Find Out Which Conservative Governor Wants the GOP To ‘Change Just About Everything’
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is calling on the Republican Party to “recalibrate the compass of conservatism” as the GOP rebounds from painful Election Day losses.
The governor will deliver the keynote address at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting Thursday night in Charlotte, N.C., becoming the latest high-profile conservative from outside Washington to call for fundamental changes inside the GOP.
In speech excerpts released earlier in the day, Jindal says the Republican Party doesn’t need to change its values, but, “might need to change just about everything else we do.”
“We do not need to change what we believe as conservatives – our principles are timeless,” Jindal says. “But we do need to re-orient our focus to the place where conservatism thrives: in the real world beyond the Washington Beltway.”
The GOP is too focused on number-crunching on Capitol Hill, he continues, and not focused enough on economic growth across the nation.
“Today’s conservatism is completely wrapped up in solving the hideous mess that is the federal budget, the burgeoning deficits, the mammoth federal debt, the shortfall in our entitlement programs,” he says. “We seem to have an obsession with government bookkeeping. This is a rigged game, and it is the wrong game for us to play.”
The comments come a day after the House passed a bill to permit the government to borrow enough money to avoid a first-time default for at least four months, defusing a looming crisis setting up a springtime debate over taxes, spending and the deficit. The House passed the measure on a bipartisan basis as majority Republicans back away from their previous demand that any increase in the government’s borrowing cap be paired with an equivalent level of spending cuts.
“The Republican Party must become the party of growth, the party of a prosperous future that is based in our economic growth and opportunity that is based in every community in this great country and that is not based in Washington, D.C.,” Jindal says.
The Louisiana governor’s comments come shortly after another high-profile Republican based outside Washington publicly blasted GOP leadership on Capitol Hill.
One of the party’s most popular voices, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, earlier in the month criticized his party’s `’toxic internal politics” after House Republicans initially declined to approve disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. He said it was `’disgusting to watch” their actions and he faulted the GOP’s most powerful elected official, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Republican officials from across the country are gathering in North Carolina this week to begin shaping a path forward following their party’s November shellacking.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., told reporters on the sidelines of the meeting Thursday that Republicans also need to develop a sound strategy for confronting the Obama administration, suggesting House Republicans could use hearings to expose waste and promote better ideas.
“A lot of Republicans frankly spent the last two years saying ‘Oh gee, we don’t have to do much because after Obama loses we’ll work with the new Republican president.’ Well, that world ain’t there,” Gingrich said. “So now they have to make adjustments. They’ve got to understand that this is a different game.”
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Comments (77)
chips1
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:22pmWhat does he mean “the GOP has to change”? The Constitution is free for all to read. It’s all right there. Too many RINO’s have slipped into the GOP. Sort of like the muslims are doing all over the world.
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Chuck Stein
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:32pmHow about this: the Republican Party folds its tent. All joint the Democratic Party. No more party politics. One party effectively equals NO parties.
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Gorp
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:32pmI knew it wouldn’t be Minnesota even before I clicked on the story.
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ConserveChrist
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 6:11pmLet me just say, if we all re-labelled ourselves as democrats, those stupid ignorant people that vote straight tickets won’t know what to do with themselves.
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Chuck Stein
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 11:36pmYou got it, Conservechrist. Also, the media will have a tougher time attacking conservatives and libertarians who are part of the Democratic Party. The media will have to make the effort of individual targeting. Another benefit: all of the money spent on GOP bigwigs would be spared to run contests in the primaries. With 3-way or 4-way primaries, conservatives and liberatrians would even have a shot in Massachusetts. Let the melee begin.
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tajloc
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 11:27amMaybe the GOP will join the TEA next election.
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Marsh626
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:15pmI’m so sick of this “outsider” crap. The idea that if you work in D.C. then you’re some corrupt moron and if you work outside of D.C. you’re rational and down to earth is completely absurd. It’s these mindless politicians like Jindal spouting the same stupid talking points over and over again that’s the problem. This faux-conservative supports amnesty for illegal immigrants. That’s the last thing the Republican Party and the country needs.
