No, thanks, “my friend”
John McCain wants your money. This solicitation is landing in many readers’ e-mail boxes:
My Friend,
In the time since the 2008 presidential campaign ended I have had a chance to reflect on many things. And as I said on election night, I truly cannot adequately express how indebted I am to you, my entire campaign team and my running mate, Governor Sarah Palin.
The road was a difficult one from the outset. Yet, your faith, your support and friendship never wavered. Just as I have proudly served my country for more than half a century I am as committed as ever to helping see our mission through.
So to continue the movement, I have decided to launch a new grassroots organization called Country First.
Today, I’m asking you as a friend and supporter to renew your commitment to our common goals by becoming a Charter Member of Country First with an online contribution.
Country First will allow us to strengthen our Party, better define our Republican ideals and message, recruit and back strong, dedicated candidates and continue our efforts to bring real reform to government by always putting our country and the noble ideals she stands for first.
Together, we can make government more responsive to today’s problems and more answerable to the people. That’s why I hope you will become a Charter Member of Country First and support our cause by following this link to make a generous contribution of any amount today.
With your help we can work to elect these new leaders to Governorships, Statehouses, the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 and beyond. Once in office they will become fierce advocates for limited government, economic opportunity, personal responsibility and strong national security.
On Election Night last year, I called on all Americans not to despair of our present difficulties but to believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.
Today, I am asking you to join Country First to continue fighting for the worthy cause of revitalizing both our democracy and our Party.
Our goals will never be realized if your voice falls silent. You are the best hope for our country’s success. Please stay in this fight with me; our country needs your service now as much as ever.
I know that together we can make a difference – we already have. Again, I thank you for your unwavering friendship and support.
Sincerely,
John McCain
P.S. Country First will serve as a powerful voice for the American people. It will allow us to get our Republican message out to the voters and elect a new generation of Republican leaders who can go to Statehouses and Congress to fight for all we believe in. Please join as a Charter Member of Country First by following this link to make a contribution today. Thank you.
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Sorry John, you WILL NOT get one penny from me or my family. YOU sir, are a rino.
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He talked about wanting to elect Republicans but didn’t mention conservatives.
I can’t seem to think of any right off hand, so no, you will not get any money to form an organization that will just spout rhetoric and then capitulate to the libs.
Wow, this guy really does not get it.
ha! Yeah, suuuuure…. That’ll be the day, you big LOSER!
I don’t even think he really wanted to win.
THANKS FOR NOTHING, McCain! Now, get lost!!
It will allow us to get our Republican message out.
Right. The problem is, McCain doesn’t have any idea what “our” republican message is.
The party you threw under the bus to suck up to media every chance you got.
Because you did such a great job at that during your campaign.
Whom you will then turn against when they aren’t sufficiently mavericky enough.
Like when you threw free speech under the bus to protect senate incumbents? Like when you threw three dozen constructionist judges under the bus so you could preserve your precious judicial filibuster (never used by Republicans?) Like when you cursed out supporters of border security as “chickensh-ts?”
F. U. Mav.
What you did to our party none of “My Friends” would have done. Please just go away and don’t comeback John.
I keep getting those “begging” for money letters in the snail mail. I keep responding with the follow: “Please stop sending me this crap. McCain didn’t fight for conservative values and he and the RNC stood by and let Sarah get trashed”.
They won’t stop so I am sending everything I receive from them stuffed back into their own self-addressed envelope with the above message to stop sending anything to me.
If only he and I shared the same ideas on securing the borders, eliminating socialized education, socialized health care, socialized retirement, etc., I might be tempted.
Irish Rose is going to come smite you all.
You may want to donate a dollar or two just to stay on her good side.
The Malkin MDS never stops… One day someone may pull back the curtain and see Howard Dean.
Hey, maybe the brain trust can get McCain replaced with another Al Frankin. Perhaps we can get William Ayres to run against him… That ought to show what a uber conservative you are…
I still don’t understand how he even got the nomination! Okay, fine, he was heroic 40 years ago. But it was MADNESS to present a tottering, stammering, white-haired OLD man who doesn’t know how to use a COMPUTER against BO!
This is rich, after his staffers stuck the knife into Palin and he stood by and let it happen. I don’t think I buy into McCain’s idea of ‘friendship and support’.
I notice right off the bat he evokes Gov. Sara Palin’s name.
