McConnell: GOP Becoming ‘Regional Party’

They are the Christian Republican Church Party. Not a regional but a white religious party. Lead by the corrupt, treasonous and mentally-ill baffoon Rush Limbaugh.

The Republicans have marginalized their party by limiting their appeal to extreme right wingers.
They need to become more moderate on social issues and actually become fiscally conservative.

Hey GOP, here is how you solve all your problems . . . elect Rush as your party chairman. All those that feel alienated by the GOP will come back in droves. Yeah, that’s the ticket!

They should call it a party of selfish, people who persist in trying to sell ideas, and policies that only favor themselves, and those who have already arrived at a financial platiau that they loose touch with the ordinary citizen. Their so called “conservative” approach to government has never accomplished the purported goals in our countries history, yet they continue to preach their sermon of selfishness to refuel the periods they lose power, like right now. I think they are going to lose many of their own party very soon, since who wants to be on a losing tesm ?
The republicans I have known, and observed, are in two basic catagories. Those at the top of the food chain, who filch the rest of the poor misled peons, who struggle to make it, and die with their mediocrity under the banner of consevatism to their grave Hard headedness will get you a hard head and nothing much else. Not everyone is able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, we have to make provisions for all americans, at all levels, and be out brothers keeper, as long as it is a genuine need. Democrats that are honest don’t want to waste money either. There are some who get tainted, but we will shuck them like an oyster if we detect them doing wrong. Fairness for all, is the only way to fly, and our economy reflects the benefits of republican game plans, enough is enough.

Gee, espouse those same ‘conservative’ values as the past eight years?
What happened to only fighting if attacked? (Iraq)
What happened to balanced budgets?
What happened to fiscal restraint?
What happened to keeping government from prying into personal lives and taking away individual liberties?
When you have people in your party who think Goldwater was moderate or liberal and that Reagan didn’t go far enough–you’ve got HUGE problems.
The pity is that Republican right-wing wackjobs are matched in nuttiness/stupidity by the ones of the far-left.
Sigh.

Republicans have become the party that is against any kind of birth control.
The litany that they are against abortion is so intellectually dishonest because all of us can list the times these folks have picketed fertility clinics where little embryos are frozen and most never used – ZERO.
The fact of the matter is they are against birth control to enforce their vision of women’s role as baby machines.

Hey 73toms–study your history. The south was predominately Democrat in the age of Abe Lincoln. Lincoln was a Republican and it was that party that forced the south to free the slaves.

I am a lifelong conservative and that is why I voted for the Democratic Party in the last election. The past eight years have been about big government for big companies and colonial warfare.
Patrick

Party? Bummer is more like it.
The GOP is in total denial. They haven’t had a single new idea in 40 years.

Remember when we HAD an opposition party GOP… McCain, Giuliani, Huckabee, Romney, WHERE IS THE REPUBLICAN HERE??? Oh right, you drummed him out. Nevermind! See you at the Ted Kennedy social/drunken orgy!!!

Hey, I got a Plan, Rush. Tom Haggard and Rush LimbUM for President and Vice President. Maybe Mr. Haggard will “play behind the American flags”

They can’t attract people because they aren’t effectively selling their program?HUH, Hello,GOP you had had 8 years, doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that one out. The majority of Americans haven’t benefited from the GOP platform and they have had enough! HAD ENOUGH-MARKETING 101 -start by bringing in new ideas to the table and accept the presidents offer of bipartisanship. A party of purely white evangelicalsjust isn’t going to cut it in a multicultural society. Notice the other parties aside from the democrats making gains at your expense?

