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	<title>Comments on: Rush To Chairman Steele &#8220;Where Are Your Guts?&#8221;&#8211;UPDATED</title>
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		<title>By: Caffeinated Thoughts</title>
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		<dc:creator>Caffeinated Thoughts</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Rush vs. Steele...&lt;/strong&gt;

I need to rant a little over the whole Rush Limbaugh - Michael Steele controversy.
Some of the GOP dissatisfaction has focused on new chairman Michael Steele, who has delivered a string of gaffes on television, while not putting much infrastructure in ...</description>
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<p>I need to rant a little over the whole Rush Limbaugh &#8211; Michael Steele controversy.<br />
Some of the GOP dissatisfaction has focused on new chairman Michael Steele, who has delivered a string of gaffes on television, while not putting much infrastructure in &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: LEARNED FOREVER</title>
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		<dc:creator>LEARNED FOREVER</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wowsers! Some of you so-called conservatives are touchy,
touchy, t-o-u-c-h-eee! Cool your jets. Obama is just 6wks
into the dream job, and he&#039;s giving everybody a huge dose
of Undeluted Liberal Fantasy Derangement. He&#039;s giving 2/3rds
of the country its first political, near-death-experience: American Socialism on the prowl!!! Its real, its ugly, its Obama.

Give Steele time. Maybe he stumbled, recently. He&#039;s got potential. He&#039;s not the enemy. Jindal stumbled. He&#039;s only 37yrs old. He&#039;ll get better. Palin is the my favorite. Easily. But. She needs to work hard -- real hard -- on presentation, the same way Thatcher did in the 70s. 

Update...Obamas Foreign Policy, Ice Princess Czar, Hillary,is using &quot;Smart Diplomacy&quot;;  telling the Gaza-zoids, that if they rebuke Hamas, they win a billion dollars!! The Ice Princess doesn&#039;t realize bribes only work with Democrats. Her message to the world: Wimps-R-Us. Hippies, rule. If you&#039;re going to San Francisco...wear some flowers in your hair!

4yrs is a long time. Enjoy the ride.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wowsers! Some of you so-called conservatives are touchy,<br />
touchy, t-o-u-c-h-eee! Cool your jets. Obama is just 6wks<br />
into the dream job, and he&#8217;s giving everybody a huge dose<br />
of Undeluted Liberal Fantasy Derangement. He&#8217;s giving 2/3rds<br />
of the country its first political, near-death-experience: American Socialism on the prowl!!! Its real, its ugly, its Obama.</p>
<p>Give Steele time. Maybe he stumbled, recently. He&#8217;s got potential. He&#8217;s not the enemy. Jindal stumbled. He&#8217;s only 37yrs old. He&#8217;ll get better. Palin is the my favorite. Easily. But. She needs to work hard &#8212; real hard &#8212; on presentation, the same way Thatcher did in the 70s. </p>
<p>Update&#8230;Obamas Foreign Policy, Ice Princess Czar, Hillary,is using &#8220;Smart Diplomacy&#8221;;  telling the Gaza-zoids, that if they rebuke Hamas, they win a billion dollars!! The Ice Princess doesn&#8217;t realize bribes only work with Democrats. Her message to the world: Wimps-R-Us. Hippies, rule. If you&#8217;re going to San Francisco&#8230;wear some flowers in your hair!</p>
<p>4yrs is a long time. Enjoy the ride.</p>
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		<title>By: J David</title>
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		<dc:creator>J David</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>All of the lefty trolls hypocritically snickering about Rush getting hooked on *not being in back pain 24/7* isn&#039;t going to mean very much when THEIR admitted hard-drug abusing Indonesian illegal alien communist president legalizes all drugs. Then all of lefty dopers laughing at Rush while trying to legalize will have to look for some other issue.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All of the lefty trolls hypocritically snickering about Rush getting hooked on *not being in back pain 24/7* isn&#8217;t going to mean very much when THEIR admitted hard-drug abusing Indonesian illegal alien communist president legalizes all drugs. Then all of lefty dopers laughing at Rush while trying to legalize will have to look for some other issue.</p>
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		<title>By: Greg</title>
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		<dc:creator>Greg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The controversy about Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh (who I don&#039;t really particularly listen to anymore) is more than about Rush.  When the liberal talk show host said that CPAC looked like a bunch of Nazis Michael Steele nodded in agreement.

