I call Bullsh!p!

“Let’s Roll”

“‘I think it will empower tea party activists’ to look for moderate scalps in other districts, fretted one senior GOP strategist with national campaign experience. ‘The question is, Will we go through a period in the party where a great purge begins?’ this strategist asked. ‘If it spreads into that, this will be a very bad day.’

Not all the tea-party-goers are even Republicans–some of them actually voted for Obama, unaware (in 2008) of his socialism, appalled by it now. Small-government conservatism, fiscal responsibility, and low taxes WORK and are popular with the electorate. Ronald Reagan was able to push his tax cuts through a Democrat-controlled Congress, because Carter’s economic policy had led to disaster, and Reagan knew how to explain this to the voters.

Republicans lost the elections of 2006 and 2008 because some of them had forgotten their roots and core principles, and got swept away with K Street projects and dispensing favors and corrupt deals, and former President George W. Bush didn’t communicate well with the electorate during his second term, and bungled the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina.

We don’t need a “purge” in the Republican party, but we need articulate conservatives who are steadfast to their principles and know how to EXPLAIN why they work, in a way that is convincing to middle-of-the-road voters who can vote either way in a given election. Then, once they are elected, they need to stop campaigning and start governing, with integrity and competence.

It was the “constant campaign” that brought down George W. Bush, when he should have been working with Congress to get things done when Republicans had the majority. Obama is, to a greater degree, in “constant campaign” mode, and his vanity and thinking that he alone knows what is good for the people might bring him down faster than Bush 43. For 2010, Republicans can tap into the tea-party revolt by being FOR free markets, FOR fiscal responsibility and low taxes, and AGAINST socialism and government takeovers.

Scozzafava’s endorsing her fellow leftist Owens, merely confirms her real allegiance, one that was blatantly obvious from the start. Certainly no badmouthing a Republican here.

Did i miss a fourth candidate? ;-)

Funny – Strange!

Last Month the mantra of the GOP moderate(RINO) wing was that the Reagan ERA was over. Comes now, the empty-suit wannabee speaker Rep. Boenor, jive-talkin about Lord Ronaldus’ 11th commandment! No John, we’re not “new to politics”, we’re just sick n’ tired of watching the socialist thugs MUG the USA, while the GOP acts as a willing accomplices to the assault.

As for that NY23 waste, Scuzzyfavors, she was obviously a Democrat disguised as a RINO. That Newty and the rest of the GOP elite couldn’t or wouldn’t sniff that beast out, speaks volumes about the REAL problem within the Republican Party!

Either the GOP, wakes up and smells the TEA, or they’ll be buried along with the Whigs!

“Let’s Roll”

On Watch on November 2, 2009 at 6:18 AM

Spot on, but that imagery is way too effective. I can actually smell a barnyard now when I picture Skifooza in that pink moomoo she’s wearing in that one pic.

On Watch: Be careful who you call a RINO,…this is a big country and whoever runs needs to fit the region they are in…Politics really are local. I doubt very much if the GOP will go the way of Whigs.

Terrye on November 2, 2009 at 6:28 AM

Terrye you sound like wounded RINO!
Your remedy though, is more like a repeat of the Republican
“BIG TENT” recipe (McCain)that brought us the Obama disaster!

NO! Accepting politicos like Specter, Snowe, Collins, Graham, and other assorted RINOs as bonafide Republicans, simply allows their cross–aisle liberal malfeasence to infect the party, as well as our wallets!

As for your denial of the Whig fate that’s in store for a GOP bereft of Conservative ideals, I suspect the Whigs thought they were invincible too.

“Let’s Roll”

OK. Hoffman is the conservative choice – and that’s a ‘stalinist purge?’

More leftist blather. The moderates can all go stand in the middle of the road.

FIRED UP!
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READY TO VOTE!
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FIRED UP!
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READY TO VOTE!
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READY TO VOTE!
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“Democrats did themselves no favors by driving Joe Lieberman out of their party, and conservatives will do their cause no good by forcing GOP candidates in Illinois, California and Connecticut to sound like Tom DeLay.

The alternative (hanging on to RINOS like Arlen Specter as long as possible) is no better.

For all the talk of a “purge-” Really, folks, we haven’t had an unapologetically Conservative Presidential candidate since Reagan. Congress hit a “Conservative” high-water mark 15 years ago, then frittered it away on power plays and corruption/moneygrubbing junk. We had a “maverick” RINO as our candidate a year ago, and he failed to win office.

