http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvx7oXqiaMM

I agree. However, like I have said before, it is a risk to split the vote and you could find yourself in the wilderness for years. Goldwater was Reagan’s first shot in 1964 it wasn’t until 1980 that he was elected President. So, are you willing to let the years go by and all the bad programs that will be enacted along with that?

I don’t disagree, I just don’t want to hear the complaining later if the House and Senate remain firmly in the left’s control. In time, if there is time, we’ll get our majority back. People are just not willing to be slaves, now or in the future.

I wish we could grab control of the party first, then put up our candidates, but I have no insight on how to do it. I think the influence of Newt, Graham and McCains still holds too much sway.
Worse, as a party the Republicans are the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, but they do have the infrastructure (which is why I want to hijack it. Why build a new car when there is a sweet one just sitting there). What we need is a national conservative leader that demands the change. Somebody like Michael Pence on steroids. I honestly think that anyone who stood up and simply stole the speech from Braveheart would galvanize this nation. “FREEDOM!” should be the one word spoken from all of our lips.

This is for all the marbles. If Obama gets his way, we’ll end up with a government much like that of Mussolini’s Italy.

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/10/15/i-hate-being-right-especially-on-this-american-spectator-outlines-our-future-not-good/

That is dangerous ground.

Here’s the link to the Miami Herald story. Crist has started radio ads during The Rush Limbaugh show here in Brevard County. Others report radio ads in Fort Myers/Naples. The ads talk about how Crist cut spending in Florida and how we need to cut back federal spending. If he expects informed voters to believe him, he has another thing coming (like much more time at home with his new bride). I cannot wait to hear Rubio’s rebuttal ad.
When a favorite with the name recognition of Crist only gets 44 percent, it’s a great sign for us Rubio supporters. For any who want to know more about Marco Rubio, visit his site via the link below and search here for his RedState.com speech in Atlanta. It says all you need to know about Marco. Thanks Erick and redstate.com for keeping this race up on the front page. We need to take back the GOP now.

“Friends, this race must be a Hill to Die On for conservatives across the country. This race is not about Florida. This race is about the future of the nation and the direction of the Republican Party. ”

I truly believe that is the TRUTH! WE must give until it hurts and I know it hurts a lot of us but WE must make a statement to the GOP that they are going to be out of business and Conservatism will be running the new and improved GOP!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

If Rubio can get close, watch out Bandwagon! He’s ahead of schedule!

Seems like every other break on Beck, Rush, Hannity, Levin and all the local/regional shows and news broadcasts, our ‘George Hamilton look-alike’ governor’s voice is heard approving the message.

Fairly certain there’s a version in “no-speakie-Eeenglitsch” as well.

Mr. Rubio already has my vote and I send donations as I can.

From a story I put together way back in July.(Looks like my instincts were right at the time:
“Marco Rubio is building a grassroots campaign for Conervatism and he is beginning to gain on Crist. The surge may be subtle but it’s steady and building. Republicans are starting to watch and listen and they don’t like what they are seeing and hearing from Crist.
Marco Rubio deserves to go to Washington as the next US Senator to represent Florida! ”

Full Story here:
http://voterubio2010.blogspot.com/2009/07/marco-rubio-is-winning-against-crist-in.html

I want to thank Erick and Restate for providing this important forum.

A short time ago … He is great. Deserves all the support you can give him. Had a very hot crowd supporting him at the event. Very smart guy, rock solid conservative.

He was the former speaker of the house in Florida before term limited out.

Crist is a Specter RINO clone who is now running ads in our area sounding like the most extreme conservative around. Bashing Obama after he hugged Obama, not in good form. Wonder why the switch for ‘tan in a bottle Crist’. One of his most famous things Crist did was endorse “one square of toilet paper” Sherill Crows global warming nonsense.

He did not cut taxes, he was forced to do it, because Florida’s Constitution requires it.

Help Marco out with this tough race.

End of my ad … LOL.

As that is more important than the total ups and down right now.

