Rejected RNC solicitations of the day
As you know, I’ve been printing rejected RNC solicitation forms and disgusted e-mails from readers for months — see here, here, here, and here, for example. Financial fraud has wracked other major GOP outfits — remember the NRCC accounting scandal from a few years ago or the California GOP mess?
I’m printing a new batch of rejected RNC solicitation forms below from readers today in honor of latest RNC budgetary embarrassment published in the Daily Caller. More on that in a moment.
From reader Alex:
From reader J.B.:
From reader Paul:
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The consultant whom the RNC reimbursed for charges at a risque California nightclub is Erik Brown. (The “bondage” angle was sensationalized to suggest that Steele was at the club (he was not), Daniel Foster points out. But the RNC officials have already acknowledged the reimbursement was inappropriate. There’s still the question of how close Brown was to Steele and RNC managers. Moreover, Reid Wilson at Hotline notes:
The latest revelations, published this morning by The Daily Caller, show an RNC consultant spent $1,946 at a bondage-themed night club in L.A. That comes about 4 weeks after a party PowerPoint presentation, in which the RNC mocks their own donors, was discovered at a posh FL hotel.
In both cases, insiders blamed the finance department. In the latest incident, it is likely a low-level staffer approved an expense report that should never have been submitted. In the earlier incident, RNC insiders blamed a more senior finance official for producing an unprofessional document in the first place, under the quickly disproven theory it would never become public.
Since hiring a new communications director in Feb., Steele has largely kept himself in only the right kinds of headlines — attacking Dems for passing health care, raising over $1.2M in a bid to retire Speaker Nancy Pelosi and, largely, staying on message.
But Steele’s early gaffes produced a constant stream of negative stories, and now the DC political media (Your Hotline OnCall editor included) hangs on his every word waiting for another provocative statement to tumble forth. The finance department’s errors, one exasperated RNC member told us this afternoon, is “the latest of the death by a thousand cuts.”
FYI: Brown has already deleted his Twitter account, which included a Tweet bragging about hanging with Steele at a football game. I retrieved the cached page of the now-deleted Twitter account:
More on the Orange County connection at Red County.
As I’ve said repeatedly in post after post after post after post after post on Republican corruption and waste over the years, the GOP can’t demand that the Democrats clean their house until the Republicans have cleaned theirs.
The D.C. GOP “leadership” has been a problem for a long, long time. Current RNC chairman Michael Steele is the symptom. Beltway-itis is the disease.
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Update: An RNC staffer has been fired…
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I would say dump Steele and replace with Palin but, she’s supporting McCain so, we’re pretty much screwed.
Fine – a risque club, but spending money on the Redskins?
Lee Rodgers on KSFO radio called the RINOs what they are: Country Club Conservatives.
Vote them out during the primaries.
It’s past time for conservatives to give up on the GOP. They agree with the Democrats more than conservatives and as evidenced by the last election, would rather lose an election than have a conservative candidate. They were determined to have an amnesty candidate and rigged the calender and used Rudy and Fred as diversions to accomplish the task. They are weasels. They will never allow a conservative takeover of the levers of power.
I wrote this 3 years ago, still true today:
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
What’s interesting to me about the tweets featured here is one of Brown having a meeting of some kind with Steve Schmidt.
Interesting: Meeting with the guy who ran John McCain’s campaign to the ground in 2008 and attempted to use Sarah Palin as a scapegoat.
Absolutely
Fun, I just denied a RNCC telephone solicitation this past weekend. I informed the young man that I would only support individual candidates of my choosing (especially if their names appeared on these pages).
Michael Steele should have been out long time ago! Fear Not! Fire him!
We’re screwed if we’re stuck with Olympia Snowe or Christie Todd Whitman. We’re not screwed when it comes to Sarah Palin.
I remember when Steele was running for office in Maryland, several years ago. He looked very promising and took a ton of abuse from the left, including name-calling. Unfortunately, he has fallen for the inevitable temptation of politics-graft and corruption. What a waste of, what was once, a good candidate.
