Especially on fiscal and international issues. TEA party sentiment straddles both parties and Republican failure to assert principles and advocate for a solid identity ripen the low-hanging fruit for a financially responsible alternative.

Especially on fiscal and international issues. TEA party sentiment straddles both parties and Republican failure to assert principles and advocate for a solid identity ripen the low-hanging fruit for a financially responsible alternative.

Graham is the King of Roll over & play dead, between him and McCain it’s a contest to see who can broker a deal with the Dems faster than than the other one.

Collins, Snowe and Scott Brown are in the same camp, they vote more with the Dems than they do with the GOP.

They are all scared stupid that the new crop is going to make them look so bad that they won’t stand a snowballs chance of re-election in 2012, and that they will cancel out their normally RINO votes.

rollover even by people considered staunch conservatives, like Demint and Coburn? Demint caved on reading START and Coburn sold us out on the food bill by giving his consent when he could have killed it (in all likelihood) by refusing to do so?

There are still too many unanswered questions…

rollover even by people considered staunch conservatives, like Demint and Coburn? Demint caved on reading START and Coburn sold us out on the food bill by giving his consent when he could have killed it (in all likelihood) by refusing to do so?

There are still too many unanswered questions…

calling you a panty waist.

calling you a panty waist.

As you probably know, I am Brazilian and I am following all conservative moves in your country, as I use to say, for if America fails, all Western World will fail too.
Beyond that I would only wish you and your´s a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Sir.

Graham is unfortunately correct. The GOP is a failed establishment of light weight unprincipled Statists. The Georgia GOP is void of morality or Conservatism., just reference Isakson, Chambliss, Kingston, Deal, Olens, Echols, etc.

The Georgia GOP establishment needs to be cleaned out from top to bottom and replaced with decent energetic Conservatives that work for the citizens of this state. Sue Everhart, Chairman of the Georgia GOP, leads a group of District and County Chairs too lazy to hoist up decent candidates for all offices in this state.

As audax said; “The Tea party needs to complete the take over of the Republican party.” This means at the grass roots in every precinct of Georgia.

If the Georgia GOP continues to languish in its own sloth and laziness, it will cease to function for any decent Conservative in the state.

Hard to believe that Lindsy sounds like a conservative voice on the treaty preamble.
It is also rather astounding to hear even a Democrat do the shuffle around a treaty with the Russions as though the treaty was written between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and OBama.
The General Officer Corps has become a left wing political arm along with the majority of the press.
God help the Republic.

After fighting Obama tooth and nail for two long years and achieving a great electoral victory in the process, why is the GOP caving on so many issues in this lame duck session? If you are saying that their opposition was just some sort of campaign ploy and that now they can show their true colors without any consequence, I’m truly disappointed.

The Food Safety bill gets approved UNANIMOUSLY? Are you kidding? If that isn’t going to turn into a job killing regulatory nightmare like CPSIA, I don’t know what will. (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act – read up on it, it’s a real horror story.) Sure, they stopped the DREAM Act and the omnibus spending bill, but other than that it seems like they’re just giving up. It’s just so sad.

January 5th, for many of us, will be a day in which the cavalry truly arrives. We desperately need to void the presence of people like Snowe, Collins, Murkowski, and Brown. Lee, Paul, Rubio, Toomey, and the rest of the “DeMint Army,” will aid us in accomplishing that.

for helping the Libs to decorate the Christmas tree with every bad bill they wanted. (202) 224-2541. Won’t help, but, can’t hurt.

The Food Bill still has to be passed again by the House. Piglosi wants to do it the same way it got through the Senate. I’ve read that there are 1/6 of the House embers not even there to vote. Call your rep and beg them to vote against it. Slim chance, but it still can be stopped.

Time to start recruiting good conservative candidates for the 2012 elections. Don’t allow Cornyn and his gang to continue to choose our candidates or we will get more just like him and his traitor current crop. No one in the 111th Congress should be allowed to remain in DC to keep stabbing an already severely wounded population.

The core GOP Senate leadership PURPOSELY gave Obama and the left MASSIVE disgraceful agenda in order to empower progressive liberalism in the GOP Senate and weaken Conservatism. The GOP LIKES their progressive moderacy and porky way of operating and they don’t want it changed.