If Rubio is beating Crist among voters that have heard of both, then Crist is in even more trouble than this poll shows, as it means his lead is comprised entirely from name recognition.

Rubio has slaughtered Crist in EVERY GOP straw poll (12) so far. Criost likes to point the polls with 60% favorables. That includes all the Obamatons that praise him on the basis of Obama’s endorsement of Crist as his “favorite Republican” Littel did Crist realize that that was the sound of a very log serated knife being inserted in his sternum by the WON.

Crist is toast with the Base and unfortunately f rhim, they are the ones that will be voting in the Primary here (yes John Cornyn, we the base here, refused your attempt to hi-jack our right to select our candidate).

Soon you will hear stories about Charlie thinking he needs to stay and “finish” the job he started. Problem is we do not want him as Governor either and the starw polls betweem Crist and McCollum will be the same.

Maybe he can convince the brain-dead sock puppet (LeMieux) to step down so he can appoint himself. That is the only way Crist will ever get to be “Senator from Florida”

Rubio got to this point with hard work driving to all the GOP meetings and letting them know he is a true conservative, not a John McCaim, Lindsey Grham type of “focus group” conservative. I will vote for Ruio for Senate and prya I have a chance to vote for him as President say in 2020.

“Not One Red Dime for the NRSC or NRCC till they stop trying to elect liberals”

Join the RedState Strike Force

Don’t trust ‘em.

I haven’t heard a single conservative or Republican here in the Sunshine State support Crist. We were against him from the beginning and he hasn’t done a thing to prove us wrong.

If Obama’s numbers keep tanking, the point may be moot anyway.

I agree with Erick that the Rubio race is “a hill to die on” for conservative Republicans.

But guess what? Each one of you has an individual hill to die on.

You need to run, yourself, for precinct committeeman. To fill up the fifty per cent of the slots across the country that were VACANT in 2008. Every state has its own system, and in some states you’re appointed, in some you collect signatures and stand for election. In some states, like Illinios and Florida, Virginia and California, the deadlines are fast approaching. If you want to be in the real political party ball game in the 2010 election cycle, you need to get out of the bleachers and onto field NOW.

Those of you here who have already done so, please chime in and tell your story about how important this is.

Last night I spent about three hours searching the web for instructions and information for all fifty states about how to become a precinct committeeman. Some good news: seems to be a resurgence of interest in this in Illinois and Florida and a few other states. Several county GOP web sites in AZ, IL, FL and others have real good information about HOW to become a precinct committeeman and why it’s so vitally important. I added links to my little blog:

http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

Now get out there and become part of the conservative “coup” in the Republican Party. It will only happen if YOU do it. And, believe me, the moderates are trying to keep you out and outnumber you. And virtually none of the current crop of “conservatives” in Congress will say a word about this because even they FEAR new conservative blood coming into the ranks of the party — the ranks that elect the leadership, have a say in the drafting of the Party Platform and can vote to endorse candidates in the Republican Party. In other words, they FEAR a real, conservative “coup” in the voting ranks of the Party, where the real political power resides. And with HALF of the PC slots vacant in the 2008 election cycle, we COULD take over the Party if YOU get involved.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior
http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

Pegging himself as the ultimate conservative. Unfortunately, his record isn’t as strong as most on this site think. I won’t say that you all have been duped because he is a conservative, but I will say that Rubio is running much harder to the right than his record as House Speaker indicates .Just wait……

I am thankful that Marco Rubio is willing to stand up for Floridians by running against Charlie Crist who so well known and a fundraising machine. Rubio’s campaign is totally grassroots and he needs our help!

I am very much aware about primaries. As I am aware of groups of voters not voting because “their guy” didn’t get the pick, which is my worry here.

As far as the Crist/Rubio election is concerned, this is your best bet for making the statement you wish to make. Rubio has one built in advantage over Crist here in Florida- the Hispanic vote. It is one block of voters both sides cater to, and Rubio would take a vast majority of it. Why the Republicans think Crist can “leftie” his way into segments of the young Hispanic voters in the general election is unknown to me. And the old voters will vote for Rubio not only because he is one of them, but because he speaks for them. Most older Hispanics are conservative because of their experiences with Cuba.