Sarah Palin on Greta’s show told us she supports McCain’s vision for America, amnesty and all. After abandoning the rule of law and surrendering our sovereignty, what will be left of America?
This idiot is long past his expiration date. Even though it’ll bring out the race card, the GOP needs to fire Steele tout de suite.
I’ve notced country club Republicans, like Bill Bennett (what has he ever accomplished?) and Newt Gingrich grubbing around the radio talk shows, hoping to get their dirty noses in the tent when the November elections arrive. Same old, same old.
Republicans need to remember as well:
The original Boston Tea Party was only a precurser to revoltion.
Funy thing was the RNC sent me an application for a job just a few months ago.
Never heard back from them I wonder why ?
FIFY
get rid of McShame, Leslie Gr-amensty, the bobbies twins from Me. and any other RINO’s.
I keep getting a ton of those things and I’m so bored with writing cheeky responses I just throw them away now. I’m at a loss to figure out how they can keep spending all this money when their base has closed the checkbook, wallet, and credit card donations? Last one out at the RNC, please turn off the lights.
I will NEVER vote for ANY candidate that advocates letting illegal aliens stay. Rewarding illegal behavior only gets us more of the same. The 1986 amnesty for 3 million has directly resulted in 30 million today.
One more amnesty and we are done as a country.
Can you be a Republican and like bondage?
Off topic, but even the Germans are realizing that Global Warming is a hoax:
Bet this pisses of Obama and Company…
BTW, about Sarah Palin endorsing McCain, it’s called “turning the other cheek”. McCain knows exactly what she’s doing: giving him a schooling on Reagan Republicanism.
Sarahcuda.
Only time and observation will determine that.
Meanwhile, Hannity is on another of his RINO rants decrying the splintering of “conservatives” as we refuse to fall back in line and support THIS Republican party. WE are the problem, not the GOP.
Simple solution Sean, join us in demanding that the GOP dump its current leadership. Get rid of McCain, Steele, and the rest of the progressive gang that runs the party. It’s just not complicated. You’ll understand once you join us.
Now that Sarah Palin is the sweetheart of RINOs, she should be a pariah among us conservatives. The very same RINOs who were mocking and deriding her before she endorsed McCain are now praising her for her “surprising” political genius.
If we expect that November will bring about a repeal of Obamacare and the end of amnesty drives and Cap and Trade, we first need to purge THIS Republican party. It’s that simple. Don’t blame us for voting 3rd party in 2012. We warned you over and over and over again.
From the article:
Let me get this straight: They have low level staffers approving unapproved expenses for ineligible personnel.
Sounds like it’s audit time.
The RNC does not get it. They are close but still espouse positions that are not “Conservative” but are “Republican”.
But then again, they are Republicans not Conservatives.
I’ll pass over the torture joke and go for the obvious: These days, it’s almost a prerequisite. Why else would we still be here?
I stopped giving to the RNC years ago, and donate to individual candidates instead. Bypasses Steele & Co., and is as close as I’ll ever get to voting in states where I don’t live.
Vote for whomever you please… but if Hope-a-Dope wins by plurality in 2012 (see Clinton, William Jefferson, winner of elections of 1992 and 1996 elections with less than 50% of the vote), don’t say that you weren’t warned, either.
Ill strongly reconsider wastng money on the RNC when Darth Cheney is at the helm. <3
OK what is the deal with Sarah? I saw her schilling for McCain. He looked bored as hell. He looked like he didn’t want her to campaign for him but he had no choice It just didn’t look right.
How does McCains political platform match up with Sarahs political views. I don’t think they do. So what was she doing? Selling out because she owed one?
During the campaign, McCain said that the people had spoken, and he was no longer in favor for amnesty, and that we should close the borders. Maybe that is what Palin was talking about, because I have heard her speak about closing our borders to illegals.
I never trusted him, but that is what he said.
