Help Retire Chris Dodd
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Mark Noonan
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May 20th, 2009 at 06:58pm with
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Tags: 2010 Campaign, Rob Simmons, Senate Democrats.
Tags: 2010 Campaign, Rob Simmons, Senate Democrats.
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9 Responses to “Help Retire Chris Dodd”
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Convince me it’s money well spent. After all, Rob Simmons is a moderate who lost his House seat to a Dem in the last election cycle. First, aren’t moderates personna non grata in the GOP? If not, explain your logic. Second, Simmons has proven himself to be a loser in a lower tier race. What would compel me — or anyone else, for that matter — to invest in this race? Perhaps more pointedly… are you investing in it? If not, why not?
Just so you know, I so very much want to engage you, and all other self-proclaimed Republicans (and espicially self-proclaimed conservatives) on this site. My feeling is that this battle for Senator from CT, along with Charlie Crist’s battle in FL, are arguably among the most indicative of where the GOP wants to draw their battle lines, at least in the short term. I encourage everyone here to familiarize themselves with both candidates — Charlie Crist and Rob Simmons. If you can back both candidates with enthusiasm, them maybe there’s hope for the GOP. If you can’t then, well, maybe there isn’t.
ricorun,
You’re working from the false assumption that the GOP has forced moderates out – what has actually happened is that moderates became indistinguishable from Democrats and were thus beaten at election time. Connecticut isn’t Alabama – I’m not expecting a GOPer from CT to be the same as a GOPer from AL; neither is anyone else. But while Simmons will bring some differences to the table, he’ll have to adhere to core, GOP principles when push comes to shove, at least to the extent of not undercutting his fellow GOPers.
Specter’s problem is that he was the 60th vote for a set of measures anethema to GOP voters – all GOP voters, not just conservatives. Worse for Specter is the fact that he clearly did it in order to curry favor from Democrats so that they would go easy on him in the 2010 campaign. In order that Senator Specter should stay in the Senate, Senator Specter tossed his party under the bus…and then has the nerve to say that the justifiable anger of the GOP is unfair.
My ideal is to have well-funded GOP candidates in every race – including challengers in liberal bastions like San Francisco and Los Angeles. It is a given that such GOPers will not be like the GOPers we have, say, going after the likes of Murtha. But that is ok – we really are the Big Tent. You can be pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage and an environmentalist kook and still remain one of my fellow GOPers…but if you vote for tax and spend liberalism, for weak national defense, for judicial activism, you can’t. You see, I’m not interested in telling my beloved fellow Americans in San Francisco how to live and those in San Francisco who feel they shouldn’t tell me and my fellow Las Vegans how to live are GOPers, even if they don’t know it, yet.
You’re working from the false assumption that the GOP has forced moderates out
There’s nothing false about it–moderates are persona non grata in the GOP right now (and they are responding in kind by leaving the GOP in droves across nearly every demographic), and on this very blog, there is absolute conviction that the GOP’s only path to recovery is to become even more hardline right wing. Hell, the best Michael Steele could say to moderates is, “You’re welcome in our party, we just won’t actually listen to you.” You can spin it all you want about how all those moderates who are now out of the GOP were just Democrats and didn’t know it yet and blah blah blah, but that rather proves Ricorun’s point, not your attempted refutation of it.
ohio
ohiodoper the new expert on the GOP, right there with colon bowles.
Mark
You can be pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage and an environmentalist kook and still remain one of my fellow GOPers…
I dis agree, because with those stated above – comes an agenda that is diametrically opposed to the American heritage, Christianity and free enterprise.
fmrmarine,
Consider this – if we have such a person who will agree to vote for strict constructionist judges, then what do you or I care if back home in SF he’s advocating for gay marriage? I think we’re on strong ground with a “don’t tread on me” attitude entirely separate from any “do as I wish” concept so core to liberalism. True enough, it would be better if such a GOPer also were Christian – but this is politics in a pluralist republic governed with democratic principles.
Meanwhile Michael Steele implores the GOP not to look to the past by invoking Reagan:
I think the irony was totally lost on him. Let’s look forward for solutions but we’ll just take a peek into the past to see what Reagan would have done. I think The Onion has a vacancy for a writer….
bongo,
Obamateur is not looking to the future, but to the past with the same tired old liberal tax and spend and spend and spend ideas.
Nothing new as predicted.
Reagan’s policies worked and liberal policies fail look at California, education, welfare, medicare and up next social security.
bong 0 maan
those who ignore the past are fools, you keep the things that worked and reject that which failed.
johnson, Carter, clinton, failed…….Reagan didnt.