Monday, May 11, 2009

What is it about the GOP leadership and conservative candidates?

On the one hand we have the RNC, President Bush and Sen. Rick Santorum supporting Specter in the 2004 GOP primary over a real conservative, Pat Toomey. Specter won by 2%. Specter repaid their support by switching parties (officially anyway, he always voted like a democrat). Specter is more liberal than many democrat Senators.

Now we have Jim Bunning, a conservative in Kentucky who's candidacy will die of lack of support.....in the GOP primary, no less. So much for supporting incumbents. Or is it just liberal GOP incumbents that the RNC and party leaders support?

The media and other GOP members are citing the fact that Bunning is having a hard time raising money as a reason to not support him. Yet, by their lack of support, they are keeping people from donating to him in the first place.

One wonders sometimes, does the GOP really want to win? Or is it they've become so effeminate they don't like real men like Bunning?
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  1. Jim BolinMay 12, 2009 at 1:05 AM

    I believe your last comment hits the nail on the head..squarely. The GOP has no leadership anymore composed of people who even know how to win let alone wanting to know.

    Look at the hype in getting Sarah Palin out again. She and McCain were losers, but now the GOP is promoting femininity. I predict the GOP will lose again 4 year from now. I make this prediction because the leadership failed to come through when they should have and could have with control of both houses, but wimped out.

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  2. BrianMay 12, 2009 at 1:39 AM

    Loydho;

    As a long time republican voter I left the party for good. I will for prudence sake support the Libertarian Party (LP). It doesn’t mean I won’t pull the level for a republican now and then, I vote for the person rather than the party, but at this junction in our current history the Republican Party apparatus (RNC, GOP, ORP) are socialist light; they pronounce socialism, vote socialism and behave like socialists. I will not support them with my general vote, time or donation.

    I believe that the LP has a good shot at convincing a greater number of people about the value of liberty and freedom than any party today, and then get more people elected to public office. I say that as someone who voted for Chuck Baldwin and the Constitution Party (CP). I don’t think the CP is going to become strong enough to garner sufficient support to change the direction of the state or country, but I still hold some hope for them.

    The LP platform is one of freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, and most important to me today, states rights. I think it’s time we put Ohio first and stop kowtowing to Washington and the oligarchs that dictate how the rest of the country outside of the beltway must live. I certainly know as a traditional conservative that my beliefs will comport a heck of a lot better with libertarians running the show than socialists of the republican and democrat parties.

    Even with my social conservative beliefs the LP offers the best alternative. While a libertarian might not agree with my opinion about a given matter, they won’t use the powers of government to impose their beliefs upon me, and neither will I upon them. But at this point in history we are long way away from having a dialog about social issues while our economy is sinking and being mired in an endless war through an internationalist (socialist) foreign policy.

    I would add for consideration for any Conservatives out there, which party would Robert Taft be most at home with today, the republican or libertarian? To me the answer is clear.

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