Posted on 02/24/2010 3:13:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
The RINO hunt is back on, and the coveted trophy is Scott Brown.
Inevitably and predictably, the new senator from Massachusetts -- Mr. 41, Mr. I-Drive-A-Truck, tea party poster dude -- has disappointed his base by, alas, representing his constituents.
It's the purity test all over again; only this time, the stakes are high and the weird are turning seriously pro.
Not that the tea partiers are weird, not most of them, anyway. But some are at risk of flying off into the blood-red zone of wing-nuttery. One of the sessions at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) questioned whether Abraham Lincoln was "friend or foe."
Lincoln foes can't be said to define CPAC conferees -- and certainly not the GOP -- but the growing libertarian strain within the party (see Ron Paul's straw-poll victory) combined with an anti-RINO (Republicans in Name Only) attitude is making life increasingly difficult for moderates such as Brown.
Brown came under fire from social conservatives barely a week into his new job, even though his pro-choice position was well-known, at least to readers of this column.
Now he's caught the attention of fiscal conservatives and tea partiers who, though they favored Brown for his anti-health-reform and anti-stimulus positions, now call him a traitor for supporting a cloture motion on the Democrats' $15 billion jobs bill.
Thousands posted angry comments on Brown's Facebook page, including the ever-popular "YOU LIED!" Brown said that though the bill was imperfect, it would put Americans back to work. He also said he hoped his vote would be a "strong step toward restoring bipartisanship in Washington."
Guess again, Scottie. "True conservatives" want to beam you up.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The Conservative Chronicle printed her columns for a couple of months, then pulled them. She was a complete fool, and I got tired of her RINO nonsense. Evidently, the CC editors did as well.
I’ve never watched Chris Mathews.
No one is after Scott Brown. Her first mistake.
what she doesn’t realize is that the people who are upset at Brown are the people that actually gave him $$$.
Unfortunately those are Soviet soldiers. They would not have shot their own...
Just because it's true, she ought not be so hard on herself.
Not to worry. RINOs aren’t going away. They constitute the majority of Republicans and are misnamed when called RINOs. I am a true RINO, I’m a hard right conservative.
GIVE KATTY PARKER NO HITS (please)
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