire. Washington and it appears you are out of touch with main street IMO.
unseen on April 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Well…are you ready to lissen to my homeslice, Sir Richard yet?
strangelet on April 28, 2009 at 9:00 PM
What,,, am I suppose to get all twisted in knots over what a lib turncoat Spector and a mouthpiece for Obama Sanchez says??
I don’t care what Spector says!! I don’t care what Sanchez says!!
I don’t care what libs say! I am not defined by them!!
I am from PA!! Spector was worthless! He was and is a Democrat!! He has been kissing, fondling, sleeping and eating and bending over for the enemy for years!! And I am suppose to get all worried and upset when he comes out and officially joins the enemy??? When he finally puts on the uniform of the enemy??? I am suppose to question my values??? Why?? Because the likes of Sanchaz says my values are crap because a worthless traitor named Spector finally makes it official for all to see,,, just as he is about to go down!!?? Just as this brave coward traitor is about to meet his fate by losing his primary?????
Sorry!!
JellyToast on April 28, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Since when did CNN start hiring chunky Romulans?
Asher on April 28, 2009 at 9:01 PM
That’s why the GOP promotes big government moderates.
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 9:01 PM
I assume that you enjoy the prospect of the federal government lording over every part of your life, yes?
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 9:02 PM
Really…
Black and Hispanic women have higher abortion rates than non-Hispanic white women do. (The rates are 49 per 1,000 and 33 per 1,000 among black and Hispanic women, respectively, vs. 13 per 1,000 among non-Hispanic white women.)
Now now keep in mind 2020 is a long way off still. We non hispanic white women are procreating, educating and indoctrinating.
canditaylor68 on April 28, 2009 at 9:02 PM
I disagree, I think that those are the issues you care nothing about. I think there is some flexibility on those subjects. Probably more than the Left would be willing to give.
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 9:03 PM
It’s still way too early in the game to know how things will break for next year, though it’s true the Democrats really don’t start having a lot of Senate seats to defend until 2012. But at this point in 1993 Bill Clinton and the Democrats were riding high over the passage of the tax hike proposal, and Democrats and the big media were brushing off all those minor gaffes like the firing of the White House travel office, and the Air Force One haircut incident (not as scary as Monday’s NYC flyover, but just as wasteful financially) as minor distractions … which they would have been, if the swing voters hadn’t gotten angry over the party’s overall taxing, spending and future domestic policy plans.
Watch the Virginia and New Jersey goveronor’s races this November, and even the NYC mayoral race (where local Democrats tolerate Bloomberg, but really want one of their own in power). If the party goes 0-for-3 the way they did in 1993, you may see some of the House and Senate Democrats in swing districts/states start to remember ’94 and suddenly acting towards Obama’s plans the same way Arlen Spector acted towards so many Republican proposals for the past three decades.
jon1979 on April 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM
ACORN.
Unions.
Far-Left Media.
Oh, and this Specter issue isn’t nearly as ugly as the Democrat Primary fight, with their super-delegates scrambling to pull support from Hillary, and refusing to let Florida & MI votes be counted. Heck, Obama threw his own pastor, Rev Wright under the bus. The Democrat tent isn’t even big enough for members of their own party!
TN Mom on April 28, 2009 at 9:04 PM
It took 4 years of Carter and 2 years of Clintoon
so we shouldn’t have to wait too long. The One
is doing his best to kill his re-election chances
by sabotaging the economy.
The real question is, how can we prepare now
for that victory? How can we ensure that the
result will be conservative government
and not what we got from Bush I and II?
edshepp on April 28, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Go back to the previous thread on this topic. It went head long into a discussion of whether or not the federal government’s job is to make sure you make the “right” choices in life.
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 9:07 PM
It is so sad for the wonderful United States, when, if ever, will the people really make a diff? People want to have the goverment keep care of them and it really does not work. I will sell my small business and move, not in this country, sorry
foxone on April 28, 2009 at 9:08 PM
It’s called partisan swings nothing more. Nixon brought us Carter. Bush has brought us Obama. People forget that much of politics is dependent on events outside the parties control. When things go south for the Dem’s we better have a real alternative, not Dem Light, if we expect to win.
It’s like people can’t understand the lessons of the surge. When the going gets tough the Reid’s pull out. We have two bad election results, one involving the most hyped political candidate in our nations history, and suddenly we have to go left to win?
I’m for focusing on common issues like fiscal conservatism and federalism. Abandon those and you don’t even need a Republican Party, because it won’t mean anything. R’s and D’s will mean as much as Coke and Pepsi if there aren’t principles behind the parties.
