Rush Limbaugh agrees with Erick, Michael Steele doesn’t understand him (to b charitable, because I like Steele, too).

I go with Rush every time. When will Steele learn?

to a conservative-based site?

GET RID OF THE RINOS.

Yes, I’m shouting.

Steele has to go…….

a Congressional District survey that according to the letter is suppose to give guidence to them on 2010 stratagy. I would encourge everyone who gets one to fill it out and send it in, to remind them the base will not tolerate Scuzzy candidates.

The $900K that was spent was a good investment until you came along and screwed it up, no matter how she voted after being elected or even if she’d just gone ahead and changed parties afterward.

This strategy really worked well with Specter, Chaffee, Jeffords, etc.

By his logic, the preferred candidate in the 1991 LA gubernatorial election was David Duke, given that he called himself a Republican and was running against a Democrat. (Then again, the Democrat was Edwin Edwards, so perhaps Duke really was a better choice.)

You’re not steel. You’re just a decaying wood. I DEFEND ERICK, SARAH PALIN, RUSH AND T-PAW.

I WILL SUPPORT HOFFMAN AGAIN. [I'm a poor man. I only gave 20 bucks. I hope I didn't fail the cause. Maybe more next time, when things are better (I hope).]

I’m with the others; we need immediate leadership change in the GOP if we don’t want the US banana republic!

always told me: “Make sure that before they do anything, they have to think about what you’ll do about it.” I think we’ve achieved that status.

Let’s all good conservatives become (if not already) precinct committeemen — NOW — to send the signal to the “powers that be” that we’ll be replacing the liberal/moderates in the leadership positions within the Party with good conservatives who will embrace and follow the principles and values embodied in our Party Platform.

Go here to learn more and then call your local or county GOP headquarters and tell them you want to volunteer NOW to become a precinct committeeman (or whatever it’s called in your state).

http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

No More Scozzafavas!

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

The operative word being “had”.
It is stunningly amazing just how fast the “Beltway Flu” infects people.
Worse then H1N1 as far as I’m concerned. And the “infected” fight like crazy against the only known vaccine, Conservative Values! (Heck, ANY kind of core values, beyond ‘win at any cost’.)
Donate to the RNC, or any of the National level Republican fund raisers?
Not right now if they had a gun to my head!
Not until I see, and believe, that the flu bug has been defeated.

NY-23 was a huge victory for the conservative base of the GOP.

No it wasn’t. A Hoffman win would have been a huge victory for the conservative base. Then we could have marched on DC and poked sticks in the eyes of the NRCC.

What we have instead is Gloating Squishes chanting, “Told Ya. You lost the seat to the Donks. Neener neener. Shoulda listened to us.”

NY-23 was an exercise in how not to pick our battles.

It seems it has been this way for years…

Democrats in DC love being the majority power so they can abuse the hell out of that power.

Republicans in DC love being the minority party so they can reel off zingers about bad the Democrats are.

…the imbeciles in charge of the Republican Party have drawn the exact wrong lesson from NY-23. They should be apologizing profusely for a cocking-up of their nominating process and wasting their donors’ money on someone who makes Arlen Specter look like Jim DeMint. Instead, they’re attempting to spin the results into the nonsensical contention that Hoffman’s candidacy cost the party a seat.

This kind of incompetence simply cannot go unpunished.

We may just as well have Howard Dean running the show.

Erik -

You’re right on target. My question is, what next?

If Dede Scozzafava came from the state legislature, wouldn’t it have been better for conservatives to beat her there, when the stakes were no so high?

Here in Illinois, I’m mounting a primary challenge to a liberal Republican incumbent state rep who could easily be the next Dede Scozzafava, but I’m not getting anything like the conservative attention Doug Hoffman got.

Wouldn’t such battles be better fought at lower levels? That’s how the liberals do it.

http://paulfor62.com

I’ve ever heard from from Steele. Why in God’s name would this guy think that electing a RINO who would side with 0bamao and Pelosi on pretty much everything would be a good thing? It would mean trying to unseat her later on in a primary, which is always a tougher nut to crack. The only thing that even remotely made sense was: ‘”It serves as an important lesson on how we manage an opportunity to win a seat,” Steele said. “And how not to mismanage by putting in a botched process.’” Here, here. Steele should take at least some satisfaction that Dede Scozzafava is forever banished from the GOP and will now have to make her way among her own kind.

“I don’t see a victory in losing seats,” Steele said. “I’m in the business of multiplication and addition. I want more Republicans.

So he sees the GOP as merely a brand name, and the country as merely the target market.

He’s probably reading this and thinking “Gee, Chesterton says that like he thinks there’s something wrong with it!”

to get Steele in as the RNC chair before it came to a vote? Did not that vote happen the way the article said it would? There were a whole lot of us here that were not Steele supporters, but, rather Blackwell supporters.