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JohnofOregon
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 10:38pmSpoken like a true in the beltway pot smoking, bribe taking, public trough feeding, Christian hating, gun grabbing, book burning, government worshiping inside the beltway thought.
Outside of the beltway, we do things that don’t depend on government. Think about it.
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hauschild
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:11pmThe minute you begin to change, you’re already behind. It’s a no-win proposition. Just like certain religions feel they have to morph with “the times”, when they do that, they’re already irrelevant.
I think ultimately what people find comfort in is consistency. Here I am. This is what I believe. Take it, or leave it. And, let the chips fall where they may.
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stopprintn
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:20pmHence, the Holy Bible! Peace be with you.
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Freedomlover_US
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:29pmAnd just like the “Holy” Bible, you will walk down the road of irrelevance if you cannot adapt to the times. No doubt there are Republican ideologies worth keeping, but you can’t win elections anymore running on anti-gay marriage or, like this fool, anti-evolution nonsense.
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:49pm.
The Short Bus picks him up in the morning for the short ride to the capitol building…….
He wears his Helmet too………
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Hearmenow2
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:46pmJindal and Christie can run for president and vice president for the democrats. They are nothing but wolves in sheeps clothing.
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Locked
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:52pmI’m thinking the same. I read the title, then opened the article and saw Jindal’s name and went “Wait, what?”
I suppose an argument could be made that he’s a social conservative (he did sign into law the voucher program that allowed state money to pay for vouchers to Christian – and only Christian – private schools… it was later ruled unconstitutional), but fiscal conservative? Not even close.
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AvengerK
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:27pmI think Jindal is right to an extent.
We lost this election contrary to all logic. The economy is in terrible shape, record underemployment levels for over four years, GDP slower than JZS/SENDTHEMETEORS, the middle east in a tailspin, Europe buckling under the weight of it’s entitlement programmes…etc. We beat the “fiscal responsibility and get business moving” drum incessantly yet we lost this election. Why? Because the media can now effectively keep an electorate under-informed and manipulated to dislike whoever the media wants them to dislike. The left is ruthless. Obama’s campaign actually went to the extent of trying to suggest that Mitt Romney was responsible for the death of a man’s wife. Then you had the fabricated “war on women”.
Jindal is right to the extent that the game is rigged right now in the liberal’s favour. So if telling people in Spanish or Mandarin that you can tax every rich person in the country all their wealth and we’ll still be in a lot of trouble, then do it. Over and over. That the medicare they’re relying on won’t be around if we don’t fix it…do it..over and over..in Spanish, in Chinese, in Hindi, in Arabic, in Farsi..whatever it takes but get the message to them.
Obama’s Organizing for America will now become a lobby group. This shouldn’t surprise anyone because all Obama knows how to do it campaign and agitate..to play one group of Americans against another. We need to wake up and change the game.
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lefty5005
Posted on January 25, 2013 at 1:01pmChristie and Jindal are RINO;s. I got a feeling I won’t be voting next Presidential election. There is no one to vote for anymore. This could be good, the demolition will happen that much faster. I want to be still young enough to participate in the post chaos.
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DeVain
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:45pmIMO the GOP’s biggest issues:
1) republicans that have such little believe in conservatism they cave in (RINOs)
2) gutless cowards that are so afraid of being called a name they don’t fight for their (supposed) values and beliefs…by fight I mean both offensively and defensively.
3) they look at the media as allies, or at the very least expect the media to report the truth in context without bias.
Unfortunately, those three describe the leadership. In order to change the GOP we need those guys out and more Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Allen West, Mike Lee, and Marco Rubio in.
If the GOP were wise they would look at history, The democrat party was almost gone in the 1890s. There was an upstart party called the Populists Party. The democrats took the populist platform as their own and effectively absorbed them and reinvented themselves. I think the GOP needs to reboot in the same manner by absorbing the TEA Party platform (which is closer to conservatism).
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Stelex
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:24pmIts time to leave the GOP behind, its been co opted. Its no longer a conservative movement any more than the Dems are my granddaddy’s democratic party. The left and right paradigm are to keep us occupied. The illusion of democracy keeps the sheeple in line. We Have No Representation In Washington. Thats a fact.
