“Democrats can neither control nor predict whether our GOP counterparts are really ready to play chicken with the U.S. economy. But we can assure the American people that our party takes the nation's faith and credit seriously.” PeoplePlayNationsPartyEconomyReadyDemocratCreditChickensCounterpartsGop Author:Peter Welch
“No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.” WinningPartyRepublicanBetrayalBetrayFilesGop Author:Grover Norquist
“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.” IfsMenWorldFirstsWarRealPoliticalNationsSocialGoalPartyCommonExistenceStepsClassEconomicRepublicanBasesDenyCorporateAcknowledgeElitesFirst StepsNurtureRepublican PartyPolitical SystemsCommon ManGopSocial ClassBacklashCorporate WorldClass System Author:Thomas Frank
“We need a Republican Party that shows up on the South side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs, 'We are the party of jobs and opportunity! The GOP is the ticket to the middle class.” NeedsShowsJobsOpportunitySidesPartyClassMiddleRepublicanSouthMiddle ClassChicagoTicketsRepublican PartyLungsGop Author:Rand Paul
“I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!” KnowsIdeasWarStatesPartyStupidRepublicanSlaveDemocratRidiculousCivil WarNecksRacistFlagsHung1960sGopConfederateConfederate FlagDuring The Civil War Author:Sean Hannity
“I don't really care about the GOPs or the Democratic Party. My point is the people, giving the people truth.” PeopleGivingCarePartyDemocraticDemocratic PartyGop Author:Lupe Fiasco
“Gov. Scott Walker, a Tea Party-tinged Republican, is the advance guard of a new GOP push to dismantle public-sector unions as an electoral force.” ForcePartyRepublicanUnionsTeaTea PartyWalkersGopPublic SectorCollective Bargaining Author:Howard Fineman
“I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.” ThinkingLittlesRealityPoliticalPoliticsWinningPartyGenerationsRepublicanTransformationStrategyLifetimeEdgesIdeologyVotingRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesGop Author:Rand Paul
“The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.” ThinkingCountryRealityPartyMovementRepublicanPartnersTeaTea PartyGopTea Party Movement Author:Michael Steele
“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.” IfsWantNeedsPresidentCommunitySimplePartyBehindsGroupsEconomicWorstSeriousPoliticianRepublicanActivityCrisisDemocraticBillionsErasPostsNeighborhoodUrgesVotersMinimumRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStimulusHeadlinesPartisansGopPalsEconomic CrisisAcornsRegistrationCommunity OrganizingVoter Registration Author:Mark Steyn