Steele has been as big a gaffe machine as Joe the mouth Biden. Most recently he complimented Bertha Lewis and her great efforts with ACORN, after she publically bashed the Republicans. With now bashing Palin, and I don’t care what anyone thinks of her, she supports conservative principles, she is more than a thorn in Steele’s side, as he supports moderates, obviously. There is no question that he drank from the moderate cup of kool aid, compliments of McCainiacs, and has been told what he is going to do.

Until we flush Steele, and all the other compromising creeps out of the Senate and House, we will be a torn apart Republican party. The country is now 40% Conservative, and, only 20% Liberal. The Independents broke for the Republicans big time yesterday. And, those that won with the widest margins were unappologetic conservatives. Look at McDonnell and Cuccinelli. They are both Social Conservatives, especially Cuccinelli. They didn’t run on social issues, and, they had plans and ideas for economic recovery, jobs, and are both anti-big government, and anti-federal mandates to the states. Apparently Steele didn’t get that message. For that, I consider him a lost cause.

As someone said here recently, Steele, knowingly backing an ACORN, AWFP candidate should be at least looked at as a Racketeer.

Hoffman handily beat the NRCC’s candidate.

Hoffman put up good showing against the Democrat despite not having big party funding or direct support from the NRCC.

If $900K had been spent directly supporting Hoffman the final outcome may have been different. Finally, the NRCC’s candidate’s endorsement of the Democrat reveals how miserably the local and national GOP did in selecting a candidate.

This seat is will be still in play in just one short year. The GOP needs to identify a strong candidate right away.

I will NEVER give $$ to the GOP beltway organizations - only to the individual candidates whom I support. Not after this!!! Steele is an embarrassment. No one says you have to promote a 100% conservative - but Dede Scuzzface, or whatever her name is, was about as far left of most conservatives as Saul Alinsky. I wonder if the dems didn’t put her up as sabotage. Shame on the GOP!

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If you watch the video, Chairman Steele is asked about Conservatives around the country, not about Redstate. Steele’s response was that what really mattered was local opinion and a process that reflected local opinion. I couldn’t agree more. He did not take a shot at Erick Erickson, he said that national opinion did not influence the way NY-23 voted. I agree.
The quote in response was something said months ago to a different question. I reviewed the video again, and he never said anything about multiplication or division or any other part of that quote. You are falling for cheap Democrat mind games
When the Chairman came into office he publicly stated his first goal was to win New Jersey and Virginia Governors races. To judge his chairmanship on that. Mission Accomplished. Congratulations Michael Steele.

What could have been had more conservatives been in the Party’s precinct committeeman ranks in the 2008 election cycle. Instead of marketer Michael Steele being elected to the office of RNC Chair, we conservatives could have elected Ken Blackwell.

Well worth a read is Martin Knight’s account of Ken Blackwell’s strategy for rebuilding the Party from the precinct level, with electronic tools allowing precinct committeemen to better communicate and organize at the local level through web tools provided by the Party (unlike what Steele has delivered thus far).

The bottom line requirement for Blackwell’s plan to work, however, is participation by conservatives locally as precinct committeemen. That means actually going to a GOP meeting occasionally (every state has its own unique requirements; none are onerous).

Steele’s vision seems to be “just let us wizards of smart marketing re-brand our bad brand and all the good people will vote for our candidates after they see our slick web site and campaign ads.” Apparently that required him to say “baby” and “What up?” alot, too.

Blackwell’s vision was for more participation in the Party at the grass roots level, locally, of people who support the principles in the Platform to show those who had stopped supporting the Party, because they felt the Party had abandoned its principles, that it was returning to its fundamental principles. In other words, a “watch what we do and say, not just what we say” strategy.

Here’s Martin’s article, which includes helpful links, including to Ken Blackwell’s Conservative Resurgence Plan:

http://www.redstate.com/martin_a_knight/2009/05/05/the-committeeman-project/

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

or start learning how to read, including links provided, then you wouldn’t post the same dumb stupid things you did above. I have no clue as to what video you are referring to, but Eric was talking about what was said on the link provided. Go read it. And, I suggest you never ever again tell Redstaters that they are getting suckered by the owner of the site. This isn’t your first stupid post.

or start learning how to read, including links provided, then you wouldn’t post the same dumb stupid things you did above. I have no clue as to what video you are referring to, but Eric was talking about what was said on the link provided. Go read it. And, I suggest you never ever again tell Redstaters that they are getting suckered by the owner of the site. This isn’t your first stupid post.

The GOP suffers the malaise of big tent-itus and Michael Steele has a bad case of it. The source, of course, is all this watered down “democrat light” which turns elephants into RINOs.

