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1. #1
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 5:36 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

   Soooooo, why is Martinez backing the business-as-usual Good Time Charlie Crist to replace him?

   It’s all part of the GOP cognitive dissonance between getting the message right but not changing the behavior. Everyone is partly pregnant and sometimes honest. Even Bill Bennett might come around to seeing that.

2. #2
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 5:39 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

   During negotiations over the stimulus bill, Martinez said the WH asked him, “What do you have to

   How corrupt is Obama? Let us count the Bribes.

   “But I didn’t have to have anything,” he said he responded. “I didn’t want anything. I wanted a better bill.” Martinez said the talks were disillusioning when it came down to “how can we bribe you” for a vote.

   At least in this case, a principled gov’t official.

3. #3
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 5:42 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

   nd speaking of the stimulus bill, why are democrats proud of the notion that porkulus MAY have created 2.1 million jobs???? That’s a cost $410,000 per job!!! And it’s highly likely they created no where near that many.

   Only in liberal la-la-land is paying $410K for a $50K job a good deal.

4. #4
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 5:45 pm, Regulus said:

   Chicago-on-the-Potomac indeed. Hope-a-Dope is the guy, as I recall, who promised a new kind of politics — even though he never tried to push any kind of reform when he was back in Gangland. And now it’s plain just how serious he was about that promise.

   Soooooo, why is Martinez backing the business-as-usual Good Time Charlie Crist to replace him?

   Don’t know. Have you asked him?

   Who’s in the mood for some Def Leppard/”Pour Some Sugar on Me?”

   Pass…

5. #5
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 5:55 pm, spaceycakes said:

   Romanoff and Sestak deals

   what?! oh whew–I thought you wrote Sleestak deals. LOL–1974.

6. #6
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 5:56 pm, floridaobserver said:

   On February 23rd, 2010 at 5:39 pm, NJ-Aviator said:
   At least in this case, a principled gov’t official.

   Yeah? So why didn’t Martinez rat them out at the beginning? THAT would have been really interesting.

7. #7
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 6:25 pm, tarpon said:

   Don’t know, but Rubio, a real Conservative is way out front.

   Cristy does have alot more money though.

8. #8
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 6:26 pm, zorro said:

   Martinez said he could have had his own Cornhusker kickback

   The gall of that Chicago Thug using our money like that, Obama is a first class national disgrace.

9. #9
   On February 23rd, 2010 at 6:33 pm, Flyoverman said:

   It’s all part of the GOP cognitive dissonance between getting the message right but not changing the behavior

   Phil, Martinez did not accept the bribe.

   Our foe are the people who offerred it. That fact seems to have escaped the GOP haters.

   Message yesterday from Marc Levin:

   “Do not forget that right now the GOP in Congress is outnumbered, but holding the line. We need to reinforce them as soon as we can.”

   The Great One is correct. Levin also pointed out the GOP does not want to destroy the private sector and take over the health and banking systems. The GOP does not want to burn the Constitution and implement tyranny.

   We have had our say with the GOP. Look at your calendar. We will not like all they do, but there comes a point when we have to work with them, if you want the majority in D.C. tossed out.

   Rush said today, he wonders if the GOP haters will have any left over to direct towards the Progressives. I think his concern is valid.

10. #10
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 6:57 pm, flmom said:

    Soooooo, why is Martinez backing the business-as-usual Good Time Charlie Crist to replace him?

    Old Boys Club, pure and simple. It’s how the old GOP rolls. This is why new blood is good, and necessary.

11. #11
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 7:25 pm, docflash said:

    I’m surprised Martinez didn’t wake up with a bloody horse head in bed with him.Things like that happen with the Chicago mob ,Godfather Oblamer and the whats in it for me way of running the Government.

12. #12
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 7:34 pm, zyzzyg said:

    Yep, that is how things are done. Trouble is, determining when ‘horse trading’ and back scratching becomes bribery.

13. #13
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 7:47 pm, love2rumba said:

    Rush said today, he wonders if the GOP haters will have any left over to direct towards the Progressives. I think his concern is valid.

    Rush Limbaugh said pretty much the same thing in the 1st year of the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994 to those voters who backed it and found those pesky non-conservative Republicans gumming things up for a conservative agenda even then…I’m not sure Rush has learned anything since then; However, I have.

    If anyone who is in the pretense of a government position wishes to keep their job he/she had better be expected to be scrutinized. We conservatives run out of rightful anger??…Do living things breathe?? Please!

14. #14
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 8:03 pm, love2rumba said:

    Our foe are the people who offerred it. That fact seems to have escaped the GOP haters.

    Then why is Martinez doing an about face by endorsing Cahrlie “Hug Obama Stimulus” Crist? Perhaps there is an important fact that has escaped your attention…

    It just seems to me that, in essence, the GOP really doesn’t care about this particular issue among many others..which is why they go back and forth on this issue and that issue like an eye-rolling WWF wrestling monologue between opponents (designed to entertain you).

15. #15
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 8:23 pm, tre said:

    During negotiations over the stimulus bill, Martinez said the WH asked him, “What do you have to have?”

