[GOP] leaders once again believe they can bamboozle the public into
thinking they’re the “party of Lincoln” by pushing forward a few
minority front men or women.

Of course, you won't see Obama making the mistake of hiring minorities. He's sticking with the tried and true, the mighty white Clinton adminstration. Can you say 'retread'?

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Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

   Conservatives are doing fine. The core of conservatism is the principles found in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Last time I checked, those documents are still the same.

   There was no conservative candidate in the just finished election. Sorry.

  I will take you word that Rich is a boob. Not following the link. They get money for the advertisements that will display.

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

The GOP . . . is now more representative of 20th-century South Africa during apartheid than 21st-century America.

[GOP] leaders once again believe they can bamboozle the public into
thinking they’re the “party of Lincoln” by pushing forward a few
minority front men or women..

OK, Frank, let's stipulate that there are few black Republicans (among voters). Why is that?

The Republican party stands for less government, lower taxes and personal responsibity coupled with the freedom to achieve, and rewards for that achievement.

If blacks prefer the Democrats' promises of cradle-to-grave government caretaking, income redistribution and a culture of entitlements, what should Republicans do?  Yeah, I know....be more like Democrats. 

There's only one problem...Republicans will never be able to out-pander Democrats.

   The dems and the media are making a mistake in building up people's expectations of what it means to have democrats in control.  There is a lot of talk about how will the Republicans ever regroup and recover.  Republicans only have to find a decent candidate for the next election.  Whether that candidate is successful is up to the democrats.  In politics it's your own failures that bring you down and your opponants failures that bring you back up.  So the dems have three years to make the country better and (more importantly) happier.  If they fail, the Republican Party will automatically be raised up.  It is doubtful that had jimmie carter been presiding over a contented country that there would have ever been a President Reagan. 

Frank Rich and his ilk are the reason the call for "unity" is such a farce. The media continues to divide the nation. Hatred is high and the "jounalists" love it. Typical "liberal" hypocrisy. Call for unity, while expecting those who disagree with you to simply sit by and take your crap. Ain't gonna' happen, Rich  boy, Obama boy, Emanuel boy, Reid boy, Pelosi girl. Ain't gonna' happen. Until the lefties in politics and the media admit what haters they are, they will get nothing but hatred back in return. Until the lefies admit what racists they are, they will get nothing but racism back. And, unfortunately, like radical Islam, until they stop their own violence, the libs will get nothing but violence back at them. Radical lefties like Rich are, first and foremost, ignorant beyond belief. But until intelligent, informed people stop being apathetic and get involved, our nation will continue to be under the thumb of the fascists from the left. The recent election proves that the left is winning, because people of good will and common sense have sat this out far too long. The lefties are not people of good will, as Rich's words prove, as the attacks on Sarah, and Joe the plumber prove. It is more than simply that they disagree with you; they want to eliminate all your disagreement and create their own America. "Unity" to them means one Godless, valueless, communist/socialist/ fascist state in which they are in charge and you have nothing to say. It is happening, particularly in our schools, our government, and our media. Re-read books like 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Animal Farm, etc. and then look around you. The pigs are in charge and they'll soon begin to "change" the rules. Big Brother just took a trillion dollars of your hard-earned money to give it to his pals, like those at NBC and GE who just got a 139 billion dollar "loan". Every other commercial on t.v. is pushing some kind of drug. T.V. "news" is now an entertaining, mind-numbing propaganda machine. Don't trust any of them; they are the enemy within. Open your eyes and do the very thing they don't want you to do---THINK!  The America our founders envisioned, the America which has become so great by following their principles, is slowly but surely dying. Lambs to slaughter, due to our own apathy and ignorance, and left-wing haters like Frank Rich and company.

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

don't start drinking the kool-aid just because they have an (R) after their name.   Sure Bush has maybe staved off another terror attack, which he should get a 100%  kudos for...BUT... HE HAS NOT BEEN A CONSERVATIVE!!!  If 'we' conservatives start making excuses for the Bush presidency We start sounding like Clintonistas.  Sure Bush has done a GREAT job on terror..BUT an AWFUL job on a war that we should have won 3 years ago, maybe 4 or 5 yrs ago. And lest we forget, it was his daddy that produced this anti-discrimination(sic) policy that is the reason were in the (pickle) that were in now;  vis-a-vis people stomping on crosses for gay 'marriages' etc.

My point is, Bush is hardly a conservative. I'll stand up for him about the war, but not much else.  Illegal immigrants, SPENDING out of control...THIS BAIL OUT!!  hardly a conservative.

I'm just saying, I'll stick up for Bush where and when it's warranted...but, unlike Democrats...Just because he's got an (R) behind his name doesnt make him God. He was better than the alternative, but again, that's why 'most' of us held their noses voting for McCain, we had no choice. WE need a REAGAN REAGAN REAGAN or now a PALIN PALIN PALIN

Dowd's article this morning was equally fatuous, and also impossible (and pointless) to read in its entirety.  I wrote this Comment that stayed near the top in the early hour this morning, 7am, then they deleted it off the public comments for her article:

MDowd:   It's a "cool" idea -- Hillary as Sec'y of State?  And "at long last, the feminist icon".... would have accomplished something on her own, without Bill?    Do you HAVE a left-side in your brain? Do you actually look for "cool" in your political-opinion-formulating process? And, how can she be a feminist icon when, as you admit, she hasn't done anything without her husband's coattails?  You make ZERO sense. A few sentences of an article of yours is all I can handle. You can't expect a sensible person to read more than a few of your sentences.  It's painful.  I have a double or triple non-sequitur limit.   But that's all it takes to get a kick out of your lunacy. You should be an unpaid intern, b/c if you're not, you're being paid WAY too much per brain cell.   -SBourg, Ellicott City MD