As far as New York, I can’t say. I leave that to someone who lives in that district. But experience has shown me the voters up there are left of center, sometimes far left of center. Can a conservative win there? Can he stand on a platform that says universal healthcare is a bad thing, Obama is dangerous, Democrats are being run by a far left wing which has plans to dismantle the country as we know it? He would be telling the truth, but would he win in THAT district!

This is my point. I don’t like and don’t support the Republican establishment supporting candidates that should be democrats. All I’m saying, and I stand by it, is that we must be cautious about the approach here. Much like Churchill allying with Stalin to defeat Hitler, sometimes if you want to win, you have to some do uncomfortable things.

Who is the bigger enemy and the one we have to defeat first? Who poses the greater threat to the fabric of our nation, Newt or Obama, Graham or Pelosi, McCain or Reid, Snowe or Frank? If you read my blog you’ll see I would like nothing more than to kick all of them out of the party, but I also realize, right now, I don’t have the horsepower to do it. It may take years to build from within, to seize control and turn the ship.

Why do I caution you in your desire to make a stand? Because I fear we are in the midst of a revolution. This isn’t a contest between the old center left Democratic party of our grandfather’s day and snobby blue blood country club Republicans. Neither were much of a threat to our individual way of life (with some exceptions like LBJ’s new deal). Both were staunch conservatives on national defense. Both were willing to stay together on certain issues like abortion, welfare and many domestic issues. When they fought it was over nuances, not totally different approaches to how this country needs to be run and who should run it. It took YEARS of continuous building from within for the liberal democrats to seize control of their party. They have done it. They dumbed down our citizens through poor education and we stood by and said “okay.” They changed our literal history, making our founding fathers more slave owners than visionaries, and we said “okay.” They managed to totally exclude our national identity from the workplace (flags on your locker, at your desk, on your car at work is now a bad thing.??) and we said “okay.” We allowed the liberals to seized control of our television stations and we said “okay.” We let them take our money and give it to those “more deserving” and we said “okay.” It goes on and on. We let them. We let them teach our kids, hold key positions in government. We, believing it can’t get that bad, let them have their heads and go whatever direction they wanted.

Now, much like the boiling frog, or the citizens of 1920’s Italy, we are in the proverbial sh** stew. Our response? To want to now fight amongst ourselves and say that is the battle, the way to win. To point fingers at each other. Well, we could at one time during the era of nuance, but I am convinced we are no longer in that era. I believe, and have said so many times on my website and here, that this is not an exercise in politics, this is an open revolution and we are dead smack in the middle of it.

I used to argue with my friends and family we were headed in a bad direction. Not a wrong direction, you can correct that easily, but a bad direction, in which things can get broken that can’t be fixed. But they wanted to say it can’t get that bad. Even I bought into a little, thinking just how bad could it get. Hoping for the best, I suppose. I was wrong. Even in my worst nightmares I never figured on having an entire political party being filled with people intent on destroying their own country. Who would think that was a good thing? Well, apparently people like Obama, Pelosi, Emanuel, Frank, and all of the others in the shadows.

Some of you know how I feel. You have visited my website and the website for my upcoming book. Do not confuse my attempt to find a way to win against the Democrats as a weakness for being moderate. I am hardly moderate. In fact, I make Sean Hannity, Rush, and some others look practically liberal in their positions. I’m just trying to be pragmatic. The revolution is occurring now, right in front of us. In six years we may not even recognize our nation, and certainly won’t be able to recognize what was once the American dream.

All I’m saying and all I going to say about it from now on is this- Pick your poison. Do what you believe you think is right. If burning down the Republican house works for you, then fine. If you wake up one day soon and your freedoms have been stripped by czars, regulations, restrictions, policies, and the new way of governing with “stakeholders” instead of citizens having the only voice in how to run the country, then just don’t complain.

