davidl on October 31st, 2009

Eric, did you notice that while we were napping a couple of rednecks sneaked  into the state?   And boy does the National Republican Congressional Committee(NRCC) have grits all over their faces.

The NRCC spent $900,00 in an attempt to install

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Over at Pajamas Media, Bernard Chapin raises an obvious and axiomatic point:

In the end, government “reform” is no reform at all. They’ve made a labyrinth of everything we’ve asked them to “solve” in the past. If anything, let’s

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davidl on August 12th, 2009

I’ll probably get in trouble with Eric for even mentioning the name of the twit  Meghan McCain, but I am bored and feel like swatting a gnat.   Miss McCain notes in the Daily Beast:

So Michelle Malkin successfully rounds

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davidl on July 3rd, 2009

Colin Powell who never has truble finding his voice to  criticize conservative, trys to muster a some courage to stand up to the one,  Jon Ward, Washington Times:

Colin Powell, one of President Obama’s most prominent Republican supporters, expressed

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Eric Florack on May 24th, 2009

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(CNN) — Pennsylvania Republican Tom Ridge is taking direct aim at Rush Limbaugh, telling CNN’s John King the conservative talk radio host can be “shrill” and uses language in a way “that offend very many.”

“Rush Limbaugh has an audience

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davidl on May 20th, 2009

This is rich.    Colin Powell endorses a democrat, Barack Obama, for president and upset because he had been shown the, or told where, the door is, David Beard, Boston:

“Rush Limbaugh says, ‘Get out of the Republican Party.’ Dick

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Eric Florack on May 20th, 2009

From John Hawkins:

 

It was disappointing to many Republicans to see the National Republican Senatorial Committee get involved in the Charlie Crist vs. Marco Rubio primary in Florida.

We’ve had the leadership of the Republican Party saying we need to

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Eric Florack on May 8th, 2009

One of the most important, yet most frequently violated, laws of punditry is that your own priorities and preferences aren’t always relevant. I would love it if the GOP dedicated itself to cutting government by two-thirds, leaving only a minimal

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Eric Florack on May 5th, 2009

Rick Moran, writing at Pajamas Media, this morning asks an interesting question:

If Reagan Tolerated GOP Moderates, Why Can’t Today’s Conservatives?

Well, Rick, given the treatment Reagan and his legacy are now getting at the hands of the supposed

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Eric Florack on April 30th, 2009

An annoying note at The New Ledger which to my view exemplifies the problems conservatives face with the Repubclican estabishment:

NRSC Vice-Chairman Orrin Hatch said today that he doesn’t believe former Congressman Pat Toomey has a chance to beat newly

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davidl on April 29th, 2009

Olympia Snowe writes in the New York Times, “We Didn’t Have to Lose Arlen Specter?:”

IT is disheartening and disconcerting, at the very least, that here we are today – almost exactly eight years after Senator Jim Jeffords

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Eric Florack on April 29th, 2009

To begin with, let’s get a snip of this morning’s op-ed up on National Review:

Arlen Specter belongs to a type familiar to Congress: the time-serving hack devoid of any principle save arrogance. He has spent three decades in the

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davidl on April 28th, 2009

Senator Arlen Specter, (U – Scotland) has made if official.  He will caucus with the Democrats and seek re-electiion as a Democrat.

Chris Cillizza, Washington Post:

Specter To Switch Parties

Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter will switch his party affiliation

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Eric Florack on April 27th, 2009

Ben Smith, and Jon Martin at Politico:

There was Sen. John McCain’s daughter and his campaign manager who last week demanded that their fellow Republicans embrace same-sex marriage. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman – the most devoted modernizer among the party’s

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davidl on April 22nd, 2009

So who died and annointed Megan McCain a spokesman for anybody or anything  other than Miss Cairol, Kim Priestap, Pajamas Media:

What changes does she[Megan McCain] think the GOP needs to make? It needs to be hip and edgier.

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