Comments on: Why Does This Obama Voter Keep Telling the GOP How to do Things?

By: janis

janis — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:47:48 +0000

This is a man so obtuse that he couldn’t look at Obama’s radical record and realize that he’s a hard leftist radical who would do exactly what he is doing–ruining our country. Even knowing what Obama is doing now doesn’t seem to phase him as he’s still trying to justify voting for the bum.

I’m not compromising to get votes such as his. Doing so just means we’ve thrown away any principles we ever claimed to have. Which is apparently perfectly fine with the likes of you. Worked out so well this election, didn’t it?

By: HappyBunny

HappyBunny — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:29:49 +0000

Toad. Bunny thinks the “we” in your last sentence refers to the “people” who won the last election. You’re certainly part of that coalition.

Go read a comic book. Or watch Hannah Montana. Or play with your HotWheels. Or maybe Dodge-’em on the I5 at morning rush hour.

By: Martin Knight

Martin Knight — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:57:00 +0000

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:16:01 +0000

Their real objective is revealed. Their real intention is to literally split the Republican Party. Rush is like a glue that must be removed.

Although I find Rush’s words against McCain somewhat harsh, I think that Rush has freed himself and his listeners from the “ghosts of the past” (McCain and Bush). Like many of us, Rush is also awaiting for coming of a new real conservative who can unify and lead us again towards victory.

By doing what he is currently doing right now, Rush will not get any credit except for making it clear that we should never listen to what the Left says about us and that not one of the current self-proclaimed leaders is deserving of our trust.

When the right time comes, Rush and the rest of conservatives shall give all our support to that right leader in the near future … without any regrets.

By: bk

bk — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:45:00 +0000

I don’t know that he offers much of anything useful to a conservative, but from him you understand how the left views the right. They see Brooks as what should be a mainstream Republican, and anyone to the right of him is therefore a raving lunatic in their minds.

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:59:54 +0000

the 59 millions+ who voted for McCain won’t smell a rat in such kind of suggestion.

Please don’t assume the 59M are constant believers. They don’t express their views but they are very sensitive to the kind of people you’ve mentioned.

By: robmikpet

robmikpet — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:49:48 +0000

In the roundtable he said “The Republicans want to go back to Reagan to 1982 and that is just dumb”

Rush said it best when he asked “why is it ok for the Dems to use FAILED policies from the 1930′s but the Republicans are wrongly “clinging to Reagan and 1982.

It was one of those times I wish I was on TV so I could look him directly in the eyes and say Mr. Brooks you are truly an idiot.

By: humboldt

humboldt — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:51:09 +0000

I really hope that you are joking. You would rather let the Democrats run things for the next 50 years than let someone with a slightly different opinion than your own be a part of your party?

Remember, the Dems think they stand for liberty and the Constitution too. Terms like that don’t get us there.

Remember too that there is a difference between being a Republican and being a conservative, Most conservatives are Republicans, but not all Republicans have to be conservative, That is the way we win.

By: Jack_Savage

Jack_Savage — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:27:05 +0000

“Name calling and belittling and mockery doesn’t win any new friends and certainly doesn’t win elections.”

It sure went a long way for the Democrats in 2006 and 2008.

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:08:27 +0000

By: tcgeol

tcgeol — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:04:06 +0000

We are fighting the left for the future and soul of our country. Why in the world would we ever want to be like them?

Let those “moderates” go their own way. If they have no concern for our principles, they don’t belong in the party anyway. I don’t care if copying the left guaranteed our victory for the next 50 years – if we don’t stand for liberty and the Constitution, we don’t deserve to win and I wouldn’t lift a finger to help.

By: Alberta

Alberta — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:57:32 +0000

But anytime we even think of applying some ideological consistency tests we are the bad guys.

Lincolns Republican Party had its litmus test…

By: humboldt

humboldt — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:51:42 +0000

Brooks, Frum and RINOs are EXACTLY the people we should be listening to. Afterall, we didn’t get as many votes as they did last time, these are people who are sympathetic to what we believe and are the most likely to switch their vote BACK to Republicans in the next election.