I’m not stupid enough to play into the narrative being pushed by the left and the MSM, but some, sadly, are.
Stickeehands on April 28, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Jeff Smuzinick was unavailable for comment.
Kid from Brooklyn on April 28, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Could you be more specific about which thread since there are numerous ones on Arlen’s defections?
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 9:11 PM
Check out a few polls on voter knowledge. How many voters could not identify that the Democrats controlled congress during the last election? That was an easy one Allahpundit.
Theworldisnotenough on April 28, 2009 at 9:12 PM
Why conservatives keep going on these show I will never figure out.
Stop it please
kangjie on April 28, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Start around page 4 or 5.
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lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 9:14 PM
I used to think stangelet was a libturd troll.
Now I realize he was the hippy carrying the ‘Free Hugs’ sign from the video. hahahahaha still laughin’
(Is strangelet kinda like a turdlet? We call those dingleberries down heah.)
OkieDoc on April 28, 2009 at 9:20 PM
American lemmings picked their own end here. They (and unfortunately we have to share in this) chose to punish themselves with the biggest crock of shit ever to be born and a pack of scrotum sucking sycophants that follow him like ants following a picnic basket.
It may take 4, 6, or 8 years, but every one of these hypocritical bastards that voted for this mess will be shrieking for the pain to end…and what will they get?
They’ll get what Newt’s contract with America brought 4 years later. It’ll just add to the proof that people in general are too stupid to bother fighting for anymore.
Spiritk9 on April 28, 2009 at 9:23 PM
How can we make inroads when the Left controls the schools, the universities, and the mainstream press? You can only explain free markets and small government to people so many times.
WisCon on April 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM
Send Sanchez to Mexico in search of patient Zero, most likely a relative.
dmann on April 28, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Allah…looks like a replay of 1976. I know history doesn’t exactly repeat itself, but that is exactly what happened when Carter was elected…the parallels with the mid 1970s are striking (and sickening). After 4 years of malaise-o-nomics and constant foreign policy bungles an retreat, the Republicans came roaring back to dominate for 11 years. The Rockefeller/Country Club Republicans lost control of the party and the Reagan revolution began.
AUINSC on April 28, 2009 at 9:27 PM
The nuclear option, TAX REVOLT!
dmann on April 28, 2009 at 9:28 PM
While I dislike Sanchez immensely for his arrogant racist comments, much of the interview was ok. He had a good point but when he asked “What the hell do you mean, “the biggest tent is freedom?”” But he wasn’t respectful at all, and further his statement “you gotta do better than that” was ridiculous. Honestly, I didn’t clearly understand what DeMint meant either, but i wouldn’t have insulted him. The last thing we need right now are republicans who use words that most people don’t resonate with. i.e. john mccain. I like DeMint, but if he is going to use this kind of language, then I’d look for another republican to pull for in the big ticket election.
therightscoop on April 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM
word
2ipa on April 28, 2009 at 9:30 PM
The biggest tent is freedom. I like that line.
joe_doufu on April 28, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Sorry AP. . .Can’t stand the pussy sanchez. Won’t watch
that turd anymore. He’s not worth it.
Texyank on April 28, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Well, just a reminder to all those “Big Tent’ers” out there….
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.” – Ronald Reagan
As I recall, Reagan didn’t grow the party by trying to act like a
Democrat.
.
GT on April 28, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Jim Demint is awesome. A true Reagan conservative. Someone the others should emulate if the Republican party is to have a resurgence.
therightwinger on April 28, 2009 at 9:39 PM
I am a slower reader so I didn’t read all ten million pages. The ones I saw with your interaction seemed to be only a few people. Unless it got much much worse, statistically speaking I still think your statement “Gays and abortion are the only issues that really get most the GOP going” is a stretch. I have a pretty good sense of these things. There have been many times when elected officials got involved in something and even in the instances where I might have agreed with their view, I knew they were overstepping their bounds. The vast majority of that thread was about overspending and Sen. Specter’s vote for the stimulus.
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 9:43 PM
I don’t know why conservatives appear at all on CNN or MSNBC.
ddrintn on April 28, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Oh, I get it, like our leaders actually represent us. That AP, such a kidder.
Jim Treacher on April 28, 2009 at 9:54 PM
A lot of social cons are simply in denial. Wanna play a game?
Go into a GOP website anywhere online (if you need to) pretend you are pro choice or pro gay marriage. But speak about limited government but casually mention pro choice or gay marriage. Watch the bullets come flying.
It’s fun. Give it a try. You’ll see what I mean.