Some said his nodding wasn&#039;t in agreement with that statement but still at the very least he was quiet and did not speak out against that outrageous statement.

This is more than about Rush the person. This was about the speech he gave and if you listened to the speech and agree with it then it is not only Rush but you, and all other grassroots conservatives that Michael Steele has rebuked in the harshest of terms.

Well, if that is the way the &quot;leader&quot; of the GOP feels about me then I say no, no, no, not God Bless the GOP, GOD DAMN the GOP. It isn&#039;t the party I thought I knew!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The controversy about Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh (who I don&#8217;t really particularly listen to anymore) is more than about Rush.  When the liberal talk show host said that CPAC looked like a bunch of Nazis Michael Steele nodded in agreement.</p>
<p>Some said his nodding wasn&#8217;t in agreement with that statement but still at the very least he was quiet and did not speak out against that outrageous statement.</p>
<p>This is more than about Rush the person. This was about the speech he gave and if you listened to the speech and agree with it then it is not only Rush but you, and all other grassroots conservatives that Michael Steele has rebuked in the harshest of terms.</p>
<p>Well, if that is the way the &#8220;leader&#8221; of the GOP feels about me then I say no, no, no, not God Bless the GOP, GOD DAMN the GOP. It isn&#8217;t the party I thought I knew!</p>
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		<title>By: mike.musculus</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike.musculus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Big Dave, you&#039;re correct about internal strife.

And Mat, exactly so.
Question:
What moron listens to his enemy&#039;s advice on how to win battle?

Answer:
Currently the GOP leadership.

Lets put the exhalations of the squishies aside  --  simply ignore them. Conservs are the mainstay of the GOP: look at the fund-raising graph after McSquishy drafted Palin. It went from low &amp; flat to an almost vertical climb.

At this point, perhaps we **should** listen to the Bens &amp; Steeles. If we&#039;re not wanted, lets take our money &amp; organizational skills and leave. If they&#039;re correct about our tiny footprint, why object? Why scare us w/&quot;vote 3rd party and eeevviiiillll so&amp;so(D-Socialist) will win!&quot;  If we&#039;re insignificant, it won&#039;t matter...

Unless, of course, they&#039;re *lying* to us... You know, just to keep their power...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Big Dave, you&#8217;re correct about internal strife.</p>
<p>And Mat, exactly so.<br />
Question:<br />
What moron listens to his enemy&#8217;s advice on how to win battle?</p>
<p>Answer:<br />
Currently the GOP leadership.</p>
<p>Lets put the exhalations of the squishies aside  &#8212;  simply ignore them. Conservs are the mainstay of the GOP: look at the fund-raising graph after McSquishy drafted Palin. It went from low &amp; flat to an almost vertical climb.</p>
<p>At this point, perhaps we **should** listen to the Bens &amp; Steeles. If we&#8217;re not wanted, lets take our money &amp; organizational skills and leave. If they&#8217;re correct about our tiny footprint, why object? Why scare us w/&#8221;vote 3rd party and eeevviiiillll so&amp;so(D-Socialist) will win!&#8221;  If we&#8217;re insignificant, it won&#8217;t matter&#8230;</p>
<p>Unless, of course, they&#8217;re *lying* to us&#8230; You know, just to keep their power&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Mat</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree with Big Dave,

Internal strife is good for the party.  It sorts things out and makes issues clearer.  Simply sweeping the problems under the rug is what got us into this position in the first place.  RINO attitudes didn&#039;t help us in the last election and it won&#039;t help in future ones.

If anything, this is exactly the time for internal strife because, let&#039;s face it, there&#039;s very little that we can do for at least a year.  I&#039;d rather have it out now than later on next year when people are trying to get elected.  Who knows, maybe the Republicans will actually get their act together and start being, well, conservative. 