    “But I didn’t have to have anything,”

    Maybe he could have asked for amnesty.

16. #16
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 8:52 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    If the Rush and Levin are worried about us “GOP haters”, the solution is for the party leadership to step down, not for us to knuckle under to them. That is why we are “GOP haters” in the first place. I am perfectly ready to write off Rush and Levin if they turn out to be the final peel in the onion before we get to what we want: conservative takeover of the GOP.

17. #17
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 9:56 pm, Random63 said:

    Mel Martinez was my senator and during the illegal immigrant amnesty event I called his office several times. I finally got exasperated with his aide one day and told her that Mr. Martinez is under an illusion that he is a Mexican Senator and not a United States Senator. She hung up on me and I gave up calling and changed my registration to Independent from Republican. I was a Republican since Reagan’s first term when I turned 18. After Martinez, and his ilk like Bush and McCain, I became a Independent and will remain that for the rest of my life. I don’t need the Republican Party, but they sure need people like me to continue to donate and vote for them.

    RINOs can burn in hell with their democrat friends.

18. #18
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 10:17 pm, gregorystephens said:

    Michelle, DEF LEPPARD is my favorite band of all time. You can’t imagine how happy I was to see three of my favorite things together: Exposing liberals, Michelle Malkin and Def Leppard. If you could find a way to work in references to sweet tea, the University of Tennessee football, The Simpsons and Ronald Reagan my day would be complete!

19. #19
    On February 23rd, 2010 at 10:39 pm, jangar said:

    Only in liberal la-la-land is paying $410K for a $50K job a good deal.

    And a public sector union job to boot!

20. #20
    On February 24th, 2010 at 6:28 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    Nice work Mel. Where were you during your time serving the citizens? The fact that you support Crist still shows how out of touch you are with – well – the world.

21. #21
    On February 24th, 2010 at 7:33 am, ACHefty said:

    Something to remember about Mel, Crist, and the other old-school GOP members in the Sunshine State. Rank-and-file voters have had their fill. When the lovely Sarah Palin showed up for a rally in Jacksonville, they received tepid, yet respectful, applause because of their liberal tendencies.

    Even GOP Rep. Ander Crenshaw who hadn’t met a pork project he didn’t like was greeted with restraint. True conservatives are fed up with the spend-lots-but-keep-it-less-than-dems old-guard Rockefeller Republicans.

    Rubio is crushing Crist. And GOP insiders are still wondering why.

22. #22
    On February 24th, 2010 at 8:54 am, michele hampton said:

    …why are the Bush brothers backing Crist, because that is what the old Republican guard does, they stick together. I mean after all, they know better. Not!

23. #23
    On February 24th, 2010 at 8:56 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    Rubio is crushing Crist. And GOP insiders are still wondering why.

    I think the medical term for that is “the Ostrich Effect”. Hopefully we keep up the pressure-they are trying to wait us out and then back to business as usual.

24. #24
    On February 24th, 2010 at 9:07 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    PHOENIX, ARIZONA. FEBRUARY 23, 2010. Second Amendment patriots, Gun Owners of America, have announced their endorsement of Conservative candidate J.D. Hayworth in his run against 24-year incumbent Senator John McCain.

25. #25
    On February 24th, 2010 at 10:03 am, RedDog said:

    Bush, Cheney, and the GOP leadership would all be in jail now if they had conducted government affairs as corruptly as these Democrat criminals. Unbelieveable. And the collaborator press just yawns.

26. #26
    On February 24th, 2010 at 10:05 am, cheapseat said:

    Did you see DNC chief Govna dean squirm this morning whe Gretchen of f&f TWICE said nelson and landrieu were taking bribes and the wh was giving out bribes! Too funny. Now we all know that a bribe is when someone gives something of value to someone in a position of power to influence the outcome of a decision by that person in power. WERE landrieu and nelson in positions of power. YES. Did the wh give them a valuable item in order to secure their vote. YES. PER SE bribery.

27. #27
    On February 24th, 2010 at 10:06 am, cheapseat said:

    Sorry, that was govna Kane of Va. Got my (_*_)s mixed up.

28. #28
    On February 24th, 2010 at 10:32 am, Speakup said:

    Liberalism is why the Republicans were thrown out and liberalism is why the Democrats will be thrown out.

    American gave the Democrats all the rope they needed, they hung themselves and they may have hung all of us.

    No time that I can think of is more dangerous for the world than right now, Americas liberty engine needs an overhaul.

29. #29
    On February 25th, 2010 at 9:52 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    GOP=WHIG

    The Republican Party under GWB seems intent on political suicide. Pandering to citizens of other countries illegally in our country while telling us we must be vigilantes if we object to illegal aliens ignoring our borders and laws. Mel Martinez was RNC Chairman to ensure an open borders candidate in ’08. The cheap labor express will be kept running, regardless of the consequences, to party or country.

    GOP-RIP

    I originally wrote this over 3 years ago, the GOP leadership is still stuck on stupid.