Hahahah, he still believes it’s the “liberal Media” (that features Limbaugh and Hannity) that’s to blame for defining them differently than they are.
He thinks most Americans agree with him.
Well if you’re a toofless, HS dropout hillbilly living in the Kentucky sticks, then yeah those kinds of ‘Mercans agree with you.
BUT NOT ANY THINKING, BREATHING AMERICAN, who loves her country, and watched horror of the last 8 years as Republuthugs CONTROLLED ALL and used their powers to TRASH everything good, honest Americans inherited and worked so hard to preserve over the last decades.
Republithugs are corrupt kleptocrats.
Their LIES DO NOT WORK ANYMORE.
BUT PLEASE, keep on believing America has been deceived.
Please keep on spewing that nonsensical garbage.
Please keep running back and worshiping Limbaugh any time he says one of you hacks stray.
It reminds us just what kind of foul, long-lasting poison the Republithug beliefs are made of.
It’s going to take a long time to work it out of our True Blue American system, but once it’s gone, you still won’t be welcome back.
Here is a suggestion.
Why don’t the Republithugs attempt to take the “South out of the USA!!!”
I PROMISE YOU, The Mountain States, The MidWest the North and NorthEAST WILL NOT STOP YOU THIS TIME.
He’ll we’ll even through in Utah, but we’ll keep Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake. :-)
Goodbye and Goodriddence

Mitch….shhhh….Rush and Hannity might hear you….then you’ll really be in trouble with the “leadership” of the GOP!

“The big cities and populated coastal areas filled with the wealthy elitists and the poor are where the democrats reside.”
Yes, that is also where the majority of American innovation, production, and taxes come from. The “heartland” of America is well pinpointed by identifying the welfare states, that is the states that take more from the Federal government than they give in. The “elitists” invented the internet, dominate the world design of computer chips, attract students the world over to their unparalleled universities, and develop the medicines that have extended life expectancies years beyond what our parents could expect.
I respect the farmers and factory workers. I don’t respect people like you, who seem to think intelligence is something to be ashamed of.

They’re no longer the party of Abraham Lincoln or Dwight Eisenhower… If they have become a ‘regional’ party, it is due to the outcome of their ‘leadership’ of the last eight years.
There’s nothing wrong with moderate conservatism, but the Republican Party has been a shamless agent of corrupted corporate interests and usurped by right-wing fundamentalist neo-cons that have killed the enlightened elements of the party.
Now, are the Democrats any better? We shall see; won’t we?

Kary: Look at a map of results of the last election. See the red states? The republicans are the heartland. The hard workers, farmers, small business folks. Those that believe in working for what they get and taking care of their own.
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And what about the rest of the country?
Are they not hard working? LOL, give us a break
with your “country music lyrics”.
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Kary: Republicans are also the largest charitable givers, revealed in a recent survey.
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Yeh, take away the charity donation deduction that the government has on the tax return, then we’ll
see who is the most charitable. That’s the old back door approach in lowering taxes to the government.

Mitch. I’m a centrist. First you have to find your principles again. You lost them. Then you need to examine your leadership. Like if you honestly think Palin is the new face? You’re toast. Get out of bed with the far side of right on the religion thing. I believe in God and they bother and insult me. Try having campaigns that don’t insult half the country with the large population centers? You are afraid of illegals. So are the democrats. Conservative? Did you sleep thru Bush on spending?

LOL … nice counterpoints spacerook1 and jhw539. A message needs to be sent to those still trying to divide this country along racial, geographical, or any other lines. Greed, corruption, and an agenda that is not patriotic to this nation are not going to make for long term success for anyone. And even in red states, there are millions of people who disagree with the red direction. I predict those red states will become red counties as people continue to wise up. It doesn’t matter what people’s occupations are …

The GOP is becoming a regioanl party because all the people that dont care about anything or like to ” keep things they way they are” are just afraid of change. Regan was an anti-communist but walked hand and hand with china. You get this people scream USA is number one but drive a toyota and buy oil from a country that hates us? wow. the leaders are just as dumb as their suppoters the only difference is their supporters are just dumber. When they learn not to be afraid of people that are different from them and not scream when something new comes along then I may have the option to vote republican.

