Conducting a conservative campaign as a battle will yield a temporary, tenuous victory at best. Conducting it as a marketing campaign has the potential to change the thinking of the entire citizenry.

As for banning campaign contributions from out-of-district, I would support it only if corporate contributions were banned entirely. Campaigns need to be much smaller and more localized.

And Lindsey Graham found out recently how loyal he can be…after championing Cap and Trade for the last 2 years or so…He trashed it and Graham for supporting it a couple weeks ago because it wouldn’t look good to his voters…

It’s true…I loath the man and don’t see many redeeming qualities in him…I don’t hold anything against anyone for supporting him…but I have a lot of residual bad feelings about being forced to vote for him last year when everything I believe in to the core of my being was screaming for me not to

and then the original

http://rpmullins.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/i-can-almost-guarantee

It should work,because if it doesn’t I’m going to re-do it in the morning(it’s after 2300 CST and I need some sleep).

I’m sure it will work this time.

You can always read it in the original form

http://rpmullins.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/i-can-almost-guarentee

That should about do.

I got into an argument about McCain before so I understand a little bit why some people don’t like him – but, because it seems to go so deep and to have become so personal – it doesn’t seem like there that much point in arguing about it. It sounds like no matter what he does, y’all will find some way to find fault. If he single handedly stopped Obamacare you’d be like “what took him so long? He obviously waited to make sure it happened in an election year…”

Quoted from and Linked to at:
THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLICANS
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It’s Time To ROC ‘N’ ROLL:
Restore Our Constitution & Restore Our Lost Liberties

That’s what I get for getting the year wrong

I hope that helps you. I really mean that.

Also, I support gun rights, and actually own a gun.

I like Ron Paul – a lot! I don’t agree with him on everything, but he has tremendous integrity. I don’t think there’s anyone like him in Congress. It will be a sad day when he retires.

Whoosie, just outed yourself , the attack mob will assemble shortly…kidding.

But the interesting thing is the number of folks that once considered themselves R’s who now associate with the Tea Parties and the Deity known as Ron Paul Ron Paul Ron Paul. Those movements may be somewhat socially conservative, but they are not the Rick Santorum/Sam Brownback hard core pro-life values voters, or at least that’s not what they are in the streets over from what I can tell. I think you as a very small sample, the Deity supporters are not of the SIVV type and I think the Tea party folks aren’t ether.

The question, and I think you asked it, is how does Eric’s “civil war” appeal to those folks, are they really the “true” conservatives that Erick is seeking to mobilize?…I don’t know.

On social issues, I’m a moderate. I’m opposed to gay marriage, but support abortion with restrictions.

So, I’m a dovish fiscal conservative – actually I’m more of a Ron Paul fan than of any other Republican.

That’s the problem in a nutshell, which of the three traditional legs of the Republican stool is important to you?

For those of us who are moderate on the social issues, or more correctly libertarian leaning, we are definitely considered RINOs by the vast number of posters here on RS. In my particular case, I became a R back in the 70′s over school busing, overreach by Federal courts and because I’m a tight wad, I also grew up in the very Democratic deep South and saw what a wrong direction the Democratic party was heading on race relations. Back in the 70′s the R party was pretty much on top of those issues and the issue of a strong military and the role if the US in stopping the spread of Communism. I’d guess you’d call those two of the major legs of the R stool today, and I think you’d find a fair amount of agreement between most Republicans and the “true” conservatism.

Where things get contentious are the social issues, abortion and gay marriage right now. Call that the third leg, and I’m pretty sure that Liberian wing, or maybe the country club wing, of the party and the “true” conservative wing does not see eye to eye on those matters. I doubt that on fiscal matters, strong military or foreign relations there is a whole heck of a lot of differences between the wings of the party.

I might be wrong, but in the proverbial nut shell, that’s the crux of this here “civil war”.