Posted on 11/07/2008 12:33:27 PM PST by Mr. Blonde
I’d have voted for him for President before anyone else in the Senate...and then he came out for McCain in the primaries! WTF?!?!?!? How can a principled conservative do something like that without a streak of pure insanity in the family tree?!?!?!?!!
That was certainly what I thought. But there are troubling things about this guest editorial. Just when he’s making good sense, he goes off track again. I hope it’s just a momentary aberration.
Dr./Senator Coburn is NO RINO! Some of his best lines in the article.....
“Conservatives find the charge that they have been suddenly expelled from American political life surreal because we have been a minority within the majority, then a minority within the minority, since 1996. Conservatives have been consciously marginalized ever since the new Republican majority decided inconvenient promises like term limits were no longer necessary now that the “good guys” were in charge. And, as far back as 1997, Republican leaders initiated the Republican leadership policy of referring to conservatives as “you conservatives”—a troublesome band best kept outside of the Republican machinery that was busy doing important work like constructing the K Street Project.”
“While establishment Republicans find solace in complaining about the demands from the right, the record of history shows that virtually every warning and call for internal reform conservatives have offered since 1996 has been vindicated. It was conservatives who indicted the corrupting practice of pork-barrel spending long before sitting members were formally indicted. It was conservatives who warned that budget surpluses would quickly disappear in an environment of out-of-control spending and decimate the Republican brand. It was conservatives who insisted that a culture of oversight was more important to our long-term success than a culture of parochialism.”
Coburn is an actual Maverick. He may not say things we will always agree with, but I feel good knowing he won’t be bought.
I remember reading an article about him and a Democratic senator said he is hard to work with because he doesn’t accept pork spending for Oklahoma. You can’t scratch the back of someone who doesn’t itch.
Wow, I see nothing has changed, or will change.
Where is the “barf alert”?
Don’t see how one is needed.
A Republican moving forward and not acting like a baby seems like a good thing to me. Working on things we can agree on is a good idea. Voicing genuine misgivings when there is a difference of opinion is vital. Why anyone would disagree with that is beyond me.
Are there no elected officials out there that represent us??
We have often worked with the enemy to get things done e.g. Stalin, Pakistan, etc.
Amen
Um. Yeah. Don’t you dare read the article now.
I thought Chuck Hagel retired and let his wife endorse Obama... Am I wrong?
If so, I said in another thread (perhaps about Franken/Coleman) that no matter the Democrat count in the Senate...56, 57, 58...they still have their 60 "super majority" with Specter, Collins, Snowe, Hagel, Warner and more who voted consistently with them. Is Lincoln Chafee and Jim Jeffords "formers" now? What about Mitch McConnell and George Voinovich, are they RINOS?
It would be good to have a list of the current RINOS when the dust settles for us to keep track. In Virginia, retiring RINO John Warner was replaced by liberal Democrat Mark Warner, so no RINOS left for Virginia. We are officially a "Blue State" no like our neighbors: Pennsylvania and North Carolina.
Finally someone mentioned his ties to McCain. Wasn’t he the guy that promised to keep McCain in line at cpac? Where was he during the campaign when McCain advocated buying mortgages? Where was he when Sarah Palin needed support against McCain’s cronies? Coburn is another fraud and belongs on the rino list to shun.
Nice sentiment. Unfortunately, except in some esoteric, peripheral subjects where Senator Coburn allowed himself to ally with Barack Obama (and thus have his name cynically dragged into a debate about Bill Ayers), there was and is no evidence in the policies set forth by the Democratic Presidential candidate that there is much of anything on which we can agree.
Time will tell.
As I said....nothing has changed, Republicans are always more comfortable in the minority.
Tom Coburn represents me both as a conservative (proudly not a Republican) and as an Oklahoman.
A blind squirrel finds a nut every so often. If Obama maintains his promise to go through the budget and eliminate unneeded programs, conservatives should work with him on that.
Simply trying to grind the government to a halt does no good. Acting like the Democrats did for 8 years does no good. It may be satisfying, but it is not productive. That doesn’t mean they (or we) give up our right to voice genuine concern. Just that we aren’t going to make an issue of something because a Democrat came up with it.
Add McCain’s good friends Senator Lindsey Grahamnisty and Senator Mike DeWine to the RINO list. Is DeWine still in the Senate? I’m sure John Warner is not and pretty sure Lincoln Cahfee is not.
Dear Sen. Coburn,
Please join the democrat party and remove one more RINO from our ranks.
Wow, if Coburn is on the list, that is going to be a long list. In fact, I would say pretty much everyone is going to be on there.
He makes me sick, not to mention the fact that he fails to recognize that Duhbama has already dissed American’s of African heritage.
He is a puppet of white communists, if he fails they will blame blsck people, they will dump him, and live on to fight to destroy the US another day with another fraud.
Black people will be branded forever by the fraud Obama.
If this person was Thomas Sowell, black people would be credited for freedom and love of country. Now that would be something to be proud of.
I would like the list of things that make him a RINO. This article certainly isn’t enough. The bailout was upsetting, but everyone has slip ups.
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