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 9:54 PM
AP, you are the screen cap god!
baldilocks on April 28, 2009 at 10:02 PM
How do we explain last years election results?? 1st open primaries resulted in McCain, the dem’s and the MSM being able to pick our candidate. And 2nd? Well your Boss – Michelle Malkin – does the best job of clarifying it here (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_e-OtSmSE
10-20 million conservatives either Stayed at Home as Michelle said or they protest voted against the GOP. To get their attention, you know? Obviously it hasn’t penetrated the GOP Hierarchy’s thick skull as of yet. Darvin Dowdy
Darvin Dowdy on April 28, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Dowdy
Well, one thing conservatives like me, who hate RINO’s of the Meaghan McCain type and others, aren’t is scared….. we’re ticked off and going to fight with teeth bared to reclaim the Republican Party. You can shove any “big Tent” rhetoric where the sun doesn’t shine , but scared ?….. Never.
MNDavenotPC on April 28, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I think lorien1973 is correct when he says that Hot Air is a microcosm of the problem among conservatives. I can’t say I agree with him that Gays and abortion are the only issues that really get most the GOP going. It’s not that way for me, even though I am conservative on those issues.
However, I do see a problem here in that members of different groups within the conservative “tent” have great difficulty discussing these issues with one another. Many of such threads have little actual discussion, and show little respect for, and few attempts to understand, differing points of view. Instead, they often seem to turn into heated and humorless flame wars and furious name calling. I have tried to participate in some of them, and have difficulty with the transaction speed, number of posters, the frequent use of vulgarity, and the myriad subplots.
I don’t know how to change that, except by my own behavior.
ps: I am borrowing your opening line for future use.
Loxodonta on April 28, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Which is why I am not registered with any party. I still don’t think you can lump them all together like that. I don’t believe that John McCain lost because “evangelicals” stayed home in November. I think we got our current leader out of accumulated guilt for non-existent racism along with that simultaneous world wide money withdraw that resulted in TARP. We are living the “perfect” storm. The Republican party is the best viable fit for me. While you are worried about where the social cons want to interfere in your life can you acknowledge that the Dems want to run all of it?
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM
Once again another dose of defeatism from Allah. There is plenty of time for Obama to crash and burn by 2010.
echosyst on April 28, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Doctor: “How are you feeling?”
Patient: “Fine”
Doctor: “Then why are you here?”
Patient: “Because three days ago when I came into the waiting room I felt like hell.”
Doctor: “Then you’ll excuse me. I have to finish my taxes.”
Limerick on April 28, 2009 at 10:11 PM
I have seen that here. I apologize if I have contributed to that culture in any way, and apologize if I have ever offended you or if my posts have ever made you feel you were being attacked.
I still don’t know, however, how to discuss the differences between the opposing camps without causing offense or getting attacked myself. I’m sorry, but I’m old and a slow reader, slow typer and a slow learner.
Loxodonta on April 28, 2009 at 10:13 PM
I perfectly understand your point. There are two type of threads I won’t post on, Gov. Palin and Megan McCain. And the funny thing is that I can see both sides of the arguments, just not with such viciousness. A lot of folks here are young and don’t realize their views will change, others are older and don’t realize their views could stand to change. To bend or accept differences is not a wholesale abdication of your beliefs.
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 10:15 PM
DeMint did OK and Sanchez doesn’t have any choice but to use inflammatory language, just to be relevant.
Drop the word freedom for the term liberty and drive home why it works for everybody and how expansion of the government sucks the life and the dignity out of all of us.
We lost the election for just one reason, personality, Mr. too cool for school did what he does best, just slide right on by with nary a scratch.
I want to see Sanchez have the stones to say what the hell do you mean, to the President.
Speakup on April 28, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Sanchez wants to be Bill O’Reilly when he grows up.
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Channeling my inner Meghan McCain:
Am I suppose to be upset because some old dude left the GOP? The GOP needs to be hip and young :)
Also Karl Rove creeps me out.
terryannonline on April 28, 2009 at 10:21 PM
MNDaveNotPC: Oh but Meghan McCain say’s we’re all “Scared S**tless”. And she’s the new GOP rising star. At least that’s what I hear. DD
Darvin Dowdy on April 28, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Checks and balances means, to the average dumb Obamaniac, that He will put money in their checking account until it balances.
PattyJ on April 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM
A statement that needs to be repeated many, many times.
So please feel free to remind me, because I am older and sometimes don’t realize my views could stand to change.
Thanks.
Loxodonta on April 28, 2009 at 10:26 PM
How can we make inroads when the Left controls the schools, the universities, and the mainstream press? You can only explain free markets and small government to people so many times.
