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October 27, 2009 10:28 AM

Katie Couric's Notebook: Elephants Wanted

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Katie Couric's Notebook
Calling all pachyderms! The Republican Party is looking for a few good men and women.

As Politico reported, there's growing concern among some GOP leaders that controversial commentators and far-right conservatives have hijacked the message.

People like Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin appeal to the base - and you certainly need that base to win elections. But in an age when 42 percent of Americans call themselves Independents - you can't win with just the base, either.

Minority Whip Eric Cantor is calling for more voices in the Republican Party. And Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty says the party needs to be all about addition right now - as the number of declared Republicans hits a 26 year low, according to a poll in the Washington Post.

Before the 2010 midterm elections roll around, Republicans need to get the focus back onto the Big Tent where all are welcome and off the sideshows that are popping up along the party's fringe.

That's a page from my notebook.

I'm Katie Couric, CBS News.


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by lukematthews612 November 14, 2009 1:27 PM EST
You are truly the epitome of smug, elitist poseur. To pretend you are even slightly interested in the future and success of the Republican Party is a farce. Your deliberate and intentional mistreatment of the Palin interview last fall is an assault on journalistic integrity. Your continued toadying behavior toward this administration is tantamount to collusion. What ever happened to the press as a watchdog to those in power, not those who question those in power? Shame on you.
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by bellaanna-2009 November 2, 2009 10:58 PM EST
Oh, Katie, I forgot something.........I wish you could really give us the news.........you know, what is going on out there. Cambell Brown knows what I am talking about. Look at your ratings, guess if you had the freedom that Bill O'Reilly has your ratings would be better. You see Katie, we have ways of checking to see if "Fox" is telling us lies, so we know what they report is true. So you see this makes us just "sick" when you guys "SPIN" I guess ACORN will not be able to VOTE next time.
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by bellaanna-2009 November 2, 2009 10:49 PM EST
Katie...............we conservatives are not going to support our leaders who have strayed from the things we believe in. So we are dumping all these smart lawyers who we have sent to Congress and have gone astray............We want leaders who will stand up for the things we want....we are sick of Congress, they do not speak for us. May be we don't need lawyers in Congress. THEY know how to cheat too well, look at the Health Care bill, 2000 pages, and no one can tell you what it says. We need to send the people in our towns who we see living what they talk. We have a country where our leaders lobby and get rich. Look at Charles Rangel, he is guilty, but do they do anything to him, NO. because he is one of them. Look what the Unions have done to our factories, they sent them to other countries, and now they want card check so they can target those who do not vote UNION....My this has got to stop..............SO my vote goes to the man next door, who will speak of me.
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by mcdtrudi November 2, 2009 10:31 PM EST
KATIE, YOU ARE NOT cute anymore! Your ratings are so bad that they have called me up to replace your show, and I am a middled aged woman in the mountains in Ca. I will do your show for free and get better ratings than you now. Climb on one of your horse's and ride away in the wind Katie!
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by Spoonitout November 2, 2009 5:44 PM EST
The media today is a co-conspirator of the cult of corruption and their socialist agenda. Katie C. and the rest of the HARD LEFT wants everyone to think the Republican Party is fractured! And if you don?t have Modern Middle of the road attitude you?re a far right wack-job - Tea bagging lunatic! And this Middle of the road is all about tolerance and compromise! This is the lefts plan to keep pounding on the people who brings out the truth. The leftist media continually tells us that, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, etc. is the radical right. And what they say does not represent the middle of the road America. Katie C and all her cohorts on the other networks are trying their best to squash and marginalize their conservative message. Well if they are just the far right fringe and they are just beating the drum to their own wack-jobs. Then explain to me why they are awfully, awfully, awfully, worried about them and what they say! Truth be knowen the hard leftist are scared to death of them and the message!!
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by johnlloydsch October 30, 2009 12:14 PM EDT
Isn't it wonderful how Curic is so concerned about the Republican Party???

The Republican Leadership is excellant. I doubt most people know them, much less listen to them. If the Marginalized Socialist Media covered them, they would know this. Don't complain about their leadership if you pick ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC and CNN to watch. CBS News is not even in the running. MSNBC is rated after the Cartoon Channel.

They should be covering Boehner instead of Pelosi if they want to be more journalistic. They serve the 20% who consider themselves "liberal" and the 30% that "Strongly Approve" of Obama's job performance. They do not serve the 40% to 60% that self-identify as "Conservative."
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by redazn October 30, 2009 3:49 AM EDT
I would rather be an Elephant than an Ass anyday.....oh... I must be politically correct mustn't I...donkey! ;o]
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by redazn October 30, 2009 3:45 AM EDT
I so agree with your comments as well......I have never liked Katie C, while on the morning talk show she was sarcastic, rude and single minded, acting as if she was the only person on the show that had much to say that counted.....she acts that way on the News as well...I never watch her! She is narrow minded and liberal...a condition that is ruining this nation! We have every right to expect the Founding Fathers principals and faith in God to stand the test of time, as that is what this nation was founded on!!! The Constitution states the rights to religion, not from it. Those that are the liberal hacks that seem to think they are in sole control of things ought to remember that, when trying to cut the vast majority of the nation out of the right to be. In God We Trust is our national motto and stands firm. Trying to take God out of everything is what is running this nation into the ground and into socialism....He will not be hushed as anyone with understanding and remembering what this nation used to be before the nonsense of political correctness got pushed in everyone's face...makes me sick. Katie, Pelosi, Clinton, Napolitano and a few others should just hop abord their brroms and fly away into the Halloween night never to engraciate themselves on decent folks who want the honor, faith and truth of a once great nation that they are taking for granted in chipping away at all America stand for, or used to before they got their 2 cents worth pushed in our faces........God Bless America again for real!!!
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by colliemom-2009 October 29, 2009 8:41 PM EDT
The progressives far left nuts have taken over the DNC and are now trying to make us a marxis country and Katie is worried about the GOP. The polls say more people are calling themselves conservitive now. So Katie BO butt wipe. Get the facts straight before you spread your propaganda. Katie the baffoonn...
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by Springsprout23 October 29, 2009 12:06 PM EDT
Hey Katie, how about a few more "BLUE" donkeys to buck the leadership in the House and Senate? When the blind lead the blind they both fall into the ditch, and it's clear to any thinking person that Reid and Polosi do not know what they are doing. What a mess!
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