Showing posts with label national council for new america. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national council for new america. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Rush Limbaugh's Gal Joined the New America Club

Rush Limbaugh says the GOP is afraid of Sarah Palin. I think we all are. She's frighteningly incompetent and fringe. I find myself still occasionally thanking my fellow Americans for not electing McCain.
Anyway, Rush has been boasting his gal pal, whom he simply adores. She's the cats pajamas to him.
He says the GOP is afraid of her. But alas, Palin has left Rush to join the GOP boys' New America club, where they gather at pizza places and such and talk about how they're not budging on gay marriage, abortion and other conservative "values" but plan to "listen" to the American people.
A few hours after Rush Limbaugh told listeners GOP leaders launching a Republican re-branding effort hated and feared Sarah Palin, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor announced that the Alaska governor had finally accepted an invitation to join the group.

On a conference call last week for the National Council for a New America, former Republican presidential candidate John McCain said he thought his running mate would probably be part of the effort as well — but there had been no immediate confirmation by her office.

The two groups of key Palin aides — those in the governor's office in Alaska, and at her Virginia-based political action committee SarahPAC — have often given very different messages on her participation in various efforts: Congressional leaders and conservative activists have both announced Palin's planned attendance at major events this year after receiving assurances from one set of advisors, only to learn later from other aides that she hadn't yet made a decision. CNN

Sunday, May 03, 2009

Cantor and Mitt on Council for New America Video

Mitt says the economy fell apart while the republicans were "holding the hot potato." In other words, republicans aren't to blame, they just happened to be holding the hot potato. Cantor says republicans can be against gay marriage, abortion, and be ideologically pure and be a viable party.
Even though polls show support for gay marriage, Neither Mitt nor Cantor are budging. They're off to a good start on their "listening" tour!

Saturday, May 02, 2009

GOP's "Listening" Tour Stops at Pizza Joint

Good idea the republicans have but I'd advise them to heed their message and listen, especially Mitt. Just shut up, quit talking and listen. The democrats aren't the party of the "monarchists." That's a little dramatic and falls into the realm of Michele Bachmann. Read about the council and its "blueprint for our conversation with America" here and here.
The goal of the initiative, called the National Council for a New America, is to connect Republican leaders with voters across the country to help get the party's electoral fortunes back on track.

"Certainly our party has taken its licks the last few cycles, but that's why we're here," House Minority Whip Eric Cantor said Saturday. "The reality is, the prescriptions coming out of Washington right now are not reflective of the mainstream of this country."

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said it's time for Republicans "to listen a little bit, learn a little bit." He advised Republicans to work on the party's message and "not be so nostalgic."

"I would say you can't beat something with nothing. The other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it," said Bush, who praised President Obama's tactical approach to politics and commended his 2008 campaign as "forward-looking."

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney compared the GOP to Americans fighting the British during the Revolutionary War. "We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists," he told the overwhelmingly Republican crowd, saying the Republicans needed to "once again lead the American Revolution." CNN