NuRayZ said:
Just a couple of questions.
What is with all the bickering in party, and who do you think should be the next republican nominee for presidency? I’m sure ya’ll have heard about the whole Rush Limbaugh thing and Steele pathetic apology. Steele is the NRP leader, but republicans (including Limbaugh) are saying he’s not the leader of the Republican Party, I don’t get it. Most of this seems like the media blowing things out of proportion, but it seems like the GOP is losing it’s image. Hell now that I think about it, the republican that comes to mind when I think of “what a republican is”, isn’t what most republicans consider republican. Just curious what is the ideal republican?
Steele apologized because he made pretty hateful remarks to someone that over 1/3 of his party listens to everyday on the radio. It was extremely stupid and while Rush isn’t the party leader he is the de-facto head of the Conservative movement, a group the party cannot alienate if they intend to like, you know, get more votes than the Green Party in the next election. There’s no reason these two guys can’t be friends and my opinion is that Steele was just upset that someone else has more support from the foundation of the party than he does. Also, no one can really remember how or why he was made the party leader, this doesn’t help his standing either.
The deal with Rush and Obama is just the media blowing smoke to distract from the economy going down the toilet on Obama’s watch. Rush didn’t say he wanted Obama to fail, he said he wanted his socialist policies to fail. What the media can’t grasp about this the rest of us will never know. This entire media circus is about tying Rush to the republican party and then dragging him through the mud hoping it’ll make the party look bad. Those who don’t watch CNN/MSNBC don’t really get bombarded by this sort of liberal media bias, and that’s what it is at this point because this really isn’t anything new and it’s been said prior to Rush by many others in the conservative party. The media will run this through the pipe until either people start to realize that’s it’s not true or they change channels out of pure disgust at the same story reported over and over in slightly different vocabulary. Meanwhile REAL stories like judges being able to rewrite mortage agreements as they see fit and Obama’s new socialized healthcare initiative will be ignored.
And as far as leadership, the party has no leadership right now. We’re in the same boat as the democrats back in 2000 and 2004 and it’s going to take more than a few months to get our bearings again. What the party needs now is someone with a solid conservative background and the willingness to weed out those in congress who are registered republicans but voting democrats. That’s the one thing that seperates the two parties, the democrats are united in how they vote while the republicans have no idea who is really with them and who isn’t. We’ve fixed this problem in the House over the last few weeks but the Senate borderline republicans are still being traitors to their party and until we can get that negative influence out we won’t recover.
/end rant