I wonder if she approves this message.
The truly cool thing about the Country First email is the link at the bottom that allows you to Unsubscribe. It’s really neato; it works; and it is the best thing offered by McCain, in years. Check it out!
Common Goals? I wonder what those might be?
This letter is as substative as your basic “Hope and Change” Obama stump speech.
This letter is something people in all 57 states will identify with I am sure.
The way you backed up Sarah after your campaign people trashed her after the election? I see.
Go back to reaching across the aisle to see if the Dems and Rinos will give you money. Not a nickel from me.
If McCain really put country first, he would not have run for president.
When will the RNC tell Mcain to just shut up and go away????? He is doing more harm than good for the Republican party. SHUT HIM UP NOW!!!
No.
McCain will get no more funding from me.
Eh? Eh? McAmnesty perhaps, eh precious? Yesssssss, yes! Open borders… no drilling, raw fish-laden bailouts? Eh? None of those nasty conservativeses plans, pptttt.. yes, yes, good precious. Support candidatses like Graham and our friend Ted… and more Leibermanses.
Good as fishes! Good McSmeagol, always helps..
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, preccccccccccious!
To paraphrase a much better Republican: McCainism is not the solution to the GOP’s problems, McCainism is the GOP’s problem.
Every time I get something in the mail from the RNC just pisses me off and reminds me that I actually gave money to this loser and the RNC for the first time ever and all I got was a bunch of more crap from him and the RNC in the mail. McCain needs to go away and suck up to Kennedy again.
I have had enough of John McCain and his ilk. If their’s is the Republican message, it need not get out, we have the Democrats for that.
I want a conservative party or why waste my time and money?
Anything I receive in the mail from John McCain goes in the trash.
McVain screwed us during the election, so let me return the favor.
Screw you, McVain. You get nothing.
Some one needs to send this link to the RNC so they can see the response this letter and McCain gets from real conservatives. When will they wake up and dump the “My Friends” loser???
Which country – Mexico?
Didn’t you just love the expense they went to by sending us a plastic membership card. Apparently they have money to do these mailings and cutting plastic and including a return stamped envelope, they don’t need any more from me.
I got the same email and it promptly went into the trash.
mwuahaha! nice!
I wanted to correct some things on his letter, but for the sake of brevity, i’ll only do one section, since really the rest wasnt worth reading.
Bill Grant is today’s designated Smiter.
The idiots at the RNC let the msm choose our candidate. Let them go to the msm for money. lol They turned on “MY Friend” when he became the candidate it was not really all that surprising. Now he will become their best rino once again.
Hey McCain, How about you send that to “Your Friends” accross the aisle? I bet you would raise a lot more from them than true conservatives.
Hey John, if you really want us to believe your “Country First” meme, why don’t you try putting “Citizens First” instead of your usual “Illegal Aliens” first?
Oh, and how about showing some honor and sticking up for your running mate in the face of all the vicious attacks she took from anonymous (read: cowardly) campaign staffers of yours?
Could you do that much John? I didn’t think so.
JohnnyMac,
Dude, you aren’t my friend – get over it already. Oh, BTW, I’ll give you….NADA.
Please mark said email for prompt deletion. Thank you.
I told him before and I’ll tell him again, unless he steals it from me through my taxes, he will never, Never, NEVER get a penny from me.
He wrote that big fat zero on his check the minute he proposed “comprehensive immigration reform”
Adios Juan McLame.
I don’t want anymore of the reaching across the aisle, “my friends,” RINOS in the party.
The audacity to use Sarah Palin’s name after he stood silent in her defense after the election. Really despicable. What a fool.
Not a dime from this guy who is still waiting for the fence. Thank you John McCain for all the discussion on illegal immigration during your campaign for all “my friends”. Go get money from Juan and La Raza.
The nerve of this old fool.
So, if i disagree with McCain, its dErAnGeMeNt?!?!?
Hardly.
I disagree with McCain because of the words coming out of his mouth and because of the actions he’s taken…not because MM (as intelligent and attractive as she is) told me to do so.
But i will agree with you on one point…we’ll pull back McCain’s curtain and find Howard Dean..wouldnt be surprised.
It did sound intriguing and, yes, I read the whole thing and am considering making a one-time donation.
Serious question…did immigration come up in any debate? I don’t recall it being asked about.
Yeah, I got that email too. My favorite line was:
The road was a difficult one from the outset.
