Tennessee GOP Sen. Corker tells Tennessee GOP to shut up
You knew it was only a matter of time. A Republican in the US Senate has now stepped forward to condemn the Tennessee state Republican party for running an ad criticizing Michelle Obama’s lack-o’-pride comments, which she made twice on the campaign trail and then tried to explain away. Via The Caucus:
The office of Senator Bob Corker, Republican from Tennessee, has weighed in today, siding with Senator Barack Obama’s objections to the state’s G.O.P. Web campaign against Michelle Obama.
To recap, the officialdom of the Tennessee G.O.P. posted a Web spot that mines remarks Mrs. Obama made in February that “first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country.” The ad repeats footage of her speaking those words, interspersed with comments from Tennesseans, talking about how they’ve always been proud to be an American.
…Mr. Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack, demanded that his boss’ state party remove the Web ad:
After the Republican National Committee damaged our campaign with their infamous ‘Call Me’ ad — which we immediately denounced — we have strongly encouraged the national party and state parties to absolutely refrain from getting involved in negative personal campaigning, and we have asked the state party to remove their You Tube ad from their Web site.
Republicans will be in much better shape if we spend our time focused on issues like reducing federal spending, lowering the cost of health care and creating a coherent energy policy.
“Negative personal campaigning?” What’s “personal?” Michelle Obama is out on the stump, speaking on behalf of her husband. The only thing “negative” about the Tennessee GOP’s ad came from Michelle Obama’s mouth.
Is it “negative personal campaigning” when candidate spouse Bill Clinton’s public campaign trail remarks are scrutinized, criticized, and analyzed?
Are we to shut up about him, too? Will the Republican civility-mongers not stop until the Right is completely disarmed?
The GOP establishment has been all atwitter of late over its demise and urging itself to “stand for something.” But when its state parties takes a stand–against the radical demagoguery of Jeremiah Wright or against the America-bashing of the Obamas–the party elders quiver like Jell-O on a roller coaster ride.
GOP: The fecklessness we deserve.
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The Examiner tells the presidential candidates and their wives to suck it up:
Both Barack Obama and John McCain must accept that spouses of presidential candidates are legitimate subjects of public discussion. Protecting a spouse from intrusion into his or her private life is understandable, but a candidate is wholly mistaken to suggest his wife’s statements on the campaign trail about why he should be elected aren’t fair game for criticism, or when he contends his wife’s sources of income should be of no concern to voters. Obama is guilty of the former, McCain of the latter.
…It is unfair to voters for the Obamas to demand that she be allowed to use fighting words without being subject to, yes, a fight.
…As for McCain, he and wife Cindy refuse to release her tax returns. She has a legal right to keep them private, but legality isn’t at issue here. What is at issue is John McCain’s willingness to be subject to credible transparency and accountability.
Even if a husband and wife officially segregate their incomes, family money is fungible. That is why it has become standard practice for presidential candidates to release their tax returns — so the public can decide for itself if any income sources look fishy. It should it be expected of spouses to do the same.
Mrs. McCain is estimated to be worth as much as $100 million. Just as it was absurd for John Kerry to say his wife’s views or vast fortune should be immune from examination, or for Hillary Clinton not to report her husband’s tens of millions in post-presidency “earnings,” so, too, is it nonsensical for McCain to say his wife’s money is none of the public’s business.
McCain has made a career of railing against the allegedly corrupting influence of money in politics. That fact doesn’t give him a “Get out of Jail Free” card on the issue.
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Every time you consider voting for McCain, think about things like this. Suppression of free speech from a “conservative.”
Oh, that’s right, we’re talking about John, “Campaign finance reform” McCain. He no more wants you to have constitutional rights than he wants to close the borders…
This is just a hint - not even a taste - of what life under McCain would be. Full-blown liberalism in conservative clothing.
Will he close the borders? Of course not.
Will he prosecute the war on terror? Only until Nancy Pelosi gets mad at him, on his third day in office. Then he’ll call for “healing” and pull out.
Will he appoint constructionist judges, or will he avoid a confrontation with his Senate pals?
As I said yesterday: my days of thinking that the GOP and their candidate are fighting for my ideals - or even my rights - are behind me. They’re in it for the power, and for the money that power brings.
I say let Obama win. Let the country see just what liberalism is all about. A McCain presidency *would* be the death of conservatism since after 4 years the Press will have the whole country convinced “see, this is what conservatives do,” when what we’d actually be living through is a liberalism akin to FDR.
No, the coming disaster has to have not only a Democrat, but an openly liberal Democrat at the helm.
Only then will a conservative rebound have a chance…
he speaks “tougher” defending his wife than he does defending America.
what a clown.
The Republicans are so supine it makes me wonder if they’ll ever be able to recover as a political party.
Just following McCain’s lead, I presume…
Sen. Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack, corrected: “Republicans will be in much better shape if we spend our time focused on offering conservative solutions to issues like reducing federal spending, lowering the cost of health care and creating a coherent energy policy.”
Can’t agree, Rob. From how many decades after FDR’s (or LBJ’s “Great Society”) policies are we still suffering?! And, just how long would Obama’s Supreme Court apointees be there…after 2012?!
As a citizen here in Tn, I am embarassed i voted for this clown.
Still was better than Ford. But Corker isn’t doing what we put him there to do.