Make no mistake that the old guard GOP core would GLADY have passed the omnibus, if they thought they could get a way with it.

The fact that the GOP Senate used weakening of our troops and foreign defense to do this, through DADT repeal and START approval, in addition to multiple other progressive agenda spending, IS A DISGRACE BEYOND WORDS, but it is 100% ACCURATE.

McConnell and the core GOP moderacy old guard, that have pushed this pitiful consensus attack on Conservatism need to be called out and pounded. Make no mistake, McConnell and the group that forged this plan, AND IT WAS A PLAN, are NOT stupid. They have ZERO INTEGRITY, they are pure cowards, and they are a DIAGRACE, but they are NOT stupid. They know EXACTLY what they did.

Look at even the Dream Act vote. McConnell didn’t say this needs to die and never be resurrected. He said just not now, and that it should be brought up next year so they could get it right. So, he wants illegal amnesty, just not this year because they wouldn’t be able to sneak it through with DADT Repeal, START approval, Food Police approval, Ethanol (Thune) approval, Death Tax increase, zero effective tax cuts, and Internet Fairness Doctrine approval. These were the only goals the GOP Senate wanted for this year.

Primaries for the majority of the GOP Senate need to begin immediately next year and not wait until the middle of next year. The GOP Senate will extend this coups against Conservatism into the new year. The true Conservatives will fight to Repeal O-Care and get our debt under control…..and MCConnell and the old RINO guard will fake assistance but actually hinder the true result at every step of the way.

For the Third Party posters….NO THIRD PARTY, end of discussion.
McConnell and the GOP old guard will deny and spin the above and the zero principle moderates who listen will fully buy into it and allow him to spin it that way. It will be a lie.

The current biggest enemy to this country is the old guard Senate RINO Republican core because they WANT to allow liberalism so that they can continue the way they have.

EVEN Lindsay Graham sees this. Enough said.

Primaries need to start now.

Although 2012 should see even more conservative reinforcements, it will probably take a couple more elections to turn the GOP caucus as conservative as we like. With the Dems still in control of the Senate and the White House and with plenty of RINO’s, brace yourselves for a couple of bumpy years. (We will still be better off then when Dems were in full control.) I am just worried that too many voters on our side have unreasonable expectations and will loose heart. We are moving in the right direction but we are far from the goal.

Considering that Lindsay Graham is the king of GOP capitulation (i.e. Sotomayor, Kagan, Amnesty, etc.)

Considering that Lindsay Graham is the king of GOP capitulation (i.e. Sotomayor, Kagan, Amnesty, etc.)

Allow me to thread jack to point out that double posting is easily avoided. Red State servers are sometimes slow to respond to an entry. If you click on the “POST COMMENT” button and see no response, please don’t assume your entry was lost. In Firefox I have a bar at the bottom of the screen, and in the left hand corner of that bar there is notice of what is happening – “Waiting for Red State” does not mean “Click on the button again”. I don’t know what Internet Exploder might have in the way of information.

…. and need purging.

More primaries are coming in a year and a half. We need to begin preparing for them now!

The problem we have had in the Senate for years has been the Republican leader hasn’t wanted to throw his weight around. When Bill Clinton was being impeached Lott went and reached a great comprise of not having the evidence properly heard. Thus allowing history to be written that Ken Starr went after Clinton for sex.

Frist tried, but part of his problem even when he had 55 so called votes was that there were enough people like the Collins, Snow, etc who on some bills said they wouldn’t vote for something unless their pet item was fixed.

Harry Reid said give me sixty votes and I’ll get things done. Reid was given sixty votes at least for a few months. But he had some unofficial Rhino’s on his side to get votes.

We need a leader who can get things done. If Mcconell for example immediately stripped Lisa of her committee seats when she said was doing the write in campaign that would have had an impact on the race. If she wanted her seats go and sit with Harry since you’re planning to vote with him on that.

Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN

“They’ll fight. And they’ll win.”

I don’t want some frickin bookkeeper, Beltway Pol, Senate hack or hair stylist model.

Exactly right, the LOSERship doesn’t want to become conservative, they are the LOSERship, and don’t you forget it. Now, it time all you LOSERship lemmings, hop aboard the LOSERship as it sets sail into the sea of debt off to that wonderful land more government controls.