Here is my letter to Boehner. I am disgusted with Steele.
I write to provide you with a bit of advice:
(1) Stop thinking that partisanship is the basis for the current situation in the nation. Having attended the million man and woman march on Washington on 9/12/09, I can assure that both political parties are considered to have failed in their duty to control an irresponsible and overwhelming federal government. The citizenry is on the move, not on a Republican versus Democrat basis, but on a liberty versus tyranny basis. Freedom loving Americans will not tolerate socialistic behavior from either party.
(2) Stop apologizing for presumed and unsupported wrongs. When Michael Steele got up and apologized for completely unsupported racist comments directed at Congressmen, he presumed that such comments happened and that these Congressmen, as opposed to decent and honest Americans, were telling the truth. What I saw was a deliberate attempt to provoke protestors, and when that failed, an allegation was leveled. I can’t remember a single instance of any Democrat apologizing for radical leftist violence – quite the contrary.
(3) Start being proud of your fellow citizens. The people who come to tea parties are independent freedom loving Americans. They represent the business builders and hard working family folk. These are the people who elected Scott Brown to Teddy Kennedy’s seat. You should be honoring their integrity and perseverance in the face of great hostility from the socialist left. I suggest you be on their side.
On the 22nd of March, I called the RNC and read them the riot act for the stupidity of the response to the Democrat allegations. Let me be rather blunt using a bit of biblical reference – the Democrats will reap what they have sown. Their arrogant and dismissive behavior has and will continue to have consequences.
I remind you that the founders recognized that every generation had a responsibility to defend their freedoms regardless of who it was who were attacking their freedoms. And, if I remember correctly, the founders did not eschew violence in that fight simply because it was uncomfortable or inconvenient. (While I myself do not support or condone violence, I recognize that you can only push the American people so far and that the consequences of that push are predictable. To be frank, anger and frustration do not begin to describe the mood of freedom loving Americans.)
So the next time some Democrat complains, simply remind them that they are the cause of their own problems and that a mighty wave is rising from the ground to sweep away all evil in its path. They cannot and should not be comforted.
Yup, YOU RINOs got him re-elected. If after all of the disasters THIS Republican orchestrated you would still vote for them, you deserve Obama.
I guess I can expect the gratuitous “You really don’t see a difference between Dems and Reps?” from the usual dopes so here is my answer.
Yeah I see a difference just like I there was a difference between Hitler and Quisling. You still ended up with Nazis in charge and with these Republicans, you still end up with big government progressives in charge.
And the battle for which RINO wins the GOP nomination in 2012 is on.
One of the biggest issues Republicans use against Democrats is their irresponsible spending.
They’ve now thrown away the high ground on that issue.
To paraphrase Twain, there are 3 kinds of idiots in the world. Idiots. Damned idiots. And Republicans.
But how do you keep today’s fire stroked to November hot enough to make a numerical impact? Again, Americans are notorious for amnesic impatience/apathy, and I think like the old boiled frog analogy, by year’s end they’ll eat Obamacare with the same gusto as they eventually did with Social Security. I’m not into Sarah (Fred was/is my man), but if she (or any rock star like her) can keep the flames hot to November, even if she stumps for McCain I’ll take it (assuming a win means a chance for repeal). Time is our enemy here. We’re not approaching the cliff — we’re already over it. The camel’s nose and snout is under the tent and we’re soon going to see a parade of addictive entitlements that’s going to curl your wallets — not to to even think about 2nd term O.B.. I WANT to be optimistic, but we’ve lost SO much ground to Candyman (in the ’60′s sense) Obama who’s getting this country fixed but good to the point that it won’t matter who’s thrown out in Nov. We might need to think out of the box if repel fails or just hang up being conservatives in a national sense.
James Greenidge
Queens New York
I view the rnc as I do aarp. YOU do not get one penny of our money! We fund those who we feel will try their best to save our Republic from d’s and the rino r’s. With what has happened since this bho was elected, funds are going down daily at our home. Faith is keeping me going.