They are telling us exactly what we need to do to get their vote back – the very votes that will bring us a victory the next election.

Why in the world would we NOT listen to that?

I’m not saying I agree with Brooks, Frum, Sullivan, or anyone else all the time or even some of the time. but they are the voters who left the party these last few years and are the most likely to come back to us the next time, if we just accept them.

Name calling and belittling and mockery doesn’t win any new friends and certainly doesn’t win elections.

We don’t have to do everything they say, but we damn sure should be listening carefully if we ever want to be a majority again.

By: larryp

larryp — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:26:20 +0000

and the Donks are expert at it. Obama is saying one thing and doing the polar opposite. It is jarring to have the President constantly running down the economy and the country—Crazy-making!
We need to ignore it. and come out with a PLAN, and each time these goofy statements come out we reply rationally with well-thought out alternative scenario. And then,like in closing a sale, ask if that idea is not bettter than Frum’s article or Obama’s speech (whet ev he says).

Remember when the Democrats want to win they always run to the right.
The donks always put up Trojan-horse candidates that are center-right or right.
and they win! That is the proof that conservative ideas win.

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:35:01 +0000

And Brooks was able to conjure his readers that somehow, the Republicans, have no alternatives.

BROOKS IS A CROOK!

/Sorry. I just can’t resist. I’m gnashing my teeth.

By: HMHaanpaa

HMHaanpaa — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:08:40 +0000

in the game and he wants to keep as much of it as possible. I vote for the ignore proposition and if that doesn’t work…. The “Free Press” has failed to see beyond their nose. They seem to have placed all their bets on the demise of the GOP. They can’t say it, but if they help nudge the demise and it happens, they look like their insights are genius. I think they are too big to fail, and, unfortunately they will get help.

By: baserunr

baserunr — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:03:14 +0000

I would rather go down in flames articulating the principles and ideals I believe in, than live quietly under years of rule by a Party that is the antithesis of everything I believe in. Yes, that might make me the minority for a very long time. But the path that you and Chairman Mao-bama are on leads to ruin, and I cannot and will not stand quietly by as you implore us all to destroy the country. You and your liberal colleagues can destroy the country until your turn is over. And our speaking out against you and your misguided and destructive policies is intended to end your turn as quickly and decisively as possible.

By: Achance

Achance — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:32:36 +0000

they’re Republicans because that gave them the best shot at election at the time. Most don’t actually believe in much of anything but themselves, so it’s not like they lack the courage to stick up for their convictions; they don’t have any convictions. Think local TV anchorperson or the guy who does the tackiest car commercials

The Gingrich Revolution and GWBs two-terms cause the birth of lots and lots of Born-again Republicans at all levels. Our “big tent” theory caused us to adopt them despite the fact that most of them could hardly spell Republican. The Ds don’t have this problem; you WILL pass the litmus test.

By: franklinslocke

franklinslocke — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:02:37 +0000

I agree not to mention these spineless, wimps anymore. Only Libs pay attention to them anyways. The “true” Conservatives need to stand up to these moderates and tell them to sit down and shut up. We did it there way and lost. Now it is our turn. We have candidates that win and ideas that work.

http://franklinslocke.blogspot.com/

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:50:47 +0000

And all the democrats, liberals and some self-proclaimed Republicans (?) commenting in his article were cheering on him. And they glorified him as a faithful servant of Obamaism.

Now, I fully understand Frum’s motive; it will surely be an instant fame if a republican switches his allegiance to Obama.

To summarize the general reactions to Brooks’ article:

1. Republicans lost; they must undergo forced servitude to King Obama’s cool ideas and socialist agenda.

2. Republican Party, having no new ideas and no alternatives, must be re-engineered according to the tastes of its Democrat/liberal opponents and haters; if it fails, it must be split or destroyed to form a new party that is worthy to challenge the Great Imperial Democratic Party.

3. After its destruction, Republican Party must be the replaced by a New Party based on Brook’s visions.

I call it David Crook’s New KoolAid Party.

Brooks’s article is an EPIC FAILURE.