Palin, Gingrich, Armey: A GOP divided

The Bruces, Paolos and John Ds of the country need to understand that Palin is only out for herself. She will only do what is best for Palin! She'd endorse the devil if she thought there was an advantage to it.

Read a great article that is in the Wall Street Magazine that goes behing the scenes of an Aetna medical director who decides who gets coverage.

It is a must read for both sides of the debate. Check out the "death panel-like comment" that he ponders.

Here is the link:
http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/health-care/Your-Health-Plans-Dr-No/

Sara Palin is extremely interested in legislating our personal lives and bodies--and she's endorsing across the country to do so. Given our men and women dying in fake wars, a flat economy with high unemployment and benefits running out, and Americans going without health care--Palin chooses to work on the emotional-zinger planks to control womens' bodies and to control how two people in a couple live their lives. There's something very, very creepy about that, and about Palin.

Republicans, you have lost the IQ race. And you have won the Darwin Award, as too dumb to compete. Your Party is experiencing extinction.

I would like to especially thank Pageant Queen Sarah, Crazy Glenn Beck and Druggy Limbaugh. Michael Steele, you hardly rate a mention, but thanks to every bitter, Cheney-revering dead-ender, teabagger, and dittohead, who now claims exclusive use of the Conservative brand. Nobody likes you and your paranoid rantings, and that is good for America. You are miserable failures.

Oh...and Saint Ronny is weeping for you.
http://www.politicususa.com/en/Congress-2010-poll
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21 October 2009
Only 20% Identify As Republicans

Only 20 percent of adults identify themselves as Republicans, little changed in recent months, but still the lowest single number in Post-ABC polls since 1983. Political independents continue to make up the largest group, at 42 percent of respondents; 33 percent call themselves Democrats.
http://whigblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/only-20-identify-as-republicans-42-are.html

Republicans have shed a fifth of their membership just since Pres Obama took office in Jan.

And yet they're still dragging their knuckles and pounding their chests about how they're going to kick the Dems butts in 2010 and how Obama is going to be a one termer etc.....hahaha!

The smaller the Republikkkans get, the louder they yell.

The Republicans are going to nominate some extremist next time. They'll have to, the Teabaggers will insist on it.

They'll have to lose in a major landslide before their pragmatists in the GOP take over again.

What's got Republicans so upset is that although they won't admit it, they know that the Reagan era is dead. They are done. They've got nuthin'.

Dems are going to be in control, mostly, for the next 30 or 40 years.

I think it's actually possible that the Republican party really will go the way of the Whigs. Without Faux Noise and AM Hate Radio that might not be the case. But there is Faux Noise and AM Hate Radio, who are making millions spinning a fantasy world for these poor Teabagger souls, and they are going to kill the party.

Obama was smart to focus on Rush and Faux.

The Stupid Party, my GOP, has done it again. Allowing another liberal female who really is a Dem to be blessed by the RNC and Newt, while the real GOPer, Doug Hoffman is reduced to running on the Conser.Party line in the NY 23rd. If Pub voters were smart, with a 45,000 registration no. above the Dems, is to flee ole DEDE and support Doug. That would keep the seat GOP and it would stop Obama from crowing that the Dem really won the district. Once Pubs learn to support candidates that really are opposites to the prevailing Dem agenda, perhaps they will win some seats once again. Surely, this Owens' lib is not representative of that District.

The Republican Party has been splintered into a silent moderate minority and an unelectable extremist fringe that can't think past 1994.

I expect the 2010 election is going to be a rude awakening for many right-wingers, Republicans, Libertarians and Teabagger fringe alike. They think they're going to win big, but they're dreaming. I expect that several more Senate seats are going to go to Democrats and the many Republican candidates will find themselves unelectable

The late and former Democratic Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill always said that all politics are local. The Republicans need to get their act together. Palin and Armey seem not to realize that an Ultra-Conservative candidate is probably unelectable in that GOP leaning Up-State New York District. The Republicans, as the Democrats do, need more elected officials with moderate and libertarian views. If they do not the extreme elements of both parties from the Left and Right will get complete control. Historically the out of power party picks up congressional seats in off year elections. And in 2010 the GOP is ripe to pick up seats. But with people like Palin and Armey running around the country sabotaging elections, the Republicans may lose some elections they could have won including the U.S. Senate Election in Illinois. The country, including the State of Illinois, desperately needs a viable two party system. But at a time when we have a President and his Staff wasting their valuable time in a childish spat with Fox News, Trillion Dollar Plus Budget Deficits, out of control spending by a Democratic Congress, and Incompetent Chicago Democrats trying the best to bankrupt the State, some in the GOP are trying to help the Democrats increase their majorities. Palin needs to go home to Alaska. She is unelectable in a national race.

