This 'advise', courtesy of Robert Shrum, former chief strategist for algore 2000. Oddly, he quotes Moot Gingrich!

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Shove it, Shrum. You have no idea what you are talking about, and you prove that by acting like Newt is some kind of super-conservative. He is not and those of us who would never ever dream of "dumping" the Gipper see right through you and your anger.

you know it's despeartion time when a louse like Shrum goes after RWR in this pathetic attempt to define the seachange about to take place...remember the December tsunami 2 years ago...this will be just as disruptive to Pelosiville

Uh, Bob - just how many winning election campaigns have you managed? Advice to Republicans from a lifelong dem insider (not very good, but persistent) should be taken with a whole truck-load of rock salt.

Generally, if you want to win elections, do the opposite of what O for seven Shrum says. Thanks to Shrum for weighing in so we know what to do.

Since when is Shrum the keeper of the Reagan Legacy?

What has Shrum ever won? He is the worst "strategist" the Dhimmis have!

Look up "loser" in the dictionary and you'll probably find his picture there!

Kinda like the captain of the Titanic giving a lecture on running a large ship through a sea of icebergs.

What we see is the party system splintering. It doesn't matter whether democrat or republican. More people are independent and quite frankly distrustful of both party systems. I, for one, amoung a growing many will look at the candidates independently. This is good for the political system as I think this is the only way to get rid of party/special interest control. I asked once awhile ago, and I will ask again. What is the purpose of the party system? Why do we need one? Can anyone answer this?

Shrum's article is not for us to agree with or to disagree with. It isn't aimed at us. We are the 30-40% who are conservative and vote that way. Against us are the 30-40% who vote leftist and the remainder, the independents. His aricle is aimed at them. By marginalizing the candidate they are more aligned with as the "Hard rock", Shrum is trying to bring them back to the left.The middle is the group who responds to best pitch and Shrum's pitch is that they don't want to be too radical right. Fortunately, the middle have woken up a bit since in one year they elected a "black" man and then were called racist for their efforts.

Reading this article got me frustrated. It felt like Shrum was telling me how much giving birth to our first child did or didn't hurt; he wasn't there so he has no clue. Similarly, he isn't with us at the tea parties so has no clue what we conservatives are doing.

Go away shrum; or at least write about something for which you have actual knowledge.

Bob Shrum deserves a Nobel Prize for the most "Unsuccessful Political Strategist" in American history.

Another clueless Squealing Rat...

Keep that light shining bright on them...

FTA: Newt Gingrich is right (a sentence I don’t often write)
I suppose the only other thing he admires about Gingrich is having something on side while married.

If one more idiot calls that RINO imposter a moderate I am going to scream!!!!!

She was a hard-core lie-beral!!!!!! Period. A true moderate could have won pretty easily in New York, and wouldn't have had an independent conservative oponent.

Lie-beral lies and spin. If we could just harness all that energy we wouldn't need a drop of foreign oil...

You notice how these pundits never talk about how the left must embrace centrist or even conservative principles in order to bring more people into the dem party? They are allowed to keep slipping further and further to the left as if that were the natural center of the body politic. Only by drawing a hard line in the sand and saying "We will go no further", will we stand a chance of have real moderation in government. The "moderates" will finally be forced to choose between two opposing sides, and about time.

Do us all a really big favor Robert. Don't even try to tell us what Mr. Reagan was about.

His legacy is what is re-emerging in the face of this federal crime spree. He was on the side of the people. He proved it. He lived it.

We conservatives knew what we stood for then and need that again. It doesn't start with placating liberals and the marxist media goon squads or taking lessons from the ignorant.

The truth is that the Republican party has wandered off the Gipper's reservation. They will wander the desert, lost and bleeding followers and funds.

In the meantime, fear not, the Conservative party will take up the slack and do the heavy lifting! Sarah Palin has taken up the Gipper's sword and will swing it at the enemies of freedom.

The stink of socialist-democrat fear,desperation, and soiled red-diapers is in the air. I'm Mc Lovin it...lol

Remember, libs, If you don't pay your exorcist, you'll get repossessed.

Independents and "moderates" had better decide if they want their kids and grandkids living with them for life. With this Obama economy and the Dems in control, a decent job and a chance for a prosperous future is becoming a thing of the past. Obama and his minions are going to make sure that everyone is EQUALLY miserable !

'That'll be the day,' Shrum!!!

Title should be: ''The GOP dumps RINOS!''

Absolutely correct #17 and NY 23 proves your point. There are two distinctly opposing views being presented and the people get to decide which one they prefer. If the GOP candidate is a dem lookalike what's the sense of having a two party system? Kudos to those who stood on principle!

From Shrum's wikipedia entry - "Critics often point out a "curse" associated with the presidential campaigns that Shrum has worked on, since he has yet to claim victory for any of his candidates in eight presidential elections."

Why does anyone get this guy's opinion?