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:45pmA good start will be to stop talking about how nice it would have been if Hillary was President? Excuse me Mr. Limbaugh, operation chaos is over, that tornado came and went, and we are not in Kansas anymore?
The Democrats have their own operation chaos, it’s called the High Information voter, where voters are fed massive amounts of limited information on the evening news, other sources, and blogs, and any discussion that attempts to go beyond those parameters targets you for being black listed by social media? The only way to counter the Democrat manipulation of the high information voter is to develop massive amounts of high information, starting with how many are fleeing NY and California taxes?
The Republicans need to get human shields plucked out of Kindergarden getting on camera, saying I don’t care if you are gay, but please don’t spend my earnings today, and don’t call gay marriage a marriage? What happens when conservatives don’t compete? They cease to exist? What are liberals doing, yanking their kids out of school, putting them up in front of the cameras as human shields, and yelling fire in the theatre trying to get your imagination filled with anxiety and fear?
Compete, or loose, that is the question? Let social media black list you, or fight back?
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soonan1
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:43pmI want to know just what they want to “change” before I agree with anything they do. Another party went for hope and change and look what it got us.
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avgconservative
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:37pmBeen a Republican for 30+ years. I’m through with them. The Elitist Rino has killed the party. I’m now independent, waiting on a true conservative party to form. The Governing Elite will never be conservative. They are focused on winning elections more than being conservative and defining the basic tenets of conservatism. Jindal is right… these tenets are timeless.
They will work in the new party, and the Grand Ole Party will dwindle into the Democratic psychological nightmare they are.
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circleDwagons
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:44pmJust joined the party, Ron Paul republican. Not going anywhere
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:06pmvote for the best person on the ballot.
allow the 3rd party candidates to compete
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@leftfighter
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:33pm“the shortfall in our entitlement programs,”
Why are they focusing on the shortfall rather than the negative effects the programs themselves cause?
“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.” ~Ben Franklin
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RaydocX
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:41pmspot on…
government SHOULD provide a safety net…
but permanent dependence on that net as a home or as provision for one’s life should trigger change… everyone can do something, and there are always jobs that most people don’t want to work… the argument that ‘no on will do it, that’s why illegals come and work’ should not apply to people chronically on unemployment… they can work those jobs, and if the jobs are so bad, they can CHOOSE to better themselves and their life and be away from the less desirable work and government support.
Tenure should never be a part of government service for the recipient or the provider.
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Winedude
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:13pmHey, the best thing that I can do for poor people is to not become one of them myself….
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integrity101
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:31pmI think Jindal’s point is, “he who has power has the last laugh”. If we don’t do a better job of “packaging” our message we will not get conservatives elected. Once we get enough of our guys into office, then we can debate the details amongst ourselves. Please stop throwing the baby out with the bathwater. If you look at Jindals record his actions say he is a conservative, his words say re-elect me I’m for everyone.
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Norm D. Plume
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 7:16pmWhat benefit a man if he gaineth the world, but loseth his soul?
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chucksue351
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:31pmif we ignore something long if enough maybe it will go away, government included
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RaydocX
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:28pmif GOP puts up a reasonable ‘you become a citizen with the mandatory payment of a penalty of XX paid over YY years… due to the time living with our government supported benefits (health care…yes ER care is free if you can’t pay, roads/ community services, police protection, etc), AND if they couple that to an immediate and solid border closure (it was done in Berlin and the Eastern bloc for 30 years… it’s done now in Iran and Turkey and Syria and North Korea, it CAN be done), welcoming new citizens would be a solid blow against the all talk but no action of the Dems….
accepting that limited government cannot control personal behavior, dropping the ridiculous protection of marriage (the government doesn’t protect marriage now… look at how many ‘no fault’ states there are for divorce), the arguments over whether a^al between a man and a woman is ok but between a man and a man is a felony, and over PRIVATELY funded abortion (horrible morals, but morals are an individual behavior… just don’t allow federal or state money to fund it and CRIMINALIZE ‘partial birth’ or abortion after such time the infant could survive) would end a host of those who agree with FISCAL conservatism.
then you win back the moral issues by your good behavior and demonstration it is a better way to live.
if you or i put the accountant we use for our tax prep in charge of the government, it would look abyssmal for a year, and then we would begin to dig out… no more games, or a
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soonan1
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:52pmActually, many or most laws are based on morality and to protect it. That is why we have laws on murder, theft, accidents, child abuse, ect. We need certain laws for morality because not to do so downgrades humanity and a nation.