The corporate media talking points buying into Republican bravado about gaining seats next year are even more brain-dead than usual, since the indications are all going in the opposite direction. Even if the economy turns south again, where are voters going to turn? Republicans have so discredited themselves that they are very nearly disqualified as as alternative.

Palin-Armey sounds great as a third party presidential ticket. Anything that further divides Republicans is a good thing. Go for it!

To LeeAnn: Those Washington Post-ABC Poll numbers should be a wake up call to both the Democratic and Republican Parties. With only 20% of adults identifying themselves as Republicans, 33% as Democrats, and 42% as Independents, it is clear that a large segment of the country is currently fed up with both the Democratic and Republican Parties. And in other Polls President Obama's job approval ratings continue to slide sharply for a first year in power. At the moment the GOP is trying its best to blow a golden opportunity to pick up Senate and House Seats in next years elections. But Political Polls can change as quickly as a College Football Poll. In the world of politics November 2010 is a long time off and the Republicans do have time to get their act together. Only time will tell if this will happen.

Sorry Newt, but Palin has it exactly right with her endorsement of Hoffman.

Scozzafava is to the left of even the Democrat's candidate in this race. The GOP needs to shed all the RINOs in the party and stick with candidates who adhere to conservative principles. Only then will we be able to steam-roll the dummycrats in every election.

To Gillian: I would not be so quick to write off the Republican Party. I have been around long enough to have heard that talk after major landslides (Obama's victory was a comfortable victory but cannot be described as a major landslide), before about both parties. The Presidential Election of 1964 is a prime example. The Democrats led by LBJ won a huge victory. In what must now be regarded as a classic political book of the period, reporter Robert J. Donovan, a bestselling author of the day with admiring books on Eisenhower and JFK, wrote a quick post-1964 election book published in December of that year called The Future of the Republican Party. Then Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, Donovan is described on the book's cover as "one of the foremost political analysts" in the country. Right up front in his foreword, Donovan expresses his real fear that Goldwater and his band of conservatives "reversed the liberal trend of Republican presidential nominations that had prevailed for a quarter of a century." (He glosses over the fact that all the moderate nominees excepting the military hero Ike -- Hoover, Landon, Willkie, Dewey and Nixon, the latter campaigning in 1960 as a moderate -- lost.) The newly powerful conservative movement, Donovan asserted, can only open "the floodgates of factionalism" and "put the party once more on the road to defeat." Conservatives have so damaged the Republicans, he insists, that the GOP will never regain the White House "at least until 1988" -- then 24 years distant. Well, we all know what happened. In the off year congressional elections the GOP picked up a large number of seats. And in 1968 Nixon was elected President. In 1972 and 1984 the GOP carried 49 out of 50 states in huge landslides. It is too soon to bury the Republican Party.

The Dick Armey is taking over the GOP!

Run for your lives eveyone!
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Dept Jim,
I'm not burying the Republican party, I'm laughing at them.

Keep it up, Sarah! Love watching you deliver the final blows to your dying party!! GG!!

These three demonic morphs are part of the reason the GOP is mistrusted and so irrelevant.

You can't talk about the GOP without talking about Roger Ailes and the GOP communications arm, Faux News.

This crowd is just obsessed with being anti-Obama they seem to forget they are also being anti-American.

"Political parties must stand for something,'' Palin writes at that Facebook page.

The only thing political parties and politician need to stand for is the protection of individual liberties. And that includes the right of women to choose to keep a pregnancy, the right of people to keep and bear arms(YES I DO BELIEVE THAT), the right of people who wish to committ their lives together to be married regardless of sexual orientation. And any other individual freedom you can think of.

Republicans have no regard for the constitution. They only believe you have the right to do something so long as they approve it. Whereas the whole point of the constitution is for everyone's right to "agree to disagree". That is the only thing we need to stand for, and agree to.

Armey and Palin are right on this. Elect the conservative. Newt is wrong.

CNN Poll: GOP favorable rating lowest in a decade

From CNN Deputy Political Director Paul Steinhauser

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The Republican Party's favorable rating among Americans is at lowest level in at least a decade, according to a new national poll.

Thirty-six percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday say they have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party, with 54 percent viewing the GOP negatively.
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http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/23/cnn-poll-gop-favorable-rating-lowest-in-25-years/
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This New York 23rd Congressional District political contest is a referendum on the legitimacy of and the viability of the GOP. This race will establish a baseline example of what to expect during the 2010 election cycle.

To date, the GOP has failed miserably to develop a winning strategy for this closely watched New York race.

Dierdre Scozzafava is, de facto, an extreme left liberal. Scozzafava is more left liberal than her opposition Democratic party candidate, Bill Owens. Amuses me Owens is critiquing Scozzafava for her being too liberal.