It is strange and more than a little alarming that an experienced political professional like Mr. Shrum can be as out of touch with fellow Americans as he seems to be. He has spent his life in the political arena but seems like a visitor from a foreign plant in his utter lack of comprehension of current political trends. He is of course not alone. More political professionals and career politicians than ever seem to be marching to their own beat and not that of the voters. The entire Establishment needs serious recalibration to reflect the beliefs and values of the mainstream.

Only reason I could see for anyone, including a hard-core RAT politico, to pay Shrum for his opinion is to KNOW the sure way to defeat and NOT follow it.

Other than pure socialism, gulags or firing squads, how radical would scarrlozzy have to be, to be called a liberal?

0-8 Bob
you're OH FOR EIGHT going for the brass ring.

And we are to listen to anything you have to say? BWah aha hahhahaha !

Here was have advice from Democrat Bob Shrum, political adviser to Gore, McGovern, Muskie and Gephardt ... all BIG losers. He also advised anti-patriotic ex-prez Jimmah Cahtah, who is still angry about being defeated by Reagan. He advised Bob Kerrey too. Remember him? He was the panalist on the 911 Commission whose antics could only be conceived as an audition for a post with the Clinton administration.

Shrum does Newt no favors by giving him this public leftist hug of approval.

The Democrats are such radical Marxists, criminals and liars today that even Ronald Reagan couldn't have worked with them. Shrum is proposing the same losing strategy that has put the Republican Party out of control in Congress.

Shrum should go home, sit down, and shut up.

will be interesting to hear how many news anchors say that the GOP dumps the Gipper today..
Mr.Shrum...the man running in NY23rd district on the independant ticket is actually a conservative Rpublican. Ms.Scuzzyfafa is a Liberal and votes to help her union boss husband. She is not and never has been a Republican.

Shrum is the Democratic version of Rino strategist Mike Murphy. Not surprisingly,their political advise is just about the same! Palin/Giuliani 2012

I'm touched, really touched, by the "concern" that the 'Rats and the MSM have for the Republican Party.

I didn't know that the Weekly Standard practiced affirmative action for liberal idiots.

UGH QUIT CALLING HER A MODERATE! SHE'S NOT EVEN CLOSE TO A MODERATE!

David Frum...Robert Shrum...so darn dumb!

Shrum is an idiot who has no clue what Conservativism is all about.

FTA: "That truth is lost on the Palinized Republicans who whacked their own moderate nominee in New York’s 23rd Congressional District in favor of a hard-shell, third-party conservative."

No, Conservatives whacked a LIBERAL RINO nominee in favor of one who follows Conservative values.

Shrum, being a liberal, thinks this was a wrong way to go, of course. Newt on the other hand has lost his way...and should just make his way home...and stay there.

Bob Shrum,, lol what a joke... where do these dinosaurs come from....
He's batting 0 for 8... yeah everyone listen to this guy... after I listen to him I'll go get investment advice from the guy that lives under the bridge in a card board box....

this link says all that needs to be known about ol' Bob.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo

Comming from a man who lost every campaign he ever ran, this is truly bizzare.

A bigshot liberal writes another piece about "what's good for the GOP" & expects us to listen & heed the advice? What chumps they must think we are!

How about I write an advice column to the DEMs, explaining what I think they should do, OK? ( hint: Think euthanasia!)

Every day, on TV and in print, liberals are explaining what is going on in the Pubbie Party.

Like... How the heck would they know????

Why do the Commies always write advice articles for the Republicans? It has never made sense to me. Worse, why do the Republicans listen?

Maybe it just me...but don't you just get sick and tired of getting "helpful" advice from Democrats on what the Republican Party should believe?

Notice they never ever talk about what it is that they really believe. Ever hear them defend the czars working for Obama?

We can presume that Robert Shrum does not want Republicans to win anything. Even if the man were a political genius (which he is not!) why would he think we would take his advice knowing that he does not ever want us to win?

He can save his advice for his left wing candidates. We don't need, now will we take, advice from the likes of Robert Shrum.

Bob Shrum...Bob Shrum...Wasn't he some kind of campaign strategist? Don't need the likes of him telling me who to vote for.

I am with you 10000% #16. Scozzafava was NO WHERE NEAR moderate...she is a FAR LEFT EXTREMIST LIBERAL.

That said...I am not going to listen to anymore of these leftist liars. They all lie. They all are wrong. They make up things as they go along. I am sick and tired of the rampant pathological lying everywhere. I want honesty, integrity, goodness, truth, the REAL American Way...what this country used to stand for. No more corruption and lies. No more excessive epithets and immoral sexual stuff. No more of any of this leftist "anything goes (as long as it supports the left" ideology

Dede wasn't a moderate. And she wasn't even "our" candidate. She was a Republican for convenience only and she left the Party in a New York minute. We haven't lost anything. In fact, Providence and Hoffman, et al, have saved us.

We have not dumped the Gipper. We still revere him.

I think Newt is tainted with Beltway Ebola. Those who stay inside so long that they cannot hear, see, smell, feel, taste what its like in the real US of A. He drank the koolaid and is watching his political capital slowly seep away. And Bob Shrum should keep up the good work!

and Ronnie needs his face on a mountain in my lifetime!