No joy in Freepville this morning...blaming their losses on Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism"

[Human Torch]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1734655/posts

To: tsmith130

Public Relations incompetence destroyed the GOP. Republicans lost because they took the pious wimp approach to politics. The GOP played politics by Marquess of Queensbury rules of civility, while the Democrats used guerrilla tactics. George Bush is a good man, but he and the GOP were willing to get beat up every news cycle without even a whimper, and that is scandalous. Ronald Reagan was willing to ridicule Democrats and Communists at every opportunity. Bush, like his dear Dad, just wanted to give them a hug. We need FREEPER-approved GOP Candidates without exception. COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATISM IS DEAD

2 posted on 11/08/2006 4:28:42 AM PST by Stallone (Only a Republican Administration Stands Between the Free World and Islamofascism)

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To: Stallone

Bush43's LIBERAL conservatism is dead...I hope!

10 posted on 11/08/2006 4:31:17 AM PST by newfreep

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To: Vaquero

Rove lied to us.

13 posted on 11/08/2006 4:32:42 AM PST by BunnySlippers (Never Forget)

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To: Vaquero
Kristol is probably right; Bush is a compromiser on most issues.
14 posted on 11/08/2006 4:33:12 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye

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To: Stallone

AMEN BUMP! Back to the future with another CONSERVATIVE contract with America.

17 posted on 11/08/2006 4:38:09 AM PST by conservativecorner

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To: Stallone

Public Relations incompetence destroyed the GOP.

Once, just once, I wish Bush would go on TV with a stack of Iraqi documents and clearly and methodically explain to the American people exactly what Iraq was all about.

21 posted on 11/08/2006 4:42:10 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)

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To: Stallone

Republicans lost because they took the pious wimp approach to politics. The GOP played politics by Marquess of Queensbury rules of civility, while the Democrats used guerrilla tactics.

And it was reflected Bush's same attitude in conducting the war in Iraq He is a man of integrity but not up to the job at home or abroad He showed himself way back in the 2000 primary with that dumb Compassionate Conservatism and stayed the course GOP voters fear and hate of the democrats could only last so long I hope all those on this site that castigated us so called Bush Bashers have seen the light Rove ain't no political genius

22 posted on 11/08/2006 4:42:25 AM PST by uncbob

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To: Stallone

Well I agree with you on so many points. Except I have one question...if conservatism always wins (as common sense would dictate it SHOULD), two losses last night sort of belie this dictum. Rick Santorum remained close to his principles and he's such a nice guy. Yet he lost. And what about Bob Ehrlich in Merryland? Here's a guy doing a fantastic job in a solidly blue state yet he was essentially FIRED against an avid airhead, Baltimore Mayor O'Malley. O'Malley accomplished exactly nothing during his tenure as mayor yet the guy gets elected as Governor over a nice guy like Ehrlich. I'll not pretend, at least for now, to not be severely bummed out this morning. As for my hero Rush Limbaugh, he's got some splaining to do. He always says conservative principles win yet THEY DID NOT! Things will look up soon enough, or at least that optimistic part of me whispers in my mind. If God is in his heaven, guys like Ehrlich, Santorum, and Steele will step up to the podium and throw out that entrenched Republican leadership and start infusing some new blood. The way things stand now, the path is paved for a President McCain in 2008. Somehow this depresses me even more. As for Bush, yea the man never sat down in that mighty Oval Office, looked the American people in the eye, and told it like it is on this War on Terror. He let the Dems have that mighty talking point about Saddam's NO weapons of mass destruction. He waffled over the Valerie Plame joke. He gave Kennedy that "no child left behind" joke and he pushed through a Medicare prescription plan that almost no one likes. Bush is no communicator and he had so much power to lay it on the line. Ah well, he'll be gone in two years. Then we'll have President McCain. Oh joy.

40 posted on 11/08/2006 4:52:35 AM PST by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)

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To: tsmith130

President Bush: "I'm sorry I abandoned all my conservative principles and cost my party, and my country, a very important election. I am officially a lame-duck."