Sad.
the rear of the shirt needs to read “we’re so screwed”
Lib her, lib there, every where a lib lib. Another “republican” pandering to the left. Surprize!
I really do feel we are screwed no matter what this time around. I also feel it is the people capable of independent thought that feel this way. Why? Because some people base their vote on the letter next to a person’s name; I do not.
I will not vote for McCain and I will not vote for Obama. I would much rather vote for Hillary. I believe out of the three she would do the least amount of damage to the country. I seriously doubt she could get anything passed.
If McCain wins the Republican party will only move further to the left. I am already feeling like so many old school Democrats who say they didn’t leave the party; the party left them.
Plus if McCain wins all of the damage he will cause will fall squarely on the Republican party. Since he started claiming to be a conservative it will fall on to us conservatives as well, even though he is NOT a conservative.
I will vote for the other office but for POTUS, I don’t know. Either a write in or a third party.
Lockstein,
It’s a bleak approach, and normally I’d agree with you.
The trouble is, it’s not as if I can honestly see enough of a difference between McCain and Obama to matter.
Do I see conservative justices under McCain? No. Oh, I hear what he’s saying now - but the man’s a “compromiser” at best… and a bald-faced liar, at worst.
When faced with a truly hostile congress (and it seems as if both House and Senate will be D), McCain will collapse like a house of cards.
You quote one of the new Republican stooges in your post, Womack, as referring to “low cost Health Care” as a core conservative value.
a) Since when? When did that become a plank of the conservative platform?
b) Through what path - open markets, or regulation?
How many people here honestly believe that John McCain even knows what open markets are? This is the man who refers to banks as “greedy,” right?
McCain is a liberal. Not a centrist, not a “Rockefeller Republican.” He’s a liberal… that calls himself conservative.
That’s the rub.
If he gets in, he’s going to poison people to what conservatism really is. Let’s face it, the average Joe and Joanne don’t get their news from here - they get it from outlets that will paint McCain as right-wing every time one of his liberal policies comes crashing down.
It will be a disinformation-palooza like we haven’t seen since Bill Hearst died…
Season opened up on Michelle Obama when she let us know how proud she has been of my country for the past 20 or so years (her adult life).
The three-way tie we are having for president this cycle explains why Mc and HIS GOP don’t want the truth about his oppoonents to see daylight.
McBamTon ‘08. (Scream therapy does not work on the inside of a building).
Ooops, I meant offices not office.
Sorry about the mistake.
Yep…Republican (loosly called) members are not wanting anyone to stand in the way of a Democrat Landslide this November.
In my opinion..the majority of the GOP at the top, has been infiltrated by liberals calling themselves Republicans to destroy the Conservative voice from the inside, since they couldn’t do it using their own overtly liberal pro-marxist viewpoint before.
How can these “girly men” of the GOP expect to get any conservative to vote for them when they do not have the intestinal fortitude to go after the obvious weakness of Obama Lama Ding Dong. The new messiah along with his America hating wife and spiritual advisor keep giving the right ammunition every time one of them opens their mouths.
I am called a racist if I disagree with his message or question his associations and I am a xenophobe if I want the illegal invasion of my country to stop by securing its borders and enforcing the laws already on the books, and I am part of the unwashed masses by refusing to shut up, get in line, march in lock step over the cliff following the fools leading the GOP. I am so glad I am now a registered Independent Conservative we truly are screwed in 08.
I love when Obama said this, “If they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful.”
Be careful or what Obama? What will you do negotiate without pre-conditions with the GOP?
As for McCain, if he did not want his wife’s income brought into play he should not have claimed he is completely transparent and be the so-called champion of campaign finance
reformsuppression. It makes you wonder what does Cindy McCain have to hide? Of course it could be that she just would like her privacy and feels it is no ones business, but after many years as the wife of a Senator you would think she would have learned that nothing in a politicians (or their families)lives is private.These gutless Republicans are about to collapse under their own weight. That useless Party should be scrapped and rebuilt from the top down.
I just sent the TN GOP an email thanking them for their ad and asking them not to remove it. I am from TN, and maybe if enough of us write, we will nullify Corker’s request.
Disappointing, but not unexpected. It would seem that “getting behind the candidate” means “not getting in front of his opponent”. How can you win by not opposing your opponent?
Michelle Obama is out there campaigning for Barak Hussein. This opens her up for criticism. She didn’t say “I’ve never been prouder…” She said “proud”. Also not unexpected from the hate America party. Just sickening.
Dude,
Grow a pair of stones for a “change.” When will you realize that the Dems never play fair, and they only bite the hand that’s extended to them in “peace.”
Remember No Child Left Behind, McCain Fiengold, and other episodes of “reaching across”?
Bob Corker… a better choice than Harold Ford Jr. to be sure, but apparently by not as much as we’d hoped.
I’m the very first on my block to purchase my “We’re Screwed ‘08″shirts.
They arrived yesterday in the mail!
Rush lays out this scenario:
1) McCain wins, has a Democrat Congress and gets all his liberal agenda passed. The country goes to Hell in a handbasket and the MSM blame the Republicans, because McCain is a Repub.
2) Obama wins, has a substantial majority in Congress, gets all his agenda passed and the country goes to Hell in a handbasket. The Democrats get the blame.
3) Clinton wins, has a Democrat majority in Congress, gets all her agenda passed and the country goes to Hell in a handbasket. Democrats take the blame.
Take your pick.
We are so screwed.