Yo, John, it was difficult only because you wouldn’t land on a position, and you couldn’t distinguish conservatism from liberalism!!
No bucks for you!
I might make a one time donation as well. First though, I would have to find a bag that doesn’t leak and a lid that would be sure to keep the smell in.
Unless your talking about Minnesota, I have yet to see a Bill Grant post that matches the fervent, misplaced, long winded anger of a good old Irish Rose smack down.
It’s the first thing I noticed.
This is one of the names that I was hoping not to have to hear in our brand, shiny new year. Names like Gore, Edwards, Spears, Dean, Aniston… I was hoping that they would just fade into the distant past. McCain was at the top of my list of names I wish never to hear again.
Could he actually be so declusional that he thinks we would ever support him for anything again? Does he surround himself with the kind of “yes” staff that keeps him in some kind of cloud of confusion? If so, they are doing a grand job.
Unsubscribe me, John McCain. Retire to the country, John, far away from conservative politics. We need a leader who speaks for us now. You ain’t it.
It’s obvious that we are all in agreement here – no money/support for McLame, RINO’s or the RNC. Until what happens? What organization/association IS the one to back and fund? Does anyone know or belong to a group that speaks conservative values and has the necessary infrastructure to make a dent and push agendas?
I’ll be the first to help and contribute – just point!
…and then never mentions her again. Hrm.
When is John gonna wake up and realize he just needs to ask for a bailout?
I mean, c’mon. Get with it, guy! Start your own bank or something…
Fall.In.Line.
You know the drill.
Dear, John…
I’ve long been a proponent of true conservatives leaving the Republican Party to the fools who ruined it in favor of starting another party that would, inevitably, become the “new” 2nd party in the two-party system.
We could just avoid beating around the bush and call it what it is: The Reagan Party.
Heheheheh….I was wondering if Michelle would comment on this.
I definitely got a chuckle when I saw this in my inbox this morning.
Good luck with that, Maverick.
HAHA! Good one…
It’s true, they DO think we’re stupid. And you said “my friend” one too many times John, now go away into nothingness.
I got that e-mail, I assume because, realizing Obama may well be a revolutionary Marxist bent on destroying this country (if his church and Chicago buds like Bernadine Dohrn are any indication), I figured Maverick was the lesser of two evils, and sent some money. Twice, first time the day after Palin spoke at the convention.
But he lost. And I suspect a McCain PAC will support people like Christine Todd-Whitman and Arlen Specter, and candidates endorsed by Colon Bowel and Kathleen Parker, ie, people that think border security and the respect for the dignity of human life isn’t all that important.
I’m not sending good money after bad.
Now, if Cornyn and/or Dr. Coburn started a PAC…
I see you got the same email scam I did..
On January 7th, 2009 at 2:21 pm, AlohaGuy said:
Just pointing out that that there are no more feet to shoot ourselves in.
The whole idea that conservatives can politically flourish without the republican party is incredibly stupid. As is the idea that hard line conservative candidates can get elected in every region of the country. As is the idea that you are somehow NOT a “RINO” when you consistently trash the republican party for what has become a mentally masturbatory series of chest thumping exercises that are much more about the insecurities of the writers than any facts that the debate supposedly relates to.
The idea that there is not visceral, indeed hysterical MDS from Michelle Malkin is also divorced from reality.(Were it not for this tantrum tossing mentality she probably would have had her own show on FOX by now.) Indeed, it helped in some small way to elect Barack Obama which, obviously, is NOT a conservative objective.
All of the above serves to benefit no one other than the DNC. So fine, continue to not send money to any republicans and pat yourselves on the backs for insisting on the greater of 2 evils instead of the lessor of them. Continue to brand anyone who is not in lock step agreement a “RINO” as you justify voting for a non Republican who stands absolutely no chance of being elected to anything. Divided we fall. You are cutting your own throats and more importantly, the country’s. The USA is in serious trouble and we are whittling away our options for addressing the problems that we are bringing on ourselves.
I don’t have time for this today AlohaGuy so consider this the smiting… A poor substitute for Irish Rose Ill admit.
