In the wake of Chris Shays’s promise that he won’t be found doorknocking for Linda McMahon if he loses the senate primary on Aug. 14, worried Republicans say it’s rally time.
The “Rally for Republican Unity” on Aug. 18 in Monroe is being touted as the largest “meet-and-greet event in state history.”
Organizer Mitch Beck says:
This rally is strictly about inspiring those in the Connecticut Republican Party and Independents who lean Republican, to get up, get out, and get to work so we can get Republicans elected. After everything we’ve seen in Washington the last 3 ½ years and especially with what’s been going on in Hartford, we simply must put our philosophical differences aside and get our message of solutions to the residents and win elections.
A Shays spokeswoman reminds me that Shays hasn’t said that he wouldn’t vote for Linda McMahon. It’s just that he won’t stand up and ask others to support her. I guess that counts him out of the Rally for Republican Unity.
Republican renegade Joe Visconti apparently hasn’t gotten the message. Here’s his latest video offering:
The GOP has to recognize it has several wings. Libertarians, law and order public safety conservatives, social conservatives, and moderates who want streamlined government to deliver more with less by inproving purchasing and distribution processes.
The first two groups tend to dominate and they shouldn’t.
Joe Visconti continues to make retarded videos instead of getting a job and ending the foreclosure proceedings on his home. No Republican would continue to stiff creditors, his ex wife while blogging and pretending like he has influence in CT politics. Shays hooked up with a loser as did party chair Jerry Labriola. Visconti continues to meet them in dark places…
I agree the party needs to practice unification. It’s a struggle when people have the guts to attack each other and cower when a Democrat say’s boo! There’s too many people out for their own selfish little financial interests who carry the John Rowland guide to politics in their top pocket. This party can expand if they clean up and put the curse of Rowland behind it. In addition, they need to toughen up, stop living in fear, and stop fighting for the little trail of bread crumbs left behind by the Democrats. It’s time to lead! the Red Sox held a vigil like ceremony to put the curse of the bambino to bed and won the world series not long after. Time to hold a similar ceremony to put the Curse of John Rowland behind us to move the party forward.
What a jerk aka Chris Healy/Maria Mozzicatto, better pay attention to your own back yard with Lisa Wilson FBIoley! As for Linda McMahon first she undermined our brand by supporting Rahmn and Pelosi which she helped financially unseat Nancy Johnson, Rob sdimmons and Chris Shays, now she’s helping fund and launch a third party, what don’t GOP Voters or establishent idiots get about that? Linda will never become CT US Senator and there will not be Party unity when the CTGOP endorsed candidate for Senate is a democrat and a traitor to the GOP. We will burn the CTGOP to the ground and do it with or without a job, nothing is more vital than to stop Amoral Linda!! Watch what’s next !!!
The GOP is very fractured and segmented. The RINO wing of the party has dominated for decades. These are the liberals who do not like taxes and cannot stand the social conservatives and gun owners.
The insiders of the party have shown the party is for sale. McMahon and others have flashed the cash to get support and the base is resentful.
The GOP should be about following the Constitution (CT and federal), protecting our rights, and reducing the size and scope of government. Instead it is filled with politicians who do just enough to keep their seats. The arrogance toward the social conservatives is downright disgusting.
I know Joe Visconti and find him to be a honorable man. I do not know who posted the cheap shot, but put your name to it like a man or woman.
I do not agree with social conservatives all the time, but I know an ally when I see one.
When the process is honest (currently it is not) and when the Assembly Republicans stop blatantly ignoring the base, the GOP will be successful. The problem is too many people use politics to enrich themselves with money or power. Those people attack people with firm principles. I know because I get it all the time.
For being 66 years old, Chris Shays sure does act like a child. He just attacks his opponent and will do anything to get any little bit of attention, which is understandable I guess since so many people barely even know who he is. Grow up, man. If you were a real Republican, and not the RINO you actually are, you would stand behind the Republican candidate and fight to get that person elected.
We caught up with Linda last night and asked a timely question. She offered a diplomatic answer. The question is on the minds of most informed Republicans in Connecticut.
http://youtu.be/SuI5JBtqXk0
http://pistoneforcongress.net/
It will take a miracle to unify this party…for years the state GOP has been led by a small cadre of individuals who have succeeded in marginalizing what was once a great party.A party of Prescott Bush, John Lodge, Stewart McKinney Tom Meskill and Clare Booth Luce…..all for what? Power and personal gain.Chairman Labriola is trying to clean up the mess ….I hope he succeeds. That this party would endorse a candidate such as Linda McMahon again,illustrates just how pathetic this party has become.
Seems like this is a Linda McMahon rally. Wonder who’s paying for it…I can guess, same person who’s paid for everything.
Republican unity?! I have no interest in Republican unity, I want the “moderates” (RINOs) to leave the party and cross over to the Democrat party where they belong. Then the fiscal- and limited-government conservatives can take over the party, get rid of the pathetic GOP leadership (Boehner, Cantor, and McConnell, who are no friends of conservative fiscal policy or limited government) and get to work fixing the State and Federal government, especially the budgets.