L
First, you have to think like a conservative, not a Republican hugging his security blanket. We CAN win without the GOP if they prove to be impervious to reform. This year through November is about reform. If we succeed, 2012 is a whole new ballgame. We’ll have a new GOP being led by center-right conservatives rather than McCain-Bush-Kennedy progressives.
We must reform the GOP tactically. The Scott Brown victory was the first big score. It terrified the establishment elites of both parties. Remember the last part, both parties. Today, no seat is safe from us Tea Party activists.
The next and even bigger earth-rattling score will be to deny McCain his nomination in November. That will decapitate the GOP and put the fear of God into the party. The Tea Party will be very influential in such a party.
From September to November, a McCain-less RNC will be powerless in the face of the Tea Party movement. This will keep the “anti-incumbent” fearing Republicans strong in the face of what will surely be a grand last gasp “reaching across the aisle” effort by a lame-duck McCain and friends.
That will enable the November elections to put the GOP firmly in charge for 2012 in a way that will bring people like me back into the fold.
Otherwise, we will be perpetually hearing the RINOs blame conservatives as they keep returning with their leftist candidates only to lose. If we keep letting them get away with it, we deserve Obama. Let’s stop them THIS YEAR so we won’t have these discussions in 2011 and 2012.
*When I do communicate with the RNC, NRSC, or NRCC, I let them know that I will continue to support consistent conservatives only, and that I am funding as best as I can those candidates that are attempting to unseat the RINO’s in the primaries; IMHO, having JD Hayworth defeat McCain will have far greater impact on the political landscape than Scott Brown taking over Teddy Kennedy’s seat; It will signal we the people have HAD ENOUGH of the same old, same old, Teddy Roosevelt progressives like McCain!
There is nobody around here — including Phil — who is more contemptuous of the GOP establishment than I am. But “splinterism” is the way to oblivion for us. If we cannot win the ideological battle within the GOP, we have no chance of simultaneously beating the Dems ~and~ the GOP as a third party. The system is just not set up that way; we’re not Europe.
Our task is to takeover our own (GOP) party before trying to takeover Washington. And we have to be selective about whom we go after. I’d like to be rid of at least half the nationally well-known Republicans but that is far too many to pick fights with. The Maine sisters — for example — I hate. But we want to be sure when we throw them under the bus that we can replace them with conservatives, not with typical New England Dems. That time is not now.
I think of it as more like pruning a hedge than cutting it down and pulling out the roots. That root-and-branch stuff sounds good but can this country survive a period of several years of no meaningful opposition to the Dems while we are doing this radical reinvention of ourselves. No, it can not.
We talk real tough but we’ve just let Lindsey Graham slide into another six-year Senate term. Now there is a treacherous, RINO swish who was ripe for having his sorry butt kicked out of the GOP. SC is a state where we should be able to win with a strong conservative. But as much as Graham is despised, there was no meaningful competition for his seat.
As everyone agrees, we should have dumped that scum Arlen Specter when we had a good conservative candidate in PA. Of course, that was the fault of Bush and the GOP establishment. But it is our job — as conservatives — to recognize these fights that are worth making, get into them early and fiercely, and win them.
What should we be doing right now to realign the party? Well, IMO, we should be all in on behalf of J.D. Hayworth to retire the ultimate RINO, John McCain. It is important both in real and symbolic terms to dump this bum. Politics ain’t beanball and we conservatives need to show our teeth and let people throughout the GOP know that there is a huge price to be paid for being all mavericky. If we can’t dump this vulnerable RINO, then it is joke to imagine becoming a powerful third party.