The Republican party is basically a group of white men who want to run their business and “damn anyone who get’s in the way”. They don’t want to pay taxes and basically feel they are superior to all others. Now that group is too small to get elected so where do they go and get lemmings to vote for them? The religious fundamentalist. That’s right, we will adopt a Pro Christian, pro family anti abortion position and carry it through every election for the past 30 years. This will secure the older and rust belt votes to squeeze out Ohio and Florida. The flaw to this plan has shown up 3 times, twice by Southern Democrats which took away enough Southern States, Clinton and Carter, and by Obama who actually got the African Americans to vote in large enough numbers to flip Virginia and North Carolina. The republicans don’t want a new platform, they only want another splinter group that they convince to vote for them so the business guys can get in, then they will ignore them like they have always done in the past.

G:
As much as I love your post there, I have to correct you. First, I am a registered Republican and the last time I checked I was not a white man. I also do not think I am better than you, although I do try and take a more positive attitude towards others than you seem to take. I am a Christian, as you so gloriously recognized, however I am not someone who wants to come into your life and tell you that you have to be one. I am also anti-abortion for myself. That is a personal decision for me, and I don’t care what you want to do. The point I am trying to get around to making is that many people who claim to be democrats or “other” have been very judgemental and just plain disrespectful to people just like me. I don’t care how you choose to live your life, I won’t make fun of you for that, however I would appreciate the same in return. Afterall, we are all Americans, and when it gets down to it, do you think for one minute that the Democrat party will have your back when you need it, or would the big wigs in the party let you sink? You are as no one to them as I am to the big shots in the republican party. At the end of the day, all regular people will have is each other.

Jessica I agree about the politicians and political parties. I’m not a democrat, and I don’t get misty-eyed over any politician. But I think that the tolerance for people’s choices is what is at stake here. Not just abortion, but lifestyle, religion, values, etc.- the Republican party has somehow gotten itself in a position where it depends upon that segment of the population that sees the U.S. as a WASP nation. Therefore fiscal conservatives, moderates, etc. either have to vote for the whole enchilada (Palin), or seek other options, perhaps sacrificing their conservative views in order to avoid voting for the intolerant republican cultural baggage.

I always believed GOP was a party of big Oil and big business. Soon it will be a minority party even in Texas south. THese guys views are scary so extreme so unrealistic so much hate and everything anti. I have yet to meet a repub with a positive attitude who cares about the common person.

I’m still waiting for any of the name callers and label users to define words that they love to repeat: Liberal and Conservative. I don’t believe that any of them can offer a definition. They just know that Limbaugh suggests that liberal means something negative.’ couldn’t provide a concise definition if their lives depended on it.

McConnell certainly hit the nail on the head, especially the part about letting others define them, such as Limbaugh & Hannity. These two alone are responsible for driving many mainstream centrist from the Republican party.

On immigrants, Republicans hate them. On the environment, Republican hate it, and animals too. On the family, Republicans hate any family that isn’t like theirs. They’ll even attempt to vote it to away, and they believe that their only problem is communications.

America has experienced the biggest run-up in its entire history under Reagan and the Bushes. The only difference between Democrats and Republicans on spending is that the Democrats pay-as-they-go with taxes and the Republicans just put it on the national credit card.

Rush Limpball doesn’t think for me! Say that 3 times and click your heals. That is a start to saving the republican party.

One other thing I’d like to mention:
The Republican party tends to want ill educated and extremely religious people to be its voice.
1.PALIN: 1.89 GPA, went through over 5 colleges just to get a BS. She can’t form complete sentances, even name legislation or other info. She went to a church that promotes converting all Jews to Christianity. Anti-Semite anyone?
2. McCain: Graduated 5th to bottom of naval class of approx. 500 individuals.
3.Bush: “C-” GPA. Do you really think the average Joe could attend Harvard with those grades and no family connections? HUH??????