Memo to the last Republican panderer to PC to be standing:
Be sure to turn out the lights. That way you can avoid any additional flack about contributing to GW.
The party is over.
Personally I can see the disdain for attacking someone’s family. However, when that person knowingly and willfully enters the arena, they must expect to have shots taken at them. As long as Michelle Obama expresses her political views than she is opening herself up. Wasn’t there another presidential wife that claimed being the spouse of a sitting president was “actual experience” and even went so far as to raise it to the level of co-president?
If you are going to dance in the fire, you have to be ready to get burned. As for the people in Tennessee? Well … just more proof that the republican party has already fallen to the left, it just has not fallen hard enough to break up on impact yet.
Does the GOP actualy want to win?
*big nasty eye roll w/sucking teeth*
the GOP is hurting themselves. if i wanted to vote for pansies, i’d for the dems.
stop pandering…and calling out other republicans for doing what they’re supposed to do only looks REALLY bad to your base…you know, the people you NEED to vote for you.
they don’t like it? tell them to grow a pair, as opposed to you cutting your off…one by one.
this is politics, and EVERYTHING is fair game.
The giant bombshell hasn’t even been fired yet, just wait, it’s coming….soon.
Memo to Corker:
You want who to shut up?
Michelle the Mouth puts herself out there and says how we’re such a mean country, this is the first time she’s proud, can’t afford ballet and piano lessons, etc. Cindy McCain won’t let us see her tax returns. Which is worse-I could care less what Cindy McCain’s trust fund looks like.
I wish someone would step up and remind the B. Hussein Obama’s that Bill Clinton has been constantly criticized for opening his big mouth but guess that’s okay. Cindy McCain is a Barbie doll, plain and simple. Can she talk? I really don’t know.
I wish McCain and the other Rinos would take up the important issues of the day such as the economy, the war, etc. But why bother with the important issues, right? We have to worry about someone who has no problem hurting other’s feelings gets her feelings hurt and no I’m not talking about Hillary.
We’re too busy worrying about this woman’s feelings than using her own husband’s words about what we can drive, what we can eat, how hot or cold our houses are. If Mrs. Obama can’t take the heat, she needs to become a Barbie doll like Cindy and shut up.
If Ronald Reagan were alive today, he would, no doubt, be heard to say “I didn’t leave the Republican Party, the Republican Party left me.”
thats true. I will not vote for capt. queeg. he will sell us out again. anybody think he will appoint good judges, or win the war on terror is dreaming.
he’s a LIBERAL. no different than obama or hillary…hell, hillary is tougher than he is.
McCain is “Republican Lite”, yet he beats the Democratic alternative of Barack “Jimmy Carter II” Obama.
Well, I think it’s funny that the only thing that has occurred is that her words are being replayed and thrown back into her face. No half-truths or misrepresentations here… just the unmitigated truth. “Lay off my wife” huh? Your pastor, your church, the terrorists you call friends, Hamas endorsement, etc. All of those things we are to simply walk away from and ignore - all the while paying very close attention to “hope and change” mantra. I’m no liberal and I will not willfully ignore the writing on the wall. It’s not something I would be prepared to do for McCain(R), so you can sure as hell bet that I won’t do it for a Dem. The great uniter, pfft. I’m waitin’…
right4life said:
“hell, hillary is tougher than he is.”
Come to think of it, I believe she is, too.
so is the country I used to know.
I couldnt agree more. The Republican Party is a disaster right now filled with weak kneed little pansies without direction. We had power and a chance to do something good with it for 14 years, starting in 1994. Instead we became the new Dem party filled with big government, pandering and corruption. Now the demagogues of the Dem party are in full throat, the lemmings in this Country ready to vote for them, while real conservatives scratch their heads in disbelief as to what the **** has happened to the Republican Party. Im an inch away from changing to Independent. Im so sick of this Party that really doesnt really represent what I believe in anymore.
I feel the “we’re so screwed.” A lot of us do.
So… are we?
What if everybody who feels that way writes in Fred Thompson? … well, no way that’d be enough of us.
But… who are the Electors? Maybe some of the “Electors for John McCain” are also feeling screwed. Maybe a lot of them are.
Maybe some of them could throw their votes to Thompson. Maybe even a lot of them. Can we find out who they are, how they feel, what they might do?
If they feel as we do, a vote for McCain might well be a good thing.
We’ve had so-called “unfaithful electors” in the past, in very small numbers. This time it might be what we need, but as a revolt, not a mere protest.
Go ahead and try to run on that stellar record you nincompoops.
I understand (/sarcasm) the high-minded campaign approach of John McCain and his need to show himself high-minded by very publicly telling (or having surrogates tell) the noisy ones to “just shut up.”
It goes without saying that McCain wants to hold the rabble in reserve so that he can call us out (with a subtle nod) late in the campaign, if needed. Anybody who truly believes that this SOB is something other than a bare-knuckled politician has not been paying close attention.
Right now, he finds it expedient not merely to neglect his base but to bash it. Given his record on freedom of political speech, can anyone doubt the assault on talk radio and bloggers that would follow this martinet’s election?
What is wrong with you people? Capt. McNasty will give us a wink when it is time to go nasty.
Sent as a resident….