As for what the liberals think, who cares?  I want them to fail (oops, I said a big meany thing).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree with Big Dave,</p>
<p>Internal strife is good for the party.  It sorts things out and makes issues clearer.  Simply sweeping the problems under the rug is what got us into this position in the first place.  RINO attitudes didn&#8217;t help us in the last election and it won&#8217;t help in future ones.</p>
<p>If anything, this is exactly the time for internal strife because, let&#8217;s face it, there&#8217;s very little that we can do for at least a year.  I&#8217;d rather have it out now than later on next year when people are trying to get elected.  Who knows, maybe the Republicans will actually get their act together and start being, well, conservative. </p>
<p>As for what the liberals think, who cares?  I want them to fail (oops, I said a big meany thing).</p>
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		<title>By: Big Dave</title>
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		<dc:creator>Big Dave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Everyone seems to think this inside strife is bad for republicans and conservatives.  I happen to think it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY if conservatives are ever going to win anything.  We cannot go on and on with Liberal Lite and the Washington Syndrome and expect to be taken seriously by our own voters OR by interested independents.. if we&#039;re not DIFFERENT from them, on PRINCIPLE, we are NOTHING.  We&#039;ll never beat them by trying to be versions of them.

IF conservatives must rise up, battle the less principled on our side and defeat them, the sooner the better, I say.  And in spite of his claim to inarticulacy and error, Steele knows, and I know, his &#039;nazi&#039; agreement and his &#039;incendiary and ugly&#039; definition of Rush&#039;s show are core instincts on his part.  He reveals himself when he is not on guard against doing so (to our own side, that is).  He is either totally wind-driven and unanchored, or he&#039;s at heart a liberal.  Either way, he is not committed to leading conservatives, only republicans.  He does not lead ME, and he cannot ask me for money next cycle.  I&#039;ll wait for people who are clearly conservative to ask me to help THEM.  Nothing for Steele.  It does us no good to win if we are just like them.  That&#039;s what McCain would have been this year if he had won.  Little or no difference.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone seems to think this inside strife is bad for republicans and conservatives.  I happen to think it is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY if conservatives are ever going to win anything.  We cannot go on and on with Liberal Lite and the Washington Syndrome and expect to be taken seriously by our own voters OR by interested independents.. if we&#8217;re not DIFFERENT from them, on PRINCIPLE, we are NOTHING.  We&#8217;ll never beat them by trying to be versions of them.</p>
<p>IF conservatives must rise up, battle the less principled on our side and defeat them, the sooner the better, I say.  And in spite of his claim to inarticulacy and error, Steele knows, and I know, his &#8216;nazi&#8217; agreement and his &#8216;incendiary and ugly&#8217; definition of Rush&#8217;s show are core instincts on his part.  He reveals himself when he is not on guard against doing so (to our own side, that is).  He is either totally wind-driven and unanchored, or he&#8217;s at heart a liberal.  Either way, he is not committed to leading conservatives, only republicans.  He does not lead ME, and he cannot ask me for money next cycle.  I&#8217;ll wait for people who are clearly conservative to ask me to help THEM.  Nothing for Steele.  It does us no good to win if we are just like them.  That&#8217;s what McCain would have been this year if he had won.  Little or no difference.</p>
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		<title>By: mike.musculus</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike.musculus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, Bengy:
I&#039;m typing this in on an old PDA from Kunsan AFB, Korea. We are not allowed to use base equipment for politics, so I get along on an old Palm Lifedrive.

When I edit, the field is a single 15 character line and I have to scroll back and forth to edit.

I probably know more about Mr. Lincoln&#039;s party than you could hope to learn unless you gain some humility and sense of the Constitution.

You are correct, however: I registered as an Independent prior to my current TDY back in October -- you know, when the &quot;Only Electable Choice: McCain&quot; stopped trying to win.

So, while I admit I don&#039;t know everything, (after all, that&#039;s what Guiding Principles are for...), and will not pick on someone because they might have an off day and impaired spelling ability, what is your excuse?