Dugese: The Libertarian Party is basically an extreme extension of the G–Less Taxes, but doesn’t explain how to pay for roads, services, etc.
-More deregulation of businesses. Gee, wonder how we got into this financial mess…..
-Privitization of Social Security (can you IMAGINE if we put it into stocks?????)

Hey 73toms–study your history. The south was predominately Democrat in the age of Abe Lincoln. Lincoln was a Republican and it was that party that forced the south to free the slaves.
Posted by: smartmom | Jan 29, 2009 11:25:00 PM
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Seems like 73 isn’t the only one who needs to do some studying. Anyone who calls themself “smart” should realize they were Democrats by name but Republican by Ideology and at the end of the day it doesn’t matter what you call yourself. What matters is how you think and act.

Skip: You are exactly right. The Dems and Repubs have basically switched ideologies in the industrial revolution. What was once Democratic thinking (ie civil liberties) has now blatently become a problem for modern Republicans (they HATE the ACLU)

It is as if the Bush Administration took over the US government and raided all of its assets. They stole as much monetary value out of the country as they could and gave it to themselves and their friends, Now they left and with that they let the new management deal with the debts and problems they created. Bush and the GOP borrowed, borrowed and borrowed some more. Wasted all of the money they borrowed. Can you point to anything they spent it on? The wars? No that is one of the vehicles Bush and the GOP used to steal the money. If they had repaired roads, built a space age communications system, made the US energy independent, etc. then you could at least say the wasted government money went for the betterment of the country. But, to me it seems the whole purpose of the Bush Administration was to take government money and better themselves and their friends. Oh and let’s not forget they hid their true plan behind the false flag of tax cuts.

GOP you spoke loud & clear the other night. Your priorities are not average working americans but rather giving tax cuts to big business and those that fall into the higher income brackets. I’m tired of the hateful rhetoric I’ve been hearing from you for the last 30 years. You’ve done nothing but bash the poor, women, minorities and everyone else that does not fit in your WASP world. Get a grip and realize that the 1950′s are over, this is 2009!!

The only evidence I Have as to the integrity of the two parties is my own W-2 Tax Form. I am a blue collar worker (Health Care) When Bush number one was the sitting president I did not qualify for a tax refund. My highest earning during his rain was around 12,000 (a year) Then Bill Clinton was elected and I finally began qualifying for a modest refund. “W” happened, I was making around 10.00 an hour. Not only did I not get a refund, I paid at the end of the year. Now tell me honestly. Which party REALLY cares about the working class?

The way it looks, all the GOP needs to do is leave Obama, Pelosi and Reid in charge for awhile and they will make a BIG comeback. As a registered democrat I do not like what I am seeing from our leadership.

With the help of neo-conservatives (which are not conservative in the least)the republican party has lost its way. It says one thing and does just the opposite and that is especially true when it has the power. In fact, when it holds a majority of seats in congress and the white house, it thinks that it can do anything, and I do mean anything, that it wants without regard to law of the land. The bush administration has shown the country how little the GOP values the rights of the American citizen. Its subterfuge in getting us into an unjustifiable war, in spying on American citizens, in passing legislation such as the medicare prescription drug plan, in attempting to, en-mass, declare people that essentially invaded our country into becoming citizens, in raiding the treasury to pay for an expanded, out of control, federal bureaucracy, and the list goes on and on, ad infinitum. My advice to the GOP is to read John Locke’s 2nd treatise on government, carry it with you every day and learn the meaning of its content. If you would do that, then you might discover your way back from the lonely road upon which you now find yourself.

Republicans have become the white trash party of Rush Limbaugh. Most normal Rep. have left the party because of the mouth breathing nuts.