And, one more thing, the conservative wing of the GOP has been about as stupid as any other faction. Stupid ~and~ sentimental. I loved Palin; now, not so much. Sure, she sparkles. But she is pure populism, short on core convictions. She is the conservative’s Patty Murray, except HOT. A battling mom in tennis shoes. She is still our biggest card, our ~only~ electrifying figure. But she is no asset to conservatism if she is not fully on our team. I think nearly all conservatives are concerned about her excessive kissy-face with McShame. And her ambivalence on immigration is deeply disturbing. All of this reminds me of Colin Powell. In 2000, the whole Republican Party — including conservatives — was ready to cancel the convention and declare Powell our nominee. Thank goodness his wife held him back. How stupid we were. How dazzled we were by his potential. We forgot to double check that he actually was on our side, which, of course, he was not. The Palin situation is similar. I still have high hopes for Sarah, but let’s not rush off and act stupid. She has hurt herself with McShame. She owed him some loyalty, perhaps, but she’s overdone it.
Actually, she is mistaken about where her debt lies. She was selected –reluctantly — by McShame for what she could do for him. She delivered. But it is the grassroots conservative movement that made Sarah its champion and that truly deserves her loyalty. Let’s see if she can’t figure it out and find her way home. But she is no longer beyond scrutiny, as no one should be. Let’s not be stupid.
What ~you~ said, bjc!
Now you’re talking, Phil!
So you agree with everything I said then? It’s not clear from your opening remarks where you cite me.
The only splintering I would like to see in the GOP is the removal from power of the thin splinter of progressives that rule the party. We are all in agreement about that. It will happen if we accomplish what I laid out. Were McCain to lose his nomination for re-election, it’s a new game.
We will then see how the rest of the GOP responds from September to November in the face of an anti-incumbent tide. It’s that ugly mood that will provide the opportunity to prove that they have the spine to stand up to the Gangs of McCain. We need the anti-incumbent wave almost as much as we need to remove McCain. Incumbents who prove their mettle will survive. But we will know for sure by November what is what.
Sorry Ignatius, you cleared things up while I was posting my last post. I’m glad we are in agreement. We really need to win this before November.
…only if you are a Progressive already…
Well said, Ignatious.
Cash is king sometimes.
“The RNC had no comment.”
Probably hadn’t taken out the ball gags yet.
So that’s why Steele seems to have such an affection for the Minority Whip.
*Someone(it won’t be Hannity) should ask Steele if AZ cattle farmer Rob Krenz would be dead today at the hands of an illegal alien if instead of having an advocacy pimp for illegal alien amnesty(McCain), Arizona had a conservative Senator leading the fight to secure the border and demagnetize the country of illegals, allowing Americans desperate for work all across the country to backfill those positions; I’m guessing conservatives would not like the usual squishy answer.
And I am sure that JD could use some cash in his quest to dethrone the ultimate DIABLO.
Talk about a “big tent”, the latest report was that this was a schmoozing trip to recruit the next generation of major GOP donors. The GOP is now taking 30-40-year-olds to lesbian bondage clubs in gay West Hollywood to recruit them?
The GOP whip will always be in the minority and let’s not bring up the topic of chairs…. whips….chairs… Hey you started it!
I’m just pickled tink I’m not the only one who sends back their money begs with such comments.
Although, these were much more polite than some of my returns. Heh.
Here we go again. Grahamnesty reaching across the aisle to re-introduce Cap and Trade. Lots of goodies for everyone. As usual, many new taxes and monstrous job-killing gore.
The gay lesbian sadists will take your money and use it to elect Democrats who support gay marriage like Obama. Oh wait, Obama said he doesn’t support it. Hmm.
I guess thats kinda like American jews who support Israel voting for Obama who doesn’t support Israel.
There is hope for change.
Did that RINO Meghan McCain do some dirty dancing and spanking for this GOP loser then write about it in her award winning articles in The Daily
BreastsBeast? Word got out somehow. RINO’s love to implode the Republican party in order to embarrass and demoralize Conservatives.THE most importatnt election this year is NOT in November. It is Aug. 24th in AZ.
McCain MUST GO!
The country won’t survive another amnesty.
King Weasel WILL turn back to his “friends across the aisle” if we don’t retire him forcibly.