Senator Corker,
I appreciate your wish for civility during the election process. However, everyone I have spoken to (family, coworkers, etc) have stated that if someone is going to endorse and campaign for a candidate then their past public remarks must be held to the same light as the candidate. President Bush can’t shut down Saturday Night Live when they do a skit lampooning Mrs. Bush, his Children, or himself. In fact have you seen the remarks and pictures posted on DailyKos site? If you wanted to condemn something there’s a good place to start. Mr. Obama’s reaction during one of his latest interviews demonstrates that he wants Mrs. Obama to campaign for him, but no-one can questions what they believe. As a potential First Lady it is the populace’s responsibility to know her mindset and influence on the President’s decisions. It is well known the influence on politics that First Ladys’ have had and will continue to hold. Please remove your renouncement of the Tennessee GOP.
Thank you.
It is becoming very clear that our survival (conservative philosophy) depends on re-building from the bottom up. We have to start over and elect conservatives to local and state offices. There are very few at the federal level that are worth keeping.
I am surprised that Hillary isn’t pointing out how much criticism she took (justifiably) when her husband ran and was president. At least she was man enough to take it. And she was at least a bit more subtle about her plans to ruin the country…
I wish it were just that bad. It is sad when your party believes as liberals believe: that liberals are doing the right thing, and we must emulate them. Can we have elected men and women so stupid that they fall for the liberal media spin/propaganda? McCain surely has been at the KoolAid bowl.
I have to agree. The SCOTUS appointments are the linchpin. Those are decisions that will make or break the country for years to come.
At least with McCain, we have a prayer, albeit a very tiny one.
Please - lets all take a moment to let the senator know what we think:
http://corker.senate.gov/Contact/index.cfm
Let’s not let him get away with this.
Corker is one of my Senators. I thought he was more conservative than apparently he is.
I knew McCain’s no conservative - he just makes conservative noises when he thinks it’ll help him, but his leftward actions speak much louder than his words.
I don’t understand how playing Michelle O’s words is an unfair or unethical attack - if she’s in the arena stumping for her husband, what she says is fair game for critical analysis.
The Republicans and their antics are starting to have the same effect as the Democrats and their antics do on me. They are both pretty much meaningless and not connected to my life except by the unfortunate fact that I will have to live under one or the other. But they both want to lessen my freedoms, raise my taxes, and give me the “benefit” of more and bigger government and spending. A pox on both of them.
Time to send Senator Bob packing.
Would it be gauche to tell Corker to “put a cork in it?”
No senator should tell his party how to run a campaign. If the Senate and House would get their crap together and actually start solving problems, then maybe I can give them a pass. But since not a damn thing has happened……they can just SHUT UP!
Go Tennessee GOP!
Phooey on Corker. They’ve had eight years to get this done and they’ve done nothing. They’re spineless and ball-less and refuse to stand up and fight.
It’s the Constitution party for me in November.
We are forgetting McCain has not chosen a running mate. That may be the make or break for Republicans and McCain. Sadly, I think McCain will chose someone who is liberal and deal the death blow to the Republican party.
My $5 is still on Rudy.
Speaking on the subject of recent days, appeasement, there are appeasers in the Republican Party just like there are in the donkey party. The difference is, donkeys spend their time appeasing America’s foreign enemies; Republicans spend their time appeasing the donkeys.
And just like in with foreign tyrants, appeasing your domestic political rivals does not mollify but rather emboldens them.
Instead of appeasement, what the donkeys in general, and Obama in particular, need is a prolonged dosage of “Tough
lovesh*t:”Don’t like wifey getting her comeuppance when she says dumb things in public with a microphone in her hand? Tough sh*t! Instead of blaming Republicans for noticing, why not take the mike away from her?
The idea can literally be expressed on a bumper sticker, like one I saw recently: “I’m not mean; you’re just a sissy!” Confront the donkeys more often - get in their faces when they start acting like pansies and blubbering about how you hit them back. Respond to their adult tantrums in the same way you would to a little kid’s — there is no difference.
The only way to correct negative attention-getting behavior is to demonstrate — repeatedly if necessary, until the lesson sinks in — that it doesn’t pay. Parents know this. Squishy Republicans need to figure it out.
“Compassionate Conservatism” isn’t going to win any elections going forward.
The trouble with that is what happens in the interval. Reagan won the Cold War by changing our philosophy vis a vis Soviet Communism from “containment” to “roll-back.” But even Reagan couldn’t roll-back the Federal government’s growth.
The problem for conservatives remains just that: We can’t roll back things like new bureaucracies, bigger entitlements, more intrusive laws and regulations. It’s bad enough that today’s Republicans in Washington have mostly forgotten fiscal and small-government conservatism; but how will just rolling over before the donkeys for 8 years or so help? Think of the damage they can do — permanent damage.
For even if there’s another 1994-style backlash that restores Republicans to power, they best they might do is to roll back taxes a little and rebuild the military. Everything else — the new departments, new agencies, new regulations, new entitlement programs, scores if not hundreds of new liberal district and circuit court judges — stays.
No, the donkeys must be fought with the goal being to defeat them every time. Even if in so doing we only get a partial victory. Half a win always beats defeat when you’re up against donkeys.
Maybe McCain, the great uniter will reach out and pick Hillary or Obama as his running mate.
and the frappacino I buy with it is going to taste sooooooo yummy!
Starbucks? Not with my money!