The image of the Republican party needs to change. Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King were Republicans. the democrats are now being defined by Nancy Pelocy. This can e a disaster in the future. The congress has an approval rating of 20%

commonsense ……..You said ….”The only difference between Democrats and Republicans on spending is that the Democrats pay-as-they-go with taxes and the Republicans just put it on the national credit card.”…….You gotta be kidding?? Look at all the spending that Obama has done already, while telling Americans that he is cutting taxes. We haven’t even seen his budget yet and we are trillions of dollars in the hole.

smartmom: I understand the history of the Repubican party that you mentioned; however, the GOP today does not reflect the values of that history. The same Southern Democrats that Lincoln fought against are now in the Republican Party – Southern Democrats abandoned the Party during the Civil Rights Era. Check out the Electoral map and note the swath of Red States.

Lincoln was a racist, who only wanted to free the Blacks to put them in the Calvary to fight and steal Native Indian Lands. Lincoln was against the freeing of the Slaves. He only wanted to keep the Union together. They wanted Chinese trade, but it got to the South before reaching the North. Lewis and Clark found a route for building the trains. This gave them all these goods basically free, when they traded Opium addicting China, which led to WWI and WWII. Republicans are disease to our Nation. They are lying contemptuous murderers. They did 911 not binLadin or the Saddam and the all the poor innocent people crazyman Bush and nutjob loudmouth Limbaugh advocated. I refuse to live in the US any longer. It’s nothing but a National Crime Scene. Might as well rope it all off from sea to shining sea, and throw the entire population into Prison. There is no Freedom. They wanted it so bad, that they killed it. Republican means the walking dead.. They destroyed the country that Eisenhower warned us against. Gods blessing will be to see a swift end to them no better than Nazi’s in Germany. They are not Americans…they are the Beast.

Lincoln was a racist, who only wanted to free the Blacks to put them in the Calvary to fight and steal Native Indian Lands. Lincoln was against the freeing of the Slaves. He only wanted to keep the Union together. They wanted Chinese trade, but it got to the South before reaching the North. Lewis and Clark found a route for building the trains. This gave them all these goods basically free, when they traded Opium addicting China, which led to WWI and WWII. Republicans are a disease to our Nation. They are lying contemptuous murderers. They did 911 not binLadin or Saddam and they killed thousands of poor innocent people. Crazyman Bush and nutjob loudmouth Limbaugh advocated it. I refuse to live in the US any longer. It’s nothing but a National Crime Scene. Might as well rope it all off from sea to shining sea, and throw the entire population into Prison. There is no Freedom. They wanted it so bad, that they killed it. Republican means the walking dead.. They destroyed the country that Eisenhower warned us against. Gods blessing will be to see a swift end to them no better than Nazi’s in Germany. They are not Americans…they are the Beast.

Kary,
How pathetic of you. Here you go, spouting exactly what we can’t stand about your party, further enhancing our disgust at you guys.
“Stem cell research? Fine, just don’t use embryos. Science has had great success with umbilical cords, wisdom teeth, etc.”———–WHAT!!!!!!! Don’t you know that you guys have stifled science for the last 8 years!! Get the bible out of science lady! Embryos show the BEST promise of a cure. umbilical cords are only useful for certain cells. Noone is going to miss an embryo! Come on! You guys are against welfare anyway. Take care of the people ALREADY born!
“Gays, women, minorities. Surprise, we have them in our party! Accomplished, intelligent people. “———YEAH? I bet they are few and far between. I’m sure gays love your intolorance and staunch “family values” cr@p like it’s 1950.
“We are all religious nuts? Please, don’t judge us by our fringes, your Dem fringes aren’t too pretty either. “——So let’s see here, red–n-e-c-ks or liberal intellectuals? Mmmm, I’d go with the latter as the least offensive and scary.
“We are uneducated and ingnorant and stuck in our ways? No, we have values that are important and they can be carried into the future with a little thought. “——–Look at the GPA’s of your GOP hopefuls. Nuff said.

Kary,
That newspaper article was written by Susan Martinuk, who is OPENLY PRO-LIFE. Don’t you think she might be just a tad biased when it comes to embryonic stem cell reasearch? And the failed study from 2001 had to do with fetal tissue implantation, which is a little different that straight embryonic and pre-embryonic stem cell research.

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