4 posted on 11/08/2006 4:29:36 AM PST by GnL

[Binka]

1. Ass Carrots & Fools n/t

[Maggie_May]

2. I like #13

Rove lied to us.

Like that hasnt happen before. LOL

[Human Torch]

7. Scorpion and the frog...

Frog's sitting on the bank of a creek, waiting to swim across. He is approached by a scorpion, who asks if he can ride on his back to cross.

The frog responds "But you're a scorpion, and you'll sting me to death..."

The scorpion says "No, I'd be forever in your debt, and besides, if I stung you, we'd both drown."

The frog thinks for a moment and says "OK."

The scorpion climbs on the frog's back and they swim across the creek. As the frog climbs the bank on the other side, he feels a sharp, burning sensation in his back. He collapses and as he lays dying, he looks up at the scorpion with half-closed eyes and says "You...LIED..."

The scorpion replies "Hey, I'm a scorpion...I sting things."

The Freepers got it all wrong. Rove isn't their messiah. He's just a fat-assed, bloated scorpion, and it was their turn to get stung. They did, and now they;re whimpering about it like the little babies that they are.

:patriot:

[holboz]

3. LOL - GET OVER IT FREEPERS. YOU LOST

hee hee hee - It feels good to rub salt in the wound, just like they did back in 04 and 00.

Recommending because I love it sooooo much.

[The Count]

So...W was too nice? (if Dems win, terraists win" and PR?

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Public Relations incompetence destroyed the GOP.

Once, just once, I wish Bush would go on TV with a stack of Iraqi documents and clearly and methodically explain to the American people exactly what Iraq was all about."

So, the problem was they only put the nuclear secrets on the net, not on teevee. Got it?

[zbdent]

13. That was Bush being "liberal" ... saying that the Dems were

terrorists ...

[YOY]

4. I love this one:

"The GOP played politics by Marquess of Queensbury rules of civility"

In a pig's fucking eye! Putting their evangelitcal issues on ballots and mudslinging when some targets were practically teflon (Webb comes to mind!)

Hey FReeps! THE ADULTS ARE BACK IN CHARGE! NO! REALLY! THIS TIME THE REAL ADULTS ARE BACK IN CHARGE!

[quiet.american]

5. Over 600k innocents dead, millions of lives destroyed, Katrina -- enough said.

"Pious"? "Compassionate"? These people are complete and utter maniacs.

[fidgeting wildly]

6. "Rick Santorum remained close to his principles and he's such a nice guy."

:rofl:

[lizerdbits]

8. Merryland? Lol. NT.

[Catch22Dem]

9. So the pukes have a PR problem???

HAHAHAHAHAHA - I was thinking it was a policy and character problem.

[atommom]

10. So conservativism isn't the problem. It's that the Rs weren't

conservative ENOUGH! Yeah, that's the ticket. :eyes: I'd make fun of them, but the truth is that if they try to save their asses by pulling further right, they will actually be doing the rest of us a favor.

[Torgo Johnson]

11. This one's my favorite

"To: Stallone

Public Relations incompetence destroyed the GOP.

Once, just once, I wish Bush would go on TV with a stack of Iraqi documents and clearly and methodically explain to the American people exactly what Iraq was all about.

21 posted on 11/08/2006 4:42:10 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Democrats are guilty of whatever they scream the loudest about.)"

Bush can't even clearly and methodically explain why 2+2=4.

[badgerpup]

12. I dislocated and broke my jaw when it hit the floor...

"Public Relations incompetence destroyed the GOP. Republicans lost because they took the pious wimp approach to politics. The GOP played politics by Marquess of Queensbury rules of civility, while the Democrats used guerrilla tactics. George Bush is a good man, but he and the GOP were willing to get beat up every news cycle without even a whimper, and that is scandalous..."
:wtf: :wow:

It's not so much the "Bush is a good man"...to be a freeper means that one is awash in the koolaid. This is a given.
It's the using of concepts like 'civility', and 'Marquess of Queensbury rules' along with the GOP all in the same sentence...implying that that the first two are attributes of the third.
Quite the 'oxymoran', wouldn't you say?
:banghead: