Assuming we take back the house and maybe even the senate, it is imperative that we push for conservatives in leadership. A majority would be worthless with people like McConnel. Speaker Pence and Majority Leader DeMint would sound nice.

Republican campaign speech from now on. Otherwise, the “Third Party Fiasco” will become real and destroy our chances.

Great catch, Erick. How did the show go today? I wasn’t home to watch it.

I agree that REPEAL is the key word. But that shouldn’t exclude replacing Obamacare with a plan based on GOP principle of liberty and freedom. For example….

The Weekly Standard is saying: “[O]n this issue, the message will have to be not just repeal but also replace–replace Obamacare with sensible reforms.”

Paul Ryan is saying: “Change it, repeal it and replace it with a system that works, that’s consumer-driven, patient-centered and not a government-takeover or government-run system….”

National Review is saying: “Conservatives will be able to capitalize on the discrediting of Obamacare, however it takes place, only if they campaign this fall on a pledge to replace this government-heavy system with true reform.”

Now you plan to fail in Nov. How about we “replace” you with DeMint.

Repeal It. FULL. STOP.

Conservative Reps are standing up and calling for repeal. Reps King, Bachmann, and more, are calling for the repeal. In this video taken outside the Capitol they speak to Patriots right after the HC vote laying out the conservative agenda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBmTfn_NPRY&feature=player_embedded

Also, 11th Congressional Candidate Adam Kinzinger is holding town halls in his district and is calling it the “Repeal and Restart” tour. www.electadam.com

I’ve been keeping an eye on this since last month and nobody is talking about Ed Lynch much. This is April 13th. Less than a month away. No polls lately, but from early reports and the layout of his district he was n’t given a chance. Can this be pulled out?. He was at C-PAC

Why wait till November..can’t we start knocking them out in April?

Dr. Hunter has an excellent expose of politics from the inside. I have never seen it put so succinctly. Your point is well taken, more DeMints and less McConnells:

What do Harlem Globetrotters basketball, professional wrestling and American politics all have in common? They are FAKES:

http://www.socialsecurityinstitute.com/blog_post/show/487

He screwed up in Dec. He owes us BIG.

http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm

(202) 224 2541 phone
(202) 224 2499 fax

This is it folks, We must hold his and every other Republican’s feet to the fire.

They must realize that if they don’t do what we want, they will be left all alone.

He screwed up in Dec. He owes us BIG.

http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm

(202) 224 2541 phone
(202) 224 2499 fax

This is it folks, We must hold his and every other Republican’s feet to the fire.

They must realize that if they don’t do what we want, they will be left all alone.

Sounds like McConnell is just being realistic. Do what you can until Obama is out of the White House. When we get a new Potus and fresh faces in Congress, then repeal it.

Absolute repeal should have been included in McConnell’s speech. It is very disappointing that it wasn’t.

McConnell has been the wrong answer. His position has been to never fight and to coddle to the left. He can either begin to RADICALLY shift his nature now……or should hand over the position to someone who will start to fight….NOW.

Fight means REPEAL DemonCare and support CONSERVATIVE candidates!! It does NOT mean “BARGAIN” with DemonCare and continue to support RINOs… such as Crist, Bennett, and Fiorina…whom the NRSC is STILL supporting.

Start the REPEAL of this bill now…not the negotiation of it!!!

Add J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) to the list of candidates that pledge to repeal the bill. He’s running against John McCain. http://www.jdforsenate.com/

I don’t want to settle for just a repeal of the travesty that was passed last night. I want the government out of healthcare because it responsible for the shape it is in now and I want it to take its hands off everything else it has no constitutional authority to be monkeying around with.

I have had enough of the Feds everywhere and into everything from the lightbulbs we use to the brainwshing of our kids. Anything short of that is just leaving the current mess for our kids to clean up. The time is here and the place is now to put Fedzilla back in its cage and throw away the key.

Not so easy.

Need to control both houses of Congress first. Then pass a law to repeal. But Obama will veto the repeal. Need 2/3 majority to overturn a veto.

So unless we get both houses of Congress and the White House (2013 at the earliest), repeal is a pipe dream.

Erick, thanks for all you’ve done in the face of heavy artillery from the Left. No doubt you & Redstate will continue to be at the forefront of the fight to take back our nation.

You are absolutely right that straight-up repeal candidates MUST be elected this November, but that will only be one step toward success, won’t it? Outright repeal is not feasible while BHO is in office, with 67 Senators needed to override a veto. (I’m not envisioning many Dems joining hands with us even if we do manage a 51+ majority in the next Senate.)

We, the faithful, will heartily support you as you continue to rally the troops for the long haul ahead. You are going to be a huge part of ensuring that our coming majority in one or both houses don’t become the foil that Obama would need to be reelected.

I am praying fervently that we have learned from the debacle of 1995-6; That we can manage to keep the light shining on the folly of our incompetent, dangerous President so he can be thrown out of the White House with all haste.

Why are so many RedStaters willing to give John McCain a pass in 2010? Remember, if it weren’t for McCain’s panicky and amateurish response to the economic crisis in the Fall of ’08 (see Paulson’s book), he might have beaten Obama and none of this (at least on health care) would be happening. Instead, he voted for the bailout and has been spending the last year-and-a-half whining that he was lied to.

I noticed that Hayworth has already signed onto the Club for Growth’s repeal pledge – not John McCain, though.

McCain bears some responsibility for what has transpired. And if you all let him keep his senate seat at the expense of a conservative stalwart like Hayworth, it won’t be long before McCain is again cutting deals with the left and we’re pulling our hair out. McCain helped get us to this place – let us help get him into retirement.

Without repeal, we are just subject to the republican version of socialized medicine and reform. He said just that in the statement you outlined.

He has already signed the Club for Growth site. I’m still waiting on my Representative, Sam Graves.

please will you look into Dr. Dan Benishek. He is the R running against Stupak MI-1. He seems to be gaining tremendous support. We need to know as much as we can about him before we all get too excited.

Obamacare year, I am wondering if he is really that incompetent, or if he is a closet Progressive Republican. I’m sure he was being advised by other Republicans that would have had better ideas to beat this thing, but, chose to do it his way.

“Check out this tweet offered up in the wake of last night’s vote in the House from South Carolina Republican Bob Inglis:

What do you do when Congress passes a bad bill? You get a new Congress to repeal it!

Either Congressman Inglis is either a bit fuzzy on that whole “How a Bill Becomes a Law” thing, or he is extraordinarily optimistic about Republican prospects in this year’s election cycle.

Because, of course, not even a Republican seizure of Congress would allow for a successful repeal of Health Care reform. There is the small matter of the presidential veto. With the veto pen in hand, any GOP effort to repeal isn’t going to require 218 votes in the House and 51 in the Senate, it’s going to require 290 and 67.

That would require, even if the GOP were able to hold all 34 Democratic dissidents (unlikely), a seventy-eight seat gain in the House for the GOP.

The wall to climb in the Senate is, shall we say, a little more burdensome. A twenty-six seat gain, which would be particularly problematic, given that there aren’t 26 Democrats running for re-election in this cycle.”

I don’t quite understand the whole legislative process myself. Maybe somebody can clear this up for me.

I’m sure I’ll get kicked out if I keep saying this, so pardon me for the multiple posts.

McConnell is doing exactly what McCain will do. Since Repeal is too hard, then if you elect me I’ll toy around with the edges of it like taxes. My fear is that some repubs instead of repeal will run on reform which always sounds better. Now that we have pre-existing conditions, what heartless republIcan woud repeal it.

I didn’t believe in reincarnation until now, but it’s clear that the spirit of Bob Dole lives on in McConnell.

If we’re to have any success on this front, we’re going to have to replace him.

Can someone please help me get this message to Erick and/or any of the Directors? I have posted a diary a week ago, and sent e-mails. I know you all must get thousands of e-mails, but I really believe Erick and the Directors should check this out. Thanks in advance.

Erick, and Red State Directors, et al.:

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Enough said – all of the details about his background and candidacy are available on his web site below. I plead with you to review this great American as he is in direct alignment with the policy perspectives and positions of Red State. He is a man of honor, seasoned leadership, and moral clarity. There are videos of Allen on the front page of his web site, and elsewhere on the site.

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I wanted Boehner and McConnell’s head. Boehner stepped up, and his lieutenants have done a great job – with the exception of voting for the Stupak language. McConnell and his boys are hopeless. But, the cavalry is coming, and they will be loyal to Jim DeMint.

I just contacted my local GOP office and will be attending their Precinct Chairman (Committeeman) event on April 24th.

I’m tired of talking, so I’m gonna start doing. What are you gonna do?

We need Republicans from these blue states and DeVore isn’t going to win this one.

With you on the rest.

We need Republicans from these blue states and DeVore isn’t going to win this one.

With you on the rest.

At the very moment we may be able to turn the leftward trend of the last four years around, what do we do? Start crying for a PURGE of Republicans like McConnell (lifetime ACU rating: 89.66) and McCain (lifetime ACU rating: 81.97)!

What is the Brave New Criterion for being an “acceptable conservative?” 90% without rounding? 95%? Submitting your statements to Erickson for pre-clearance on approved terminology?

Sure, let’s toss out those who’ve ever offended us! Boot McCain for the loudmouthed moron Birther Hayworth who couldn’t even keep his own Republican House seat! That’s the ticket!

It’s bad enough to be drunk with power, like Pelosi. But it’s even worse to be drunk with the mere imagining of regaining power.

the ideologue Rand Paul grew up around, sharing a Rothbardian worldview together. With some very un-conservative shared views.

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/53876.html

Republican Scamsters
Posted by Lew Rockwell on March 22, 2010 12:46 PM

Don’t you love all the Boehner-McConnell-Gingrich threats to repeal Obamacare? It is the conscious duty of the Republican statists to make their voters accept Democratic statism, and vice versa. Mitt Romney’s medical scheme in Massachusetts is as bad as Obamacare, but almost no Republican cares about it. After all, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II all massively expanded government subsidization and control of medical care. Republicans just want the jobs, the subsidies, and the payoffs. Socialized medicine: it’s as Republican as apple pie.

in this entire process. Bart Stupak is not a chump. He’s just another liberal faking concern about unborn children. When it’s clear that funding will be in place for abortion he’ll feign outrage or something.

The one thing that has really disappointed me about the GOP strategy against ObamaCare has been the way that they have demagogued the Medicare cuts. Medicare spending going forward is our single biggest fiscal challenge; it’s simply unsustainable under the current terms. We are either going to scale back Medicare spending or we are going to have much higher taxes. There is no way around that actuarial reality. The GOP should have been in favor of the medicare cuts and against everything else. Just really profoundly disappointing.

-exits

Sessions and Cornyn.

Let’s talk turkey. Hardly anyone knows what they get with insurance until they collect, and for many people that can be decades of payment in the hopes it will be there down the road when you need it. But everyone has bought a car, practically, or some other big ticket item. And everyone knows someone who has had a disappointment or experienced one themselves.

In almost all cases if the person selling you something counts savings like Bernie Madoff you got problems. If they control two other insurance products like Social Security and Medicare both of which are in financial difficulty. If they spend money like it means nothing, you are probably going to get rooked. So I ask you again, would you buy what they are selling based on their manipulation of the “rules”. Do you think when the time comes for you to collect the rules won’t be just as flexible (read meaningless)?

Would you buy anything from these people? And if not how can we let them control our health care?

and asked his state’s AG (a Democrat, OK I understand that) to “examine” if the Obamacare bill passed is Constitutional.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/88401-pawlenty-asks-state-ag-to-examine-health-bills-legality

And this is a potential 2012 Republican candidate?

I don’t know a lot about him, but he is running to repeal the bill.
Decorated vet.
Not a career politician.

http://allenwestforcongress.com/about/

the fact McConnell couldn’t even use the more important of the two words–”repeal”–speaks volumes about his incapacity for leadership after this year.

I am hoping that he was using the term “replace” with the idea of “repeal” being assumed, and/or a recognition that repeal is impossible for the next 34 months, barring a constitutional convention.

throwing red meat to the base about repeal all the while using the foundation the Democrats have built to enact their own progressive vision of what America aught to be…

Yeah the word repeal was missing from what McConnell said…it it concerned me…but what concerns me even more is the word McConnell DID use!

Senate Republicans will now do everything in our power to replace the massive tax hikes, Medicare cuts and mandates with the reforms our constituents have been calling for throughout this debate.”

They’re not going to repeal this…they have no intention of repealing this…it’s all about the elitist Republicans failed strategy of using big government to achieve conservative ends…and we all will lose in the end!

Promoting / discussing ideas makes more sense than name calling within the Party. The real enemy are the Dems. Why give them any ammunition by being disrespectful to those who might vote with you more than against you.
The positive promotion of good ideas would do more good than calling someone a Rino or some such thing. For example, the medical savings account makes a lot of sense. What is the best way to fight terrorists or stimulate the economy are all good areas of discussion. Good ideas can attract people from all persuasions. Name calling satisfies the most base needs and turns most people off. The mission is to defeat Dems seat by seat not to cannibalize our own people who might be well meaning but wrong for whatever reason on a particular issue. Start with districts held by Dems but who voted Bush or McCain in the last cycles. Work out from there. Primaries are fine but I think hashing out ideas and experience makes more sense than smears intra party.

In the general, we vote for Republicans, but if we don’t get the right Republicans, it will make no difference, accept in the duration of our trip to tyranny.

It might be a hard pill for a lot to swallow but the republicans pulling away from its conservative roots is why we are sittng here with Obamacare now, and who knows what else is coming.

If the republicans want to win they have to get back to the roots. As much as Obama is destroying the country, every poll I have seen the majority still blames the policies under Bush as the reason we are in this mess by a large margin. And he did increase the debt dramatically. Conservatives don’t supposed to be about Big Government yet under Bush thats exactly what happened the size of government increased.

To make matters worst the republicans elected a moderate McCain to face Obama in the general election. I think the tea party has it right, even though it needs a strong figure we need people to stand for the constitution and limit the size of government. And to see whos’ doing what look at the past records of candidates Romney etc…. see if they are big spenders or true conservatives.

So to Eric, I think you are right on the money I live in Louisville and am watching the Rand Paul campaign cleaning the clock with what they call the establishment candidate Trey Greyson, so people are getting the message wether the establishment likes it or not.

Did this one get through?

Did this one get through?