January 19, 2008...8:53 pm

SATURDAY NIGHT YOU TUBIN’

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A break from the political scene …. The Corrs and “Breathless.”

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  • hsgbdmama
    January 19, 2008 at 10:17 pm

    Great song … and yes, it’s nice to get a breather from the political stuff. I finally turned the TV off after learning that Thompson came in 3rd. :(

  • Peter
    January 19, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    Our choices are Hitlary on one side and either McCain or the Huckatard on the other.

    Me? I’m voting for Hitlary. Seriously. First time I’ve ever voted Democrat for President. And I hope the Stupid Party gets its ass kicked all over the country on Election Day. And is finished as a major political party.

    Serves them right.

    George W. Bush started the destruction of the GOP and this election will finish it. The RINO Rockefeller blueblood countryclubbers want to be a minority party and the Go Along Get Along Gang. They will get their wish. The rest of us can bend over and grab our ankles.

  • hsgbdmama
    January 20, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    The Huckabee thing has me just stupefied, and I’m an evangelical Christian!

    I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do should Thompson drop out, but I would prefer to not vote for president than to help HRH into office.

    The GOP needs to go through a thorough self-check and figure out they aren’t looking that much different than the Democrats, and is that where they want to be? They also need to figure out who their main bases are and that they will not be able to make all the people happy all the time (see the current Pelosi-Reid controlled Congress for results of trying to do so).

  • Peter
    January 20, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    I think they want to be a me-too party and be invited to all the DC cocktail parties and be thought of as the retarded stepchild by the beltway media. They’ve spent too much time trying to be all things to all people and when you’re trying to appeal to liberal Democrats in a Republican primary, you’ve got major problems. The Republicans are allowing the Democrats and their willing accomplices in the Drive By Media to choose their candidate for them.

    You will wind up with a McCain/Huckabee ticket and a 40-plus state electoral landslide for the Democrat ticket in November. Thompson? Done. Rudy? Finished. Romney? Kaput.

    Republicans? Sayanora, baby! You have to stand for something and the Republican Party doesn’t stand for anything any more. The GOP has abandoned all of Ronald Reagan’s principles. To hear The Huckatard redefining Ronald Reagan as a tax and spend liberal is galling and insulting to me as someone who voted for Reagan twice. I know who Ronald Reagan was. Ronald Reagan was my president for eight years. Governor Huckabee is no Ronald Reagan.

  • hsgbdmama
    January 20, 2008 at 3:38 pm

    Exactly.

    Look at the last two Senate races, as well as the last and upcoming WI-08 races and the Gov. race — why has the WIGOP been absolutly impotent in offering up and running a good candidate? Mark Green should have won the Gov. race and the WIGOP didn’t truly help him when the campaign funding thing came up, to catch his back.

    Instead of worrying about money (which they seem to be doing — I’ve tired of the “it takes money” bit), focus instead on vision, mission, goals and strategy … once those are in place, the money will come (provided those items are satisfactory — if they largely parallel the Democratic ones, then forget it).

  • Peter
    January 20, 2008 at 3:44 pm

    Don’t forget: Mark Green was the establishment candidate of Washington and Dubya and Friends. They even sent Karl Rove in here to have a little “talk” with Scott Walker and a few days later Walker was out of the race. Almost like Don Corleone. They didn’t want a real debate on conservative issues. And clearly they still don’t.

    As an evangelical, you must be insulted by what the Republican establishment thinks of you, that they can put up a cornpone, deep-fried liberal coated in “Jeeeeeeeeeeesssssssus” and you’ll vote for him.

    And yes, that is what they think of evangelicals. Huckabee is laughing at you. What’s more, the Drive Bys are laughing at him. Did you see his fried squirrel bit on PMSNBC? The guy was so damn clueless he didn’t realize the PMSNBC people were laughing at him, not with him.

    Compared to The Huckster, Gomer Pyle was sophisticated and street-smart.

  • hsgbdmama
    January 21, 2008 at 8:38 am

    As an evangelical, you must be insulted by what the Republican establishment thinks of you, that they can put up a cornpone, deep-fried liberal coated in “Jeeeeeeeeeeesssssssus” and you’ll vote for him.

    That is a good way of putting it, and that is how I apparently am supposed to believe as a Christian. :( We do have the responsibility to educate ourselves on the issues and prayerfully choose which candidate best matches our positions. For me, it is Fred Thompson.

    Fortunately, more in the homeschooling community are becoming aware of Gov. Huckabee’s record, and are changing their vote. Spunky at http://spunkyhomeschool.blogspot.com has done a good job of collecting information. Very disconcerting. :(

  • Peter
    January 21, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Well, you can forget about Fred Thompson. He’ll be out of the race later this week. I know some pundits are still counting in Mitt Romney, and technically he has the most delegates right now, but as I see it, it’s McCain #1 and The Huckster #2. And most likely that will be your GOP ticket in November. It’s one I cannot and will not vote for.

  • hsgbdmama
    January 21, 2008 at 11:55 am

    Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of, and if Sen. Thompson drops out, I’m not sure what I’m going to do. Like I said earlier, I will withhold my vote for POTUS before I will vote for HRH or Huckabee.

    Will the GOP continue to navel gaze once they are soundly defeated? Will the genuine conservatives stand up and take this party back?

  • Peter
    January 21, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    No. I am afraid most conservatives are like me and realize that there is no place for us in the Republican Party. The blueblood, country-club, Bush/Rockefeller wing of the GOP has prevailed over the Reagan/Goldwater types. They control the money and the party operations and can take out any candidate that dares to stand for conservative principles. Remember how the national party took out Scott Walker in 2006 for a generic, vanilla, Bush-approved Mark Green, who promptly got his butt kicked by arguably the most corrupt, incompetent governor in the country?

    The folks who run the GOP now are content with being the Mini-Me to the Democrats’ Dr. Evil.

  • hsgbdmama
    January 21, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    Mark Green was my representative and I was okay with his representation (no one is perfect), and think he would have made a good governor; however, it was the dirty tricks with the funds transfer that got him — where was the WIGOP to vigorously fight it?

    Same deal with Tim Michels in 2004 — the GOP pulled out the rug from under him and he lost to Sen. Feingold.

    Where do the conservatives turn to then? The Constitution Party (I don’t agree with their entire platform)? The Libertarian Party (don’t agree with their entire platform either)? Staying home in disgust is not a good long-term option either.

  • Peter
    January 21, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    What bothered me the most about the Green-Walker situation was that it came off as the national GOP in Washington headed by El Presidente Bush didn’t want a real debate on conservatism.

    I keep hearing about the GOP being the Big Tent Party, designed to appeal to all people. Let’s try to represent all ideas, all standards. Problem is when you stand for nothing, you tend to fall for anything. And the blueblood, country-clubber from the Rockefeller/Bush wing have always looked down their hoity-toity noses at the conservatives that Ronald Reagan brought into the party.

    I was one of those types. Here in Racine, I didn’t care for the Wind Point/North Bay types that ran the local party. They were mostly the Rockefeller types and tended to lose to real lefties.

    3rd parties are a waste of a vote. They have no chance of winning, any more than a write-in candidate does. Staying home deprives you of the right to complain, I believe. I think we are at a point similar to the 1840s over the slavery issue. You have two parties, one a collection of socialists, pacificists and moonbats and the other now trying to portray itself as a more reasonable version of the same principles espoused by the other party.

  • hsgbdmama
    January 22, 2008 at 8:02 am

    Well put. Is there a place for conservatives (not just being the “Religious Right,” whatever that is) anymore, or has it become a race about who can out-liberal who? :/

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