WisCon on April 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM
And you can add most of pop culture/entertainment too.
To answer your question, we can’t.
That’s why I believe the country is doomed.
artist on April 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM
We need a new Republic.
artist on April 28, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Go back to the previous thread on this topic. It went head long into a discussion of whether or not the federal government’s job is to make sure you make the “right” choices in life.
lorien1973 on April 28, 2009 at 9:07 PM
Has far as abortion goes and the government. If you think the gov has a right to stop you from murdering your 15 year old or 7 year old or 5 year old child than it also has a right to stop you from murdering your 7 month, or 3 month or 2 day old child.
Gov has some functions one is making sure society functions by the rule of law. If you would rather keep the option to murder your child open so you are not inconvienced in your life and make that your only voting requirement than you get what you deserve as far as nanny state on the left. The party of death…dems will always place death before life.
unseen on April 28, 2009 at 10:31 PM
I am 55. I have this theory that at a certain age (I don’t know the actual year) people get an anonymous letter. The letter tells them that their age has given them the privilege to say anything to anybody and no one can be offended. You know the type. I hope never to receive that letter or ignore it if I do.
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 10:31 PM
How can we make inroads when the Left controls the schools, the universities, and the mainstream press? You can only explain free markets and small government to people so many times.
WisCon on April 28, 2009 at 9:25 PM
And you can add most of pop culture/entertainment too.
To answer your question, we can’t.
That’s why I believe the country is doomed.
artist on April 28, 2009 at 10:27 PM
that’s horsesh*t. You have your child with you 8-10 hrs per day. use the time to TEACH your CHILD. Explain what is going right and wrong with your country. Child learn what that see. If you do not talk politics and civics in the home and instead allow the schools to teach it you are not being a parent.
unseen on April 28, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Sanchez = Ted Baxter with dark hair.
Star20 on April 28, 2009 at 10:35 PM
I would love to see conservatives ban together and remove their children from the public school system. I would take a huge amount of organization but it would make one hell of a statement. I realize that it is easy for me to say since my children are grown but I would gladly quit my job to help home school kids. Trust me, it is a statement that would have huge and immediate impact. And probably wouldn’t have to be done much longer than a year. I dream big.
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 10:36 PM
It wasn’t just about abortion. The Terry Schivo case was relived. If ever there was a lose/lose scenario it was that incident.
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Can you libtards stop using that fake 21% number? Even in Massachusetts, the Republican candidate gets at least 30% of the vote.
Speedwagon82 on April 28, 2009 at 10:41 PM
The actual year? I’m thinking their 13th year.
I apologize if that offended anyone.
Then there are the people who get the anonymous letter that tells them they have the privilege to be offended by anything anybody else says …
I hope I’m entitled to say such a thing.
Loxodonta on April 28, 2009 at 10:44 PM
If it’s all the same, I’ll still not be moping around, wringing my hands and moaning and groaning “Woe is me”.
Many of us are going to be positive, talk up factual truths and yes, put the best spin on it. Talking it down most definitely is unhelpful and comes across as sulky and whiny.
KittyLowrey on April 28, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Say anything and everything, I never try to offend and won’t be offended. As to the letter, I was thinking more the crotchety old folks like my 93 year old aunt who says the most surprisingly rude things. I am off to never never land. Sweet dreams folks.
Cindy Munford on April 28, 2009 at 10:51 PM
You mean they haven’t already?
For Gods sake, what’s the breaking point then?
BacaDog on April 28, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Folks … we’re doing fine here.
I’m 47 … in my life …
I witnessed Richard Nixon resign. I saw my Dad cry the one and only time I’ve ever seen him cry that day – because he said “The Republican Party is now dead”.
Six years later we got Reagan.
And when Reagan came in – he was a steam roller – nothing, not even a hostile press could stop him. With a guy like that in office … “the Democrats are dead” they said.
But we got Clinton 12 years later. And the Clinton victory – sweeping Bush 41 out of office and making him a one-term President like Carter – they said “Democrats will rule now for the next 20 years”.
Two years later we got the Republican charge in 1994 – and took both houses. Forced Bill Clinton to “triangulate” his ass back to the right. And people saw that and just knew the Democrats were finished – that sentiment was even displayed by Clinton in the way he governed – which to the right after that victory.
Do not worry about the Republican Party … it’s reorganizing, regrouping. It takes time – the dead weight (coughSPECTERcough) will leave the party. What you’ll get is a leaner, meaner and more CREDIBLE GOP.
