tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post8097021964007931558..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: Whither the state Republican Party?Don Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-6543743839954717072008-11-15T21:52:00.000-05:002008-11-15T21:52:00.000-05:00Well, there's no future in chamioning causes that ...Well, there's no future in chamioning causes that have no need of you; those would be the winning ones.Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-60834234431171003742008-11-15T21:37:00.000-05:002008-11-15T21:37:00.000-05:00Oh, I will keep the faith. If you read my bio you...Oh, I will keep the faith. If you read my bio you find that "lost causes" is amoung my interests.mccommashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06527649788851312579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-32472201503745579302008-11-15T20:57:00.000-05:002008-11-15T20:57:00.000-05:00I saw Dowd two days ago. He's affiliated with the ...I saw Dowd two days ago. He's affiliated with the Yankee Institute. They asked me to talk to their group about a year ago and since have been sending me regular invitations to their gatherings. But I haven’t been able to go because, unlike most journalists in CT, I actually work for a living. Addressing the group when I finally went -- I had a day off -- was the masterful Donald Poland, executive director of the Connecticut Partnership for Balanced Growth, the obverse of those nasty Smart Growth folk we've been hearing so much of in the HC. He’s one of the good guys. I honestly don’t know what’s the matter with the paper you mention. I know they printed some stuff I wrote about Michael Ross, possibly because the slew of young girls he murdered were from the area. I would encourage you to keep writing. I know you’ll keep the faith.Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-84481321086556598092008-11-15T17:56:00.000-05:002008-11-15T17:56:00.000-05:00Well to answer my own question: Like Mona Charen ...Well to answer my own question: Like Mona Charen and Thomas Sowell I think your problem is that you make your points a little to well.<BR/><BR/>Thomas Sowell had been one of the few real conservatives regularly in the Bulletin. However he mysteriously disappeared over last summer! Do you think it could have been the Editor (Ray Hackett) did not want a smart conservative Black guy making persuasive arguments against a Black liberal? I looked them up on line. Sowell calls the new President-elect a con-man and backs it up with good evidence such is the case.<BR/><BR/>I have seen Sowell reappear only once since the election. <BR/><BR/>Kathleen -- Benedict Arnold -- Parker is still featured but she always is bashing Palin. She has become a once subject columnist. She has figured out how to please liberal editors. <BR/><BR/>I might write a letter asking wy I don't see you anymore since they chose not to print the one I sent in recently. OH! Do you think I might write to well someday and get similiarly banned? That's something to work hard toward.<BR/><BR/>I would be in very good company.<BR/><BR/>Speaking of, check out this guy. He's great.<BR/><BR/>http://dowdmuska.com/mccommashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06527649788851312579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-82365131150991890692008-11-15T10:15:00.000-05:002008-11-15T10:15:00.000-05:00"..why don’t I read you there anymore?"Don't know...."..why don’t I read you there anymore?"<BR/><BR/>Don't know. I send the column out to them regularly. Maybe it was something I said.Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-32259483161706625932008-11-15T07:49:00.000-05:002008-11-15T07:49:00.000-05:00"The state Republican Party has been decimated by ..."The state Republican Party has been decimated by decades of bad advice proffered by those who do not have the party’s interests in mind. That is why it is a small, negligible party."<BR/><BR/>Hell yeah buddy! I am so sick of reading that advice in the Norwich Bulletin. BTW – why don’t I read you there anymore?<BR/><BR/>The lesson learned from 2008 is that the CT Republican Party should NOT be a mirror reflection of the Democrat Party. Good riddance to Chris Shays. He probably voted for Obama.<BR/><BR/>I have warmed to Rell a bit but I still would like to see someone challenge her in 2010. I think we can do better but whom? On so many issues she muddles things up.<BR/><BR/>I don't blame unaffiliated voters for saying ‘there is not a dimes worth of difference’ between the two parties in the state. If you look at who we have in office, they are largely correct.<BR/><BR/>We must present to the voters a different path. To do otherwise is simply a waste of time and effort. <BR/><BR/>I would rather go down in a blaze of glory on election night than compromise my values to the point of prostitution.mccommashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06527649788851312579noreply@blogger.com