Christie To Win In Landslide Wants Republicans To Know Why
I will be honest and tell you this article shook me up a bit. then I calmed down and thought about it. Reagan only lost 5 states in his landslide 1980 victory. 4 years later, only 2.
Because the east coast is an unusual animal compared to flyover land, I especially am interested in the opinions of those who live there. Gov Christie may be hugely popular, but he is a progressive, make no mistake about it.
Because the east coast is an unusual animal compared to flyover land, I especially am interested in the opinions of those who live there. Gov Christie may be hugely popular, but he is a progressive, make no mistake about it.
The problem is... Republican = Democrat.
If a Republican progressive wins the next election, it's the next-to-last nail in the coffin. Or 3rd to last at best. But the last nail is inevitable, if we don't start getting more conservatives in office.
Because I think losing the next election to a Democrat is the last nail in the coffin. It really is the last chance to turn this ship around.
Did I ever tell you I LOOOVE the way you use dialogue to make your point. Brilliant.
Newsflash... a lot of conservatives anymore, don't give half a squirt whether a candidate is Republican or not. Getting Republicans in office has done almost NOTHING for us for decades.
Why do you care who Christie would "enthusiastically" endorse?
James:"The consensus of the best metallurgical experts are highly skeptical."
* Dagny: "I'm not interested in their opinion." *
James: "Then whose do you go by?"
Dagny: "My own".
"Howard Roark: The creator stands on his own judgment. The parasite follows the opinions of others. " - The Fountainhead
Rubio is so far on the wrong side of the illegal alien invasion issue that I wouldn't vote for him to be dogcatcher if Charlie Manson was the only alternative.
I disagree with the writer's characterization of Rand Paul as an "extremist", as he's more of a libertarian conservative, and my second choice behind Walker. Ted Cruz, while popular, is as polarizing a figure as Sarah Palin (of whom I am a huge fan). Marco Rubio is a milder version of Cruz, and can use his minority status as the possible first Hispanic President, but the Clinton machine would find a way to devour him into a purely defensive position. I'd prefer Jeb Bush over Christie, if I was forced to accept a "moderate", but I have an intense dislike of dynasties, either Clinton or Bush.
"Reagan only lost 5 states in his landslide 1980 victory. 4 years later, only 2. "
DC is not a State.
What fooling?
My mother's family is from Muscatine; I grew up there, Washington, and Story City, and worked with my father all over the State. I remember watching the Bix Beiderbecke festival from the roof of some building we were renovating in Davenport.
He, in fact, laid the brick on the top floor of the veteran's hospital in Iowa City, hanging upside down. Well, he and others.
"Christie has been making that case explicitly, telling voters they need to stop expecting so much purity and look for politicians who will make compromises to move the country forward. "
What direction is "forward"?
The progressives keep accusing conservatives of "ideological purity". where are the pro-lifers, the pro-marriage, the pro-2nd-amendment, the pro-smaller-government, the pro-balanced-budget, the pro-cut-entitlement candidates in the Democrat party?
We're called "ideologically pure" for having values different from the progressives. It's become a dog-whistle like "raaaacist".
There is a scene stuck in my mind, from "Lawrence of Arabia". Lawrence and Colonel Brighton are sitting in Prince Feisal's tent, along with Sharif Ali. Prince Feisal asks for Lawrence's opinion, and Ali says, "Old fool! Why turn from him to him? They are master and man!"
I think of that whenever the bastards speak of Republican victories. If the Republican party has proven anything over the past 30 years, it's that the Democrats and they are master and man.
We came close to having a real reversal, moving things back to where they're supposed to be, under Reagan... and Reagan was in *spite* of the Republican party. The pre-planned candidate was Bush. So all Reagan managed to do was slow the timetable by 8 years.