It was about DeVore and Ramirez. You should go to the optometrist and get that tunnel vision taken care of.

A few things to clarify, if I may:

1) Carly Fiorina is on record supporting the bailouts.
2) Carly Fiorina is on record supporting the stimulus, believe it or not: her sole critique of it is that too much went “for construction,” and not enough to the tech sector. (Watch her Web 2.0 Summit video for more on that.)
3) Carly Fiorina is on record praising Obama’s economic team, from back in the first quarter of ’09.
4) Carly Fiorina is on record (again in the Web 2.0 video) as having no opinion on Obamacare — the most-reported, most-important policy issue of 2009.

Not sure how bad it needs to get, but that’s pretty bad.

As for Chuck DeVore’s fundraising, you’re totally right: we need more. But there is a logic behind the ’09 fundraising operations that won’t emerge for some time — small beans to go off of, but experienced folks may recognize what we’re doing. Personally? I don’t expect to ever have more money than a millionaire DC-backed vanity candidate — just more votes.

Elect too many conservatives, and those same conservatives might actually change the laws such that congress critters would have to work for a living…

NRSC was screwing up and NRCC had the right idea.

Now NRCC is doing everything like the NRSC.

we unfortunately have those that have been Republicans all their lives, and, they will only pull the lever with anyone that has an R after their names. I suspect that it has actually gotten worse with this affliction, because some believe that any R is better than any D. It keeps the party just going round and round and round. The hierachary apparently is counting on those very dummies.

The Republican Party has no soul. It, like every other institution is interested only in self-preservation, self-perpetuation and power. The Dempublicans and the Republicrats have no interest in our freedoms and will both gladly sell out our sovereignty in return for their increased power.

With due deference to Thomas Jefferson,whom marcus quotes above, I believe his statement that ““Both of our political parties, at least the honest portion of them, agree conscientiously in the same object—the public good” is no longer correct (or, if it is, that “the honest portion of them” has become so minimal as to be irrelevant). What both parties today agree on is the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of politicians. I fear that the solution to this problem, especially after our sovereignty is signed away in Copenhagen, must lie beyond any political remedy.

We’re too stupid to know what’s good for us, so they’re going to tell us who should represent us. I mean, they’ve done such a good job the past two election cycles, why shouldn’t we trust them now?

The problem is that politics has totally gone the way of money. The best candidate in the world can’t get elected if he or she doesn’t have a *lot* of money backing him or her. Most sheeple know only what they hear on the TV ads and, to a lesser extent, radio ads or newspaper coverage. Money totally drives what goes on TV and the radio, and newspapers are more likely liberal leaning (although not as much as TV networks, although we all know how hugely leftist the NYT and their ilk are).

The George Soroses of the world throw huge sums of money, both directly and indirectly through foundations and other organizations, to get their policies in place.

If we could somehow eliminate money from the picture, things would change. Of course that’s not even remotely possible.