The RNC debate: Yawn
Sorry. Can’t work up much interest or passion about the RNC debate that just kicked off in D.C. this afternoon.
Am I the only one?
You can watch it here if you care and share your thoughts in comments or e-mail.
The reason it’s so difficult to muster up interest in these insider horse races is that behind-the-curve Beltway Republicans were glacially slow to the tea party surge and at fault for squandering so much of hard-earned conservative grass-roots money on their own self-aggrandizement (or worse, on candidates and causes that undermine core conservative principles). Too many of these Republican poohbahs talk out of both sides of their mouth — and remain inextricably linked to Republicans who are part of the problem in Washington.
Watching current RNC chairman Michael Steele cuddling up to the likes of race hustler Al Sharpton doesn’t help matters, either.
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Frankly, I don’t care who wins, we don’t give to the rnc. We give to those running that hold our values, not what the rnc wants for us.
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While the world watches in breathless awe and amazement. What a near useless organization.
No one running has any conservative credibility. It’s that way on purpose.
Conservatives will not get control of the GOP. The next GOP nominee will be an amnesty supporter, just like the last one and the one before.
If you want to keep your country you need a President willing to enforce the laws.
Amnesty is national suicide.
The GOP really does need to go the way of the Whigs. We need to have the courage to dump them if they present us with another unacceptable presidential nomination. I did not hold my nose for McCain and will not for Romney or any other amnesty supporter. We are running out of time, we cannot accept it again.
No more RHINO RNC.. No More Steele. We now give to only those we like, (in state or out) and give nothing to those DC pervs to use and lose on people we don’t feel have our values.
The RNC represents nobody but the inside-the-beltway elitists. No money for them.
How’s that hopey-changey stuff working out for you?
AKA Black on Black crime!
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And the GOP 2012 nominee for president will be:
A. Romney
B. Gingrich
C. Huckabee
Because, darn it! It’s (fill in the blank) turn!
The GOP in general, save a few true conservatives necessary for the party and to be tolerated for the support they generate, represents nobody but the inside-the-beltway elitists when you get right down to it.
Both parties have been entreched in their respective “roles” in DC for too long, and neither one appreciates outsiders coming in and trying to shake up the establishment.
Geez, don’t know how I did that.
A large percentage of people voting for McCain were hoping he’d croak shortly after inauguration.
McCain told his own supporters they had nothing to fear from Obama becoming President. The truth is both major party candidates were ineligible. Biggest scam ever pulled.
The RNC had better get their butts in gear or more of them will be joining the next group voted out in 2012. Business as usual is over.
I believe McCain was eligible, why wouldn’t he be? Obama, of course, was constitutionally ineligible, but that’s frankly water over the dam at this point. Even if you could find a judge who wouldn’t throw the case out of court, his term would be over before you could even get the case on the docket.
A long as the DC Beltway elitists continue to run it, their butts will still be firmly in place with their heads in them.
Then it’s time for an enema.
Steele couldn’t organize a non-specific Asian Majority fire-drill.
Probably, but keep your eye on the ball.
What we will need in the Oval Office in 2013 will be someone who won’t veto conservative rollbacks of leftist legislation, and someone who won’t appoint leftist judges and bureaucrats.
All three of those possible nominees fit that model of what the country will need, even if none of them are what we really want.
Congress is the prize. That prize will be worth next to nothing if Obama keeps the Presidency. Sure, it will be better than the enemy having the prize, but we won’t be able to do anything with it to reverse the damage. Obamacare and all the rest of the hideous Democrat legacy will grow roots and become completely irreversible by 2017.
America will be permanently stuck in the socialist morass. We will be especially incompetent socialists (all socialists are incompetent), and America will wither.
We must take Congress with large majorities. We must take the Presidency. Or all is lost.
I do want Steele to go, but that’s it. Sarah Palin would have been a great choice for this, but she is clearly not interested. Can’t say I blame her. Like Michelle says: Yawn.
Well, if this debate is any indicator of what the leaderless GOP plans to offer in 2012 I can only say I’ll be voting 3rd party AGAIN.
I’m not voting for clowns whether they ride in on a donkey or an elephant…
How are you going to run against Obamacare with Romneycare?
Gingrich and Huckabee have as much liberal baggage that I have no confidence they would roll back anything.
Then we’ll know who to thank here every time Obama uses the veto.
You are missing the point entirely. No President rolls back anything. Laws are made by Congress. Congress has to roll it back.
If Obama is in the White House it becomes an absolute certainty Obamacare will not get rolled back.
If any of those three are in the WH, and they veto a rollback of Obamacare, they can forget about getting reelected, and every conservative in the land will be screaming for their impeachment.
Congress is what matters.
I agree that Congress matters. They have to decide to matter.
Are they going to stop the administration from regulating CO2? Are they going to make them enforce the laws on illegal aliens? ACORN? The Black Panthers?
Romneycare will not be elected over Obamacare.
If the RNC (and it’s related orgs) can’t be *completely* gutted and refurbished with solid, conservatives, then it’s time for it to go the way of the whigs.
You and I can stop donating to the RNC – it won’t bother them one bit. There are a bunch of blue-nose, RINO, demon-crat-lite, GOP fat-cats who will continue to bankroll the whole sordid apperatus.