Ignatious Reilly: Well Said!
I am not entirely closed-minded on environmental issues. But I am entirely closed-minded on Lindsey Graham. If he is for it, I am against it. (This little McShame butt-boy can’t get over the delusion that he is a Republican leader. And, of course, FOX plays along. No doubt, he will be on next Sunday representing the conservative viewpoint. ~scowl~)
Getting back on topic:
Why doesn’t the GOP fire Michael Steele? His leadership has either been a disgrace or a joke.
Ignatius: ditto. As you can tell from my comments over the past few years, I am very unforgiving towards the GOP. I just don’t believe anything they say anymore. Even Paul Ryan was caught equivocating on the GOP “repeal Obamacare” pledge last week by RedState. At this point, I am event-driven. In August, we very well might see JD Hayworth, Mark Rubio, Chuck DeVore and a few other newcomers shake up the GOP. Then the real struggle between us Tea Party people and the RNC will come to a head and I expect us to win. Come November, no more McCain and Steele and the RNC will have to cave to us or face annihilation.
I expect the big story next Sunday on Fox will be Romney vs Pawlenty. Fox is determined to have Pawlenty as the GOP candidate for 2012.
Pawlenty, Palin, Romney, Huckabee, and most of the rest of the potentials for 2012 are all for amnesty, of course they say they aren’t, just like King Weasel always does.
If you want to keep the rule of law and your country, you MUST elect someone who WILL uphold the laws and not change them to benefit the people breaking them.
Well said Ignatius, couldn’t agree more.
I don’t trust any of those people…not a conservative in the bunch.
IMHO, Palin is right on the social issues and squirmish on numerous national issues. I never have heard her say send the illegals back home…only we need to close the boarders, ala Juan McShame. That does not alone solve the problem.
I saw a poll today that said Romney was in the lead, with Huckabee coming in second. NOW THAT IS FRIGHTENING!!
PLEASE..Not Huckabee again!!!!
Huckabee very well could have done the republicans in ’08 with his pandering to Juan.
Can you imagine what the Ministry of Propaganda (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, LATimes) would say if the Republicans fired a black man? That’s all we would hear for a month. And when someone brings up mistreatment of blacks (in any way), the statement will be, “Oh, just like the Republicans did with Michael Steele.”
We’re stuck with him, until he resigns.
Barf.
Exactly.
Very well said, well said indeed. As I watch “the longest serving Congressmen” being paraded about the long long concept of citizen servant comes to mind.
There’s a wave of conservatism right now and the GOP has the best surfboard in town, but refuses to get in the water.
Show me where he said that. He was pandering to la raza and for amnesty throughout his campaign. Had he actually said that, and meant it, I would have voted for the useless pig.
I seem to remember him saying something along those lines after the mass demonstrations and phone calls/e-mails to Washington. I don’t think he meant he supported the idea, though.
Somebody will have to show me that. I watched and waited for him to make that comment, but it never came throughout the whole campaign. He may have mentioned “seal the border” or something after amnesty but he never rebuked amnesty. Not saying I am incorrect but I would have to see it to believe it. That idiot has never stopped beating hte amnesty drum and was THE reason I did not vote for the moron.
I saw just a smidge of Hannity last night and he was promoting Romney. They just don’t get it, do they? NO MORE RINOS!! It’s going to take more than a slap upside the head for people like Hannity to see that we don’t want McLame or Romney or Huckabee or Paul or Newt, etc. Sarah Palin has done damage to herself by aligning with McLame and she does not speak for conservatism.
Me too, Weary Citizen, I will NEVER vote for amnesty. I also won’t vote for non-eligible candidates. BOTH GOP and Dem candidates in 2008 were ineligible.