Boy, these two perpetual candidates (McCain and Obamit), have got the cajones of an elephant. Takes real guts to ask anybody for MORE MONEY. Gee, McCain, get money from those who funded Hussein O’s campaign. When John says Republican message, he isn’t talking about Conservative message. Forget it, John. You always were too busy hugging liberals and Democrat America-haters. Fred Thompson – please seriously consider a run again. Hey Chapoutier – the campaign handlers must have been told not to bring up immigration since both candidates are on the same page about it.
… it’s not you, it’s me.
Actually, it’s you. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Sorry Sir, You Tapped Me Out! Reference to WWE…tapping out.
All Tapped Out….just like the rest of America nobody’s Bailing Us Out.
If ever there was a case for loser pays, then this has got to be near the top of the list.
pesos de nada Juan………adios amigo!!
Good in theory, but I don’t think we have time to start a new party from the ground up, while the Dems win election after election, and impose a one party state with elections as open as those in Cuba, the old Soviet Union or Zimbabwe. Recall Obama’s ties to ACORN.
The damage Obama and a loyal
CongressPolitburo can do in four years is bad enough, this country will be Zimbabwe after eight or twelve years of that.Better to wrest the party back from the RINOs. Support real conservatives in the primaries, run for office if a real conservative isn’t, and push hard for changing Presidential primary rules that front load lib leaning states like New Hampshire that allow cross-party voting, which is how we got McCain in the first place.
I can understand how some New England states will not elect real Republicans, and thus we take the glass half full of a RINO, but never again should a RINO represent the national party in an election.
John McCain wants my money?
He’s got a lot of nerve.
On January 7th, 2009 at 2:07 pm, Bill Grant said:
I am so sick of this!
What would have been the point of stowing away one’s principles and pretending that John McCain was perfect? Pretending that he was a conservative?
Did you want every conservative to fawn over McCain like the democrats did Clinton? Make tortured excuses for him? Come up with a conservative “it’s just about sex?” Be the conservative version of “feminists making excuses for liberal mysognists?”
What would have been accomplished?
You really think McCain would have won if we had all put on our best “Mao shirts” and lied and towed the line with our best happy party faces?
Instead of blaming McCain for being a stupid collectivist troll pretending to be a conservative, you’re blaming US for his loss?
The guy is and was an unprincipled arrogant collectivist power monger whose feces don’t stink – at least to his own nose!
Ho ho ho, not a chance!
“Country First”?????
Which One??
America??
Mexico??
“Amer-exico” possibly???
Juan McCain can ask ‘his friend’ Juan Hernandez and millions of the illegal amigos.
And you continue to support any derelict with R behind his name regardless of how many times he kicks you in the teeth.
This is the ridiculous whine from the middle: the claim that conservatives want “purity.” The claim is pathetic BS from the gung-ho partisan country-club types devoid of any principle. There is a huge difference between someone who occasionally disagrees and someone so bent on his own “maverickyness” that he middle-fingers the base on core issues like taxes, illegal immigration, supporting judges, first amendment issues, and interrogation of enemy combatants just to suck up to his buddies in the mainstream media.
I’ve never given money to ANY candidate because they’ll just keep coming back asking for more.
I voted for McCain, and sent money last year, because I do believe when the only choice is between two evils, choose the lesser of them.
But it is over, McCain lost, partly because as a RINO he couldn’t motivate the base, and he couldn’t attack Obama on global warming hysteria cap and trade carbon taxes or open borders and amnesty, because his positions were so similar to Obama’s.
McCain put in valiant service to his country in Viet Nam, but he never had a coherent political philosophy once he got to Congress, and I just don’t trust any PAC he represents.
WTF? Are you telling me I either believe The One or else I am part of the problem?? Or Michelle?
You arrogant SOB!!!
And just who is doing the whittling? I’d say it is the spineless politicians.
Ah crap! I gotta go but I’ll check back. maybe I’m read it wrong. I can only hope!
My Ten Centavo Amnesty Note is one the way!
Yes, the unsubscribe was the best part of the note. Bye bye Senator, only Bill Grant will miss you. And NOW we can say Barrack HUSSEIN Obama all we want McShamnesty.
Ed Mahmoud: I can understand how some New England states will not elect real Republicans, and thus we take the glass half full of a RINO, but never again should a RINO represent the national party in an election.
That’s where I’m coming from and why it’s so frustrating living in MA – and why I’m looking to support something/anything truly conservative. You have no idea (or maybe you do) of the feeling of futility when standing in a voting booth for a local, state and/or national election.