You jest but ironically a McCain/Clinton ticket would be a landslide for that ticket. And that is pathetic beyond words. At this time all 3 candidates are moderately liberal to staunchly liberal. The only reson to vote for McFraud is his appointments of S Ct Judges. But I cannot even count on him for that. Basically my friend, you are witnessing just another step in the long downward spiral of this country. By 2050 the USA will be the bastard child of France and Mexico.
Just confirms my belief that the GOP is running interference for Obama. Any other year Obama would never be considered a serious candidate.
That is what a hope. That party needs a death blow.
Yet again the Republicans act like spineless weasels they really are. Why are Senator Corker not supporting the Tennessee GOP instead of chastising them? Does that ad actually state anything that wasn’t truthful? UGH this makes me want to pull my hair out!!!
I agree:
We are SOOO screwed!
We will be assimilated to the O-Borg-ama
I can help:
1. Quit spending taxpayer’s money like it grows on trees– as a taxpayer, I assure you guys in Washington that it does NOT.
2. Less regulation, more free market. Avoid socialized health care like the plague.
3. Drill in the US– there’s plenty of oil beneath us just waiting for us to tap in and use it.
Wow… it’s almost like just *anyone* can come up with solutions to all of our “GOP concerns!” Hmm… maybe we should replace everyone in Congress/the Senate with regular folks– we’d probably get more done!!
Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain are fair game.I just don’t get it.Michelle is a surrogate out on the stump and besides she said what she said.They are her words so she needs to own them.Maybe that isn’t what she ment I don’t know but she said it.
The only family members of a campaign off limits are children and also family members who are not actively participating in the campaign.
This is all interesting since I like following the process but as I tell the RNC when they keep calling for money we’re not supporting John McCain (not Obama either).McCain is a open borders hack.He can dance around the subject all he wants and those who don’t pay attention can believe his secure the borders first B.S. but we all know better.McCain takes his lead from Juan Hernandez and I believe he’ll get beat this Fall.
We’re going out and support our congressman Brad Ellsworth a conservative democrat who has a Numbersusa grade of A- compare that with McCains D or F.These country club republicans made their own bed so they can lay in it!
I can just see it now. McCain asks Obama to be his VP after the Obama is nominated and therefore avoid the nastiness of an actual election to spare their wives feelings.
If we as conservatives give up now I’m afraid we will never recover. Obama unhindered as President with a liberal majority will make it almost impossible to get a conservative message out. The SCOTUS would become a rubber stamp for every liberal group’s agenda for the next 30 years. I agree with Rush except that republicans will get blamed for everything anyway. Now is not the time to get wobbly kneed. We have a military that is locked in battle and we have to watch their backs. Turning them over to Obambi is unthinkable to me.
Liberals would love to see us give up and let Obambi walk into the W.H. A vote for anyone but our candidate,as flawed as he is, will do just that.
Thank God for the 527s. Some republicans and McCain may not want to fight but, they will.
McCain, an equal of three evils. We got that part.
Now who is this Corker? Another anti-business left wing disciple of Lenin wearing a Republican costume? I just don’t know. I’ve only heard of him, and this isn’t much of a ‘claim to fame’. Telling citizens to ‘not tell the truth’.
Michelle Obama engages in political attack speeches, and she can’t be called out for insulting the USA? What the he** is wrong with this country??? Free men and women can’t call someone out for Anti-American, Anti-Patriotic speech?
Shame on you Corker. You would have been great on the Politburo.
This is a political game folks. Sort of like when a politician is asked, “is it true that you beat your wife”?
The GOP is playing good cop/bad cop. Of course Michelle Obama is fair game and she will continue to have GOP crosshairs on her until November.
I’m with you Dave_r #35. I am writing in Fred Thompson in November and let the chips fall where they may. I cannot vote for a liberal in Republican clothing! I am also pushing for term limits since what we currently have obviously doesn’t work–entrenched, elitist politicians weighted down in bribery money who have corrupted themselves. And this particular politician can go you know where just for telling me to shut up (he should try reading the constitution about the right of citizens to petition the “govt”. I’m NOT going to shut up.
While I disagree with Sen. Corker, I agree with Newt Gingrich that trying to win on the basis of Michelle Obama is pointless and just plain doesn’t work.
Maybe now the TNGOP will actually try standing on actual issues.
corker now comes across as just another spineless, jellyfish. This pathetic new breed of republicans so afraid to stand up for conservative values, so willing to sell out and be subservient. We need to rid congress of the gutless wonders claiming to be republicans. We need men not boys representing the party.
Whatever else you want to say about the Obamas, it has to be admitted that they have shrewdly immunized themselves from criticism by playing our politically correct social compact and the mainstream media like Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jimi Hendrix played Fender Strats.
I’m no conspiracy theorist, but I find it telling that the apparent window for discussing actual issues is going to be the short time between the end of the conventions and the elections. I reckon those inside the beltway figure that’s as long as our “American Idol watching-bitter-clinging to our guns” attention span will last.
I think it is perfectly acceptable to use her own words against her politically. It requires her to explain her position. Besides, if she doesn’t like the US, she sure as hell doesn’t deserve to be in any prominent position of leadership.
Regarding Cindy McCain, if she says something political, fine. Address it in the same way. However, if she releases her tax returns (which I don’t think is an issue), she’s damned if she does because the left will portray them as elitist multi-millionaires and damned if she doesn’t, they’ll accuse them of hiding something. Doesn’t Obama still have some releasing to do (advisors and such?)