FOX is pushing the same old candidates on us that were losers in ’08! What is it about the word “loser” that they don’t understand?? We need NEW blood! I suspect that we will have some good candidates when we get closer to 2012. Marco Rubio, for one, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan for a couple more. Why are they dragging out all the old has-beens, and so early?? None of these people will be able to stand up to Obama and his campaign machine. We need FIGHTERS…and they must be clean, articulate and passionate! Mr. Ishy-Squishy McLame was a total disaster. Can the GOP learn from experience, or do we have to slap them around??
Anyone can see that Romney is toast thanks to MA health care debacle.Now, Let’s get serious and rethink the whole enchilada…
I call it enchalida cuz with most of these idiots turning the country into Little Mexico is high on their agenda.
Guys: I’m as conservative as anyone-but this is no the year to be pushing party purity.
I can’t stand Mark Kirk but he would help turn-back this health care debacle-so I’m voting for him.
If we don’t take back congress none of this ‘no RINO’ carp is going to matter.
We are not arguing for party purity but for a party that is led by people who believe in conservatism. Why is that so hard for you “conservative” Republicans to understand? Get rid of the McCain-Bush-Kennedy cult that has captured the GOP and the party will be fine. Conservatives are not the ones dividing the party. We were kicked out. You don’t have a problem with that?
Let the RINO’s assist the Democrats with amnesty and the rest is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Rubio and Crist will have a big impact on the RNC.
Watch and wait for it.
You might even see the country club republican types attempt to make a last minute push for Crist.
The Republican Party is changing. By 2010 it will be more conservative and by 2012 even more so because of the wins in 2010.
“but this is no the year to be pushing purity purity.”
Well yes and no. It is the year to be focused on conservative ideas and principles. That may look like purity to some. Mostly the folks that are trying to be “moderate” republicans like Crist.
I agree it is not the year to be divisive about every issues. But it is the year to get back to basics and insist the Republican Party does the same.
While its easy to blame Obama for the current situation. He was enabled to be in this position because the Republicans tried to be Democrat Lite.
With each conservative win the message is growing louder and louder inside the Republican Party. We don’t care about what the MSM says nor what the left says.
Watch Rubio/Crist. There are some others too but the Florida one is the big message generating race.
It’ll be great in 2010′s election and 2012 to see Gibbs have that smirk wiped off his leftist socialist face.
“Anyone can see that Romney is toast thanks to MA health care debacle.”
Sorry but have to disagree. And it is precisely at this point we become our own worse enemies. What if Romney makes it clear it was a mistake and he’s learned from his mistake? Do we not want politicians to admit they made a mistake, learned from it and will not make the same mistake again?
Or will we not accept a mistake in judgment and in doing so force our politicians to manage every situation and say nothing concrete to avoid any appearance of a mistake, as a result never learn from their mistakes AND have them keep making the same mistakes over and over as a result?
Romney is not toast unless he comes out and says the state health care system in MA was a good idea and he’d do it again.
If he says that, he’s done.
If he says, “It was not a great idea, he’d not do so again. He’s learned from the mistake and is ready to take what he has learned to the national level…” he’s just fine.
Romney has already said that….
Romney as president wouldn’t be too bad, he is smart enough, BUT YOU WOULD NEED A CONSERVATIVE CONGRESS TO KEEP HIS FEET TO THE FIRE AND HIS NOSE TO THE IMPORTANT GRINDSTONE. BUSH WAS LIKE ROMNEY BUT AS HIS CONGRESS BECAME MORE LIBERAL, HE BECAME MORE USELESS.
I never give money to the RNC.
I only give $$ directly to candidates I support.
Starve the beast applies to the RNC too.
I don’t support Steele, and I think it was a bad choice. He can’t connect with flyover country, which is going to be key to rebuilding the party.
If the GOP gives me Romney or Huckabee my choice will be the same as 2008. With that option I’ll be voting for Chuck Baldwin again.
I guess the GOP has learned nothing…
Romney is toast.
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2010/03/30/romney_defends_massachusetts_health_care_law/
I thought McCain was “toast” too but he was on the verge of dropping out of the race in the early summer but that didn’t happen. The GOP seems to have a “designated loser” ready for every race…