Most of the time when people focus in on piciune things such as spelling and imperfect grammar (w/o checker software, after all...) it is because their ideas can&#039;t stand scrutany.

And so it is with your.

BTW:
Search my handle on Michelle Maklin&#039;s site. You&#039;ll notice 2 things:
1. I used to post there a lot.
2. This is my natural vocabulary. &lt;i&gt;BTW: I&#039;m sorry if my pedestrian word choices threaten your stunted vocabulary.&lt;/i&gt; [grin]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, Bengy:<br />
I&#8217;m typing this in on an old PDA from Kunsan AFB, Korea. We are not allowed to use base equipment for politics, so I get along on an old Palm Lifedrive.</p>
<p>When I edit, the field is a single 15 character line and I have to scroll back and forth to edit.</p>
<p>I probably know more about Mr. Lincoln&#8217;s party than you could hope to learn unless you gain some humility and sense of the Constitution.</p>
<p>You are correct, however: I registered as an Independent prior to my current TDY back in October &#8212; you know, when the &#8220;Only Electable Choice: McCain&#8221; stopped trying to win.</p>
<p>So, while I admit I don&#8217;t know everything, (after all, that&#8217;s what Guiding Principles are for&#8230;), and will not pick on someone because they might have an off day and impaired spelling ability, what is your excuse?</p>
<p>Most of the time when people focus in on piciune things such as spelling and imperfect grammar (w/o checker software, after all&#8230;) it is because their ideas can&#8217;t stand scrutany.</p>
<p>And so it is with your.</p>
<p>BTW:<br />
Search my handle on Michelle Maklin&#8217;s site. You&#8217;ll notice 2 things:<br />
1. I used to post there a lot.<br />
2. This is my natural vocabulary. <i>BTW: I&#8217;m sorry if my pedestrian word choices threaten your stunted vocabulary.</i> [grin]</p>
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		<title>By: Dex</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think Rush was right and this big tent stuff is crap.  Base the party on conservative principals and let those who agree join in.  Don&#039;t dilute conservartive values and don&#039;t try to be liked by the left, they will never like us no matter how much we capitulate to their ideology.  
Some of the values I am referring to:
Patriotism, 
Compassion, 
Policy based on facts and not feelings, 
Small government, 
National defense, incuding border enforcement
Pro-life,
Fiscal responsability (including balanced budgets), 
First and second amendments and the rest of the constitution.
Who knows, even some Libertarians (former Repubs)will come back on board  
Oh and don&#039;t feed the trolls.  If they come here to have a civil discussion and not an infantile name calling contest, I would be happy to have a discussion with them.
I may be Canadian but I love America!
Oh and I almost forgot be happy and optimistic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Rush was right and this big tent stuff is crap.  Base the party on conservative principals and let those who agree join in.  Don&#8217;t dilute conservartive values and don&#8217;t try to be liked by the left, they will never like us no matter how much we capitulate to their ideology.<br />
Some of the values I am referring to:<br />
Patriotism,<br />
Compassion,<br />
Policy based on facts and not feelings,<br />
Small government,<br />
National defense, incuding border enforcement<br />
Pro-life,<br />
Fiscal responsability (including balanced budgets),<br />
First and second amendments and the rest of the constitution.<br />
Who knows, even some Libertarians (former Repubs)will come back on board<br />
Oh and don&#8217;t feed the trolls.  If they come here to have a civil discussion and not an infantile name calling contest, I would be happy to have a discussion with them.<br />
I may be Canadian but I love America!<br />
Oh and I almost forgot be happy and optimistic.</p>
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		<title>By: Tom</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Donahue,
That’s a great idea; Rush for president. Being, as you so state, that he is a dope head should be a seal of approval for people like you who just helped an admitted drug user to become president.

Also, if my kid’s should get hooked on crack, could you give me way to contact the messiah so he can help supply them?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Donahue,<br />
That’s a great idea; Rush for president. Being, as you so state, that he is a dope head should be a seal of approval for people like you who just helped an admitted drug user to become president.</p>
<p>Also, if my kid’s should get hooked on crack, could you give me way to contact the messiah so he can help supply them?</p>
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