Comments on: Novak: GOP Losing The Faithful http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:08:28 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nash http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/comment-page-1/#comment-381791 Nash Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:15:54 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/#comment-381791 It's pretty obvious why the party is disintegrating and that is because they have abandoned real conservative policy positions. Non-Interventionism, Low Taxes, Low Spending, Civil Rights (including guns and drugs), rugged individualism, leave it to the states. The current GOP represents none of this and hasn't since Goldwater lost to LBJ. Reagan tried to bring it back but his administration clearly was infiltrated by all the wrong people. The Neo-Cons have taken the rope that the party gave them and hung themselves and the American people with it. It's over. Now the fallout. Unless Ron Paul is miraculously embraced by the current party establishment and the GOP gets back to basics we're looking at 8 years of Hillary. The Neocons have destroyed the GOP and once Goldwater 2.0 in whatever form he materializes (Paul, Sanford, Palin) and the many minions of the Old Right, Constitution and Libertarian parties take over again the neos can flee to the Bloomberg/Shwarzenegger Party. Good Riddance. It’s pretty obvious why the party is disintegrating and that is because they have abandoned real conservative policy positions. Non-Interventionism, Low Taxes, Low Spending, Civil Rights (including guns
and drugs), rugged individualism, leave it to the states. The current GOP represents none of this and hasn’t since Goldwater lost to LBJ. Reagan tried to bring it back but his administration clearly was
infiltrated by all the wrong people. The Neo-Cons have taken the rope that the party gave them and hung themselves and the American people with it. It’s over. Now the fallout. Unless Ron Paul is miraculously
embraced by the current party establishment and the GOP gets back to basics we’re looking at 8 years of Hillary. The Neocons have destroyed the GOP and once Goldwater 2.0 in whatever
form he materializes (Paul, Sanford, Palin) and the many minions of the Old Right, Constitution and Libertarian parties take over again the neos can flee to the Bloomberg/Shwarzenegger Party. Good Riddance.

]]> By: mw http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/comment-page-1/#comment-381774 mw Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:38:05 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/#comment-381774 I am beginning to think that the Republican Party has to fracture in this cycle. If they nominate someone pandering to the ragged right (stay the course in Iraq, creationism, anti-immigrant) they will lose the moderates and the general election. If they, by some miracle, nominate a traditional anti-war limited conservative in the Goldwater tradition (Paul, Hagel), the right will split off into a new party (but the Republicans would have a better chance of pulling moderate, libertarian, and Dem votes in the general). Of the two choices - the latter gives the Republicans a better chance of holding the White House. Either way, someone leaves the tent. I am beginning to think that the Republican Party has to fracture in this cycle.

If they nominate someone pandering to the ragged right (stay the course in Iraq, creationism, anti-immigrant) they will lose the moderates and the general election. If they, by some miracle, nominate a traditional anti-war limited conservative in the Goldwater tradition (Paul, Hagel), the right will split off into a new party (but the Republicans would have a better chance of pulling moderate, libertarian, and Dem votes in the general). Of the two choices – the latter gives the Republicans a better chance of holding the White House. Either way, someone leaves the tent.

]]> By: John Campbell http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/comment-page-1/#comment-381773 John Campbell Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:22:36 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/#comment-381773 Q: Will anybody be their savior? A: Ron Paul Q: Will anybody be their savior?
A: Ron Paul

]]> By: Vicky http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/comment-page-1/#comment-381746 Vicky Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:13:39 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/#comment-381746 "Is this why there’s a hunger for a Fred Thompson candidacy?" Justin, you really should give up on political blogging. You have no clue what you are talking about. There is no "hunger" for that clown. Post about Ron Paul and you can't keep up with all the comments. Post about creepy-ass fred and you get the guaranteed comment from Log Cabin Republican Don Jones and one anti-fred comment. No one is hungry for a turd sandwich. “Is this why there’s a hunger for a Fred Thompson candidacy?”

Justin, you really should give up on political blogging. You have no clue what you are talking about. There is no “hunger” for that clown.

Post about Ron Paul and you can’t keep up with all the comments.

Post about creepy-ass fred and you get the guaranteed comment from Log Cabin Republican Don Jones and one anti-fred comment.

No one is hungry for a turd sandwich.

]]> By: DosPeros http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/comment-page-1/#comment-381743 DosPeros Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:21:05 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/#comment-381743 <blockquote>Most of the dwindled contingent of Republican governors have abandoned conservative principles to embrace the Democratic-sponsored extension of the State Children's Health Insurance Program to people who are neither children nor poor. Only three -- Indiana's Mitch Daniels, Mississippi's Haley Barbour and South Carolina's Mark Sanford -- resist the lure of federal dollars.</blockquote> Uum, I think Novak is hitting on the truth - neither children, nor poor - but such is the socialist ethos: If you say the write words, the reality simply does not matter.

Most of the dwindled contingent of Republican governors have abandoned conservative principles to embrace the Democratic-sponsored extension of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program to people who are neither children nor poor. Only three — Indiana’s Mitch Daniels, Mississippi’s Haley Barbour and South Carolina’s Mark Sanford — resist the lure of federal dollars.

Uum, I think Novak is hitting on the truth – neither children, nor poor – but such is the socialist ethos: If you say the write words, the reality simply does not matter.

]]> By: maconbacon http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/comment-page-1/#comment-381740 maconbacon Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:32:14 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/#comment-381740 Read my lips--no Fred Thompson. The latest David Broder interview leaves many questions about Fred's conservative credentials from taxes to government spending. After stifling free speech, why would we vote for McCain lite? Read my lips–no Fred Thompson. The latest David Broder interview leaves many questions about Fred’s conservative credentials from taxes to government spending. After stifling free speech, why would we vote for McCain lite?

]]> By: Don Jones http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/comment-page-1/#comment-381736 Don Jones Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:01:08 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/09/04/novak-gop-losing-the-faithful/#comment-381736 Tempests in tea pots. Are we so risen above serious problems that we must clog our thinking with the way people are anywhere, Demo or Rep. There are more scandles in the churches of this country daily. Lets talk about the chopping off of heads by Muslems. Lets talk about 25,000 veterans who have war injuries, Lets talk about a recently passed bill that let illegals participate in Social Security, having not paid in a dime and every time SS gives old people a cost of living raise they take it back with a Medicare Premium increase. Republicans and Democrats have so many issues they can agree upon why are we not doing that? Where do the unspent millions the Presidential Candidates have amassed after the election? We have many real questions and problems. No point in digging up no consequence bla bla bla. Don Jones MyManFred.com Tempests in tea pots. Are we so risen above serious problems that we must clog our thinking with the way people are anywhere, Demo or Rep. There are more scandles in the churches of this country daily.

Lets talk about the chopping off of heads by Muslems. Lets talk about 25,000 veterans who have war injuries, Lets talk about a recently passed bill that let illegals participate in Social Security, having not paid in a dime and every time SS gives old people a cost of living raise they take it back with a Medicare Premium increase.

Republicans and Democrats have so many issues they can agree upon why are we not doing that? Where do the unspent millions the Presidential Candidates have amassed after the election?

We have many real questions and problems. No point in digging up no consequence bla bla bla.

Don Jones
MyManFred.com

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