Time to drain the swamp and get back on dry land. That’s the lesson of NY-23.
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Scuzzyfava and the fiasco are wholly owned by Steele and the so called “opposition party leadership”.

We need to work hard to get this affirmative action hire out of his job.

That is all this clown is and that is the truth behind the whole gutless leadership of the former party of Lincoln.

A bunch of gutless political parasites.

Rodney King for head of the GOP makes every bit as much sense and has every bit as much validity given Steeles incompetence and failure to grasp the dispeasure of the American citizen with BOTH PARTIES.

Business as usual is no longer going to cut it. Professional political hacks like Steele and Newt need to go away for the good of the country.

if Steele doesn’t step up to the plate (figuratively speaking of course). We are sick and tired of the Graham’s, McCain’s and Snowes. I can’t take the roller-coaster ride anymore. I want to KNOW how our elected officials will vote.

We are not playing these demographic games anymore. You are either a principled consevative or not. People are people and will always lean towards ‘natural laws’.

If Steele doesn’t break for conservatism, then he might as well resign right now. He’ll have a terrible year in 2010 otherwise.

Steele is the RNC chair. He IS in the business of winning elections. That is what parties do. A lost seat is a loss. It is not a victory for conservatism. It is not a victory for the Republican Party. Speaker Pelosi now has an extra vote with which to advance a leftist agenda. The media cheerleaders trumpet the pick-up as a counterpoint to conservative success in many other races.

A Hoffman victory would have been fantastic. I am truly disappointed. But we will never know what would have happened if Scozzafava remained unchallenged. Perhaps she would have won as a RINO and the results of the other elections around the country may have prompted the cynical politician to pretend to be a conservative just enough to get the 2010 nomination again. And maybe, just maybe, that would have been enough to stall legislation until after the 2010 election. We will never know. Do not pretend that you do.

It is all well and good for Erick to call for a purification in the wilderness but a loss is still a loss. We will all live with the consequences and make the most of it. There is a lesson to be learned here, but it is a lesson to be learned from a painful loss.
I hope the GOP makes rightward adjustments, but I do not agree that it is time for heads to roll. But I sense that Erick is about to declare total war on the GOP leadership with the object of securing a conservative majority in 2050.

need to understand one thing. WE didn’t sink Scozzafava’s campaign. Those polls never polled people outside of the CD. The people of NY-23 solidly rejected her when the facts were placed in front of the voters. (If calling the police on a Weekly Standard reporter didn’t sink her campaign all by itself)

If the republican party wants to win by lying and misleading the people, when the truth is just as effective if not more. it can find other people to donate money to them.

If he hasn’t figured it out by now, I doubt that is going to change between now and the critical mid-terms coming up next year, which I believe are critical to the survival of the America we know and love.

Sending reach-across RINOs to D.C. who are going to aid Obama in furthering his nation-killing agenda isn’t going to cut it.

We are fast running out of elections to save this republic, and I fear we are far closer to losing it than many realize.

-Dave

Does Mr. Steele not realize We have a National Republican Platform? A Candidate should conform to the Platform or join another party. I could not join a Club if I would not abide by their rules.Mr Steele should man up and be as strong as Palin on the conservatives basic beliefs. Mr Steele dont.t waste any more time and money on RHINOs. Start speaking with some gravaties. I would be with you if you could get your act together.

however Hoffman wasn’t much better no matter how much Erick, Fred, Sarah, Sean and others pushed. Yeah he was conservative and all, but he had the excitement of a sleeping elephant who didn’t live in the district (something we have howled about with Dem candidates in the past).

I saw Haley Barbour on Morning Joe the other day talking about this election and the Pawlenty Snowe comments; his take is that that Republicans should have a minimum threshold of conservatiness (not sure that is a word), but that he would probably not win in upstate New York or Maine and that the people in those locations should be allowed to choose who they want as long they go through the primary process, something that didn’t happen in NY-23.

In other words people like Erick,sitting in Atlanta, Gamecock in South Carolina or me in Texas shouldn’t be picking the GOP representative for someplace else. And when we do it generally backfires.

of people that know this country is going in the wrong direction, but don’t really understand why, and what conservatism offers. It is our duty as God fearing, freedom loving Americans to explain to them how their country works and what their rights are. They’ve been lied to their entire lives and are tired of chasing that carot. Ban together and let’s teach them.

“…there are some serious questions as to the [accuracy] of the ABC News report…”

LOL-Yeah, like THAT’s never happened before.

-Dave

A person running for the US senate or US Represenatives on the Republican ticket shoud be mandaded to subscribe to and abide by the Republican Platform, no matter if you are in New York , California or Florida. We are in a Club that has rules that should be obeyed.. These are National issues and are the business of each individual Republican member. If candidates do not want to abide by the platform they should choose another Party. We have a platform Committee. that prescribs and votes on these rules.