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chips1
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:28pmSOO:
How do you explain Chicago?
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soonan1
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 5:58pmCHIPS1, I don’t think there is any way to logically explain Chicago. That city and its laws are usually a travesty of morality and is run by the immoral. That makes it a joke in the nation and the **** of many jokes. It is not respected. It is corrupt to the core.
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CathyvanDyke
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:28pmObama redefines the evolving meaning of the Constitution in his inaugural address. Jindal redefines the evolving meaning of the Republican Party …the meaning of Conservatism. It appears that prominent conservatives inside and outside of the administration are backtracking on positions firmly held on the issues.
Think about the following interview with Mark Levin regarding “illegal” aliens. Replace “Rubio” with “Imam” and … then replace “hispanic” with “Muslim”. Would conservative Mark Levin “keep an open mind” in regards to a plan to reward over eleven million Muslims with a pathway to citizenship … over eleven million Muslims who choose to disregard the established laws for entering the United States?
A pandora’s box is being open in regards to amnesty for illegals from Mexico. A precedence is being established. All nationalities are going to be demanding equal treatment.
Marco Rubio explains immigration plan to Mark Levin
January 24th, 2013
http://www.therightscoop.com/marco-rubio-explains-immigration-plan-to-mark-levin/
LTC Allen West on Illegal Immigration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmn0mFV7xFs
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SamIamTwo
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:28pmYeah, I think Politics (aka pandering) is over with. Give me someone with the fortitude to stand up and fight the good fight with no regard to the thought of being re-elected!
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M13
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 9:29pmHahahahahahahahahaha Hey ,that’s not funny.
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hesanembarrassment
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:26pmBoehner has 4 mos and then he is out if he does not deliver
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guns-an-bibles
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:35pmLouisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is calling on the Republican Party to “recalibrate the compass of conservatism”
Dir-D-Dir! How long have these idiots been told about all this?!? They are just now figuring this out?
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:25pmas long as we have a two-party system, things will continue to get worse
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guns-an-bibles
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:50pmThe problem with that line is we essentially have a one-party system. The democrats and the republicans are almost alike in most respects with exception to one aspect. The republicans say go a little slower. With both parties being almost a mirror image We are still going in the same direction (down the drain).
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jackact
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:19pmA real conservative at last.
The left still thinks Jindall, Rubio, Cruz, and Martinez are ‘establishment republicans’
They are in for a big shock down the road.
Right about the time the progressives run out of other peoples money there will be a rude awakening indeed.
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Red Meat
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:22pmJindal and Rubio ARE establishment. Wake up.
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bigbear_awake
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:19pmhttp://minutemennews.com/2013/01/lets-do-the-math-how-long-could-the-super-rich-fund-the-entitlement-state/
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Cavallo
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:34pmThere isn’t enough wealth in the whole world to fund their ponzi schemes.
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bioengineer
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:18pmSo in other words, stop trying to cut spending, instead let’s knuckle down and get to work so that Obama’s socialist dream can work. Sorry, I find this tact extremely short-sighted. We spent over $454 BILLION just in debt interest in FY2011. INTEREST! Respectfully Gov Jindall, you don’t seem to understand just how big of a problem this is. We have over 100 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities. In about a decade or so if we haven’t stopped spending, our interest payments alone will consume every tax dollar the government takes in. Anybody who says we need to focus on anything other than the budget is an idiot. Only two things matter, the money and the guns. We need the guns in case we can’t fix the money problem.