It’s going to be a great moderate voyage, so please, please, come join us….

I think we’re going to see much more of this kind of talk and action from Senator Grahamnisty. With the last election cycle sweeping in Governor Elect, Nikki Haley, the local political climate may have caught the attention of the good Senator. The Governor is far closer and frequent to constituents steering the political conversation and endorsement than a long time DC beltway insider. I really don’t think that if it were as in the past where Governors appointed US Senators, a Governor Haley would call on a Senator Grahamnisty to serve the great state of South Carolina. Four years of friction in his home state from an adversarial Governor could be very damaging to his re-election efforts.

I think we’re going to see much more of this kind of talk and action from Senator Grahamnisty. With the last election cycle sweeping in Governor Elect, Nikki Haley, the local political climate may have caught the attention of the good Senator. The Governor is far closer and frequent to constituents steering the political conversation and endorsement than a long time DC beltway insider. I really don’t think that if it were as in the past where Governors appointed US Senators, a Governor Haley would call on a Senator Grahamnisty to serve the great state of South Carolina. Four years of friction in his home state from an adversarial Governor could be very damaging to his re-election efforts.

While I agree with Sen. Graham for a change, he should be the last person complaining about unconditional surrender. This is, after all, the South Carolina Senator who backed both Sotomayor and Kagan.

There is no excuse for this garbage. If there is an emergency need to call congress into session between the November election and the usual beginning of the new congress, then only those whose elections have been certified will have standing to sit in the emergency session. Those who lost their election can no longer vote. Sure there may be a few states that will have a few Congressmen or Senators unable to represent them, but if it is a real emergency then it is an acceptable tradeoff. It will also be an incentive for states to clean up their election certification processes.

Do you not feel Rubio will fight and win? Is he not worth ten votes? why?

most Americans and especially those from TN didnot miss the lame performances of Senators, Alexander and Specifically Corker, whose idiotic attempt to explain away his joining Hanoi John in betraying the United States Of America. However this disgusting individual will continue be unaccountable to his constitutents and other Americans if Senators are allowed to continue Six Years Terms without accountability for his actions. The Six term for Senators must be changed to at least two year term, for the sake of this country.

That elections have consequences and for those Republicans of the “Lame Duck” Congress, such capitulation must be REMEMBERED and not a thing they do in the next two years is going to change my mind. RINO’s are alive and well in the Lame Duck Congress and will again infest the incoming Congress.

Such infestation must be remedied by we, the voters as we continue to rid OUR party of these parasites ands pest. The DISRESPECT they have for we the voters of November and Conservatives presupposes we are fading away.

Fortunately, we are not fading away, only growing stronger and I wait with eager anticipation as I welcome you all to SW Florida and Tampa in 2012. To the Maine and Tennessee delegates! You all know who not to bring with you! Drop off the RINO’s at Busch Gardens!

And to Senator Graham,.. You are a day late and a dollar short. I don’t think you can catch up in time, so head for the Gardens too!

If Conservatives learned anything since 1994 it is moderation is a CAPITULATION of principle and it has to stop! As for me, I just called the NRSC and asked them to take me off the mailing list. You hear that Mr. STEELE? The RNC better think long and hard when it decides who to give our money to for the 2012 election.

For the life of me, I couldn’t figure it out. I mean they were known as the “Party of No”, and for that they were rewarded by the voters with an epic victory, and Obama and the Democrats were on the ropes. All they had to do was hold out for three more weeks, and they were to have the calvary arrive and things were looking to get even better.

But instead . . . they cave on issue after issue, and now the media narrative is one of historic, epic victories for the President and the Democrats, “the most productive Congress in history”, and the President’s approval ratings on the rise, looking good going into 2011. What gives?

But yes, the RINO’s don’t want to be voting on DADT, START, raising taxes, etc., going into the 2012 primary season. Ah, yes, now it all becomes clear . . .

