So Save The GOP readers, I have been trying to do research on this Senate primary in Michigan between Keith Butler, Mike Bouchard, and Jerry Zandstra. I know Bouchard is supposedly the uber-RINO and that Butler was the first Republican elected to Detroit City Council in ages, but what’s up with Zandstra?
Indeed, nearly every robbery report has been followed by calls for petition drives, protests - and more.
Penn undergraduate Cory Bray, who heads the school’s College Republicans chapter and knows one of the robbery victims, has loudly condemned the administration and urged students to apply for concealed-weapons permits.
“If Penn can’t protect us,” he said, “we should be able to protect ourselves.”
We went through this here in Pennsylvania with Specter and Toomey. The RNC, the President, and Senator Santorum came out to stump for a man who constantly stood in the way of a conservative agenda. This year it’s Rhode Island and it’s Chafee and Laffey. The RNC is putting all of their backing into trying to keep a man who votes more times against them than with them. It’s really bad, though, when even the Left wing wack jobs notice it. From the DailyKos
The DSCC has $20.3 million cash on hand, the NRSC is at $9.3 million (and wasting a lot of money trying to kill off fellow Republican Laffey in Rhode Island).
Senator Dole, can’t you see how embarrassing it is when even a crazy nutcase like Kos can see how illogical your efforts are? We have chances to pick up Maryland, Michigan, and even Washington next year, and your wasting your time and energy on Chafee and even the fringe nut left is mocking and laughing at you. This is exactly the reason why the Republicans have raised half the amount of cash as the Democrats. I refuse to give any money to the RNC when I know it will go to help RINOs who don’t stand for my party or my beliefs.
If the GOP gets slaughtered next year we won’t have to look far to see why.
This is still waiting to be confirmed, but the Jerusalem Post is reporting that Zarqawi and fellow terrorists blew themselves up after US troop cornered them in a building. If this is true, it is extremely big news. Zarqawi is the leader of Al-qaida in Iraq and responsible for countless civilian deaths across Iraq and most recently in Jordan. This is the guy who video taped himself cutting the heads of innocent civilians, including several Americans. It is well past time that this guy got what was coming to him.
This is a tremendous article from Human Events that dispels the conventional myths surrounding Jerry Kilgore’s recent loss to governor-elect Tim Kaine. The media, the Democrats and moderate Republicans are touting Kilgore’s defeat as a political failure for conservatism and the Bush agenda. On the contrary: Far from running as an avowed conservative, Kilgore consistently shunned conservative principles throughout his campaign. The other two state candidates in VA, Bill Bolling and Bob McDonnell, won large victories on traditional conservative platforms. Kilgore, however, took unbelievably weak and ambiguous stances on abortion, guns and taxes (You can see this on full display in the first debate with Tim Kaine and moderator Tim Russert). The Kilgore campaign should be a harsh reminder that the Republican Party must embrace, not scorn, its conservativve ideals. Conservative leaders, like McDonnell and Bolling, will always be more successful than spineless, visionless politicians like Jerry Kilgore.
These parts of the article were particularly insightful:
“In striking contrast to his two Republican running mates—and to Bush himself in his winning campaign against John Kerry last year—Kilgore not only failed to deploy the tested conservative issues of taxes, abortion, and guns but actually seemed to run away from them. As one Republican Party leader from the nominee’s own Southwest Virginia home area told me: “Jerry attacked Kaine, all right, but never spelled out what he was in favor of. This was the worst campaign [for governor] that was ever run!”
While Kilgore repeatedly said he opposed any new taxes, he refused to sign the pledge of Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform that puts in writing a vow never to raise present taxes or support new ones. According to ATR spokesman Chris Butler, “Grover and the rest of us repeatedly urged Mr. Kilgore to sign the pledge, but he wouldn’t do it. The conservative Bolling, by contrast, proudly signed the ATR pledge. Noting that Bolling won 40,000 more votes than Kilgore, Butler said: ‘Had Mr. Kilgore signed the pledge, he would have won.’”
Alas. Conservatives should adopt the following rallying cry for the 2006 elections: “No More Jerry Kilgore’s!”