Comments on: Thoughts on the RPV Convention http://bearingdrift.com/2008/06/01/thoughts-on-the-rpv-convention/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 04:30:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Victoria DeLacy http://bearingdrift.com/2008/06/01/thoughts-on-the-rpv-convention/#comment-2820 Victoria DeLacy Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:28:34 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=451#comment-2820 I agree with Tim Boyer on the point that it gets sickening to find conventions being rigged against true conservatives. Bob Marshall's speech was cut abruptly short and he would have helped to further the cause of life through the U.S. Senate if honestly granted the opportunity. In God we still trust to straighten out the details. I'm glad we got Jeff Frederick to chair the party and head it back in a direction that may restore our gleam as the party of Lincoln and Reagan, growing our ranks in a faithfully rightward direction. As the convention button from the nineties when Ollie North was running said "It's not right or left, it's right or wrong"! I agree with Tim Boyer on the point that it gets sickening to find conventions being rigged against true conservatives. Bob Marshall’s speech was cut abruptly short and he would have helped to further the cause of life through the U.S. Senate if honestly granted the opportunity. In God we still trust to straighten out the details. I’m glad we got Jeff Frederick to chair the party and head it back in a direction that may restore our gleam as the party of Lincoln and Reagan, growing our ranks in a faithfully rightward direction. As the convention button from the nineties when Ollie North was running said “It’s not right or left, it’s right or wrong”!

]]> By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » RPV Convention Wrap-Up http://bearingdrift.com/2008/06/01/thoughts-on-the-rpv-convention/#comment-2783 Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » RPV Convention Wrap-Up Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:45:24 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=451#comment-2783 [...] Jim Hoeft over at Bearing Drift sees signs of a generational change in the Virginia GOP: [T]he election of Jeff Frederick as Chairman seems to be indicative of something that is happening [...] [...] Jim Hoeft over at Bearing Drift sees signs of a generational change in the Virginia GOP: [T]he election of Jeff Frederick as Chairman seems to be indicative of something that is happening [...]

]]> By: Tim Boyer http://bearingdrift.com/2008/06/01/thoughts-on-the-rpv-convention/#comment-2778 Tim Boyer Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:21:53 +0000 http://bearingdrift.com/?p=451#comment-2778 A message was sent loud and clear that Virginia republicans expect their leadership to believe the same things we believe. We will no longer accept leaders who cross the aisle to enable the Democrats to pass a larger tax increase than Mark Warner asked for, and to make a national star out of him. Thank you, Preston Bryant. The republican leadership protected him from a primary challenge, and a short time later he joined the Kaine administration! John Chichester, the recent state senate republican leader cut a commercial for Mark Warner on Saturday as we nominated the weakest candidate we could find on God's green earth to put up against him. These are the people whom the base rejected in an overwhelming fashion with the routing of John Hager, last seen, by the way, in Mark Warner's administration! We allow Mark Warner Republicans to dictate to the party, and then wonder why he keeps beating us. HELLO!! The base is sick and tired of the Republican establishment rigging party elections against conservative challengers, then telling us to vote for them because the Dem's are worse. Recently,I ran against the establishment candidate for 5th District Republican chairman. Certain folks who shall remain nameless for now tried to deny delegate status from my supporters in a certain locale in the 5th, telling them they had to be unit members to serve as delegate to the conventions. While I encourage all my supporters to join their local units, the Party Plan specifically says nothing to the effect that you must be unit member to serve as delegate, and in fact to deny them to opportunity would have been a violation of the Voting Rights Act. Those are the kind of dishonest, and often even illegal tactics regularly employed by the Republican Establishment always, of course, against conservative challengers to an incumbent Republican Party position holder. There is a new wind blowing now, and it will blow away all these gutless, and cowardly leaders who currently are attempting to lead the Party to ruin if necessary to hold their own little kingdoms in tact. Behind the leadership of Jeff Frederick we can begin to clean our house, and then invite the voters of our great commonwealth in to check out the new Republican party that has returned to Reagan Conservatism, and actually will govern as we claim to believe. It may take a while to convince the voters that we really are what we say we are, having lost their trust during the Bush era of Republican Liberalism, but Reagan did it, and we can do it again following his model. I am saddened that we did not give Bob Marshall the opportunity to present an actual challenge to Mark Warner, but time will vindicate those of us worked our hearts out for him, and who have maintained all along that he would be a far better candidate than the hapless Jim Gilmore. I think Jim, with with much less arrogance, could have been a good candidate, if he would respond to the base. But, hey, maybe he will surprise me, I certainly hope so, and I am pulling for him against Warner to be sure!! Come on, Jim and John, surprise me, get conservative, stay that way, and make us a good senator and President. Governors mansion, here we come!! A message was sent loud and clear that Virginia republicans expect their leadership to believe the same things we believe.
We will no longer accept leaders who cross the aisle to enable the Democrats to pass a larger tax increase than Mark Warner asked for, and to make a national star out of him.

Thank you, Preston Bryant.
The republican leadership protected him from a primary challenge, and a short time later he joined the Kaine administration!

John Chichester, the recent state senate republican leader cut a commercial for Mark Warner on Saturday as we nominated the weakest candidate we could find on God’s green earth to put up against him.

These are the people whom the base rejected in an overwhelming fashion with the routing of John Hager, last seen, by the way, in Mark Warner’s administration!

We allow Mark Warner Republicans to dictate to the party, and then wonder why he keeps beating us.
HELLO!!

The base is sick and tired of the Republican establishment rigging party elections against conservative challengers, then telling us to vote for them because the Dem’s are worse.
Recently,I ran against the establishment candidate for 5th District Republican chairman.
Certain folks who shall remain nameless for now tried to deny delegate status from my supporters in a certain locale in the 5th, telling them they had to be unit members to serve as delegate to the conventions.
While I encourage all my supporters to join their local units, the Party Plan specifically says nothing to the effect that you must be unit member to serve as delegate, and in fact to deny them to opportunity would have been a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

Those are the kind of dishonest, and often even illegal tactics regularly employed by the Republican Establishment always, of course, against conservative challengers to an incumbent Republican Party position holder.

There is a new wind blowing now, and it will blow away all these gutless, and cowardly leaders who currently are attempting to lead the Party to ruin if necessary to hold their own little kingdoms in tact.
Behind the leadership of Jeff Frederick we can begin to clean our house, and then invite the voters of our great commonwealth in to check out the new Republican party that has returned to Reagan Conservatism, and actually will govern as we claim to believe.
It may take a while to convince the voters that we really are what we say we are, having lost their trust during the Bush era of Republican Liberalism, but Reagan did it, and we can do it again following his model.
I am saddened that we did not give Bob Marshall the opportunity to present an actual challenge to Mark Warner, but time will vindicate those of us worked our hearts out for him, and who have maintained all along that he would be a far better candidate than the hapless Jim Gilmore.

I think Jim, with with much less arrogance, could have been a good candidate, if he would respond to the base.
But, hey, maybe he will surprise me, I certainly hope so, and I am pulling for him against Warner to be sure!!
Come on, Jim and John, surprise me, get conservative, stay that way, and make us a good senator and President.

Governors mansion, here we come!!

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