The Board of Directors of the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs (GFYRC) have come together to strongly denounce and condemn the actions of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and others for using their positions of influence to foment disunity and disharmony among the supporters of the various Republican candidates still in the race.
“It’s hard enough to reunite after a tough primary process,” said GFYRC Chairman Jason Shepherd. “But the over the top statements by these individuals, who many of us have looked up to for so many years, will make it much harder to build enough trust for the Republican nominee, regardless of whom he is, for the GOP to unite this fall.”
The Georgia Young Republicans who voted to pass the Resolution include supporters for every Republican candidate still in the race including Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul, and Mitt Romney.
“This isn’t only about supporting one candidate for President,” said Shepherd, “But Republicans will also need to be unified to make sure we win close races up and down the ballot from State House and Senate to Congress. They talk into a microphone or TV camera with no consequences and it is us activists that must pay the price as we fight for our candidates precinct by precinct.”
The Resolution reads as follows:
Whereas: Political Pundits like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter, along with other talk show hosts in national and local markets, have viciously attacked Republican candidates running in the primary election; and
Whereas: Many of these same pundits have used their shows and their vast audiences to spread disunity among Republicans when we need to be uniting to face the greater threat to our national security and well being that is embodied in the Democrat candidates for President; and
Whereas: Despite all of these pundits invoking the greatness of Ronald Reagan, none of them have paused for a second to remember Reagan’s 11th Commandment; and
Whereas: Each of the above named have, through their actions and words, lost the confidence of millions of their fans and Republican voters; and
Whereas: The members of the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs are prepared to support our nominee, whether he is Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul or Mitt Romney, against the real threat, the Democrat nominee; now
Therefore, be it resolved, this 5th Day of February, 2008, that the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs strongly condemns and denounces the actions and speech over the past several weeks by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and others for breeding contempt, disunity and hatred among the Republican Party in order to bolster their own careers; and
Therefore, be it FURTHER resolved, that the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs praises talk show hosts like Neal Boortz, who, despite making their preference known, have chosen not to make it their mission to tear down other GOP candidates.
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“If you do not work to improve your own party, the other side has no reason to improve to beat you. On the other hand, put out good candidates, and take the right side of issues, and the other side has to improve or die.”
This is why I was so pleased with the results of my efforts against Max Burns. His Dem opponent is one of the Blue Dogs and is doing a hell of a job. It was won with the narrowest of margins – wouldn’t we be better off if every contest was so decided?
The GOP trotted out a pathetic suck-up to George W. Bush and he could not even win in a district redrawn to give him a better chance.
I was against Paul Broun and tied into the ‘establishment’ in the 10th, but I like what I have seen, so he is very likely to get my support. His opponent is a step in a totally wrong direction.
I also supported Cagle and was proud to do so.
So, I have not jettisoned the GOP entirely, but I DO SUPPORT DEMOCRATS when they are be better, more conservative candidates.
The YR’s just shill for whoever has the party label, no matter how monstrous they are. The GOP deserves to don wear sackcloth and ashes and beg forgiveness, but instead they are in lock step behind the very folks who have so grieviously damaged America.
Partisans of both stripes are the enemy of America.
shep,
Of course you won’t answer, because there is none. You made a rediculous claim to support a draft, and now you look in desperation to me to make your argument.
How exactly was Germany, who was being pounded by the Russians, going to land the 10 million or more troops it would require to conquer the USA across an ocean on hostile ground, against the worlds largest industrial power? And we were talking about not instituting a draft, not being pacifists.
The USA had a surplus of fighting men until the landing of troops at D-Day. From 41-43, the biggest need was for workers, not military. In 44, more troops were required, but if there wasn’t a draft, US Generals would have been conservative with men’s lives. Direct assaults on hard targets (usually resulting in slaughtering of men) are very easy for Generals to order, but would have been made a little more difficult if more manpower wasn’t readily available in the form of conscription.
In WWI, your claim is even more rediculous. The line had been stalled for years and was simply a massacre on both sides. We actually had no business in that war, as both sides were equally at fault.
Our presence in that war so tilted the balance that Germany was forced to agree to punative terms by the so called “good guys” which lead to the rise of Hitler, and WWII 20 years later.
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