You know the left just wants the ammunition to spin it, regardless.
Corker and McCain appear extremely non-confrontational to the point of appeasement on domestic issues dealing with the demoncats. Corker must not have been listening to Bush last week on how appeasers are losers.
We see this in Minnesota, too! Pawlenty thinks he can compromise and work with the demoncats in congress here. But he ends up getting run over by a veto override on our state’s spending bill by four votes with six sorry rhinos there helping the demoncats all the way!! We had a $2B surplus last year and our congress spent all of it, are now at a $935M deficit and raised our taxes $7B over the next 2-yr spending period. This is what happens to appeasers…they lose!!!
Pawlenty’s got our state on the road to skyrocketing future energy costs by requiring renewable energy (wind, solar, E85) minimums. He thinks by appeasing the left with green policies and light rail boondoggles they will compromise and be nice on other issues…fat chance!! The left always takes all they can and always asks for more as there is never an amount that is enough. When was the last time you heard of a dem willing to compromise on any of their core platform issues let alone half of them like McCain?
Pass this one around… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVsXtuQg7tU&feature=related
Is there anyone in America, who hasn’t heard Ms. Obama’s remark?
You can’t un-ring the bell…The controversial comment remains…It’s already indelibly etched.
If you think, Corker, or any other Republican, shouldn’t take the high road, you’re beclowning yourself.
I really think this analysis is incorrect, Marshall.
If McCain wins, conservatism will be completely shut out of the national conversation for years to come. We will be a minority voice trying to speak out against or own party’s president, big Democrat congressional majorities, and a hostile media giddy with the pleasure of writing our obituary. And you think we have a will have a chance to “get a conservative message out under these circumstances?”
OTOH, if McCain looses with the base resisting him, conservatism will be shown to be very much alive and to have teeth. It will be the GOP professional class that will be shown to be lacking both vision and clout. The surviving congress critters will get the message loud and clear. The voice of conservatism will be heard across the land and not be muted by a hostile John McCain, who will enjoy the status of George McGovern, Mike Dukakis, Bob Dole, and other famous losers.
Anybody giving stump speeches for any of the candidates is a fair target for discussion, debate, and derision. If Obambi can’t take it, he should tell his wife to sit down and shut up. If she wasn’t making statements in public forums, covered by the press, he might have a shred of credibility, but when she’s out, openly on the attack, it’s just silly to say that she should be respected as a non-combatant.
I am giving up on the GOP, I think we need to clean house and this November will be a bloodbath for the republicans. They will go the way of the wig (sp?) party (the GOP’s predecessors) who were too elitist. I heard Mitt today on Laura Ingraham and even he was wishy washy since he now supports McCain. I will only vote for conservatives. I will not vote for ANY RINO, period. Time to clean this party or destroy it and start a new one again.
I don’t deny that it is possible to take this kind of thing too far. Liberal bashing is not enough…conservatives also need ideas for addressing some of our problems that only government can address.
So, no, bashing liberals is not enough…but it is still important, when it is valid. Obama has a huge weakness in that his stance of moderation is largely a lie. He is very smooth-talking himself, but through his associations — Michelle, Jermiah Wright, Bill Ayers, et. al. — he can be exposed. Taken together, the actions and words of these who are close to Obama paint a compelling picture of who the man really is. An opponent who takes these things off the table is a fool.
Guess who wears the pants in the Obumma family? To Corker: stfu
as opposed toooo less see…deal with issues that are high on the scale of conservative concerns….like…immigration? Which is one reason why everyone voted their neighborhood Republican out of office the last time. They promised to deal with immigration and they did not and they still refuse to deal with it on a national level!
It is amazing how these people get elected, and then they think they can just tell everyone what to do. The people in DC think too highly of themselves. . . that’s the problem. They really think they are the aristocrats who have to lower themselves to request votes from the peasants.
Oh please don’t say anything bad about Obama, says the Republican GOP senator. He’s a senator and above criticism after all. The Republican GOP wants Obama to win the presidency I guess. As for me, I’ve been proud of this country all my life. . . but I’ve N-E-V-E-R been proud of Washington DC in my life. . . and you can quote that as much as you like.
My thoughts exactly!
FACT CHECK TIME.
Michelle “the mouth” Obama said…”for the first time in my adult life I am proud of America.”
The media has reported her MULLIGAN.
For the first time in my adult life I am REALLY proud of America.
She said the REALLY proud in her second speech that day. She realized after leaving Milwaukee that she had made a gaffe. When she got to Madison Wisconsin, all of a sudden REALLY PROUD was the term. She changed one word in identical speeches.
It’s not by accident that it keeps being quoted by the MSM as REALLY PROUD.
The MSM is playing along with “the mouth”.
I think showing us why electing BHO (and his wife) would be a horrible, horrible mistake is a certainly a positive enough message to warrant this ad. Perhaps the GOP senator has become delusional in his old age?
Bob Corker and Todd Womack need to get a grip. Corker is the junior senator from our state. He ran as a “conservative” in 2006. He strikes me as being about as “conservative” as McCain. I voted for him but only as a vote against Harold Ford, Jr. (D).
There’s another case, I guess, of what voting for the lesser of evils gets me. Ugh!
Running out of time folks! Said it before I’ll say it again, we can make the GOP the third party in this country.
I’m not old enough to run for President so I can’t do it, but I’ll be more than happy to work towards it. So….
Who wants to run for President here?