As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, not a single thing will change. They will put new hubcaps and paint on that same old jalopy and keep selling it to us. The *whole* jalopy needs to be scrapped. Period.
The only solution I care to entertain involves tar, feathers and rails, so it will take someone far smarter and craftier than me to figure out how to clean up the RNC mess.
What would the Republican Party look like minus Sarah Palin?
I am thinking in the vein of “It’s a wonderful life”
I think the yawn factor would be exponentially increased
Sarah Palin endorsed and energized the TEA PARTY- who effected the outcome of the mid term shellacking.
There are some in the media who don’t pretend that Sarah Palin isn’t a Conservative Republican Force to be reckoned with. If only the country club Republican set could get over themselves….things would be a lot less boring, and the Republicans would be attracting many more supporters. 2012 is going to be here before we know it.
Jeff Greenfield CBS News, on Imus In The Morning – this Morning
“Sarah Palin is dumb like a fox”
Jeff Greenfield gives kudos to Sheppard Smith of Fox News and Jon Stewart (Comedy Central) for getting the First Responders Health Care Bill passed.
They can order all of those things done, if the President doesn’t use his veto. Will they do it now? Of course not. The Evil Party still has the Senate.
If you are arguing Romney shouldn’t be our choice because you think he cannot win, and you’ve got someone else in mind you think has a better chance, then _shrug_. Maybe you’re right.
Rasmussen poll shows GOP lead on party affiliation largest in years. Ed Morrisey Hot Air.
You would think they would want to strike while the iron is hot…just saying, when will fortune smile on them again like this? They have the wind at their back right now, it’s time to push back the progressive agenda.
Michelle Malkin takes responsibility for being an early champion of Michael Steele in 1..2….. never.
And when in that position, GOP leadership has chronically rolled up the sails and and drifted with the current or rowed against the wind.
Too many reach arounds in that Good Old Playah club…want to clean house, here’s a great place to start.
Jim DeMint? Tom Coburn?
Red State Skeptic admitting he is a volunteer for media matters in 1, 2, … never
RNC————-Republicans Nauseating Conservatives. They make conservatives want to puke. No $$$$$$ to them.
I am no longer a republican. Too many beltway RINOs reaching across the aisle to the detriment of our great country. They can all take a long walk off a short pier…
How does one reach the general election finals for RNC chairman? Do you speak before the Log Cabin Republicans and receive the most blown kisses?
The Dems who voted in Nancy for another term as leader of their party need to go in this next election cycle. How foolish can you be to see the election shellacking and still back the top fool who put you there?
Working out for me just fine – and for you.
I got a R governor out of it who turned coat and actually governs more conservatively than his record would suggest he would have – in a state that leans WAY too far to the left for ANYONE’s comfort.
You got a congress full of Rs, many of which got there supporting my ideals.
ALL BECAUSE OF “HOPE AND CHANGE”.
Now if your Rs prove they can be trusted, their party may get to continue to exist. Only time will tell.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Well, just as in the last election, if they nominate one of those idiots when Bozo the Clown could beat this moron, they are digging their own graves.
By nominating another liberal Republican in a situation where they can run ANYONE AT ALL, they will not only be guaranteeing another four years of Obama, but it could easily be Obama with an R next to his name in the White House, and with a huge risk of another four years beyond that.
Look at 2000 and 2004 for proof.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
ONly if Americans take a stand and refuse to puss out like they did in 2008.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Born on foreign soil. However, his birth did occur as the child of a soldier serving in the military with his wife at his side. AS long as he was born in a US military controlled facility, I can see the argument made that he is eligible.
My argument against his eligibility stems from his complete and total lack of fitness for the job vis a vis his blatant disrespect for the very Constitution he would swear an oath to uphold. Constitutionally eligible if the above scenario sticks, but a wise populace would NEVER allow such a man to hold such an office.
Don’t get me started on his so-called “opponent”.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Well, I try not to comment on this stuff as Reince Priebus is my friend. Though he has a bit of a strange speech pattern, he is a most capable guy.
He is the head of the GOP in my state and this November we took the State Assembly, the State Senate, the Governorship and kicked-out a Progresseve sitting Senator named Feingold. We were the only state to achieve those results and the last time we did it was in 1932; Reince was a major part of that.
What is really interesting is that Reince and Michael Steele are best of friends; they go way back and until he resigned recently, Reince was the RNC General Council. Further, Reince is the nephew of Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.
There’s your guy to head the RNC.
Oh, an on a side note, watch Herman Cain to formally announce in February his candidacy for President. He just pulled Mark Block (WI AFP head) in to be his Chief of Staff and he has a PAC. Granted he will be a long shot; but like Sarah, he will succeed in getting the conservative message out.
I frankly find Michael Steele nearly always on my side of an issue. He was an early supporter of the grass roots conservative movement, which earned him the wrath of the Bushies and blue blood rino sect. He supported O’Donnell because she was the Republican elected candidate, just like Miller, Angle, Whitman, and others instead of smearing and sneering at them like the Bushies and blue bloods. He really can’t help that the RNC revenues are falling, that is a direct result of the rino backing Bushies and blue bloods have so infuriated the conservatives(both fiscal and social) with their support of McCain, Castle, Romney, etc, and their total contempt for Bachmann, Palin, Miller, etc.