Message to GOP: Can you hear conservatives now?; Update: Palin is listening
Scroll down for updates…Palin endorses conservative Doug Hoffman…
From reader Barnaby, who sent back his crossed-out Republican solicitation forms with a “NO RINOS” sticky note for Newt Gingrich:
From reader K., a message to GOP Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s office:
As you’ve hopefully figured out by now, your boss really stepped in it with the endorsement of this left-winger in New York.
Jeb likes to tell everyone how he’s a ‘conservative first and a Republican second,’ but the endorsement of Dede Scozzafava made it clear where his current priorities lie.
I’ve contributed thousands of dollars to your boss over the years. In the past, I’ve always been quick to tell a crowd how much I love Jeb Hensarling. I love his speeches, and I (usually) like the way he votes, but unless Jeb changes his priorities as a Republican leader, he’ll never see another dime or hear another word of support from me.
Reader Shirley sends the note she sent to the NRCC and the automated reply she received in response:
I just returned a questionnaire from Michael Steele and the RNC a few weeks ago, but could not include a contribution. I also received a questionnaire and a request for money from John Boehner and promptly dispatched that to the shredder. Unfortunately, I do not trust the RNC, NRCC nor any of you so called “Republicans” to invest my money wisely in promoting truly conservative candidates. Thank goodness I did NOT send any of my hard earned money.
All of you have pulled the wool over my eyes for quite some time now. No more. After your latest debacle in NY and your support of another RINO, you will not succeed in leading me down that well worn path of Republican self-destruction.
I knew that Newt was leading the Republicans astray with his patronization/appeasement of Pelosi (on the big, comfy, global warming couch), and his traipsing around the countryside with the hustler Sharpton, but to come out in support of Scozzafava? You must be kidding?
The RNC has fallen in step with a huge contribution to support this so called Republican, Scozzafava?
The Republican National Committee also confirmed Friday that it was making a six-figure transfer to the National Republican Campaign Committee to help in that race.
The NRCC has already spent nearly half a million dollars on advertising and other independent expenditures. And with the Scozzafava campaign on television only sparingly — reportedly because of slow fundraising — it has become the main source of advertising for the Republicans at this point.
The RNC is also giving $85,000 to the state party, the maximum allowed for a coordinated campaign, and has two staffers on the ground in the district.
In a letter to supporters, Gingrich called the Nov. 3 special election “an important test” for the party in advance of the 2010 mid-term election. Scozzafava is “Our best chance to put responsible and principled leaders in Washington,” he said.
Since all of you seem to know so much more than I do, why don’t you explain to ALL of us conservatives why you would not support Hoffman. On second thought, don’t bother.
And, tell me WHY I would send money to any of you! On second thought, don’t bother. I don’t even live in NY, but you have hoodwinked me for the last time.
Self-destruct if you wish; you won’t take me with you – not this time.
Shirley XXXXXXX
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And from reader Paul to the RNC and NRCC:
I have been a Republican voter for pretty nearly my entire adult life,ut am getting fed up with our Republican “leaders” and their increasing support for, though you call them moderates, radical, left wing ideologues such as Dede Scozzafava, proud winner of the Margaret Sanger Award.
In the past two weeks, according to one poll, Doug Hoffman has closed the gap quite a bit (from 16% against Scozzafava’s 35%, to 23% to Scozzafava’s 29%) and done that WITHOUT YOUR MUCH NEEDED SUPPORT. Why you have chosen to completely ignore your base, the ones at the town halls this summer, the ones at the Tea Parties (including yours truly on the Capitol lawn on 9/12), those of us who are DEMANDING that the spending madness stop, and that government get out of our lives is beyond me.
It’s political suicide.
Stop attacking Doug Hoffman now! Stop this madness. Or, simply resign from you’re membership in the GOP and do what you know you really want to do: join Arlen Specter. Leave the Republican party to those who believe principles mean something.
My voter registration is “Unaffiliated” and will never be Republican again until you oust the likes Scozzafava (though there are certainly more) from the list of those you support. You will not get one red cent from me until I see evidence that you are doing what is right, which you certainly are not at this time.
I am not even a NY resident, but will consider donating to Doug Hoffman’s campaign
The Wall Street Journal had a story on the race with the headline, “Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy.” The truth is the opposite: The GOP establishment complicates the Republican and conservative comeback strategy.
Attention, GOP establishment: Can you hear conservatives now?
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Update: Sarah Palin is listening.