One thing that was made perfectly clear this year is that the Democrats are afraid to do anything by themselves. They do not want the blood to be entirely on their hands. They need Republican support to blur the issue and keep the electorate confused and ignorant. Look at health care and the backlash they received.
We are better to be in a small united dogmatic coalition, than a big tent squishy coalition. We are better off having Democrats represent their liberal states than RINOs. We should be happy that Castle didn’t win. It was better that we tried and lost with Christine O’Donnell than have Castle as a Senator. My Dad, who doesn’t follow politics closely, is wondering why DADT passed after voting republican in November. I am sure that there is allot of other conservative leaning voters wondering the same thing.

We have been sold a lie. The people who keep telling us to settle for RINOs and liberals are WRONG. We are lucky that Obama was so arrogant on Health Care and dissed the Republicans. I think it is obvious that allot of Republican Senators were against the Health Care Bill more on procedural grounds than on principal. If Obama would have reached out to the Republican Senators and allowed them some amendments, it would have been a different story. These Senators are afraid of anybody who draws clear ideological lines. Clarity is more important here than agreement.

I am through settling for liberal and corrupt candidates. I will fight against the people who tell me I must accept RINOs. They are totally wrong. Angle and O’Donnell were credible candidates simply because they would have been truly conservative. No other credentials are necessary. I am tired of some Republicans actively undermining our candidates. These are the people who keep pushing this power at all cost agenda. That is the philosophy of the Democrats. Please join their side.

With all the crap that went on when the Dems controlled both houses and the WH, we now have a bunch of RINOs in our own party acting like liberals and caving in to Obama. Amazed that Graham is saying anything cause he is a RINO himself. Poster on current Ga GOP is absolutely right, Isaacson and Chambliss have been up there too darn long and that initself is the problem and further stubstantiates there should be term limits. I have said and will continue to say until we fix our own inefficiencies within the GOP we will not be an effective party against liberalism. Everyone doesn’t have college degrees and most of the voitng public really aren’t very smart but a few have a clue and we can tell the difference between BS and what is right and should be happening.
About the only way I can see fixing it without term limits is the voters in the states that have the weaklings to vote them out every opportunity. This is sad to say the least that you cannot trust your own darn party. And yes, Mitch McConnell is a lot of the problem (maybe not all) but he is also the only Republican that voted to say it would be OK to burn the American flag. I know, I am originally from Ky now living in Ga. And I’m a retired servicemember so I surely want’s happy that the Senate voted to not make it a crime to burn our flag that many of my freinds fought and died for. The START is a joke. It now will mean we cannot have a missile defense system to protect our Country, that alone should have been reason to vote against it. Yet you have stupid heads in the GOP who voted for it. They are no different than Snowe, Brown and the others who normally vote with the Dems. Murkowski should be in the Democratic party, she votes for them most of the time anyway. But we have to fix those things in our own party and cannot blame the Dems for things like that.
I just very disappointed in our RINOs and they are not hard to figure out. Hope each of you in the Restate community have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

First of all, “rock-ribbed” conservative Senators like DeMint and Coburn really rolled over. Had they simply demanded that every bill be read, he could have gummed up the Senate until the lame duck was over. Looks like they’re not as fearless as we thought.

I honestly don’t believe Conservatives’ #1 problem is “blue state” Republicans, I think our #1 problem is we simply don’t have enough Republican Senators.

Democrats only had to peel off a few Senators, and on these issues, it was easy to do. On the big issues, I was glad to have the moderates Republicans, like on ObamaCare and Reid’s last omnibus. (Kirk was a big help)

I’m all for having a primary on the squishes, but only if the challengers are CREDIBLE (no Christine O’Donnells) and they’re in true RED STATES that we can’t lose (only a suicidal GOP would primary Scott Brown or Olympia Snowe) In a state like Massachusetts or Maine, it’s either going to be a Republican who’s with you 75% of the time. or a Democrat that’s with you 0% of the time. As a conservative, I’ll take my chances with a moderate Republican over a New England Democrat any day.

A strong primary challenger for Lindsey Graham? Smart. A strong primary challenger for Scott Brown? Stupid. You’ll only install another Ted Kennedy with a seat for life.

“the GOP became the party of capitulation…’

BECAME??

The GOP has been the party of capitulation since 1988, if not sooner. There’s a reason the Democrats are known as the Evil Party and the GOP are known as the Stupid Party — the Evil Party can usually talk the Stupid Party into doing evil things with them.