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A surprise to anyone?

fff

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Mr. Pawlenty kicked off the conference with a somewhat gloomy appraisal of where things stand for the Republican Party.

“We cannot be a majority governing party when we essentially cannot compete in the Northeast, we are losing our ability to compete in Great Lakes States, we cannot compete on the West Coast, we are increasingly in danger of competing in the Mid-Atlantic States, and the Democrats are now winning some of the Western States,” he said. “That is not a formula for being a majority governing party in this nation.”

“And similarly we cannot compete, and prevail, as a majority governing party if we have a significant deficit, as we do, with women, where we have a large deficit with Hispanics, where we have a large deficit with African-American voters, where we have a large deficit with people of modest incomes and modest financial circumstances,” he said. “Those are not factors that make up a formula for success going forward.”

Well: DUH!

More at the link (includes news about Governor Palin for you Sarah worshipers): :D

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/us/politics/14Repubs.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
 

Lonecowboy

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The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-- Thomas Jefferson

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
-- Sir Alexander Fraser Tyle
 

fff

Well-known member
Lonecowboy said:
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-- Thomas Jefferson

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
-- Sir Alexander Fraser Tyle

The United States is a Republic, not a Democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
fff said:
Lonecowboy said:
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-- Thomas Jefferson

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
-- Sir Alexander Fraser Tyle

The United States is a Republic, not a Democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic

That was a very profound observation, frankie. That changes everything! We're a Republic! Get the checkbook out! :roll:
 

Mike

Well-known member
Sandhusker said:
fff said:
Lonecowboy said:
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-- Thomas Jefferson

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
-- Sir Alexander Fraser Tyle

The United States is a Republic, not a Democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic

That was a very profound observation, frankie. That changes everything! We're a Republic! Get the checkbook out! :roll:

Being a Republic makes us all REPUBLICANS by default. :lol:

No thanks, we don't want Frankie................ :roll:
 

RobertMac

Well-known member
fff said:
Lonecowboy said:
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
-- Thomas Jefferson

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largess of the public treasury. From that time on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the results that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
-- Sir Alexander Fraser Tyle

The United States is a Republic, not a Democracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_republic
Actually we are a representative republic with the representatives elected by a democratic voting process.

For the original post...Mr. Pawlenty is wrong. The problem was that there wasn't a conservative on the ballet.
 
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