On the other hand, if we can find a way to frighten the Republican establishment into believing their time is up if they don’t listen to us and gain ground that way, I’m in. I think Rubio is a good example. If he wins the primary, and he really should if he gathers the votes I think he will, then our voice will be heard. It will be the first shot across the bow and a warning to those like Newt and McCain that their days are numbered.

We don’t have to fight amongst “ourselves.” (I’m putting that in quotes because I’m including conservative and moderate Republicans in that category.)

Right now, with about a 50-50 split in the Republican precinct committeeman ranks, conservatives and moderates are fighting each other for the direction and control of the Party. The moderates push the “we have to be more like the Dems and ‘rebrand’ ourselves” mantra. We conservatives know that we need to run on conservative, common sense values and principles. As Reagan did. (It’s always weird when I speak to younger people who say stuff like, “I was born after Reagan left office,” but I digress.)

With HALF the Republican precinct committeeman slots nationwide empty in the 2008 election cycle, we conservatives COULD remake the Party into a conservative, full-strength powerhouse with a 75-25 majority of conservatives over moderates. We COULD remake the party and no longer have to “fight among ourselves” if conservatives would just get off their fannies and become precinct committeemen, filling up all those vacancies. We wouldn’t be fighting anymore because we conservatives would have a solid conservative majority in the voting ranks of the Party. (Just to make the point, you do know, don’t you, that if you were not a precinct committeeman in the 2008 election cycle you had absolutely no vote in who became your Republican Party legislative district officers, your county officers, your state officers and the RNC Chairman?)

IF conservatives flocked into the Republican Party in droves to become precinct committeemen, THAT would get the attention of the incumbents. IF WE DID IT NOW! But, that would mean actually leaving one’s comfort zone and actually going to Republican Party meetings, maybe getting some signatures on a nomination form (which one has to do in some states — every state has different rules), etc. You know, all that icky stuff that the “little people” do.

Well, it’s the “little people” who happen to be precinct committeemen who:

determine who the Party leaders are

determine who writes the Party Platforms

determine which candidates get endorsed in the primary contests

may get to choose interim replacements for state offices when a current holder dies or resigns

influence the voters in their respective precincts.

Want a conservative revolution in the Party? I do. That’s why I became a precinct committeeman. I hope all of you will be, too.

Thank you.
ColdWarrior
http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

…and or a Jew living in Florida, I would definitely vote for Charlie Crist.

a. He’s a true supporter of obama who plans to cut 500 BILLION from Medicare and institute bureaucratic death panels. (Does that include the 100 BILLION cut from Medicare Advantage? I fergit.)
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b. He’s a true supporter of obama who is doing his utmost to undermine Israel and strengthen the islamist horde…(his homies?).
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And to all the Hondurans in Florida, I’d like to encourage you all to vote for Crist as well, because…

c. He’s a true supporter of obama who is doing his level best to deliver Honduras to hugo chavez on a platter.

I think that these positions are all NO BRAINERS.

So, all ya’ll out there…seniors, Jews and Hondurans alike with no brains, definitely vote for Crist. After all, his name sort of looks like “Christ”, and I think I read in Newsweek that if Jesus were here, HE would have supported obama, and therefore Crist by association.

will do no good.

We have a fellow here in our (Florida) County. He is a Republican committeeman when he can be. When it comes time for an election, he steps down, because he cannot in good conscience sign an agreement to support whatever candidate the party ticket puts up (like Crist or Martinez). I admire his thinking.

We all need to understand that they way to change is from the inside out. Committeeman/woman is the way to start, I think. Thank you for reminding me. Eventually, the conservatives will be in the majority of the party and will decide on policy and candidates. A leader “like Ronald Reagan” is not what we need. Mr. Reagan came in on the tails of conservatives who worked for 16 years.

We have had conservatives who have been in the background, alone on the battlefield. It’s time for more of us to sign on. Do what you can. Teach a book study, go hear candidates, take your friends, make your talking points respectfully.

