however being a rube out here who does not know anything obviously I just might “not NO better”

The primaries is the time the voters have an opportunity to choose the person they would be willing to support in the general. If the party apparatus tries to rig the primaries, all they’re going to do is screw themselves (and us) in the general.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

I am not so mad at Crist or the RNSC. Those who are responsible for this debacle are the FL GOP voters. What are they thinking?

From where I see it, it hasn’t been tried. Or, from the NRSC, even vaguely considered.

Although I still haven’t made my mind up on Rubio (due to not being from Florida and only having heard limited amounts about him), he seems, at the bare minimum, to be a principled individual whom, regardless of your personal opinions of him, is a clear and forceful advocate in what he believes in, and can make his reasoning clear.

Crist, on the other hand, is a stereotypical politician of the first order — calculating, shamelessly pandering, and having more positions than the Kama Sutra (as Dennis Miller once so elegantly summed up John Kerry). I can’t really pin anything down on Crist – he’s not conservative, he’s not liberal, he’s not even particularly moderate – the term “squish” seems uniquely crafted for someone like him.

If somebody like Charlie Crist is the best the GOP can offer the state of Florida, then the party has officially capitulated.

and am not going to repeat the same things discussed on a daily basis but provide the links I decided to now keep handy since the Crist/Rubio thing just isn’t going to go away and I frankly think some of it is being distorted daily (look and decide for yourself)…. It’s all about returning to Majority status STRATEGY….

Crist/Rubio 12pts – Crist/Rubio 12 points [with links] (since it has some links, I’m not going to try and recreate it all with cut/paste)

Crist & taxes – Crist and taxes [includes press-links]

sitting out (or threats to sit out) elections banter – in depth Sit-It-Out discussion

Deli-story – Deli-story

ZERO-strategy – ZERO-strategy

Red-Dogs – Red-Dogs, RINOs, CINOs, DINOs, PLINOs, and Blue-Dogs, oh my… The Political Zoo – what/who are they?

BLUE-ism – BLUE-ism

Bi-Partisanship is really Democrats joining with Republicans, but it goes on as the usual MSM biased spin – again, Bi-Partisanship has really been Democrats joining with Republicans (here) and here

Primary McLame – going at McCain in a Primary, finally

using Primaries to build up future candidates – using Primaries to build up future candidates

As we speak we have ex McCain staffers in FL trying to use archaic party rules to disqualify Rubio and shove Crist past the voters without the benefit of a vote!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

They have been shooting themselves in the foot for so long that it looks as though they like it too much to stop. And, like knee-jerk liberals feeding a junkie’s habit, Republican donors keep on giving the NRSC the money to keep on shooting themselves in the foot with. How dumb is that?

They have been shooting themselves in the foot for so long that it looks as though they like it too much to stop. And, like knee-jerk liberals feeding a junkie’s habit, Republican donors keep on giving the NRSC the money to keep on shooting themselves in the foot with. How dumb is that?

I can’t understand how that number is so high. The NRSC should not interfere.

The Republican Party is insane by Einstein’s definition — doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result. The Republican Party establishment backed Arlen Specter with scarce Party money in his last primary over a well-liked conservative opponent with the belief that conservatives just can’t win. Talk about your self-fulfilling prophecies! And, just how well did that work out for the all knowing Republican establishment? Specter continued to vote against conservative principles, preferring to pontificate and then vote with the liberals. Now, knowing that even with Republican establishment backing he would go down in defeat in his next primary, the bastian of Rockefeller Republicanism jumped ship and joined with the Democrats. Anyone want to donate their hard-earned dollars for more insanity?

Just look at what these squishy-type Republicans did to Reagan Country, my beloved California. The anti-conservatives handed the Golden State over to the libs without even a fight! After us grass-root types fought long and hard to give the GOP a majority in the Assembly in the last decade, the so-called Republicans elected a Democrat as the Speaker of the Assembly! How’s that for a big “thank” you? Then, in the spirit of bi-partisanship, they deregulated energy in the state and handed us rolling blackouts and sky-rocketing rate increases. They followed up by ceding the majority of legislative seats to the Dems during the re-districting following the 2000 census. Oh, the few Republicans that remained had safe little feifdoms to run in, but they gave the Dems safe little feifdoms, too, and more of them. Bravo, boys! The Party kept pushing their favorite faux-Republicans and kept on losing all of the state-wide offices in California. Then, when fed up California voters decided to recall and replace the useless Democrat governor, Gray Davis, AKA Governor Gumby, in a citizen-led recall attempt, the Party operatives fought us tooth-and claw. When it became obvious to everyone but the Los Angeles Times that Governor Gumby was going to be recalled and replaced did the Republican Party back a conservative to replace the dimwitted Dem? NOOOO! They backed Arnold “The Terminator” Schwarzenegger for the job. Arnold, another useless faux-Republican promised to balance our budget, cut taxes and reform government. He didn’t. But, the Republican establishment backed him for another term of bi-partisan bankrupting of the state. Here in California, thanks to a citizens’ initiative, the governor has the line-item veto. Has Herr Schwarzenegger used it to reign in excessive Democrat spending? NOOO! But, he did sign a $54 BILLION tax increase this year and pushed for an additional $16 BILLION in taxes with $1 million in Republican Party money for the initiatives we just defeated. How’s that for using Republican donor dollars?

The same folks who destroyed Reagan Country and bankrupted the Golden State now want to do the same to the Sunshine State. Einstein is right. The Republican Party is insane and everyone who donates to the Party instead of individual candidates is bonkers, too, and shouldn’t be allowed to vote!