Republicans worried about escalating GOP feud

[Desertdog]

The 'Moderate' and  'Elite' (RINOS) does not want to lose their power.  I just wish the founders had put term limits into the Constitution.

Republicans worried about escalating GOP feud
By Personal Liberty News Desk •
http://www.personalliberty.com/news/republicans-worried-about-escalating-gop-feud-19168450/


Following their massive defeat in last year’s general election, growing internal acrimony risks derailing the GOP’s plans to shore up its base and find a visionary leader.

In a latest development, Dick Cheney, speaking on CBS Sunday Morning, seemed to suggest Rush Limbaugh better reflected the Republican ideas than former Secretary of State Colin Powell, once again stimulating speculations that the controversial radio show host has become an unofficial voice of the party.

Meanwhile, GOP Committee Chairman Michael Steele has engaged in a "war of words" with Mitt Romney after he had cast doubt on the former Massachusetts governor’s conservative credentials.

"t was the base that rejected Mitt because of his switch on pro-life, from pro-choice to pro-life," Steele said while guest-hosting a recent radio show.

"It was the base that rejected Mitt because it had issues with Mormonism [and] because they thought he was back and forth and waffling on [economic issues]."

There is also an ongoing feud between Sarah Palin’s supporters and Romney, who has said the Alaska governor should never have been placed on Time’s most influential list.

According to media reports, Palin backers have released a web video using the footage of a bear and Mitt Romney jogging near his summer home in New Hampshire, suggesting the former presidential candidate is running away. The video reportedly ends with "Palin firing a hunting rifle and a bear’s head on her trophy wall."

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I'm guessing they need to worry.  Personally, I'm tired of the RINOs running as allegedly Republicans and then voting against my interests.

[Azrael256]

Good.  It's about time.  I prefer cage matches just for the speed, but this will do.

[Perd Hapley]

Following their massive defeat in last year’s general election, growing internal acrimony risks derailing the GOP’s plans to shore up its base and find a visionary leader.

No, growing internal acrimony is the only way the GOP will reclaim its base.  Any "visionary leader" is going to have to be the kind that will internally acrimonize the RINO's till they either get their heads right, or leave the party.  And it may have to be latter, if they want the base to trust them again. 

Is anyone else tired of the righty pundits getting distracted with fluff nothings like Colin Powell, Miss California, Notre Dame, etc?  

[longeyes]

The RINOs prefer to not comprehend the reasons for the acrimony.

From my perspective the liberal and moderate factions of the GOP are exactly what brought us to the place where we are really being asked to choose between two flavors of socialism and face the prospect of a Barack Obama in the White House.  We can thank the Rockefellers and the Bushes for our predicament.

[brimic]

It would be great to purge the party of RINOs, whether it means kicking them off committees and putting up fiscal conservatives to run against them in primaries, or push them to jump ship like Jeffords and Specter.

The Republicans will be an 'also- ran' party until they get back to their roots- fiscal conservatism.

[mordechaianiliewicz]

Thankyou, brimic.....

[Desertdog]

It would be great to purge the party of RINOs, whether it means kicking them off committees and putting up fiscal conservatives to run against them in primaries, or push them to jump ship like Jeffords and Specter.

The Republicans will be an 'also- ran' party until they get back to their roots- fiscal conservatism.

We need to run fiscal conservatives against them in primaries.  If they jump ship it just makes the Repubs look bad and the Dems become stronger.

Do you realize how many Democrats switched to the Republican party since Reagan.   I have read it is in the hundreds. They did it with no fan-fair and it was hardly mentioned in the MSM.  But boy, let one Republican  switch and it is in all the headlines and the headlines read how we are dying.

[brimic]

Let the democrats have our useless castoffs.

[mordechaianiliewicz]

That is because the media is liberally biased. As long as it doesn't effect the bottom line, the media will hype the Democratic Party. Shoot, that's not exactly accurate. It will hype the leftward edge of the Democratic Party.

Yes, fiscal conservatism sounds good to many people, but there still is an inherent problem.... alot of people are addicted to government goodies.

[longeyes]

The problem isn't too much acrimony, it's too little.

[Perd Hapley]

Well said.  I want some acrimony, dang it!

[Balog]

Romney and Steele being held up as conservatives? They're both liberals: the fact either has clout with the R's is the heart of the problem. We need a 40K style Inquisitor to purge the party with fire. Or a viable 3rd party, either way.

[MicroBalrog]

We need a 40K style Inquisitor to purge the party with fire.

...this is the second time you reference that game here. Do you have a 3000-point army stashed away somewhere? :D

[Monkeyleg]

Well said.  I want some acrimony, dang it!

I'll have some acrimony and cheese, thank you.

[Nitrogen]

That is because the media is liberally biased. As long as it doesn't effect the bottom line, the media will hype the Democratic Party. Shoot, that's not exactly accurate. It will hype the leftward edge of the Democratic Party.

Yes, fiscal conservatism sounds good to many people, but there still is an inherent problem.... alot of people are addicted to government goodies.

I guess that's why they let Bush run unchecked until 2005?

The media is biased, but not in favor of specific ideology (ignorance excepted) but in favor of whatever makes them the most money.

This is why you constantly see the stories you do.

[HankB]

The RINOs prefer to not comprehend the reasons for the acrimony.

From my perspective the liberal and moderate factions of the GOP are exactly what brought us to the place where we are really being asked to choose between two flavors of socialism and face the prospect of a Barack Obama in the White House.  We can thank the Rockefellers and the Bushes for our predicament.

What a change from the Reagan years.

I remember on the evening of Reagan's re-election they had a Democrat indignantly proclaiming "We're right on this issue! We're right on that issue! The people HAVE to vote for us!!!"