It is not a matter of fighting the Republican Party to “take it back.” It is about getting into the fight, period. We cannot just sit around and talk about what is wrong. We must get our hands dirty, work with people we don’t like sometimes, and against them at times, and most of all, dedicate ourselves to the small government idea of our Founder’s, prayerfully understanding and concentrating against the temptations of power that happen when we are in the driver’s seat (gov’t spending increased 500% during Pres. Bush’s administration).

Thank you for this sight.

We have to face reality we have been part of the problem with not in our state unless it is going to hurt you well it’s going to hurt but once the pain is over we can start fresh and do it right this time.I’m definetly not for Crist haven’t been for a long time not because of what I’ve heard but because I lstened to him watched what he was doing during the campaign for president and he was praising Obama and thinking what are you doing then I said to myself he is up to something and sure enough it came to light the Senate seat.So I let him know in an e-mail you won’t see it because we have been saying all along if you go against the people and help this administration further hurt our country to benefit you then WHEN YOUR UP YOUR OUT. But we still have to stay alert do our homework check their voting records we just can’t listen to their speeches because all politicians will say anything and everyhing to get your vote as we have found out the hard way.I personally don’t want to hear talking points over and over again that is when I tune out.If they can just stand there and talk from the heart and no written speeches and no teleprompters people are more likely to listen even if it doesn’t come out perfect we aren’t stupid so don’t treat us that way.And we know no one is perfect and talking down to us will not help either.So stay true to yourself and if you really believe what you saying to us it will flow naturally.

All the talk of the danger of intra-party warfare is a bit hysterical. It’s a primary, nothing different than thousands and thousands of primaries before it, none of which caused the earth to stop rotating on its axis.

1. Go all out in support of Rubio, Send him money. Talk him up to everyone you know.

2. Point out the stark and substantial differences in policy between Rubio and Crist, Doing this does not require publicly making Crist into a monster or splitting the party.

3. If Rubio loses the primary, swallow hard and support Crist as the lesser of evils.

This Senate race is over a year away. Rubio has been making up ground under over-whelming odds. I know how campaigns work. This one is going badly for the Governor.

Another discussion has been filtering through the comments that I would like to discuss is the concept of “taking back” the Party.

I speak from a perspective of one who follows Party Politics in Palm Beach County, yeah, the county that elected George W. Bush. I am proud to say that I voted for him then and not so proud to say that I voted for him in 2004. By 2008 I was sick of that shift. McCain did not get my vote. As Archer52 put it, McCain would have lost by a landslide had it not been for conservative Sarah Palin.

Currently, there is a groundswell of energy and enthusiasm for our basic political values. People are struggling to make ends meet. The economy since Bush/Paulsen has gotten much worse. Unemployment has risen to nearly 10% and youth unemployment is at or above 25%. Those jobs that American won’t do don’t exist.

The blue blood country club party doesn’t exist anymore either. There are members of the Republican Party that are successful but as Republicans we salute their spirit instead of stealing their wallets. There is a great change happening in our Party and it begins with YOU! Get involved take control of YOUR PARTY. We are not the tea party, although most of us have been their at the protests and town hall meetings.

If you are a tea party member, keep fighting, but come indoors. Come into to the one party that stands for freedom. I am not asking you to forgive the mistakes of the recent past, I am asking you to correct those mistakes. Become a committee person in the Republican Party. Work inside the house. We need home improvment not demolition. Leave the destruction to the Democrats.

If we don’t FIGHT BACK and stand up for true conservatives, like Marco Rubio, the country our children inherit will be radically changed. AS A PARENT, I do not accept that possibility. Even if you do not live in Florida, you can helpt turn things around in 2010. Charlie Christ publically endorsed Barack Obama’s stimulus package, cap and trade, and appointed a liberal democrat to the Florida Supreme Court. Please HELP STOP another RINO from being sent to Washington by donating to Marco Rubio’s campaign! Thank you.