This is funny. They want to point the blame. Well, I will. A pox on all of them. They’re all a bunch of losers.
Gingrich warns of third party in 2012...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/02/gingrich-warns-of-third-party-in-2012/
When one crook calls another a crook, it’s not news. They’re all crooks. The general public will soon see that ALL of them are crooks, just like the people who elected them. Government truly does represent the people. When the people decide they need moral values (no, you can’t sleep with your neighbor’s wife), then government will eventually become a better institution and not until such happens.
Not a damned thing, and that's the dirty little secret of this whole media-led, Democrat-fed campaign to convince Republicans to abandon conservatives.
This false meme is being repeated endlessly throughout the mainstream media, with the full approval of the Democrat Party to which Arlen Specter and the media are both now fully committed.
The Republican Party has moved Left, not Right since the 1980s, and it has done so partly in sympathy with the Democrat Party, which has moved far to the Left in the same time period.
One need only consider the issue of so-called "Gay marriage". As recently as 25 years ago, most mainstream liberal Democrats wouldn't even consider such a thing, not because they thought it unachievable, but because they (still) thought it bizarre and destructive of fundamental family values. By contrast, today's mainstream Democrats view opposition to Gay "marriage" as the province of hate-mongers.
The San Francisco Democrats of 1984 did tend to "Blame America First", in Jeanne Kirkpatrick's timeless phrase, but they almost always drew the line of criticizing their country at the water's edge. One cannot imagine Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, George McGovern or Lloyd Bentsen daring to say a word against their native land while speaking from foreign shores. Even Jimmy Carter held his tongue, until senility and bitterness overcame him.
Today, a Democrat President trots around the globe serially apologizing for America's mistakes, real and (mostly) imagined.
Republicans, who in the '90s would have cut off their own arms rather than raise them in support of new Federal entitlement programs, new bureaucracies, and the deficit spending to "fund" them - have in recent times done so with reckless abandon.
No: the Republican Party has not moved to the "Right" at all. Instead it has melted into a muddled, centrist puddle of colorless mush, reflecting nothing, and stirring no one.
The Democrats, for their part have moved to embrace the left of European Social Democrats and the secular, internationalist welfare state model for which they stand. It is in that direction that Arlen Specter has chosen to turn his heels, and given his lifetime proclivity for unprincipled self-interest, it is well that he should.
Rove’s got it about right.
So RINOs...Hows it feel to be out of power.....Guess that attitude of “who ya gonna vote for...the ‘Rats?” didn't work out too well for ya? Maybe you RINOs would be better off with the ‘rats after all.....F’in RINOs can go suck eggs as far as MY vote is concerned!
Why should anyone vote Republican today? The party is old, it has no good ideas that people can follow and their marketing machine is a joke.
Oh yeah, they don’t have a person ready to unify the party and while I don’t have an issue with Sarah Palin I see her as filling a role for people who want to believe in someone rather than anything she has done to date. Same for Jindal.
Why don’t those crazy “Pubs point the finger at what caused the problem: their slavish devotion to the false religion of laisse faire capitalism and the false gods of big business and businessmen.
parsy, who once suffered from Republicanitis but got cured
Did Voinobitch cry again?
I honestly do NOT see the GOP getting better anytime soon. It is fundimentally fractured between conservatives and moderates and no one will give any ground.
I would lay money down on a permanent fracture occuring. The culture war has spread to within the GOP itself.
Specter is a demoncRAT wearing a PUB title just so that he can hang onto his Chairmanship of Senate Judiciary. What would be the ultimate irony is that a demoncRAT challenger for his PA seat would defeat him followed by the demoncRAT being defeated by a PUB. Where’s Sophocles?
Let the RINO hunt begin. Get rid of all these bastards and then maybe we’ll have a chance.
It's the Club for Growth trying to turn this to it's own advantage and Orrin Hatch settling a little score with them. Normal going to take up arms one way or the other in a battle of prima donnas.
If your standard is ironclad unity and tightly constricting bonds of loyalty unto death, it might look like a "civil war," but in normal political terms it's just another sideshow or foodfight.
the issue is we cannot allow ourselves to be pigeon holed as far right. WE are the middle,the great mass of American. spector was never middle of the road. he’s always been left. Look at some defining issues,look at amnesty. All polls repeatedly say NO to amnesty. yet we’ve been painted as far right on this. Its a centrist issue. we’re the center. The center has always been more conservative in its nature in this country. The vast majority was outraged at bailing out irresponsible borrowers yet we were painted as cold hearted for wanting someone,anyone to simply say NO. This is the center. we’re not racists. we believe in each being rewarded by what they produce,regardless of race creed or color. Not paying someone according to the circumstances of their birth. All these politicians can point their fingers and blame the “right” Damn few of them have the faintest idea of what the right is in this country. We may be to the right of the dem’s and much of the republican party but we smack dab in the middle of this country.
Nam Vet
What civil war?
The present Republican party stands for nothing and is fighting for nothing. They’re not fighting their base so much as ignoring their base.
A civil war would be refreshing. Conservatives would have someone to root for.
I got an email this morning that claimed Spector began his political career as a Democrat and switched to the Republican Party many years ago. Since he switched back he should now be known as Spector the Defector. I have no idea if that is true or when he might have changed parties the first time. Interesting.
I just watched the girly boy Shemp on Fox interviewing Mike Pence.
Shemp asked Pence if the new initiative in the GOP was to reign in the far right.
God help me. Did the democrats reign in the far left?
I think not. We have a far leftist sitting as POTUS.
If anything, that should tell us something.
Can you dig it?