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This is a raw numbers game here; are there any (census-like?) figures on just how many conservatives/libs/middle-roaders there are in the country? If “pure” conservatives lag to a sizable percent then it’s only prudent and pragmatic to bend the umbrella some to cater the flexible on the other side or else just throw the game.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
4:48 pm, chapoutier said]
In ny city -A PhD no less
not in my book
Well, ya know, like Meghan McCain says the GOP should ya know embrace like a bigger variety of like viewpoints n’stuff. Like, ya know, a big tent n’stuff. ‘n she’s got like a gazilion followers on Twitter so she’s like all popular n’ stuff.
The big tent means the circus is in town. There is a huge difference between accomodation and compromise. GOP is so far over the line into compromising their core values that it is no longer even credible. I cringe now every time Steele opens his pie hole. The fact that Nimrod Newt is even on the radar these days is that there is gaping leadership black hole sucking in cosmic debris like him, Steele and McMaverik.
YOU HAVE GOT TO BEE KIDDING~~~I just read that they are pushing Graham/Huckabee for 2012. Lord,again we will go down in flames of mediocrity.
We MUST wake these idiots up!! Maybe we can vote them all out… I have had it!!
OOps… Make that be kidding..not bee
Let me put a plug in here for a website that my aunt’s husband contributes to.
It’s kind of like a Drudge Report for Northern NY and has a lot of articles and links to local talk radio commentary on the NY 23 race.
newzjunky.com
How about Salt/chapoutier 2012? I could balance out the ticket by attracting the evil vote.
Lindsey Grahamnesty and Mr. Haney from Green Acres???? Someone somewhere is really stuck on stupid.
Sarah Palin endorsed Doug Hoffman.
Her endorsement is meaningless until she embraces the true spirit of a Northern New Yorker.
So I offer her the following quiz:
1. Deer meat: Do you pronounce it ven-i -sun or ven-zin?
2. What is the proper wine pairing for Croghan Balogna and cheese curd?
3. Do you hate the Maple Ridge Wind Farm Project because: 1) it makes a strange whirring noise 2) it disrupts the natural beauty 3) your just jealous because they did not choose YOUR otherwise worthless piece of land to put the tower on?
Answers:
1) ven-zin
2) Trick question. The only proper pairing is Genny Cream Ale
3) All of the above
chap – Though your eloquence and wine acumen is enticing, I fear – as liberal as you may be – you are far too right wing for the present GOP, and not looney enough for the Democritters.
But I can be bought. What’s my vote worth? I’d do it for an Iphone.
You got it all wrong, Swede. Meg’s talk about a “big tent” was an order she placed with her dressmaker, had nothing to do with politics.
In Minnesota, it’s usually “venna-sin”. Good eatin’.
I send all the junk the rnc sends to me with the msg written all over the junk,” you allowed Sarah to be trashed and you continue to do so” “Stop mailing this crap to me. And back it goes in their prepaid envelope which will be scanned and charged to the rnc. They don’t believe me and keep mailing and wasting their money. Unbelievable.
You know, Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Hoffman is pretty strong.
You can bet that none of the declared 2012 GOP candidates will take her on here.
I totally agree with swede that the plus sized hell spawn of McShamnesty had something to do with the evil republicans *spit!* choice to impose this she-devil democrat on to all of us.
What swede hasn’t figured out is that the heffer most likely sent a coded message in her most recent twitter pic to the dastardly GOP *luggie be upon them* denizens that gave them instructions for which exact left-winger in NY to select.
A hearty congratulations, none the less to swede for sussing this out. And damn that voluminous valley girl that torments all of us conservatives – who are forced to follow and comment as to her every move. I know I am angered that the RNC *phlem* bosses who email her satanic Daily Beast writings to my email (as I am powerless to unsubscribe by myself) … torturing me by forcing me to read the horrific writings.
I am a chap fan as well!
We call it YUMMY in south Florida!
Trick question because the answer is obvious. NO!
Indeed she is…her comment that Mr. Hoffman “wasn’t annointed by any political machines” was a clear slap at Newt Gingrich and RINO company.
I now think that at minimum Palin has decided to be a conservative spokesperson seeking Republican support for conservatism,but not necessarily the other way around.
I believe now that should she continue on her trajectory, and decide to actually run for the whitehouse, whether in 2012 or later-she won’t run as a Republican -I can feel it.
Then who, praytell, is the evil vote, Chappoutier?
“Moose”. The little critters like deer are for Canadians.
I just donated to SarahPAC and Doug Hoffman. Newt is and irrelevant snake oil, book hustling salesman.
