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Should The GOP Have A Moderate Wing?

Should The GOP Have A Moderate Wing?

  • Yes

    Votes: 11 61.1%

  • No

    Votes: 7 38.9%
  • Total voters
    18
disneydude said:
No. The Republican party should stay true to their base of the last couple of decades. The GOP should shun the Goldwater Republicans and focus on the Rush Limbaughs, Sara Palins and Mike Huckabees.
The GOP will continue to lose elections unless they realize that they need to move further to the right-wing and embrace the fundamentalists and evangelicals.
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The biggest problem with the GOP is the focus on socially conservative issues and forgetting about what the real problem at hand which is this countries economic woes. GOP needs to embrace the Goldwater republican, and shun the Rush's, Palin's and Huckabee's.

The socially conservative are the time of the past, we need to embrace canidates that are truly FISCALLY responsible.
 
disneydude said:
No. The Republican party should stay true to their base of the last couple of decades. The GOP should shun the Goldwater Republicans and focus on the Rush Limbaughs, Sara Palins and Mike Huckabees.
The GOP will continue to lose elections unless they realize that they need to move further to the right-wing and embrace the fundamentalists and evangelicals.
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subtle sarcasm, I like it....:lol:
 
What it desperately needs is a strong LIBERTARIAN wing.
 
ronpaulvoter said:
What it desperately needs is a strong LIBERTARIAN wing.
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It can have whatever wings you want, but I want a moderate rudder....fiscally conservative, socially responsible.....
 
thabigred said:
The socially conservative are the time of the past, we need to embrace canidates that are truly FISCALLY responsible.
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The GOP has no interest in fiscal "conservativism". The GOP has become and should continue to be the party of social conservatism. Screw the moderates and the Goldwater Republicans...embrace the Limbaughs, the Hannity's and focus on the extreme right-wing base.
 
disneydude said:
The GOP has no interest in fiscal "conservativism". The GOP has become and should continue to be the party of social conservatism. Screw the moderates and the Goldwater Republicans...embrace the Limbaughs, the Hannity's and focus on the extreme right-wing base.
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Well that sounds like the gameplan if we want more democrats in office, we will see where the future takes us. I think you are pointing out more what they are more likely to do than what they need to do.
 
Disney, I'm trying to keep a serious conversation here. Please stop trolling, no matter how well intended.
 
disneydude said:
The GOP has no interest in fiscal "conservativism". The GOP has become and should continue to be the party of social conservatism. Screw the moderates and the Goldwater Republicans...embrace the Limbaughs, the Hannity's and focus on the extreme right-wing base.
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You fellows persist in mis-labeling the Republicans, the GOP and Conservative leaders.

Limbaugh is a staunch Conservative.

It's like you are calling non-fat milk, "regular." Or calling buttermilk, "2%."

Limbaugh led the fight against illegal aliens, opposed Medicare, opposed spending, he came to the aid of Republicans who were against the spending, he opposed the idea that we were more friendly with our enemies than our friends, he opposed steel tariffs, campaign finance reform, the education bill and the TARP bailout bill. He opposes Socialism and supports Capitalism. He supports tax cuts to energize and grow the economy, the only way to get us out of this mess.
 
I don't think parties should have "wings" at all. A person doesn't become a Republican unless that person thinks that his or her own unique reason for joining is enough justification for looking past the parts of the platform which he or she disagrees with. You cannot so easily separate these people into two distinct categories.

Or, more concisely, if the Republican Party didn't allow moderates in, I'd be out of a party.
 
I voted "no" in this most silly of polls..I do not care for the Republicians nor the Democrats..let the Reps be right-wing radicals, it will cause their demise to be quicker and more complete...
 
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