Oh, yeah, Ed, thanks for reminding me that Landslide McCain was also a Global Warming Cap and Trade true believer.
I can’t believe he’d think we’d all forget what a terrible job he did running for president… All those RINOs who said we couldn’t POSSIBLY win with a conservative — like Romney, Thompson, anybody — will be glad to contribute. But not me.
Now that McCain has thrown away the election he wants us to support him?
McCain had a chance to earn my support and vote and with the singular exception of Sarah Palin he kept reaching out across the aisle to the democrats. Not once did he ever reach across the aisle to Conservatives. In fact, with every “reach” across the aisle to the liberals he punched Conservatives in the face and made sure we knew we weren’t wanted in his campaign or party.
Sorry, McCain, but I don’t buy the act, and that’s all it is – an act.
JohnnyD – you gotta forgive Bill. He’s a liberal plant.
My opinion of McCain-
he would have made an excellent Democrat politician back in the 1950s and 1960s when most Democrats opposed Communism, loved the United States, and wanted to tinker a little with socialism, but thought capitalism, as a whole, was the preferable economic system.
Then between 1968 and 1972 the acolytes of Stalin disciple Henry Wallace wrested control of the party, so that pro-American Democrats like Zel Miller, Scoop Jackson or even Harry S Truman wouldn’t recognize it, and even hard core libs like Joe Lieberman have come close to excommunication from the party just for supporting the US during war time.
Geez, I had so hoped after 2002 and 2004, the rational Democrats would split from the party and form a new, pro-American Center/Center-Left party, instead, the less insane Dems were driven off to the Republican Party, and have been working to make the GOP the Center-Left party.
I say, welcome, former Dems who found your old party too far gone down the Red Road, but our party, our rules. And our party is pro-capitalist, pro-life, pro-border security and proudly pro-American, and if you don’t like it, leave.
F*** Off John.
I didn’t leave the Republican party, the Republican party left me. This rebranding that they are so desperately seeking can be summed up thusly – malign those bible-thumping, gun-clinging, constitution upholding conservatives. I will not follow the Republican party off a cliff. They want to wander in the desert that’s their choice. What is wrong with the Republican brand? Why the need for rebranding? Please explain.
I often thought during the election that if McCain were running as a Democrat, he’d be an acceptable alternative to himself as a Republican.
I recently received a letter from the McCain campaign saying that my last contribution was received after the deadline and need to be reclassified to some post-election fund. I responded that I would rather designate it for the “Sarah Palin Wardrobe Fund” than John McCain
‘…with so much drama in the RNC/
it’s kinda hard being J. Mc-Maverick-y/
but he, somehow, someway/
keeps comin’ up with funky-a$$ sh*t like every single day…’
Gee John, why not get some money from your new pal Harry Reid? After all you two are working together to once again jam comprehensive immigration down the throats of an electorate that said NO many times. Stick it John…where the sun don’t shine and never will shine again on your treasonous face. Stick it also for the way you treated Sarah Palin when she was the only person that brought you any votes at all. LOSER !
Please don’t … let the people respond to today’s problems. Yes, in fact, we can, but only if you people stop taking our money and our first amendment rights to campaign for whomever we might really want and our economic right to invest wherever we want and our God-given right to screw up when we do so.
Hey Johnny Boy…May you get run down by a drunken illegal alien drug smuggler as he kidnaps one of your kin crossing the border……….
Also Juan…quit the Senate and become a WALMART greeter at the border for all your illegal friends…you and Teddy can welcome all the people who will see to it that your relatives never hold office again!!
Not with my money or support – go away.
When will people get it?
John McCain, the RNC, and the vast majority of Republicans (not rank and file members) are EXACTLY what the Republican Party historically has been.
The Reagan years were an aberration. Outside of those 8 years, the Republican Party has NOT been the home to conservatism. In many ways, that mantle was carried by the Democrat Party. Why do you think Reagan started as a Democrat?
Unfortunately, the Democrats started skewing even further left when George McGovern was their nominee in ’72. They were going from moderately liberal on social issues/conservative on defense issues to socialist stances on both social issues and defense issues. Reagan saw the trends before that and joined the Republicans – in hopes that enough like-minded conservatives would follow. It took awhile, but it happened.
After Reagan left, the Republican movers and shakers realized that in order for them to stay relevant (at least in their own minds) and to seize back “their” party, they had to begin a subtle grab of “their” party back.