We have 6 months and if you don’t think in 6 months we couldn’t get someone new elected, I think you are wrong.
The time is now. I would rather have stalemate in DC than anything else. I say scrw having the blame be put on Dems or Repubs unless we can put the blame on both.
If you aren’t into this, than get your tickets for Sept 1-4 for St. Paul and crash the GOP convention.
When they roll Michelle Obama out there on the campaign trail to speak, what she says becomes fair game. Period.
sock it to him:
http://corker.senate.gov/Contact/index.cfm
So Mishallow Obama can attack any and all of us, all of America, with impunity on a campaign?
Can we send an ‘attack wife’ out to campaign with out any fear of what she might say?
The B. Hussein and Mishall-ow Obama family live in a Potemkin village , and a nomadic shallow one at that.
Done!!
OT
Is it me, or does Pat Buchanan sound a little too sympathetic to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis
Weighed down?? No, they’re hollow lightweights alienating their foundation. They won’t collapse - as their base quickly erodes, they will just get blown away like dust in the wind.
The GOP is fast becoming as irrelivant as the Whigs were in the 1850’s and seem to wish on itself the same fate.
MO has made herself a legitimate target by actively campaigning and giving speeches for the BHO campaign.
Cindy McCain has done one or two ‘Good Morning America’ type appearances where she hasn’t discussed the issues, or criticized the United States as an unfair country with a mean spirit.
Hence, she is not a legitimate target.
And I’m sure the TN GOP’s response will be to stay home and not donate a single minute or penny to help the campaign.
I don’t know which is more frightening, the kamikaze GOP leadership or the fact this could lead to Comrade BHO taking the White House with a left-wing Congress at his disposal.
“We can’t let the Democrats take our issues.” And those issues would be? “We can’t let them pretend to be conservatives,” he continued. Why not? Republicans pretend to be conservative every day.” - PEGGY NOONAN
“They have scandals, bad personalities, don’t stand for anything. That’s why Republicans are losing: because they’re losers.” - PEGGY NOONAN
The USA, that so many of us have known and loved, is history.
While we snoozed in our freedoms and prosperity, the dark side of the community took over, and short of another civil war, I don’t see any way we can pull out of this. Even if it came to a civil war, I can’t imagine anyone but the older generation willing to lay down their lives for freedom as the founders did. Sadly, even my father, a WWII vet, said recently, he would never again fight for the likes of this country as it is today.
If these Republicans, sitting in office today, think they will get my vote next time around, they’re delusional. It’ll be a write-in or Independent. I refuse to be part of your stupid games!
fixed it for ya. Republican candidates and their families are always fair game.
Michelle, is there a movement in place to oust the impotent “leadership” of the GOP? It seems as though McCain and his fellow RINO’s get their news from the MSM, and are just marching to the beat of that liberal drum. We need to take back our party. Are there any strong conservatives that we can back, who will be able to make changes within the party?
As sucky as McCain is (I think Sean Hannity’s “we’ll be mad at McCain 30% of the time low-balls that by about 20%), if BHO is elected, every libtard judge over the age of about 55 will retire before 2011, to ensure BHO will have a Donk Senate to confirm his picks. All the old libs will be replaced by 30 or 40 something Ruth Bader Ginsburg clones, who will do, as BHO himself suggested, rule based on sympathy for the little guy. If the moderate Kennedy, or Scalia, Roberts, Thomas or Alito get sick or die in the next four years, then all of a sudden there is three or four decades of a third House of Congress passing Democrat laws from the bench, or a second Executive branch that will veto every law a future Republican Congress and President might pass.
That is about the only reason I’ll vote for McCain. This country won’t survive 30 or 40 years of a majority activist and partisan Democrat SCOTUS.
McCain himself won’t appoint real Thomas or Scalia type justices. One, it isn’t in his nature, and two, with the Senate almost certainly in Democrat hands, only a Anthony Kennedy type moderate can be confirmed.
But the Souters and Ginsburgs won’t rush to the exits, knowing their replacements share their ideology, and if one of the elderly libtards does kick off, it is unlikely McCain will replace them with someone as ideologically pure to the Marxist cause as BHO would.
guess who caused the problems to begin with??
Government interferrence in the health care industry has caused wild price inflation. They have dictated what MUST be offered so the consumer has little choice and therefore little price differentiation. It’s just like the bad old days with telephones - exactly like that.
We all know why oil/gas prices are through the roof. Once again it is government interferrence in the market place by banning our ability to get to our own energy supplies.
So the cure is…. MORE government central planning. Great. Wonderful. That’ll work. Sure.
Tennessee Senator Corker,
I must applaude the great ad put out by the party officials there.
It is the type of strong stance that the GOP as a whole is missing.
There are many of us who have stopped $$$ and volunteer support of the Republican Party because of the elitest attitude of office holders.
Senator-your lack of support for your state party is out of order
ABOVE is comment I just sent to Tenn.Sen.Corker’s office…..
CS
Ed Mahmoud…that is exactly why we must vote for McCain. It’s really quite simple.
It’s either McCain or Obama.
Obama isn’t qualified to sew eyeslits on burqas. The fact that a large portion of this country doesn’t care that he is not qualifed illustrates our problem. It’s the IDEOLOGY, not the CAPABILITY that Libtards want.
The destruction of America lead by the socialist/liberals and aptly aided by the GOP(mostly socialist/liberals).
