Comments on: Steele’s Job in Jeopardy, Again?

By: kyle8

kyle8 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:02:57 +0000

They lambaste the Republican party for being too lily-white and not reaching out to minorities, and then when they do encounter a conservative minority, he is labeled a sell out or uncle tom.

That is pure mendacity.

By: AHALgal

AHALgal — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:55:36 +0000

is rampant! There is such an eagerness to propel blacks to leadership roles within the GOP, we’ve lost the ability to vet candidates (“Oh, it’s OK, he’s black and we need to show that we’re favorable to blacks.”)

In GA, a newly elected county officer ran against a strong candidate and won solely on the basis that he is black. Turns out, the guy was a local Democrat candidate less than 2 years ago. In FL, there is a Senate candidate with thousands of dollars of bounced checks and some unpaid child support. That campaign has been raising money like gangbusters since Nov. 5th.

It’s high time that the GOP stop trying to play the liberal’s affirmative action game. We can’t beat them at their game. We need to play our own!

By: KevinFinity

KevinFinity — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:52:31 +0000

This was just an odd house race but it was billed as both a referendum on Obama and on Steele.

In the end it was essentially a tie, so there was no referendum either way.

By: KCarpenter

KCarpenter — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:39:13 +0000

The fact that it took Tedisco a month to come out against the stimulus, even after all of the house republicans voted against it, is why Tedisco lost.

I do not support the committee members that may have a problem with Steele. Makes me like Steele better than normal.

These committee members are the same folks we have had for years that shoved moderates down our throats. They do not want anyone that may cause a controversy.

The time for moderation is over. I would rather have most of the committee members replaced than Michael Steele.

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:25:02 +0000

Small donations from ordinary individuals are pouring in. This is truly an excellent sign in just a matter of 3 months.

On the “pols”?

if pols = polls; Rasmussens’ 50-50 in Congressional Ballot is not bad at all. It means that we are starting to gain the trust of the independents. Yes it may not be enough to ensure GOP win by 2010, it may be slow, it sure will.

if pols = politicians: To get the youth vote, we have to look for smart and young candidates. WE need to choose younger candidates in the primaries. We lost NY-20 because it’s a battle between 39-yr old Murphy vs. a 68 yr old Tedisco.

By: ddstrain

ddstrain — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:50:25 +0000

Virginia needs a GOP house to ensure that redistricting is evenly treated.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:36:33 +0000

to label Obama as a socialist.

more later

you raise good questions

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:31:33 +0000

It is VERY hard to be a black conservative, much less one that gets elected statewide in a blue state. Add that to his many sterling moments over the years, and I have confidence in him. And I am one that switched to Blackwell near the end and wrote a column chastising him a month or so ago.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:29:17 +0000

And that means that at least, he hasn’t been so bad that he prevented great fundraising.

I have very low expectations of pols, hence my joy when hostages are rescued and money is raised!, despite the existence of pols.

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:26:36 +0000

There are other underlying factors that propel the encouraging donations to GOP.

I suspect that the turnout would be much much better if the RNC Chairman is not Steele.

By: Mike gamecock DeVine

Mike gamecock DeVine — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:14:39 +0000

at all for this loss in blue NY.

By: David Hinz

David Hinz — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:12:36 +0000

we have to take back the township, county and city elections, and state houses. township officials run the various voting precincts — a lot of control over the election process. The Dems control most of the Sec of States, and THEY are the ones who oversee elections — demonstrate OHIO where the SoS allowed park benches as legal residences for Dem homeless voters.

By: David Hinz

David Hinz — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:06:06 +0000

when it first began, but it quickly became obvious that it was counter-productive.

By: Moe Lane

Moe Lane — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:35:33 +0000

If they don’t want to moderate, they should at least provide an option where you can just read the basic article without having to load the comments on it.

By: ddstrain

ddstrain — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:31:27 +0000

Yes, Fairfax County has become a solid Blue on the electoral map. However, I recently attended a meeting where the GOP candidates for those Virginia House of Delegates seats covering Fairfax County spoke.

We have 14 delegate seats in Fairfax. In 2007, Democrats ran 8 (eight) candidate UNOPPOSED. In 2009, there are only 2 Demecrats running unopposed…and there is still time to find good candidates to run in those races. I’m rather pleased that we are running candidates and not just giving the Dems a free pass.

Among the 12 GOP candidates, we have 3 GOP incumbants. We have 3 of the challenging candidates are veterans. One of the vets is also affiliated with a political web developer and who writes occassionaly for Townhall.com. We have a former Commerce department deputy assistant undersecretary. We have a former Fairfax County Board chairman. We have a former DOJ official. All seemed articulate and energized.

I hope to compile bios and policy statements from each of the Fairfax House of Delegates condidates to post online. I also plan to submit written questions to each of them and post the responses online.

Virginia’s governor/lt. governor/AG race is getting the attention, but we also have elections for 100 delegates. These are just as important…and we know Lil Tim Kaine will throw DNC money all over the Commonwealth.

If you don’t have an election in their area this year, please consider helping out some GOP candidates in Virginia.

I will periodically post info about the Fairfax GOP efforts in this election year.

By: Rod_Patrick

Rod_Patrick — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:26:30 +0000

Murphy is a highly-spirited young gun of the Dem’s Party and Tedisco is….

Never mind.

By: Section9

Section9 — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:12:55 +0000

…then he needs to tell us. Great articles by Patrick, Soren, John Henke, et al. But you’ll notice that no conservative heavyweights post over there, at least to my knowledge. It’s Astroturf Country.

The Next Right is supposed to be a site for Conservatives to interact with each other for movement-building ideas. You can’t do that if you’re fighting off trolls all the time.

Patrick and his friends need to moderate the site, ban the trolls, or shut it down.

By: IJB

IJB — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:37:23 +0000

Republican career politicians are *death* to everyone these days, including Republican voters. I can’t think of too many career Republican politicians that I can stomach pulling the lever for these days.

The really important lesson from 1994 is less the ‘contract’ part, than that we ran a bunch of non-career politician candidates. Some of those that got elected didn’t work out to well for us, admittedly, but it was probably only half a dozen out of a several dozen.

I think we need to go back to that. Run Joe The Plumber types. Get ‘em from the Tea Party orgs. Etc.

Because, all I know is, I wouldn’t trust a career Republican politician right now any further than I can throw him/her. These days, they truly are indistinguishable from Dem politicians. (And, frankly, we should primary every one of them – not just Specter and McCain, but EVERYONE OF THEM.)

By: greiner

greiner — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:35:22 +0000

let it be a clean break with a smooth transfer of duties. I would be for that but that is not going to happen. So we should at least look like we are together. It will get us further than if we look like we are fighting

By: pharos

pharos — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:24:18 +0000

Agreed. I generally like the articles on Next Right too but usually skip the comment section.

The leftist trolls there simply highjack most threads and seem to outnumber the legitimate posters 3-to-1.

Not to mention how the trolls post profanity-laden garbage in most cases (i.e. hysterical unemployed nutjob RisingTide) – a good swift ban session has been in order for some time, but it appears no one is moderating it at all.