The party of people like Dewey, Nixon (and don’t kid yourselves, Nixon was only conservative in comparison to the men he defeated for the Presidency), Rockefeller, and yes, both Bushes and McCain.
It is the party of the “country club” set. They have no interest in REAL conservative values. When Reagan completed his two terms, the Republican Party as a home to conservatives slowly ceased to exist. And since the Democrats have morphed into the equivilent of a Socialist Party of the US, conservatives currently have NO PARTY to call “home”.
Don’t you get it?
Ronald Reagan was a RINO!
The Republican Party, as it is today, is what it always has been. The people that you call RINO’s aren’t.
People like Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, et.al. are the REAL RINO’s. And they should be PROUD to call themselves that.
It’s time for conservatives to act. It’s time to do one of two things:
1) Stand up for what you belive in and get a third party established that stands on Conservative Values and Policies
or
2) Wage the strongest grass-roots campaign in the history of mankind in order to take over the Republican Party once and for all – deliver on the promises of the Reagan Era.
Time to wake up. Time to take action. Time to realize that RINO doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Sadly, this moron will get alot of people to give him money. I never gave McCain more than 2 cents and that always came with my advice for what he can do. This sorry excuse for a lifer in congress needs to just go away.
On January 7th, 2009 at 2:52 pm, FilmLadd said:
Gee, in reviewing what I wrote I can’t see where I have advocated any of that. Thanks for trying to re frame my argument though in terms of how you want to see it.
On January 7th, 2009 at 2:59 pm, JohnnyD said:
Nope.
You need to take a number and get in line to call me that.
You read it wrong. Oh JohnnyD, don’t pay any attention to JHSII, he is an idiot.
(Stealing from another blog) John McCain deserves as much support in his new venture as he gave Sarah Palin when she was savaged by his friends and allies after November 4.
Time to retire John.
That’s one more mail list I’m getting off of… the nerve!
I’m putting “country first” by putting you back on the bench, McCain. Nobody in the RNC is getting my money until they decide to get their bloody act together.
Until then, Bill Grant will fill in for her.
McCain’s message is stagnant. It didn’t work out for him in 2008, and there is no reason to believe it is in any better shape today. If he insists on sticking to the same message, or being “the” messenger, then perhaps he should peddle his ideas to a different constituency, perhaps to a third party. I don’t believe truly conservative Americans will follow him, now that there are other real conservative options.
I have never questioned his patriotism, just his straddling of political ideologies. What seems obvious to me is that his stubbornness and ego have deflected any profound political advice offered to him, and as a result, he has lost supporters, not gained any. But I could be wrong.
If he really believes in a conservative message, my advice to him would be to channel his efforts, by proxy, to another more robust, charismatic, personality that has the potential to lead America’s conservatives to a New Republican Party that is better able to frame the opposition as opportunistic ideologues, whose sole purpose is to maintain the status quo, despite what they say to the contrary. Making lives better does nothing for the Democrat Party except that it eliminates their base of support.
I supported McCain because he was the most conservative choice available. I greatly fear what PEBO will do to the Supreme Court.
However, McCain is no conservative, just more conservative than PEBO.
Sorry, Bill. You walk alone on this one.
I wish McCain no ill will, he served honorably as an attack jet pilot and a prisoner of the Communists, but he should retire to the hacienda when his term is up, play some golf, tend the garden, whatever.
Just stay away from Republican politics.
The silver lining on the 2006 and 2008 elections giving the Dems an effectively filibuster-proof Senate, is that most of the hard core RINOs (the worst was Lincoln Chaffee) have been shown the door. I count 5 or 6 RINO/GOP Lite/Country Club Conservatives now.
Maybe Toomey or Santorum can challenge Specter in two years. I think there is enough patriotic Americans between Philly and Pittsburgh that state can still be saved. McCain can retire. The two Democrat in all but Caucus babes (“babes” is used loosely) in Maine, I’m afraid all of New England is too far gone for real Republicans.
Hugh Hewitt, whom I often agree with, but not always, suggested Norm Coleman should be the RNC chair if Franken is indeed successful in stealing the Senate seat.
Now, Coleman really isn’t a RINO, but he isn’t exactly a rock-ribbed conservative either, and even in Minnesota, if you can’t beat Al Franken by enough margin to prevent losing the seat to fraud, I don’t think you should be the face of the GOP out of power.