Minutes later, as state after state was won by Reagan, a GOP spokesman (Lynn Nofziger?) said words the the effect that "What I like most is the Democrats still haven't figured out why they lost!"

Unfortunately, today, the shoe is on the other foot. There's the GOP faction that wants to "go along to get along" and is willing to model themselves as Democrat Lite . . . and they are very, VERY upset that stalwarts are actually conservative . . . and are pulling the GOP base along! They - the RINOs - think that they're right, and are unwilling to see that they've abandoned their base, and unwilling to consider the very possibility that they've screwed up. 

[Strings]

Micro: it's probably a MUCH larger force than 3000 pts.

However, he DOES have a point on this: if Republicans want to keep their base, they need to purge the RINOs

[Balog]

Micro: never played any Warhammer game, just had a buddy who was really into it I lived with for a couple months in the Corps. He introduced me to some of the novels (Eisenhorn and Ravenor) and I like the imagery.

[Perd Hapley]

I guess that's why they let Bush run unchecked until 2005?

Uh, wait, what? 

[Balog]

Come on fisty, the media loved Bush until 2005, remember? :rolleyes: The silly things liberals say.....

[slingshot]

Until the Republican party returns to a dominant conservatively based party, they will contine to flutter in the wind without direction.  I would rather loose and have principles then give away my principles and loose anyway like the last presidential election.  To label McCain a conservative was a joke.  Same applies to George Bush.  Obama will give the Republicans plenty of ammunition.  It will start with the "mid term" elections.

It would seem that Rush Limbaugh and Dick Chaney are the best talking heads for the Republicans right now.  Chaney is so enraged about what this administration is doing and saying about the Bush presidential years that he just can't contain himself.  Colin Powell is a joke as a Republican.  That is why Rush said what he said.

[Perd Hapley]

Until the Republican party returns to a dominant conservatively based party, they will contine to flutter in the wind without direction. 

If Republicans use correct grammer and speling, that will be totally sweet as well. 

[seeker_two]

Sounds like RINO season has been officially declared....



http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29458

Rino Season Is Now Open
by  Ted Nugent

11/12/2008


Like any entity that abandons basic quality control, political parties rot from within. It happened to the Democrats long ago, and now has become the case with the Republican Party, which has strayed from its conservative underpinnings.

There are really only four things I have a strong aversion to: unloaded guns, dull knives, banjos, and Republicans in Name Only (RINOs).

The Nugent family simply doesn't allow any of those things in our lives.
 

RINOs are Fedzilla punks who feign support for conservative principles only when it serves their political interest. RINOs are also known for their moderate positions such as supporting tax increases, federal “bailouts”, “comprehensive immigration reform”, advocating more counterproductive gun control that guarantee more innocent victims, opposing the death penalty, and growing and sustaining Fedzilla and all its toxic mongrels by going along with the liberals. RINOs have forgotten President Ronald Maximus Regan's admonition that government is the problem, not the solution.

RINOs reach across Fedzilla's aisle to cut deals and build consensus with the liberals. Consensus building means compromising values and cutting deals with the socialist prankster punksters whose goal it is to turn America into EuroAmerica.

Consensus building is for wimps and soulless people who stand for nothing. Compromise is not about being tolerant: these days, it’s about giving up conservative principles.

As the Republican Party begins to retool, rebuild and return to the "less government is best government" conservatism that makes America work, the first thing the GOP needs to do is to lock the RINOs out of the discussion. Heavily armed with an abundance of conservative attitude, my hunting buddies and I will provide security to ensure RINOs are kept downwind from the discussion. If allowed to participate, RINOs will continue to rot the Republican Party from within and diminish it in the eyes of the public. Enough is enough.

John McCain has been a RINO on campaign finance, immigration, global warming and other issues and look what happened to him. He had reached across the aisle so many times to cut deals with the liberals that he had to pick Governor Palin, a true conservative, to try and lure disenfranchised and disgusted conservatives back into the fold. Didn't work. Senator McCain was the wrong candidate at the right time. RINOs lose elections;
conservatives win them.

Should President-elect Obama implement his wrong-headed economic policies, our economy will continue to slide into the abyss and America's debt will continue to soar to unsustainable levels. Conservatives must hold the line at all costs and call out all RINOs who support President-elect Obama's economic kamikaze plan.

Make no mistake, conservative values and ideologies are embraced by Americans. The polls all indicate Americans are fed up with the Pelosi-led, do nothing congress, and do not support more government programs and control. Sounds to me like we have a conservative revolution brewing.

Conservative leaders and thinkers such as Newt Gingrich, Jed Babbin, Governor Jindal of Louisiana, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Governor Sarah Palin and others need to turn up the heat and bring this less government, more individual freedom and strong national defense revolution to a boil. It is time.

My specialty is making Fedzilla punks squirm and turn into a puddle of sweat and drool. Therefore, in the spirit of famous butt kickers Generals Chesty Puller and George Patton, I say we launch an attack on all fronts. Uncle Ted hereby declares it is open season on RINOs. No bag limits or permits required. Conservative ideas, arguments and votes are the weapons we will use. Hunt them down and shine a blazing light on these RINO turncoat cockroaches. Zero in the "we the people" crosshairs of your voting assault weapon and aim for the RINO pumpstation. Double tap center mass. Whack em and stack em, track em and hack em, pack em and give em no slack. Let's do to the RINO beasts what we did to the passenger pigeon. Force out of the Republican Party out the subspecies known as RINOs.

We must not make the mistake of keeping the GOP tent so big that there’s room for RINOs. They are in the business of producing conservative defeats. Instead, join me in the new Conservative Revolution. Let's go out and win another one for the Gipper.

[Editor’s Note: Ted Nugent is H.E.’s first licensed RINO hunter.]

*Cartoon by Brett Noel.