Posted on 07/30/2011 5:50:53 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (Mich.), a Republican presidential candidate, called Saturday morning for Republicans and the Tea Party to stop fighting and work together to help save the country, presumably from Democratic policies, although he was not specific.
"On the right, take note," McCotter said on the House floor. "It is as unwarranted and injurious for a Republican to call a Tea Partier a hobbit as it is for a Tea Partier to call a Republican a RINO."
McCotter was referring to a comment earlier this month from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who compared Tea Partiers to hobbits. That sparked rebukes from Tea Party sympathizers, including from Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and other Tea Party favorites. The derisive term "RINO" is an acronym for "Republican in name only."
Paul was quoted in the press saying he'd rather be a hobbit than a troll because "the hobbits were heroes" in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings series.
"We cannot unite America if we divide the movement," McCotter warned. "Consequently, the time has come for the Tea party to grow up and the Republican Party to wake up and come together to serve and save this great nation."
Agreed and no, I have not.I can see the rinos trying to paint him in a bad light to try and get him into line.He has not been kind to rinos and libs from what I have heard in the past.
I second that, What is a McCotter? I’ve never heard of the guy or girl.
Well, if he's being misquoted, or if someone is putting words into his mouth that he didn't say, he'd better get it straightened out post haste.
Right now, he looks for all the world like an establishment guy to me.
I’ll GO one further: Every single Republican member that voted for the Boehner bill should be primaried in 2012~! How’s that for TRUCE you RINO McCotter??
McCotter can go to hell! We aren’t putting up with RINOs any more and there is absolutely no reason not to call them what they are.
McCain does NOT need to grow up. He needs to resign and go home. He is worse than useless.
We might want to make a special effort to defeat McCotter in a primary next year as specific punishment for this speech and to make his political memory that of a poster boy for ideological treason. And, yes, I am aware that McCotter generally votes well. If he cannot avoid speeches like this, he won't be missed.
Surely, I will not be accused of being a fan of Ron Paul but fairness requires that we all note that Ron Paul voted the right way against the Boehner attempt at surrender. Good for Ron Paul.
Herman Cain would flatten him in debate.
Oh, that must make a difference! McCotter is a hilariously funny ideological treasonweasel who soooo wants to whore after the approval of the Boehners and their ilk by voting for Boehner’s crap sandwich. Who cares whether the McCotter/Boehner crap sandwich was served on pumpernickel or rye or whole wheat??? Likewise, I don’t give a rat’s patoot if he wrapped his ideological treason and his impertinent defense of RINOs in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Sacred Scripture, he is still an ideological treasonweasel and, a purveyor of crap sandwiches and an impertinent jackass in GOP drag criticizing his betters.
That’s it for President thing. Time to go back to the band, Thad.
The point is that this politician “beats his gums” quite well.
He’s entertaining, sharp, says all the right things, and won’t hold back — telling it like it is and letting the chips fall. You really should watch the video I posted.
He has a snowball’s chance in the Presidential race and certainly knows it — but boy oh boy, would he make the debates fun!
Not to mention that wonderful name.
I have an honest question for CNN, isn't McCotter backed by the Michigan unions? I have read that he is, can you enlighten me on that?
“McCotter is one of the good guys.”
I agree. It’s troubling to see how many people don’t understand that.
To assume the worst and to desperately want to be right about it is a bad habit for many who are not necessarily qualified to make such wild assumptions.
I agree he is one of the good guys but it is very important for these functionaries to address their pronouncements to each other and quit making statements that appear to talk down to those they represent.
Isn’t that one of life’s lessons we’re supposed to learn early on in adulthood? That there’s often more to what can be seen at the onset, more than what can be seen from uncertain perspectives and that if you don’t wait long enough for a more complete story to surface, you’ll have something of a 2D image rather than seeing it in all ‘3D’.
Appearances matter but it’s a conscientious observer who can’t afford to rely heavily upon first impressions.
The problem with relying on first impressions is that sometimes, that’s all you’re going to get; only to remain oblivious to the big picture.
In other words, to rely so heavily upon first impressions is to take a half-assed approach to understanding the world around us and the people in it.
As far as I’m concerned the 22 individuals in question are like 22 people who wouldn’t join a bucket brigade in the middle of a fire because the bucket had a commie flag on it.
There’s a time to stand on principle and a time to take emergency action.
Did you like Ronald Reagan at all? Well what did he do? He UNITED the Republican Party against the Democrats and that was what McCotter was trying to do. If you insist on going it alone you are doomed to get NOTHING because there are more Democrats then Tea Party members.
The whole quote in context...
“The Administration and the Democratic Senate’s posturing show what America knows: We are being neither led nor governed. Yet, in their policy irresponsibility they remain in party unity. On the right take note. It is as unwarranted and injurious for a Republican to call a Tea Partier a hobbit as it is for a Tea Partier to call a Republican a R.I.N.O. For we cannot unite America if we divide the movement. Consequently, the time has come for the Tea Party to grow up and the Republican Party to wake up; and come together to serve and save this great nation.” — Thaddeus McCotter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra3CD_ItiEc&feature=player_embedded
Take Ronald Reagan and strip away his charisma, but add on about 20 IQ points as compensation. Keep the solid conservatism coupled with the ability to appeal to hard hats, and the sense of humor, but delivered in a much drier fashion and you’d have Thaddeus McCotter. I absolutely LOVE the guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra3CD_ItiEc&feature=player_embedded
Sorry, but what he said is demeaning. I don't need or want to be scolded by the likes of him.
If he truly wants to bring the Tea Party and the Republican establishment together, he picked the wrong way to do it. His words resonate a whole lot better with the enemy, than they do with us.
McCotter can kiss my grits.
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