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Posted on 04/30/2009 9:06:02 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
After losing Arlen Specter to the Democrats, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell moved quickly to gauge the level of discontent of one of his caucus’ few remaining moderates.
McConnell sat down privately with Sen. Olympia J. Snowe of Maine on Wednesday and let her vent about what she thinks is going wrong with the Grand Old Party.
It was a one-on-one follow-up to a New York Times essay in which Snowe contended the party didn’t need to lose Specter.
After the meeting, Snowe had nothing but good things to say about McConnell, R-Ky., and focused her criticism on other wings of the party.
“My concern is that it’s hard for the leader and others who work here to try to create a more inclusive message that could well be overshadowed or neutralized by the national party,” Snowe said Thursday. “It’s been a painful lesson, but hopefully we will learn from it and build on it.”
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Olympia Snowe is NOT being specific. She voted pork for her constituents with an attitude of you “bedamned” to the rest of us.
How long will Snowe last as a RINO..Bet she can’t wait to join her fellow RINO Sphincter.
She should hit the bricks and try to find some room with the democraps. They all need each other. In fact, she could room with spector.
If Snowe gets her way, the DemocRATS will soon have 100 votes in the Senate. Kind of like it is in other Communist, one party countries.
/johnny
Snowe’s problem is that the party did nothing to lose Specter. He decided to leave. In fact, there was nothing the party could have done to keep Specter. The party was already backing him against a more logical GOP candidate, and was already pledging support for him. The party never took anything away from him, and never threatened him for all of his attacks against our principles.
So far from the GOP doing something to “lose” specter, the party did everything in it’s power to keep Specter.
Specter left because he couldn’t win the support of the VOTERS, not because the party did something against him.
Oh, and he’s a democrat. That was a bit of a problem, but since Snowe voted like Specter so much of the time, she probably doesn’t recognize that as a problem, any more than she understands how illogical she looks quoting Reagan and complaining that social conservatives have diluted the fiscal conservative message when she has been a tax-and-spend voter, not fiscally conservative at all.
Yesterday sent both Snowe and Collins invites to leave the GOP. Since moving to Maine I have inherited them and am not happy.
I live on the other end of the country - Washington state - and find that the Democrats are primarily located in a handful of locations which dominate the entire state’s policies/politics.
I’ve always assumed that Snowe and Collins represent opinions of the majority of the whole state of Maine, not a couple of densely populated metropolitan areas. Am I wrong?
The RINOs need to know that it is the Republican voters, not they, who determine what the party is and isn’t.
Snowe is having a party identity crisis and somehow it’s everyone else’s fault.
That this party has allowed it’s future and political power to hinge on people like this is insanity. No party can operate this way and accomplish anything. Witness the Republican Senate idiocy since 2001.
Excellent summation.
Spectre left because he would lose the primary. All the other crap he said about the Republican party was an attempt to make some “high minded” stand out of nothing more than a cheap political move.
Snowe doesn’t understand or care to understand what the people want. She doesn’t understand loyalty either.
All this suicide talk about jettisoning the Maine GOP libs is like saying we want to be ideologically pure AND we never want to be able to win a vote on any bill, nominate a judge or prevent another Breyer or Ginsburg.
We NEED more liberal Republicans in Liberals states. We don’t need liberal Republicans in NON-liberal states.
Seriously all you absolutists. You think you are going to dump Snowe and Collins and replacement in Maine with a consrvative Christian, pro-life, gun toting, private property protecting libertarian leaning oil driller?
When we won the House and Senate in 1994, we won it with conservatives in conservative states and conservative districts, more conservative candidates in districts which werer fairly evenly divided and with more liberal Republicans in districts which are clearly blue and never vote GOP (like CT, ME, VT, RI, MA, etc).
Even the Dems can’t have 60 votes without having the same strategy but in reverse. And by giving up two seats in the Senate just because they are more liberal than the rest of us, we are basically just asking to be a permanent minority forever. And our conservative members will be stymied and we get nothing and can stop nothing.
Let’s keep the blue staters we have, turn the red states to red Senators and get well funded candidates into those swing states. THAT is our road back. Not purging the party of every single member who isn’t 100% ACU rated.
Specter is/was/has always been a douchebag. You can’t keep soulless whores from betraying you (of course, you can keep them from becoming Committee Chairman - President Bush....) and we should challenge them in states where we have any chance of getting ethical and honest candidates to win. PA is an outside chance at best but we should take that one. Maine is NOT a place where we have a chance. If we could get a Senator in MA or RI or VT, we should steal that seat with anybody we could get in there because we have zero influence over a Senator who is not in our party.
Think strategically, people! Stop acting like 14 yr old boys who can’t think with their big heads because they can only with their little head.
There is a bigger picture here. Majorities are not made on litmus tests and homogenous fields of candidates. It is made up of putting the best possible candidates in the districts where they can win. Like it or not, we don’t have 250 congressional districts where there are a majority of GOP voters.
And while you’re at it...when was the last time any of us got another Republican registered to vote in our local Congressional district? If you can’t answer ‘yes’ and ‘recently’, then you aren’t doing enough either to get our country back into the hands of people who aren’t treasonous soulless scumbag socialists.
This kind of transformation doesn’t happen by watching TV news. We need to do serious G-d damn work!! Get to damn work and stop whining about the two Senators from Maine before you hand Harry Reid and Barack Obama two more slaves for his socialist machine.
rant off\
Time for pitchfork Republican and conservatives to stand up, revolt, and send Snowe and Collins packing.
But I draw the line on fiscal issues. Fiscal centrists I can support in economic liberal or populist states. Fiscal liberals though - never.
We lost in 2006 and 2008 because we lost credibility on fiscal issues with the Bridges to Nowhere, bailouts, earmarks, and 500 trillion dollar budgets signed by President Bush. The turning of Specter came not on abortion (well known) or guns (he only had one bad vote), but on fiscal spending. That's the issue that's killing us.
A vote for the non-stimulus needs to be dealt with - with prejudice.
Maybe Obama can send an electric hybrid solar powered Arctic ice-maker mini van to pick up a few more Rinoâ??s.
They have been binging long enough....time to purge!
She could figure out what’s wrong with the GOP in 3 easy steps.
Step 1.) Stand up
Step 2.) Walk to bathroom
Step 3.) Look in mirror
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