The way to best frame the Tea Party movement is for Republicans to say that we support the movement and not the opposite.

“This was no longer a teachers union issue,” Fasano said. “This Senate Bill 6 took on a life of its own, and I saw that in my district when hard-core Republicans, who vote in Republican primaries, were contacting me, telling me to urge the governor to veto the bill. This was no longer a union, or Democratic issue. This went beyond that.”

Republican pols are not listening to their own and spouting predictable talking points. Too many of the even most practical conservative thinkers such as Walter Williams have long spoken against the current public school system. Sadly even he too, is baised by the presence of a union. Williams fails to see that there are really good public school districts, and that that these are what we should be modeling

Williams, Newt Gingrich, and Jeb Bush would have us tear down all of the good schools to create an ideological image that has not and never will exist. They continue to have all the answers without the benifit of first listening. Sort of like Democrats heath care. Works great in Europe and Canada, doesn’t it?

There’s a reason why the state’s association of superintendents – many of them Republicans – asked Govenor Crist to veto the bill. Not only is it bad for education, it’s fiscally untenable.

Is it that too many Republicans are drinking at the the anti-union trough and let it cloud there judgement? It’s almost as if education for Republicans is a similar holy grail as is health care for Democrats. And like Obamacare, voters will figure it out.

So it will go that Republicans handed the initiative they gained to the folly of Obamaism back to Democrats. And it is for the same reason in that the party’s power brokers demonstrated that they could not be trusted to have good judgement in something so important. For Democrats it was health care and for the GOP it is education.

Republicans need to win over independents, not pander to them. We must persuade them to climb against the slope of a political landscape that has been tilting left for generations, ever since America accepted the idea that its central government has the responsibility for fixing every problem in life, and the right to demand a limitless amount of their wealth and liberty to fund its efforts. In the Total State now under construction, the last thing anyone will be permitted is independence.

Republicans and conservatives have to stop the circular firing squad that takes out pols who share our values that we do like Sarah Palin and Marco Rubio. Stop trying to impress everyone with a self absorbed opinion of your own intelligence by finding a reason to do Democrats bidding for them. People like Palin and Rubio have guts to represent values we clutch to. Stop giving Dems ammunition to take American for themselves

It’s a shame that Republicans were so hard on her.
But, the Left was worse.

I couldn’t agree more. And it’s time to call out the GOP and it’s political leadership we have days like today. Sarah Palin didn’t ask for this. Like Joe the Plumber, she was asked to join the national stage. Neither was protected by the GOP estanblishment or enough conservative intelligencia. No, you all have to be above the fray or above all of it. To be nice and better than them. Cowards.

And because you all were cowards and would not stand up to the bullies of the Democrat party. As the attacks against the two were personal in nature, the attackers had to be confronted directly and yes, personally. Democrats will continue roll this way as long as there is no cost to applying reprehensible attacks on children as Democrats did with the Palin children.

Don’t plan on winning any more elections while Democrats play hardball and we play puffball.

Question: The Iranian opposition leader has stated that he should not be compared to Ahmadenijad. Republicans – some within your own party have called on the President to show more support for them.

Gibbs: We won.

Question: The stimulus bill was passed with the President’s assurances that it would create jobs. Yet indicators say that unemployment figures have increased and will go up over 10% this summer.

Gibbs: We won.

Question: The President campaigned on the maintaining the unbinding freindship between the US and Israel, yet the President has publically endorsed the Saudi peace plan and for the halt of settlements.

Gibbs: We won.

Candidate Obama said he would have a tarnsparent administration, yet he has fired two IG’s without explanation.

Gibbs: We won.

The liberal economic experiment to use the government to stimulate job creation is an utter and complete failure. Obama and the Dems may have inherited a problem, but their answers to the problems were all wrong. And that realization will come to hit the American public as this unemployment debacle runs through out the summer of 2009

I wonder what will happen when some of the fall-out begins from the closing of auto dealerships. These will be felt in more rural area, and Democrats and Obama really don’t care about those areas.

Its time for local grassroots efforts by Republicans in those districts to go on the offensive to defeat Democrat congressional candidates. The Ron Paul voters whom voted for Obama will not be voting for Democrats next fall.

In the past, you’ve probably heard about secret holds in the Senate, in which a single senator hides behind the rules to block a nomination while remaining anonymous. Grassley wouldn’t do that. Fastidious about keeping the public informed on what he’s doing, if Grassley tries to stop a nominee, he’ll do it out in the open, by name, and he’ll tell the White House exactly why he’s doing it. And he’ll keep doing it until he gets what he wants.

Overall, the turnout suggests to me that the balance of enthusiasm in the Virginia governor race is not working nearly so strongly for Democrats, and may not be working for them much at all, as it was in the fall of 2008. Creigh Deeds, Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran were not able to bring nearly as many Virginians in a commonwealth of 7.8 million people to the polls as Henry Howell and Andrew Miller were in a commonwealth of 5.1 million people 32 years ago. In this decade Americans have been voting with their feet as much as anything else, and in these numbers I don’t see anything like the footfall we saw for Barack Obama six and 15 months ago.

The numbers that experts like Barone point to demonstrate why its critical for Republicans not to let Democrats and their mouthpiece MSM define them. The GOP ran a centrist and were beaten. Continued calls within the party to become centrist don’t make sense.