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2013-11-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Bobby 2013-11-17 05:16|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Once again from the RINO, "we just need to be like the other party in order to win" - see McCain, Romney non-success with that track record. Special Note - The Permanent Party Propaganda Machine (aka MSM) will never give the support even to a RINO that it gives to Obama et al. As with the old story about the frog and scorpion, it's in their nature.

Had the party followed Buckleys advice in 2010 and supported the most electable conservatives instead of the most ideologically extreme,

The friggin RNC wouldn't support period at all and has continued to avoid if not outright abandon anything other than basically RINOs. So don't talk about supporting anyone when you don't support those who made an effort only to see them stabbed in the back by people holding the purse in the Beltway.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-11-17 07:55|| 2013-11-17 07:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Powell has supported people who I consider to be an extremist socialist for President. Someone who did their best to unemploy my entire state. For a long while he was a tabula rasa for other people to project their beliefs upon, but he either has no core or a bad one.

The Republicans, in a fit of 'pragmatism,' put 1/3 the amount of money into the Virginia Gubernatorial Race that they did in 2009. They lost the attorney general's race in the recount in the margin of fraud.

Sacrificing core beliefs in exchange for victory will get you neither victory nor core beliefs.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2013-11-17 08:02|| 2013-11-17 08:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Powell is little more than Obama-lite.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-11-17 08:24|| 2013-11-17 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Buckleys basic premise was there ought not to be a conservative litmus test in the Republican Party. Thats quite different then supporting candidates that subscribe to Progressivism. The party doesnt need more Compassionate Conservatives. Moreover, neither does the country.

Posted by DepotGuy 2013-11-17 11:02|| 2013-11-17 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 I recall the media supported McCain in the republican primary but quickly turned him into just another conservative republican ready to throw gran ma into the street in the general election.

Every political consultant tells the republican/democrat to be just 1 smudge to the right/left of the opponent to capture the election. That worked well for guys like Obama if you are willing to lie to the American about your true agenda.

Posted by Airandee 2013-11-17 11:02|| 2013-11-17 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 What's with the ï¿½

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-11-17 11:13|| 2013-11-17 11:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Have a honest elections?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-17 11:28|| 2013-11-17 11:28|| Front Page Top

#8 yeah - we really need advice from Joe Scarborough, MSNBC host. Next? Economic advice from Maxine Waters

Posted by Frank G 2013-11-17 11:36|| 2013-11-17 11:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Any thing the Pubs could do to improve themselves and the country would be welcome, after all we are on the Road to Perdition with the present set-up.

Posted by Whaimp Hupart4265 2013-11-17 11:55|| 2013-11-17 11:55|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, Frank, I thought it was worthwhile. However, there is room for ~~diversity~~ a variety of opinion here, yes?

Posted by Bobby 2013-11-17 11:56|| 2013-11-17 11:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Control means nothing if elected Republicans are all the tame sort. Recall in 2005 Republicans held both houses of Congress, the presidency and a working majority on the SCT. What did we do? We banned light bulbs.

Fact is that being not quite as awful as the other guy isn't enough.

Posted by Squinty Spawn of the Weak7917 2013-11-17 12:15|| 2013-11-17 12:15|| Front Page Top

#12 I don't mind you posting it, Bobby, at all. My take is that we can read and disregard any "help" our opponents give us

Posted by Frank G 2013-11-17 12:16|| 2013-11-17 12:16|| Front Page Top

#13 I thought it was worthwhile. However, there is room for diversity a variety of opinion here, yes?

To twist Voltaire's quote, I agree with your right to say it, but I'll defend to the death my right to not agree with what you have to say.

Posted by Pappy 2013-11-17 13:01|| 2013-11-17 13:01|| Front Page Top

#14 I say take the advice of an MSNBC morning show host, and do the opposite.

Posted by Raj 2013-11-17 13:21|| 2013-11-17 13:21|| Front Page Top

#15 Well, I never watched his morning show...

Posted by Bobby 2013-11-17 14:12|| 2013-11-17 14:12|| Front Page Top

#16 I dont know where this clown got his idea of Reagan, but I voted for him and served during his administration, and knew of him prior to his 1980 run. And the Reagan I know was stalwartly conservative, not this "anything goes, compromise your principles away" that the idiot who wrote this seems to think he was.

Posted by OldSpook 2013-11-17 14:54|| 2013-11-17 14:54|| Front Page Top

#17 Scarborough's implication that Powell was kept from the Trunk nomination due to opposition from those eeeeville KKKonservatives shows why he fits in so well with the rest of the shitstains at MSDNC - a willingness to lie with a straight face. Powell decided against a candidacy due to the unanimous opposition of his family, apparently including a direct threat from his wife to file for divorce if he decided to run.

Posted by Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2013-11-17 16:19|| 2013-11-17 16:19|| Front Page Top

#18 Why can't you run Frank J.?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-11-17 16:20|| 2013-11-17 16:20|| Front Page Top

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