Who’s chasing whom out of the party? NY 23, etc. is simply saying the conservatives saying “no, this is our party. If you want to be a lib, there’s a liberal party over there under the donkey.

You don’t have to go, you are welcome to stay, but don’t ask the base to write checks, sit in the corner and shut up.”

IMO.

joedoe on November 2, 2009 at 7:32 AM

Fair and Balanced.

Conservatives are as open to dissent as anyone. What we are not open to is turning over our freedoms to the care of someone who is diametrically opposed to our ideals.

Mr. Grump on November 2, 2009 at 6:30 AM

Worth repeating! +1,000

Malama pono, ahui hou! Aloha.

alohapundit on November 2, 2009 at 3:06 AM
Maika’i no! Mahalo nui loa!

Kini on November 2, 2009 at 3:17 AM

Now quit it with all that there furriner talk! Don’t y’all know that we’re a-feared of minorities around here? (And we’re also apparently seething with rage, so be careful!).

The conventional wisdom that the GOP needs to tilt as moderate no longer makes sense thanks to Pelosi, Reid, and Obama. Since they adopt a far left agenda, a counter balance is needed. Moderates must now choose between traditional conservatism and the free-market on one hand, and big government, nanny-state socialism on the other hand.

pearson on November 2, 2009 at 7:20 AM

spot on…
however, with the so called moderates already/still in Congress, I feel we may see more ‘gang of 14′ come creeping up from the depths until we can get more conservatives in office….

If conservatives now revolt against every GOP candidate who disagrees with them on trade, immigration or abortion, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will keep their majorities for a very long time.

It’s not OR. With Scozzafava, she was a liberal when it came to trade, immigration AND abortion. She was the complete, liberal package who also supported Card Check.

The conventional wisdom that the GOP needs to tilt as moderate no longer makes sense thanks to Pelosi, Reid, and Obama. Since they adopt a far left agenda, a counter balance is needed. Moderates must now choose between traditional conservatism and the free-market on one hand, and big government, nanny-state socialism on the other hand.

This will all make we, the conservatives, feel better. But in the end both massive voter fraud, and the continual downward slide of morals and ethics, will ensure deviant Democrat victories ahead. Enjoy these small victories while we can.
God help our land.

Jeff from WI on November 2, 2009 at 7:08 AM

I think it was Hugh Hewitt who said “If it’s not close, they can’t cheat.” We’ve got to make sure these elections in 2010 don’t have razor thin margins. A close race is all the criminal dems need to steal it. They’ve been stealing close elections since the did it with JFK in 1960. This is a center right country. If conservatives vote in big numbers, the dems can’t cheat to win and we’ll have no more fraudulent wins like the disgraceful Stuart Smalley in Minnesota.

If it’s not close, they can’t cheat!

but of course. Let’s hope Hoffman wins for all our sakes. I, for one, am getting sick and tired of the mindset around here.

Grow Fins on November 1, 2009 at 11:11 PM

That is what happens when one is faced with the fact that their outlook on what is normal is way off base. It’s called cognitive dissonance. You think you are sick, but in reality, you are just starting to get healthy. You’ll fight it, but eventually you will come to accept the truth and it will set you free.

but on this & other threads, I keep reading where people insist that a Republican be homogeneous everywhere. aint gonna happen.

kelley in virginia on November 2, 2009 at 6:47 AM

I agree to a certain point. But there have been times when a consistent conservative message has carried the day almost nation wide. 1984 for example, when Reagan carried 49 states for his second term. The only one that he didn’t carry was Minn. The land that gave us Al Franken. But all those other liberal bastions went for the right.

I know, I know they still elected democrats to the house and senate, but the presidential race that year was big, there was no coordinated push in those days to get reps from one party or the other. Things have changed in that regard.

but on this & other threads, I keep reading where people insist that a Republican be homogeneous everywhere. aint gonna happen.

The story of all three major races (VA, NJ, and NY-23) is that this conventional wisdom was incandescently wrong and ill-advised… The GOP is an unapologetically conservative party, providing a choice not an echo, and — horror of horrors — it’s working.”

And isn’t this what we have been saying all along? The real question is, will the GOP learn anything from this? Do they even desire to?

I’m euphoric. I didn’t think it would happen this fast.

PattyJ on November 2, 2009 at 1:04 AM

This is fast only to a glacier.