Now – this doesn’t address the Obama issues if he keeps ripping up the constitution. Bullets always trump law if he pushes it – and in that case we’ll have to take another route – a route our forefathers took.
But we aren’t there yet (almost – not quite) … and until we are there – we need to concentrate on rebuilding the GOP. It’s okay to go after new voters. It’s not okay to shape and twist and compromise our principles to get them. LEADERS >>> LEAD. We must LEAD the people back to the path of freedom.
Allah can laugh at this all he wants – I don’t think he’s really old enough to remember.
HondaV65 on April 28, 2009 at 11:12 PM
And why shouldn’t they? Besides the point that Gay Marriage is just plain silly …
Abortion is the killing of innocent life. Wait – you don’t think it is? Okay … then tell me without doubt when life begins? Tell me why a baby is ALIVE when it’s outside of the womb but it’s just an object when it’s in the birth canal or the uterus.
Our illustrious President has even said he doesn’t know when life begins – but he has no hesitation about killing it.
WTF? Are we so desensitized to killing babies that we no longer look upon them as humans with rights?
This is worse than the German sitting idly by while the Nazi’s exterminated Jews. In our case – we actually have idiots arguing that it’s a good thing to have choice and other idiots proclaiming that we should be “big tent” and respect the opinions of others who want to KILL LIFE.
I’m sorry – but I don’t respect the pro-choice opinion.
HondaV65 on April 28, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Huh?
KS Rex on April 28, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Dirty Sanchez honestly doesn’t understand how “freedom” can be a political “tent”. That speaks volumes about the way the MSM has become an echolocation chamber. Not only does Sanchez devalue freedom, he doesn’t even know anyone who values it, through whom he might at least hear the argument articulated.
The Monster on April 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Sanchez is just too big for his britches. Any talking head that feels he has to use profanity and taunting when interviewing a US Senator should be fired.
KS Rex on April 28, 2009 at 11:29 PM
If the GOP is the party of freedom than why are they constantly opposed to it on social issues? For example, exactly what part of conservatism suggests the government should tell people what they can and cannot do with their money in the privacy of their own homes on the internet (online poker)? Yet the GOP voted to ban it. Had they sided on the side of liberty, a lot of those folks who are predisposed to libertarian ideas would be conservatives.
Patriot33 on April 28, 2009 at 11:34 PM
Sanchez is awful glib…. for a murderer.
liquidflorian on April 28, 2009 at 11:38 PM
God Bless your 93 year old aunt, crotchety or not!
Not sure when she got the “letter” you speak of, but better late than never! At 93 she’s paid enough dues to be at least as rude as leftist propagandists disguised as reporters.
“Let’s Roll”
On Watch on April 28, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Dear wingers, you wanted a purified party, now your getting it. You wanted Rushbo to be the party head, now you have him. DeMint says he’d rather have 30 ideologues, than 60 other, he might just get his wish. You wanted Specter out, now you got your wish. You tried to alienate about 2/3 of the electorate, now you got your wish. Now your hope is the Dems will overreach, its seems to me people like what Obama is doing. They think your party is a bunch of neanderthals. When I listen to your whackjobs I see why you are losing elections. You are losers, full of hate and anger. Watching people leave the gop is like watching rats leave a sinking ship. But continue to yell louder, become more rigid in your dogma, alienate more people, just be yourselves.
athensboy on April 29, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Um, you do know what they did to boys in Athens, right?
LOL
WisCon on April 29, 2009 at 12:34 AM
Hey, spanky, if being in the majority means gathering in the same foul smelling tent as you, then count me as a proud member of the minority. I like breathing the fresh air of freedom, morality, and American values.
Joe Pyne on April 29, 2009 at 1:03 AM
Oh, one other thing…
athensBOY -
“Boy” is right! You better hurry back now the kindergarten bell is about to ring, you wouldn’t want to miss your class now, would you?
Joe Pyne on April 29, 2009 at 1:04 AM
And way are you here, again, exactly? I guess I missed it the first time you explained it.
AUINSC on April 29, 2009 at 1:12 AM
Allah, you loser, stop pissing on the few brave warriors we are left in the battle.
promachus on April 29, 2009 at 1:29 AM
Because he has no life and knows his fellow morons at DU are boring too.
Speedwagon82 on April 29, 2009 at 2:05 AM
Like I would ever listen to someone who turns human beings into speed bumps and then leaves to go home and get his drivers license and insurance papers.
RobertInLexington on April 29, 2009 at 6:10 AM
She’s a hoot, thanks for the blessing.
Cindy Munford on April 29, 2009 at 6:18 AM
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