DeMint's Quest

He's looking for a combination of Ronald Reagan and Winston Churchill.

Sadly, not one single candidate so far talked about on the GOP side matches this descrpition, or even comes close.  Well, exceopt for the junior senator form South Carolina himself.  He's unquestionably right about his claim that the party will be dead if it once again falls from its conservative principles.  We are getting a rare second chance, thanks to the gigantic overreach of Barack Obama, to prove to the country we are what we say we are.  We aren't Charlie Crist or Arlen Specter or Lisa Murkowski . . . we are Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, and Joe Miller.  We are a diverse group that are coming together if we are allowed too.  Look at the GOP's slate of candidates up and down the ballot, never has it been more diverse.   

Comments

[200 Grande]

Hopefully, the Republicans are no longer George W. Bush and that old neocon hive of globalist "free" traders.

Yeah, right.

[Paul Winston]

Neocon. Is that an antisemetic codeword for Jews?

[Chris]

pretty sure Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney aren't Jewish

[Ron]

Mike Pence might make for a good candidate.

[Brian W. Schoeneman]

I'd like to see Paul Ryan run.

[Dan]

Brian, I wouldn't look for Ryan to run. He holds a safe seat. Why would he give that up to run for national office on a platform of doing away with Social Security and MediCare? Not something likely to meet with success.

He's a nice young guy. And I suspect he is smart enough to know that his views aren't shared by anything close to a majority of the American people. I expect he'll stay in his safe House seat.

[Ron]

Social Security and Medicare will do away with themselves without Paul Ryan, Dan. You do realize that these programs are going bankrupt and will take the country with them, right? Oh, yeah, you can just "Tax the rich" and all will be well! Unfortunately, such views, as you might say, are not shared by anything close to a majority of the American people.

[Jonah Kennedy]

We should just tax morons and idiots. Between Dan, local gop, the unions, and the Dems, there's plenty of them to finance the government run Ponzi schemes like Social Security and Obamacare. Let's spread their income around.

[Dan]

Jonah, rather than call other people idiots you might encourage the politicians who share your views to have the integrity to run on their true beliefs. To have an honest debate and let the voters decide.

The Republicans have wanted to abolish Social Security since its inception. If you can get a majority of the American people to agree with that then knock yourselves out. But the American people aren't with you on this. Not by a long shot.

You call Social Security a Ponzi scheme. I suppose that since, beginning in 1935, the benefits of the original benefit recipients had to be paid by those currently working you could stretch the meaning of a Ponzi scheme and apply it. But this highly popular program is going into its 76th year of existence. About a third of the time our Republic has existed. At what point does it cease being a ponzi scheme and become one of the greatest programs we have ever had in this country?

Perhaps never in your fevered right wing view. But in the view of millions who were able to live in dignity in their later years or were still able to go to college after the premature death of a parent or who didn't have to beg in the streets after suffering a major disability it is no Ponzi scheme. It is a valuable part of our nation's social fabric worth defending against those who are fine with the idea of the streets of American cities looking like a third world country.

Social Security is not going bankrupt either. Despite the best efforts of politicians in both parties to loot it for funds.

Please. Campaign on what Republicans really believe in. Campaign on abolishing Social Security and Medicare.

[Ron]

Gee, Dan, what is your plan for the day after tomorrow? Never mind, you wouldn't understand the literary reference . . .

Social Security, for all practical purposes, robs from black males and gives to white females. The program is completely unsustainable. Just because it has "worked" (by providing a rate of return similar to keeping money in a mattress) for 76 years does not mean it (or Medicare) will be able to pay its obligations in the future (even assuming politicians do not loot it for funds).

But go ahead, read your labor union talking points (unchanged since the 1930s) and keep your head buried in the sand. Yeah, THAT'LL work! Sure easier than admitting that you have no ideas (besides name-calling).

[Jennifer Olazalbo]

Ron,

Come November, Dan and his gang will be crushed. They must never be allowed to govern again. That's what the Founders meant by the need for eternal vigilance.

This is an existential contest. We must remove them at the ballot box before they destroy the Republic.

And I expect Dan and his ilk will resort to violence when their plans are thwarted. These are not nice people. The Unions and ACORN-type groups will attempt to provoke riots and mayhem. I hope the police are ready.

[local gop]

dan,
there is no point.

i'm pretty sure half the 'posters' are the same person making multiple posts anyway. the names are too odd and the posting times are sometimes within a few minutes of each other. it certainly wouldnt be the first time.

[Froma Harrop]

Odd names? Odd from whose perspective? Are you also a bigot? What is your name local gop?

[Another odd name]

There no point in arguing with stale Statists like Dan and Local. Very odd creatures to be loitering on a conservative blog.

Their type will be extinct in a few months anyway.

[local gop]

froma,
everyone knows who i am, pay attention next time.

i see the ist and ism people are back.

[Agatha Ingstrom]

WTH are you talking about local gop? You may be a legend in your own mind. But, in mine, you're just a weird ist or ism perv.

And just who do you think you are anyway?

[Jim Graves]

Agatha,
A local perv for sure.

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