I like Sarah well enough, but this wasn’t exactly leadership. She waited until several other prominent Republicans had jumped into the fray before she decided to join them.
But it’s a good thing. Hoffman and his volutneers must be elated at the attention he’s getting. I wish I lived in NY so I could go work with them. It’s got to have great energy right about now.
Offly Topical:
No way to start a Friday – Soupy Sales has passed on to his Pie In The Sky reward. Another TV legend now belongs to the ages.
Come Pie With Me
Who?
You’re old, purplepeep.
I have many relatives up there whose vote can be bought. It’s the next best thing to being there! Shall I set up a paypal account?
I think most of America does not realize that the resurgence of the conservative movement is not something that was born out of the Obama presidency.
Leading up to the 2006 elections, conservatives decided that they would no longer support the RINOs by casting their vote for the lesser of two evils, resulting in the massive Democrat swing in power. That was misinterpreted by their liberal leaders as a call for socialism and huge overreaches to attain their utopian goals.
Now the backlash by the American people who do not want a Marxist regime are poised to refute those that are bringing it.
Our job as conservatives is to continue the purging of those Republican officials that do not represent the principles we know are the only hope for this country.
So here is to the 2010 elections….May the sharp snap-turn to the right break many left-looking necks!
I agree that Palin’s use of the term ‘annointed’ is over the top and demonstrates that she does not know how things are done. Like it or not, when there isn’t a primary, it is up to the parties to select who they would like to represent them in a special election.
Words and their use matters. That word used in reference to the several Republican committees that advanced Scozzafava, might be considered offensive. Will those committee members push back? That remains to be seen.
I’m shaking my fist at you, whippersnapper!!
(I’d feel even worse if I still didn’t get carded every now and then.)
But Soupy was on the telly regular til at least 1970 and he was a long time pop icon, so you gotta know him, Chap. If for nothing else, then for this infamous bit that got him fired:
Green Pieces Of Paper
A GOP version of ACORN is being formed there in order to buy the election. It’s called HICKORY NUT.
Hysterical
Idiots
Causing
Kookyness
On
Your
Nutty
Unprincipled
Traitors
You’re hopes for political whiplash and decapitation of left-looking politicians is the greatest thing I have seen on this page, Milwaukee Mike.
However, you are right that many people who would rather have democrats in power than to stoop to push the button for their republican *spit!* challengers who are the LESSER OF TWO EVILS *echo.. echo. echo. …. echo* .. are the ones who are responsible for the democrats being in power. Because when good conservatives vote third party or refuse to vote for the only person in the election who stand a chance to stop the democrat, they are doing everything to make sure that the backlash by the American people who do not want a Marxist regime are poised to refute those that are bringing it …. won’t happen.
When the democrats continue to get elected while good conservatives stand back and do nothing.
But that’s okay. Because at least we feel better by voting third party, or staying home as the democrats show up to vote their democrat candidates into office. It’s a fun game, isn’t it? At least this game of ‘feeling better’ doesn’t have any real consequences .. such as our country being driven into the toilet by all of the elected democrats.
FIFY, old man.
Errah, a big tent means the camel has the choice on which end he chooses to stick under the tent. I think the NY23 proves that point!
Did you see the coded image from the Heffer McFatty yet, swede? Look hard, it’s there, I’m telling you. Her chubby fingerprints are all over the GOP *spit!* ’s decision to force this democrat Dede Scozzafava on us all, all the way from New York.
I don’t care if you are Republican OR Democrat. If you are not conservative and/or fiscally responsible YOU will NOT be getting my vote.
Oh and if you are a judge that refuses to marry bi-racial couples YOU will NOT be re-elected.
Seriously people … GET WITH THE FLIPPIN’ program. What’s right is right and what’s wrong is wrong. How are these morons being put in positions of power?
If we lose this country AND our constitution it’s because WE THE PEOPLE didn’t believe it was important enough to PAY ATTENTION and DO SOMETHING to right a WRONG.
In the mornings, I usually listen to Tony Macrini on WNIS. He says he’s a libertarian, but has both liberal and conservative views, depending on the subject. So, it can be a mixed morning. However, this morning, he defended Michelle and called her a “very nice lady”, critisizing the “dragon lady” label some critics have called her. His approval rating in this house, went up.
Update: Sarah Palin is
listeningexploiting.Republicans forgotten how to fight for something?
Not Palin, but the inside the beltway folks they just appear politically jaded Newt’s Inside the beltway stuff.
JUST SAY NO TO PROGRESSIVES IN EITHER PARTY.
