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Ohio Senator: GOP "Taken Over by Southerners"
CBS News ^ | July 28, 2009 | Prerana Swami

Posted on 07/30/2009 4:06:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Star Traveler

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61 posted on 07/30/2009 4:59:45 PM PDT by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: rom

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62 posted on 07/30/2009 5:02:37 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s about time!


63 posted on 07/30/2009 5:08:44 PM PDT by Library Lady
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Crybaby Rinos like Voinovich sabotaging good men like John Bolton are an even bigger problem.


64 posted on 07/30/2009 5:11:20 PM PDT by Rosemont
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There are still a lot of conservatives up North but the liberals have rigged the election game.


65 posted on 07/30/2009 5:12:16 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ohio Senator George Voinovich says that the GOP is "being taken over by southerners," the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Intolerant bigot!
66 posted on 07/30/2009 5:14:23 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Senators Jim Jeffords of Vermont and Arlen Spectre of Pennsylvania, Governor Bloomberg of New York. The problem is not that there are too many Southerners in the Republican party, it is that the Yankees are leaving.


67 posted on 07/30/2009 5:17:07 PM PDT by sportutegrl (If liberals could do math, they would be conservatives.)
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To: Darren McCarty
Dumbass Voinovich needs a geography lesson. There's about as much in common between South Carolina and Oklahoma as there is between Ohio and Maine.

And there are a lot of Ohioans who either come from the south or have southern roots.

Voinovich is a typical country club Ohio Rino. Which is to say that he doesn't like conservatives and anytime he has to take a conservative stand on a issue, he throws a hissy fit.

Voinovich is retiring next year. He doesn't have to pretend that he likes conservatives anymore now that he doesn't need their votes. I say good riddance.
68 posted on 07/30/2009 5:20:13 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34 (Free Obama's Birth Certificate!)
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To: Heart of Georgia

what does errr,errr mean anyway?


69 posted on 07/30/2009 5:20:21 PM PDT by Jen from Tn.
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
While I agree the GOP has been losing suburbanites, I think Voinmilosevic is a fool and a "regionalist" (somebody bigoted against someone from another region of the country).

I'm a Polish/Italian Yankee (but a Mets fan) agnostic in New York City who thinks that Coburn and DeMint are the only two guys in the Senate with any balls OR ideas. Voino is another "Catholic moderate" a la Peter King (as opposed to Catholic leftists like Kennedy or good Catholic conservatives like Bill Buckley) who thinks he is more "sophisticated" than he actually is.

70 posted on 07/30/2009 5:20:42 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: csmusaret; Sunshine Sister
I don't understand why you southerners BRAG about all of the Yankees moving down. It is the main reason North Carolina and Virginia went for Obama, and places like Palm Beach County Florida are solid Dem.

Do you really think that those Yankees are going to start voting Right, flying Confederate flags, and going to NASCAR events and Megachurches just because they "move south?"

You really need border controls down there. I say this as a Yankee myself. :)

71 posted on 07/30/2009 5:23:15 PM PDT by Clemenza (Remember our Korean War Veterans)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

South will rise again! And they are right to do so. Voinozich is a disgrace for Ohio,but we are full of disgraces here,,gee,,we got strickland,the ufo guy,etc,what a bunch of nitwits.Hopefully we will follow the south and find some decent,honest politicians that believe in America as it should be.


72 posted on 07/30/2009 5:39:19 PM PDT by coalman (type to slow to be relevant,but I try)
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To: Jen from Tn.

It’s the sound my car battery makes when it needs a charge.


73 posted on 07/30/2009 5:42:53 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This was such an amazingly childish and intolerant remark by Voinivich. Good riddance, I’m glad this turd is leaving the Senate. If only we had more Senators like Coburn and Demint who actually fight for what’s good for the country and who have fought to return sanity to our fiscal policies unlike some in the GOP and the entire Democratic party which care more about buying votes by mortgaging the country and our children’s future than with fostering a robust, sound economy.

The fact is Coburn and Demint were elected by the people of their stated and have as much right to be in the Senate as Voinivich—hell, at least they’ve done something constructive with their tenure in the Senate unlike the invisible “go along to get along” Voinivich who was just there to tickle his enormous ego.

And the South is part of this country whether ole’ George likes it or not, and its citizens have as much right to be in the GOP as he does—perhaps more so since they actually stand for conservative principles rather than just serving their own egos like the tired country club jerk Voinivich.

It would be nice if some of these country club types in all their reaching across the aisle would occassionally reach across the aisle to their own party.


74 posted on 07/30/2009 6:02:33 PM PDT by MissesBush
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

This guys just screaming for attention as he walks out the door.


75 posted on 07/30/2009 6:02:34 PM PDT by generation
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Ohio Senator: GOP "Taken Over by Southerners"

How did he know? They weren't castrated?

Apologies to our "non-castrati" Northern FReepers...

76 posted on 07/30/2009 6:06:39 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Clemenza

It wasn’t bragging. It was complaining.


77 posted on 07/30/2009 6:28:07 PM PDT by csmusaret (If you like this economy, keep voting for Donkeys.)
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To: Aroostook25

Southeastern Ohio is roughly the same was West Virginia and Kentucky. If it’s not “Southern” then it’s pretty damn close. The problem is that SE Ohio is only about 8-10% of the state’s population, by far the least populated part of the state. The area has very little political sway in statewide races, although it has flipped from time to time. Voted heavily for Reagan and Bush, but also voted for Clinton. Voinovich clearly doesn’t care about offending anyone in that part of the state, he’s done facing the voters. Hopefully, Rob Portman can replace him. He’s a much more reliable Republican and conservative vote.


78 posted on 07/30/2009 7:06:32 PM PDT by zebrahead
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To: generation

nope


79 posted on 07/30/2009 7:28:33 PM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (Sarah Palin in 2012 !)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If only it were true.......the GOP might show more spine.


80 posted on 07/30/2009 7:30:11 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Nope. Not gonna do it.)
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