Making the GOP & Gingrich nervous about “Conservative Movement” inroads is a good thing! Perhaps they’ll come to realize, before election day, that their Dem-Lite strategy is the party’s ticket to political oblivion…

Attempting to elect Crist and Fatsosava types, those who will take a dive at the first sign of Statist resistance to Conservative Principles, is a self-defeating Republican political strategy. And Newt should know it! That he constantly rolls-over for the Democrats these days, reveals that the only conservative principles remaining in him, is his urge to pander his latest pulp-fiction!

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“Let’s Roll”

Dollayo on October 22, 2009 at 11:09 PM

Sorry, I stopped giving credit to Newt the moment I saw him on the “wecansolveit” AGW commercial. Newt may have done good things in the past, but he has become nothing more than a self-serving irrelevant sell-out.

You need us more than we need you. But we are being increasingly marginalized and sometimes even ridiculed by the Republican party leadership. That’s fine – it’s a free country, still – but don’t expect us to support a party that holds us in contempt.

Good luck with those pesky Democrats. ;)

AprilOrit on October 23, 2009 at 12:37 PM”

April, I’m guessing that you’re a liberal since you already don’t know the answer to your question. Michelle Bachmann is one of a handful of conservatives representing the GOP in Congress. If all GOP Congressman were as conservative as Michelle Bachmann, the favorability rating would be 73% rather than the disapproval rate.

So what’s the real problem? Too Fra Right, not Far Right enough?

AprilOrit on October 23, 2009 at 1:05 PM

Love the use of “far right” to characterize righter-than-Newt. You’re a pro. But the answer is neither: from my standpoint, there is simply no meaningful difference between the Democrat and Republican contestants in the NY-23 race. I have zero loyalty to the Republican Party – they have never sent me money; it’s always been the other way around. My interest is in having my views effectively represented. And, it appears, an awful lot of other people who have voted Republican up until now think the same thing.

So, let’s summarize: The Repub party ran a RINO presidential candidate who generated zero enthusiasm until a conservative was put on the ticket. The ticket then made a credible showing despite being saddled with GWB. Now, the party is moving further and further left to maintain market share, and 73% of Republicans object. On these facts, are you seriously contending that the present unhappiness of the rank-and-file is the result of the RNC not moving far enough to the left? Because, if you are, I would very much like some of what you’re smoking as soon as that legalization thing goes through….

Republicans have an opportunity to bring a more conservative viewpoint to NY23- there is no doubt that Hoffman would be the front runner were Sozzafava not in the race. But Republican leadership is determined to let the same old standards that they’ve always used to lose elections stand.

Now, tell me again why we should even bother to vote if we don’t like either of the choices? I lose you there.

Venusian Visitor on October 23, 2009 at 12:43 PM

So what’s the real problem? Too Fra Right, not Far Right enough?

The Republicans in Congress (Michelle Bachman) lean very much to the Right, so people are obviously not happy with this.

AprilOrit on October 23, 2009 at 12:37 PM

Now, tell me again why we should even bother to vote if we don’t like either of the choices? I lose you there.

Reagan himself said that many on the Right would rather starve than get half a loaf. This ain’t bread, folks. This is your freedom.

NY-23 might or might not be Purpletown, but if third parties derail various races, the next place will be Purpletown. This is why Newt Gingrich is taking the stand he is taking.

And liberal Republicans don’t get destroyed, they just join up with the Democrats leaving conservatives even more surrounded.

Sekhmet on October 23, 2009 at 12:19 AM

Exactly.

All the more reason why Scott Rasmussen should start digging deeper – asking and polling people about what they think is the problem.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 73% think Republicans in Congress have lost touch with GOP voters from throughout the nation. Twelve percent (12%) are undecided…

The Republicans in Congress (Michelle Bachman) lean very much to the Right, so people are obviously not happy with this.

When given a chance to be the majority party, the Republicans did not deliver. And that was in the days of the great, principled “Contract with America.” The current party bosses frankly concede that regaining their market share in Washington trumps any and concern for principle. Kill a few million more babies? Sure! Ignore the Constitution? No problem, that part about not not impairing contractual obligations is so 18th Century! Move ever closer to tyranny? Good idea! How many of us Repub bosses will get to be tyrants?

Wake up. The politicians will ignore us unless we put the fear of God in them – or, at least, the fear of losing their cush jobs, private airports, and yummy interns. About fifteen or twenty million “teabaggers” in the Mall would be a good next step.

The GOP is down to a size that, as a national party, honestly isn’t viable. When less than 30% will claim this as their party, that party is pretty much dead in the water.

So all these stories about how “head-to-head,” in GOP, Pawlenty wins! Huckabee wins!

Wins what? 28% of 30%?

Come on. We all have taken basic math.

So Newt’s explanation is that the “little people” need to shut up and do what they’re told?

Yeah that will convince me.

Somehow this ‘if you vote for a third party you are voting for the other party’ meme only works if you think you are in a bare majority, and the constituency is wedded to party affiliation. If you can appeal to values and concepts held by the majority in the district across party lines, then it is up to the parties to decide if they will address those things or face splitting their committed base votes which are a minority against a candidate representing the majority.

I’m tired of this ‘lesser of two evils’ voting concept as I’m always left voting FOR evil. Plus it only encourages the two parties to become more evil, not less. A century of that is how we got to voting for people you don’t know, don’t like, don’t agree with and nearly half (and more like 65% on the off-years) not voting at all.