They are the people in power right now, and they are destroying our country.
Here in western Pa:
Speed beef
This is what I look for in a candidate. Why are they so hard to find?
Soupy Sales.
I remeber him from when I was a kid.
That’s when a giant screen tv was 19″; 3 channels but still something worth watching; a remote control was when my dad made me get up to change the channel.
There was one time when he got in a lot of trouble by having kids get into their parents wallets and take those green paper things and send to him.
You’re not familiar with “King Of The Hill” lines, John:
POPS: “Don’t try to figure ‘em out. They can’t be figured. Just shake your fist at ‘em like this!”
Doesn’t do anyone any good as long as:
1. Sarah Palin is a Republican
AND
2. The Republicans aren’t listening.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Yup – I remember those days – you also sometimes had to sit/stand in one place and act as part of the antenna!
I linked to a YouTube video of Soupy talking about that in an above comment. He did it on New Year’s Day when parents were sleeping off the previous night.
Remember when the tube would go out and you had to wait a day or two for the tv repairman to come out to the house to replace it? So boring!
Also, only one tv and if your parents got on a star trek re-run kick every evening at 7 p.m., that was time for tonka truck play until the boring show was done and Sonny and Cher came on.
I can’t even begin to imagine what that platform would look like, but the military would be well armed for a zombie apocalypse.
One of my bros is a life long electronics geek. A tube going out or other fixable thing was no problem, just meant a trip to the electronics shop or Radio Shack. Except when it was time for the TV to finally give up the ghost – the good parts would be cannibalized and the rest tossed.
Remember when you could check tubes at the local drugstore?
Hey – I was watching those early eve Trek reruns, son.
Watched Sonny and Cher, too – mostly for musical guests, like Fanny.
I like Star Trek now, back then my attention span was way too short for an hour long of a drama show.
Frontierguy, you’re a decade later. LOL
I’m talking Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best, Red Skelton, Disney on Sunday nights…
Heh, our tv cabinet was turned into the dining room hutch in the 80’s.
Indeed – and the console floor TVs were also great to use to put the new TV and some plants on!
Sorry, I was too busy losing my shins in the war to worry about those television shows.
Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins followed by Wonderful World Of Disney on Sunday nights.
I’m a little younger than you codgers.
Newts website contact page.
Let him hear from you.
http://newt.org/EditNewt/ContactUs/tabid/159/Default.aspx
Wait a minute, isn’t that what happened to Congress in 2006?
Try because we just spent decades without DDT to save the eagles, and would rather not have 300 ft flying razorblades killing them off by the thousands.
In Arkansas, it’s “deer meat”. Simple food for simple people.
I disagree, RWR, her commitment to Hoffman is very significant.
Just as a lot of Whigs ended up becoming Republican around 1860, in order to have a truly conservative party (with whatever name it will be called), you have to have people with the integrity and willingness to defect from an established, but moribund movement in order to form its leadership and movement brain trust. It will be critical that for any serious hope of a party that is truly run by conservatives and not beltway insiders, that you have to change the mindset of not only the prospective voter, but also the mindest of its most likely leaders that this kind of movemnet is necessary and possible before it will become reality.
Whatever becomes of Palin, her decision last night is a critical and necessary step toward the kind of change we need in this country or we are doomed to a one party rule by default.
By her endorsement, an “established” and popular leader of modern conservatism is rebelling against the Republican insiders responsible for our mutual disgust of policy..this will omly embolden others to do the same.
What you and I want will mostly occur in small steps before it becomes a raging river of change..There is no way to get around it, in my opinion
but as always, RWR, “trust, but verify”
Excuse me, but Star Trek (TOS) was new when I was a teenager, and at first I had to bribe my dad to watch what he called “Wagon Train in space.” He got interested when he found out that there was an alien female in a skimpy costume almost every week. Didn’t see that on Wagon Train.
Some people’s kids.
ECS
One of the giants. RIP, Soupy.
ECS
Same here in south Louisiana jangar.
Ah yes, those were the good old days. I remember them well.
Cue the Sarah Palin is a moron MSM response.
Palin is a passing fancy, who will at best assist in attempting to move the Republican Party to the right a little bit.
She is not likely to be a major player in that party or any subsequent party that results from the conservative movement, and if you really look closely at her, you will find that you wouldn’t want her to be anyway. She is much more Republican than anyone really wants.
Mark my words. The only thing I’ve gotten wrong is Al Franken going to the Senate, and he needed ACORN-style voter fraud to make that happen.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com