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Cavallo
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:40pmIf you murdered and stole all the wealth of every “rich” American, it still would not cover the cost of their ponzi schemes.
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forthepeople
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:16pmI thought Boehner would have the balls to stand up for our ( of the people, by the people and for the people ) core principals ? sadly not for the One whom does We & hHstory will reward !
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cassandra
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:15pmGet rid of the big government azz kissing RINO’s in our party stand up and act like a man to the democrates McCain.Chris Chistey just to name 2
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RoDogg
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:10pmHe’s delusional IMO.
I think most people would be conservative if they weren’t brainwashed.
To me, the only hope for the right is to get rid of public education and fix MSM.
tens of millions of Americans truly believe that the GOP has been holding America back for decades and all the repress women and gays BS. I constantly have to explain to people that its always been the right pushing just causes like womens right to vote and ending slavery etc.
All the good from conservatism in this country has been erased. Now we are just land steeling racists oppressors!
Wake Up Jindal!
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cmsdrizzt
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:23pmI think what Jindal is saying is we aren’t going to win in Washington and we need to take our efforts elsewhere such as the schools and community. We have to set this right for the long run, not just concentrating on stopping what Washington is trying to do right now.
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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:32pmBut, should we fall, we must endure. The world that has been built up is a lie, an illusion, whatever you want to call it. No matter how hard the try to keep it at bay, reality will one day return, and when it comes back it will be a tsunami that will smash all the illusions. The real world is a cold mistress, and it will care little about the sap stories, the “histories of oppression” or the other tripe people hide behind to justify their charge down this foolhardy path.
Remain calm and hold the line.
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:09pmSo the takeaway here is that runaway spending and putting is more in debt than any nation in history is neato cool, as long as we get employment rates up?
Did I miss something here?
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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:13pm“putting is” = “putting in”
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop drinking cough syrup.
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BODYBAG
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:18pmNope you hit it.
Jindal & Christie are LOSERS.
Nothing needs to be changed —- the GOP only needs to find quality True CONSERVATIVE LEADERS.
These people have lost their minds
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Red Meat
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:25pmNo, you didn’t miss a thing. Jindal is one of the big government establishment Pubs. Make no mistake about it.
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@leftfighter
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:37pmThe 5000 Year Leap put it this way:
One party is to be the wing of problem solving, the other to be the wing of conservation. The problem solvers come up with the ideas while the conservationists are more concerned with what the solutions’ effects would be on debt, deficit, and the erosion of liberties. (paraphrased)
The problem here is, both parties have become problem solvers and only a minority of one party is truly concerned with debt, deficit, and the erosion of liberties.
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soybomb315_II
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:41pmdeep down, they know that to give us our freedom back would require them giving up power…..aint gonna happen
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AvengerK
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:44pmJEFFERSON….I think Jindal’s on the right track but he may be coming at it from a bad angle.
It’s clear from the last election that the media keeps the public uninformed enough and angry enough at conservatives that it can sway elections. This is why “the economy” wasn’t important to them. You and I and the informed voter know that we’re looking at some very serious consequences if we dont’ get our fiscal house in order. But the “low information” voter doesn’t understand it. It has to be made personal to them…if that means telling them in Spanish that if we dont’ make the necessary spending cuts you won’t have Medicare then tell them in Spanish. Tell them there’s not enough money among “the rich” to tax and fix the problem and tell them over and over again. Do you see my meaning?
I’ve always maintained that Obama will be more dangerous out of office than while in it because he still has to get around the constitution while in office. Sure enough…as if to prove me right, Obama’s Organizing for America will now become a liberal lobby group..with the full weight and inside track of the presidency behind it. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/18/Obama-campaign-becomes-lobbying-group Obama is and will never stop being an agitator. Liberals rely on Conservatives being “conservative” we have to turn that around, we have to be as single minded and ruthless as the left. Jindal is right when he says the game is rigged.
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biohazard23
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:46pm@Ghost, cough syrup… LOL!!!
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Red Meat
Posted on January 24, 2013 at 4:05pmI wish both of these establishment progressives well with the politics within their dead party.
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