Posted on 02/04/2008 9:14:16 PM PST by RonPaulLives
Angry at Republican leaders, Chris Thieneman said that he'd end his campaign for Congress, quit the GOP, and support Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY, 3rd) in his bid for re-election. Thieneman's primary opponent was former U.S. Rep. Anne Northup, who is running to regain the 3rd District seat she lost in 2006.
Thieneman has accused GOP leaders -- including Jefferson County Republican Chairman Jack Richardson -- of conspiring to get him out of the race to assure Northup of the nomination. Thieneman, a former University of Louisville and pro football player, said that the GOP establishment were pressuring him to quit. He said Larry Cox, U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell's top aide in Kentucky, "threatened" him by telling him a race against Northup would get "nasty." Thieneman cited, as proof of continuing attempts by McConnell to get him out of the race, a voice mail message Cox left for him later that day.
Thieneman said Richardson has been working to keep him out of the race since last summer. He told David Toborowsky, the son-in-law of Republican state Sen. Dan Seum, that he was disenchanted and would quit the race. Toborowsky said that he understands why Thieneman is upset and stands by him, "although I might have handled it differently," he said. He blamed Republican leaders for chasing Thieneman out of the party. Toborowsky said he was caught off-guard by Thieneman's announcement that he would leave the party. But he said many south-end conservatives feel ostracized by party officials.
"How do you play a football game if your own team is tackling you from behind and clipping you even before you get on the field," Toborowsky asked.
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"The Party of the Rule of Law (or) No Controlling Legal authority?"
Bump for later reading.
Thanks for the heads-up.
Nice screenname!
Thanks! I have been using this screen name for six and a half years...back then, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee were still serving as Big Brother, nanny-state governors in liberal states.
Screw all these establishment moderate Republican collaborators, starting with every single Republican politician who is supporting John McCain.
That goes for Gingrich, Dole, Crist, Martinez, and both of my Senators - Chambliss and Isakson.
And don’t forget the other establishment moderate Republican collaborators...the ones supporting Mitt Romney.
You got that one wrong. Romney isn’t a collaborator. In case you haven’t noticed, the Republican establishment is pulling out all the stops to make sure Romney loses.
He may have been severely mistreated by the establishment, but a "conservative" is now "backing Yarmuth"? That does not compute. Run as a third party candidate, or whatever, but don't punish the constituents by supporting liberals.
I went Independent, though.
A whiner maybe, but also a disturbing example of what the Republican Party is like here. Like your tagline, by the way.
I guess we’re going to have to take a worse butt-whuppin’ in 2008 than we did in 2006 for the GOP to get back to it’s Conservative roots.
Also back then when Ron Paul used to be worshipped here. Now everybody's falling over themselves for Romney. Bleh!
How did it ever come to this?
Party’s are not indestructible. Since the two party’s seem bent on fusion, there is coming a time when a new political party will have to rise.
Hegel Dialectic in action. 1st you have a thesis, in reaction to which forms an antithesis which over time combines to become the synthesis which then becomes the thesis developing a new antithesis.
In these terms the thesis was the Democrat party, which developed over time the anti-thesis Republican party. With McCain in the lead, the the purging of true Conservative candidates like this, we seem to see the Republican Establishment accelerating a fusion with the Democrat Party leadership. They are becoming a synthesis.
SO it appears the Republican-Democrats will form a globalist, interventionist European Socialist style party. That will be the new thesis.
In reaction to that something new will arise. An new Anti-thesis. It may be that Ron Paul is an out rider of that new trend. Perhaps indicating the coming rise of an Isolationist, limited Govt., Nationalist party of Libertarian-Conservatives to oppose the Corporatist Democrat-Republican party
A lot rides on this election for setting the course of politics for the coming generation. If it ends up being Hillary-vrs McCain it will be a matter only of the party’s arguing over the speed to which the US should develop a European style authoritarian bureaucratic socialist style Govt.
The globalists will have won by then and it will be too late. The corporate elites who own the GOP organized this year's primary just they way they wanted. Those states with open primaries where independents could vote for GOP presidential candidates and questionable conservative states were up front guaranteeing that the most left- leaning of candidates would start strong. This will, of course, guarantee that the "free" trade and open borders proxies (McCain and his tool Huckabee) that they want in office will prevail.
"Free trade" was rammed through congress to allow these corporate elites to move their factories to cheaper labor markets and turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants allows cheap labor to move here to service all of those businesses that due to the distribution costs of their products must remain in the US. This has always been about enriching the corporatists and leaving the rest of us in a third world country with a mountain of debt. In their view, borders only serve to limit their profits. They're grifters looking for the next labor market to exploit and they own both parties now. This GOP presidential primary is not only about selecting the next president, it's about saving this country.
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A good, conservative Republican candidate for U.S. Congress in Louisville, Kentucky was apparently shunned and pushed away from running for Congress.
Thieneman, First a Democrat who came to his senses and became a Republican. Now a whiner who is going back to the whining party and supporting the ultra liberal John Yarmuth.
Yarmuth for those unfamiliar with his past previously owned and published the LEO newsrag. Louisville Eccentric Observer a great publication where you could find classified ads for Gay, Lesbian, and Transexual escort services. Abortion providers and used furniture all in one classified section.
A great publication if you beleive it’s okay to kill unborn babies. But wrong to waterboard a terrorist who is planning to murder innocent people.
He had to have known the best candidate for the race was the former incumbent, and it was her honor to seek a rematch, and she was likely going to have the party’s full backing. His public meltdown, switching parties and endorsing the moonbat incumbent showed he was not the right person to be running for Congress. As one of the local Republican leaders said, “He’s the Democrat’s problem now.” They ain’t gonna want him, either.
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