It’s good that the Republican is at least rational enough to support gay marriage and abortion–to support freedom–even if it isn’t politically beneficial. This might not be the right time and election to have that rational Republican run, but at least it’s a start for what we should be doing with our party. Too often we will throw out the moderates, and then you end up with Democrats having a 77-seat majority with lots of representatives who support gun rights but somehow were able to stay in the party. We don’t let people be Republicans if they don’t check down the line of views. And worst of all, it’s the social issues–the pointless ones that we take the wrong position on–that are often given the most dogmatic emphasis.

I take the LOOOOOOOOONNNG way home from work.

Get your act straight, NY, CA, FL.

I’m D@MN sick of it.

Get a candidate, not a squish. There are many things that make reasonable people go crazy, but what things might make crazy people go reasonable? I hope the NY (R) party figures it out.

Shape up, northeast. I humbly propose a purge. No “moderation”, just pure, sweet, prudent liberty.

I’m making my next post and (surprisingly) I’m not apologizing any more than I did when I called Mark Kirk and Russ Carnahan idiots. Apparently you want me to apologize for disagreeing with you. No, I’m not John Kerry, so I think I’m going to keep my position.

As for Republicans being more accepting, I’d like to see pro-abortion Republican speak at the RNC. It’s more likely they’d get thrown out of the party by Rush and by the bloggers, then they wouldn’t get another Red Cent in campaign contributions.

I find it fascinating that in a Republican district the Republicans could possibly nominate an ultra liberal to go up against a Conservative Democrat. You’d like to think that by this point we would have learned our lesson to stop nominating liberals, and nominate Conservatives. This could end up being Sarah Palin’s ‘Conservative Democrat’ that she said she wanted to campaign for, and since its a Republican district it would seem to be a good one for her to come in and make a huge difference. Certainly if the Republicans do nominate the liberal I too hope the Democrat wins. We need Conservatives in Congress, party label is secondary to that.

of the entire party membership holding guns to their own heads and pulling the trigger…

What I see is more like Tienanmen Square where we’re standing in front of the leftist leadership’s tanks with our groceries while our own leadership plots our utter annihilation by their own hand!

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

The Republican party in NY State has been a basket case on life support for years. Shame on Pataki, Guiliani and Bloomberg for doing nothing to build the party. While none of these 3 could be considered conservative and all embrace various liberal positions (especially former Democrat Bloomberg), their long-term tenure in the Governor’s mansion and NYC City Hall was marked by concern for themselves with absolutely no effort to grow the party.

This was a terribly missed opportunity considering the amazing fiscal and crime turn-around that occurred, especially during the period when Pataki and Guiliani were both in office at the same time. Rebuilding the base has to be one of the most important goals going forward and nothing is being done about that in NY State.

I’m looking for something solid to send on with regard to this.