The first thing to do to clean house is to deny John McCain the White House.
You know about 9 years ago it was tough to boycott and if necessary destroy Smith & Wesson after they had signed an agreement with the Clinton Administrationto let them dictate gun policy without interference form conress or the judiciary in exchange for immunity from liability lawsuits….but we as gun owners knew that if Smith and WEsson went along with this without punishment so would Ruger, Remington, and Glock and others-it would have been an end run around the second amendment.
I am not unhappy with the stance I and milions of gun owners took to preserve our way of life then when things were really dark.
Anyone who votes RINO deserves RINO-and should not complain when they get policies they didn’t want. Don’t count me in for a RINO vote.
When frustrated enough with the GOP and are looking for a “CHANGE” read the Constitution Party platform. I’m been a hard conservative Republican until my back can’t take anymore from the current crop of RINO’s. I read the platform, it’s a hell of a lot better than the GOP’s cow towing to liberals platform..
Just saying
RightisRight
The Constitution party does look better and better all the time….
We gave him our two cents worth…
Sounds great in theory, because McCain is a RINO, but when President Duncan Hunter or President Jindal gets all his legislation vetoed by a Supreme Court that is solidly partisan and Democrat because people sat on their hands and allowed Barak Hussein Obama, a barely disguised Marxist, to replace all the old ACLU international socialists, with young ACLU type Marxists, and perhaps replace one of the five justices that isn’t a flat out partisan Democrat hack, well, you’d better not complain about it.
If you allow BHO to become President with a near filibuster proof Senate majority and a Democrat House, you have probably literally signed the death warrant for the United States as a Democratic-Republic with a capitalist economic system. Your taxes will go up, sharply, the military will be gutted and new entitlements instituted to guarantee future Republican administrations don’t have the funding to restore it, a new ‘Fairness Doctrine’ will shut down conservative talk radio, and once the Supreme Court has its Democrat majority, the Second Amendment will be stripped and the only possible legal gun owndership will be low shot capacity hunting rifles.
love2rumba and rightsright,
Now YOU are speaking my language! No more lying down or worse yet, grabbing our ankles for the 3rd party GOP.
It’ll take action, commitment and money to raise up another party above the mainstream DC crowd’s parties, but it is better and it is right if we love this country, to try a peaceful and legal revolution.
Mahmoud abu al-Kahoul, I agree with a lot of what you say may be the result of not voting for McCain, but as an American I have the right to vote for the candidate of my choice, correct. I also have the right as an American not to vote if I feel there is not a candidate that has the values I am looking for. That being said, do not blame us, the conservatives that have been betrayed by our party…the blame rests on the heads of RNC. Elitist bastards they have become…not the sheeple that are tired of being led to slaughter.
Ed, who sent you here? First and foremost, we always have a right to complain and if those two gentleman were in office and got the cold shoulder you refer to, which I agree they would, nothing could be better for us and for the country. The American people are not blind or stupid and they know where the ineffectiveness is. A matter of fact, the people get more upset when the President is doing too much in their eyes.
As for the blame game, that is old and tiring. Losers lose, because they couldn’t win, not because not enough fans showed up for the game. The dolphins would not have had a better season if more fans would have showed up, but they would have had more fans if they knew how to perform.
Being fair game is irrelevant. I am not a McCain supporter or supporter of the
zionist neocon faction which we have today in Washington posing as the republican party. But as a conservative who believes in limited government and civil liberties which are the true conservatives values the Tennessee GOP is taking the wrong approach. They will
not gain any votes by attacking a women’s right to free speech and calling her anti-american because she doesn’t agree with someone else’s point of view. That is a lose-lose situation especially with women. It makes more sense to run ads showing true limited government issue’s especially when the country is dumping 13 billion a month into a war and letting 5 million people walk across the border every year. You have to fight them on the issues not attacks on someones right to free speech because you don’t like what you heard. Conservatives values can win elections on their own merit as most people do not want government in there homes. Unfortunately that is not what the Republican party represents. I repeat they do not represent conservative government anymore. Sure they put words on a web site but they are just words. It’s not how they vote
and hasn’t been for a long long time.
Third party means President Barak Obama with a near filibuster proof Senate majority and a Democrat House.
Socialized medicine will be a fact. Cut-n-run from Iraq, turning it over to be divided between American hating al Qaeda and American hating Iran will be a fact. The gutting of the military will be a fact. Not a certainty, but the Supreme Court and many other federal courts become solidly Democrat for several decades. Between that, and the increased committment to entitlements from socialized medicine, future Presidents will not be able to restore the military. Conservative talk radio will probably be legislated out of existence, with possibly one or two of the most popular, surviving, by a new fairness doctrine that mandates radio stations to balance conservative talk with an equal amount of liberal talk radio. Note, liberal talk radio does not attract much of an audience, and loses money. So some talk-radio stations will drop talk radio completely and change format. So the MSM will have even more influence on an uninformed general public.
Now, the reason we are stuck in this mess, there were two RINOs (well, 3 if you count the Huckster, a social conservative but otherwise liberal RINO). One RINO, Giuliani, had a disasterous campaign strategy, all or nothing on Florida. On the other side, Duncan Hunter, the perfect candidate but low funds and name recognition, Thompson got in late, some questioned if he had the fire, some thought he could have done more on the Judiciary committee, as mentioned, the Huck siphoned conservative vote