Posted on 11/03/2009 1:03:27 PM PST by Justaham
On Monday’s AC360, CNN’s Anderson Cooper forwarded the media’s new talking point about the New York 23 congressional race, that “Tea Party protesters and other conservative voices are...driving moderates out of the GOP.” Correspondent Tom Foreman continued on this note, stating that “angry conservatives...[are] forcing the party to choose between...its base and attracting more moderate Americans.”
Cooper led the 10 pm Eastern hour of his program with the question, “Does the Republican Party have room for moderates?” The anchor outlined that “state and local elections tomorrow may have profound national effects, and President Obama and Sarah Palin are a big part of it. Two governor’s races may test the President’s ability to get others elected or turn into a referendum on his presidency.” He continued with the media’s new spin on the electoral contests, as if it was a matter of fact: “As for Sarah Palin, she, Tea Party protesters and other conservative voices are front and center, driving moderates out of the GOP.”
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. <——— World’s smallest violin, playin’ right there, pal.
good
We are not going to drive them out...we are going to VOTE them out.
Where are the moderate Dems? How liberal can you be and still be called a moderate by any stretch of the imagination? How come only the GOP has to reach across the aisle?
Questions you’ll never hear asked in the MSM.
I guess the MSM was wrong...
She should have told John McCain to “shove it and pound sand” in 2008.
So just for the record, someone who values life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is a far right radical. If you are a pro homosexual, pro-abortion supporter you are a “moderate.”
If the republicans win any of these races that alone proves this article’s premise is not only completely wrong, but written by a complete tool.
Uh huh. See my tag line.
Oh, Andi Coo, from your lips to you-know-who’s ears...we be driving ‘em out, just like Rowdy Yates...roll ‘em, roll ‘em , roll ‘em...keep them dogies movin’...
Like I care what Anderson Cooper or any other of the corrupt MSM say. I WILL NOT BE BULLIED. I don't care how you try to disparage us, we have learned our lesson. We will not cower!
Save the Whale kill the Babies yup thats a moderate
The media keeps pushing that line, but its largely utter bullcrap. I’d say that few conservatives have a problem with a true ‘moderate’.
The ones getting booted aren’t moderates, however. They’re a bunch of flaming liberals.
Scuzzy is more than welcome to vote for Hoffman.
Who the H3II let them in?
Good tag. Absolutely right.
I honestly believe that if we did drive all the “moderates” (actually liberals) from the party, enough conservatives that have become disgusted with the republican party and simply sit home or vote 3rd party on election day would come back to the fold to make up for any “moderates” we might lose.
***We are not going to drive them out...we are going to VOTE them out.***
Well put!
There are only about 300 GOP elected officials in the US Congress. It is not a matter of driving them anywhere - it’s a matter of persuading better citizens to run for office and more importantly, persuading common sense voters to elect those that best REPRESENT US.
This must be the fifth such story I've seen emerge from the mainstream media in two days.
The Democrat political operation is now run directly from the White House and this is their latest gambit: "Oooh, Republicans are moving so far to the Right... they're gonna scare off all of the "moderates", and that would be such a shame..."
Bullsh!t.
The Obama Administration is the most left-wing, radical administration in our nation's history. Is anyone in the media vocalizing their concern that the Democrats are "scaring off the moderates"? Yeah, sure. Nice try, Rahm; better luck next time, David. Not really though: try peddling it to your ACORN crazies; most Americans aren't buying what you're selling.
Right on!
For those of you who are bad at math, if the moderates are driven towards the DNC, from the GOP, the DNC wins numerical supremacy.
I remember those same charges being leveled at Reagan when he ran...same old tired politics! People will go to where good leadership is offered, never mind what party affiliates
they came from!
Now, which position is like to win the most votes if understood in those terms.
If the moderates are driven to the Dem’s it least it separates sheeps and goats so that TRUE undecideds have a chance to see an unobfuscated difference between conservatives and the rest. Moderates are just like those who are neither hot nor cold...so let’s spit them out!
Should be: “Now, which position is likely to win the most votes, if understood in those terms?”
1. Pro-life
2. Pro-2nd Amendment
3. Pro Constitution and adherence to (including fiscal restraint)
4. Strong national defense
But when two or more of those are ignored, its time for a change. And when all four are trashed, well, if my foot is planted on your behind, so be it.
These so-called moderates have trampled all of those time and time again.
Its time for them to go where they belong- the Democrat party.
Conservatives will force the RINOs to the sidelines and then they can choose; Liberal or Conservative. You choose.
As an aside, coming from someone who has been around, has an MBA and consider myself rather intelligent, Rush has way of making complicated issues seem simple and his manner and grasp of knowledge is something that never ceases to amaze.
Anyway it is the Demo-Rats and their corrupt sycophant media which continues to instruct us on how we need to be organized, i.e., the "Big Tent" Philosophy; how we are not “inslusive” enough and if we continue to exclude moderates (read RINO’s) we will forever be the minority party.
RIGHT! As if they really care! If your opposition is doing something which is harmful and will contribute to their demise, you get out of the way and let them commit suicide and don’t try and correct their behavior.
Likewise, he also made mention again of who the Dummy-Crats fear the most by how much they attack them, principally, Sarah Palin.
So all and all, when the bottom-feeding Leftists criticize us and offer guidance, we can rest assured they are worried and what we are doing, we need to re-double our efforts and ignore their phony advice.
As an aside, I don't see the Dems practicing the same "Big Tent" approach and I keep asking this question of every lib I talk to but never get an answer: While there are many, many RINO's why are there NO DINO's???
Did your mother tell you to jump off the bridge if your friends did?
Another question: Do you know what lemings are?
“Palin, Tea Party Protesters ‘Driving Moderates Out of GOP”
Good! Don’t let the door hit your RINO behind on the way OUT!!!
People like newt and mccain
Define Moderate...
For anderson cooper it is all about the homosexual. If someone does not support the homosexuals then it is not moderate.
Conservatism IS MODERATE.
Your violin is much bigger than mine :P
Yeah!
Let them start a new party.
You just have to remember; Whenvever and whatever a Democrat talks about anything, he/she is LYING. If they tell you what they are doing, then they are really doing just the opposite. If they name a bill, such as the Fairness Doctrin”, then it is just the opposite. If they tell you what you need to do survive, then you need to do just the opposite. They are LYING, always LYING.
Who are being driven out are the weak-kneed nipple sisters who are intimidated by the MSM and the immoderate left!!
I will say this to the moderates in the Republican Party ...
Take your infamous 80/20 rule and apply it to YOUSELVES!
We’re never going to see eye to eye on every issue because I am socially AND fiscally conservative. So if you agree with me 80% of the time, then vote with me.
Gosh sounds remarkably like they all got the same DNC talking points this morning?
Yeah. Lot's of these folks in the "Big Tent" of the democrat party.
“Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”
Yep! It’s amazing how much the demorats seem to care so much about instructing us on what we should do?
For those of you who believe the moonbat media when they call liberals, moderates, here is a clue. Scuzzy is not a moderate. She is a liberal. Moderates are not socialists.
Contextually speaking, your comment to me makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It’s as if you chose a random cliche without regard to the subject matter.
That’s my goal also.
We just don't want "semi-Liberals" running our Party any more. If you are happier over at the DNC, then...
Bye...
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