Brass Tacks here is the GOP is out of touch with its once conservative base of support. Many, perhaps most voter registered Republicans now consider themselves to be independent conservatives. A good number of "Blue Dog" democrats are also thinking of themselves as independent conservatives which is a backlash against this left liberal extremism of Barack Obama and his boys.

This New York 23rd district race is the first test of Michelle Steele's "New GOP". Rather clear Steele and his boys have miserably failed this test. Appears to me the GOP is marginalizing itself through this ineffective and uninformed leadership of Steele and his boys, all of whom are wearing Republican Halloween costumes looking for trick or treat candy from the Democratic party.

At risk of looking a fool, my prediction is Hoffman will win this election setting into motion events which will marginalize the GOP to a point of going the way of dinosaurs; extinct.

No doubt in my mind, the GOP will return home with an empty Halloween candy bag; their trick will not earn them a treat.

Okpulot Taha
Choctaw Nation
Puma Politics

Posted by: Depot- Jim | October 23, 2009 4:15 PM
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Nobody said that 2008 was a "landslide", but Obama did better in 2008 than Bush did in 2004, and Dubya went around saying he earned major political capital back then.

That photo of Newtie and Armey would be much funnier if someone would put "Count Dracula" teeth on them.....

Also more appropriate to the season......

Alternate Caption Contest;
(Palin photo)
'What I ....'

I can't do it, too easy.

Alternate caption.

Newt to Dick.

'Stop it Dickie! Stop that!'

New York Republicans Just Don’t Get It

She’s pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-card check, pro-tax and spend, in bed with labor unions, and has been endorsed by DailyKos.com.

I’m not referring to Nancy Pelosi or Barbara Boxer. I’m referring to New York State Assmblywoman Dede Scozafazza, the Republican nominee for Congress in New York 23rd CD.

More liberal than many of her Democratic colleagues in the Assembly yet termed a moderate, Scozzafazza is about as moderate as George Soros and her nomination represents the most asinine Republican pick since Rick Lazio ran against Hillary in 2000.

Opposed in the special election on November 3rd by Democrat Bill Owens and the Conservative Party’s Doug Hoffman, Scozafazza’s nomination is a classic example of the political astigmatism and poor memories of the New York State Republicans.

The 23rd and this country as a whole are politically center right and generally reject political extremism of liberal candidates such as Barack Obama unless they successfully cloak that philosophy in rhetorical vagaries, such as Barack Obama did.

Last November’s election . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1281)

Palin is politically neither party..She is an opportunist and goes which ever the wind blowing brings her more attention..Sad really as everyone should have something they believe in..She should stay out of the political arena because she continually draws negative feedback and is only hurting herself. She has no chance of winning the 2012 election..

Third-party candidates can add a real alternative for voters when they hold to conservative traditional constitutional values and become a choice not merely an echo. It should not take very long in these contests to determine the desires of most voters.

Now, in NY’s 23rd contest, we know beyond a shadow of doubt, Scozzafava was not a conservative Republican, just a liberal echo. Pro abortion, pro gay marriage, pro taxation, pro union open voting, pro increase in taxes and now one can add to her portfolio pro democrat Owens endorsement.

I remain amazed that several Republicans like Newt Gingrich supported Scozzafava until the very end. Rush Limbaugh was totally correct on his analysis of Scozzafava and her RINO label. He is also correct when he repeats on numerous occasions that for the Republicans to win they must abandon this moderate and bipartisan nonsense. We face a democrat, liberal, take no prisoners strategy. It’s time we proclaim our conservatism boldly and openly without apology or equivocation. Let us proudly defend,

A strong national defense,
An end to debt expansion and increased taxes.
A strong pro life and defense of traditional marriage act,
Continued proclamation of American freedom and individualism,
An effort to enforce the criminal laws already enacted,
An all out effort to promote the private sector and removal of unnecessary government regulations,
Greater promotion of individual freedom and small business entrepreneurship,
Promotion of a job creation and restoration program which minimizes corporate taxes and government controls,
Elimination of deceptive tax increases disguised as cap and trade legislation,
Elimination of unnecessary health reform proposals which can add trillions to the national debt long term,
The elimination of unconstitutional czars,
Elimination of illegal immigration and restoration of our borders,
Increased support for our military establishment and forces, and victory in military conflicts,
Renewed pride and support for the U.S. at home and abroad,

We need a renewal of conservative, constitutional principles of freedom and the pursuit of liberty and happiness. If we Republicans are to govern in the future it will only be with the consent of the American people, realizing we will make a life long commitment to conservatism. The Washington lobbyists must be replaced with the voices of average voters who want their country back. There can be no substitute for victory in 2010 and 2012.

Dr. Phillips