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RNC Endorsement

By Robert Stacy McCain on 1.12.09 @ 2:17PM

No, not by The American Spectator, but by Red State. I'd tell you who they've endorsed, but don't want to confuse anyone with those tricky "quote marks."

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Dandapani| 1.12.09 @ 5:05PM

Ken Blackwell MUST be RNC Chair. The Red State arguments for falling back to the current Chair are not convincing enough. We must shed the status quo and reinvigorate the conservative base. Look what Palin did for the McCain campaign. There was no active campaign before Palin. Blackwell would do the same thing for the RNC. I might even refile my voters registration BACK to Repub after changing it to NPA last Feb after the FL primary disaster.

Interloper| 1.12.09 @ 5:39PM

I agree with Red State's second choice, though it should probably be first. Duncan seems least likely to do harm and might even help his benighted party.

Sarah Palin was the major factor in John McCain's loss. Hopefully, Duncan knows that and will not cater to her extremist following.

I am doubtful either black candidate has any chance of winning the NRC leadership, despite their ethnic apostasy. To many of those remaining in the GOP, they are what one of my law school classmates referred to as 'the wrong color' back in the day.

Interested Conservative| 1.12.09 @ 5:52PM

Geez Interloper - you wander around the lot there, but Palin as "a major factor" in McCain's loss? Back in September there was a bunch of economic news if I remember correctly.

And Palin cost him NC and Indiana exactly how?

Good thing his O'ness had VPEOTUS Biden supporting the ticket.

Interloper| 1.12.09 @ 6:04PM

Palin's drag on the ticket began before the economic meltdown, about the time people figured out she is empty-headed, IC. The interviews in which she could not answer even basic questions clued people in.

adams6kids| 1.12.09 @ 7:33PM

Hey Interloper, John McCain's presidential campaign was like a train-wreck in slow motion UNTIL he chose Sarah Palin. She provided the enrgy that made this race competitive. It was McCain gaffe of "suspending" his campaign to go to Washington during the economic collapse. He went back to Washington and did.......NOTHING. Or should I say he supported George Bush's awful bailout plan. After being accused by Obama and the Dems for months that voting for McCain would be like a Bush 3rd term, he supported George Bush. The only reason this race remained competitive is BECAUSE OF Governor Sarah Palin and the conservative base. Otherwise, McCain would have been "Mondaled" (see 1984). Now the record has been set straight.

phesoge| 1.12.09 @ 11:38PM

Get the NEOCONS out of here. Sarah Palin brought nothing to the ticket except more Neo Conservative Crap. The GOP needs to return to its original form if it wants to be a great a party again. Its time to promote what they used to believe in. A Non-Interventipn Foregign Policy (we dont need to be nation building around the world), Limited Constitutional Government (NO MORE BAIL OUTS AND ACTUALLY STOP GOVERNMENT SPENDING DONT CREATE NEW PROGRAMS LIEK THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY), Free Trade (no government managed trade like NAFTA and the WTO) SOund Monetary Policy (END THE FED RESERVE NOW), Free Markets (AGAIN NO MORE BAIL OUTS), and Civil Liberties (NO MORE PATRIOT ACT OR WIRE TAPPING.
"a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate thier own pursuits of industry and improvement"-Thomas Jefferson

The Kingfish| 1.13.09 @ 10:29AM

Palin was a neocon?

J David| 1.13.09 @ 11:02AM

As a *non-entity* and a nothing choice I sure see Palin's name come up, what, ALL OF THE TIME?!

For somebody who's a nobody she is getting an awful lot of space in the range of possible future candidates.

J David | 1.13.09 @ 11:05AM

Everytime I see commenters do several thousand words on how terrible a choice Palin is for the future of the RINO Party, I laugh to myself and say WOW!! She certainly is a THREAT to be attrac`ting this kind of HATE!

J David| 1.13.09 @ 11:07AM

Name recognition, Haters, *name recognition*... Just keep chanting the Palin curses like a mantra for a couple of years so everyone keeps her in the very front of their mind.

phesoge| 1.13.09 @ 11:56AM

Yes Palin is a Neo Con. Much like most of the republican party is

adams6kids| 1.13.09 @ 6:07PM

If Palin is a Neo Con then Obama is a centrist.

phesoge| 1.13.09 @ 10:49PM

her foreign policy is definitely neo conservative. what happened to the republican notion of a non intervention foregin policyy. much like the swiss practive/ what happened to geroge w bushe's promise of no nation building and a humble foreign policy.