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Posted on 10/06/2013 2:32:33 PM PDT by mandaladon
If Peter King’s brand of Republicanism seems to be on the wane these days, the Long Island congressman isn’t letting it go quietly. Kng, 69, has long been one of the Hill’s most quotable and irascible troublemakers, a frequent presence on cable television with an apparently boundless capacity for outrage. He has fumed over topics as serious as Hurricane Sandy relief and aid for 9/11 responders, and as comparatively trivial as the White House party crashers and the death of Michael Jackson (whom he called a “lowlife” and a “pervert.”) King broke with Newt Gingrich over the government shutdowns of the mid-1990s and earned the gratitude of the Clinton clan when he rebuked his own party for impeaching a president for sexual indiscretions. So while it’s not a surprise that King would be one of the Republican Party’s most prominent internal critics these days, even the congressman’s friends say there’s a new intensity and urgency to the lawmaker’s indignation.
King has thundered away in recent months against what he calls the “Ted Cruz wing” of the Republican Party, criticizing the GOP’s libertarian drift on issues such as domestic surveillance and assailing what he views as the utter pointlessness of the House’s effort to defund Obamacare at the cost of a government shutdown. He has floated the idea of a 2016 presidential campaign largely out of opposition to the tea party crowd. His frustration, friends say, reflects a deepening conviction that Republicans have lost touch with the working-class, middle-of-the-road voters who sent King to Congress in the first place, and who used to make Republican candidates for the Senate and the presidency competitive in downstate New York.
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King is making a mistake. He should work with conservatives, instead of fighting them. He’s divisive, when the Republican Party should be united.
He’s been like that from way back in the 1970s. At his age, how is he going to change?
“For those who remember the Lewinski days” Some of us can remember the days of WWII.
To be competitive downstate, you have to be a socialist. Who needs such Republicans?
If Pete doesn’t get votes, the lobbyist will not pay him.
That makes Pete very mad.
Peter King became a poster boy with the looney left media by going on with Chris Matthews (only losers appear on the Chrissy Show)and saying:
KING: I would say there are probably 30 or 40 who are like that. As there were a number of Democrats who felt that way about George W. Bush, and going back to when you and I first met, Republicans who felt that way about Bill Clinton… This is a very dangerous aspect to our government… The fact that we have people who are willing to demonize the president of the United States because he’s from a different party… and now, obviously, with President Obama, it’s definitely there.
That is the most ridiculous statement I have heard lately. Peter King has not one drop of libertarian blood in his entire body. He is a big Union, Big Government, Big Security
State, Big Church, Anti Gun politician. He would be happy to establish a Habsburg monarchy on us. A Maximillian Republican is more like it. The ideology of our Founders is foreign to the sensibilities of Peter King. Our forefathers would recognize Cruz as a true Jeffersonian, a libertarian. King on the other hand would’ve horrified our founders. Even the Federalists would recoil from him.
Good chance King will lose his seat in 2014.
King is a prick!
Isolationist trend?
We’re tired of being the world police, nation building, watching our heroes be killed due to stupid ROE; sick of a porous border that lets criminals and welfare leeches into our country, governments that give illegal aliens more rights and benefits than citizens, and being lied to about national security; we’re totally fed up with crony capitalism, legal double standards for insiders, and watching our money being spent on unConstitutional garbage.
The only thing I want to be isolated from is liberalism and the government spending monster.
How about Pullotico doing a story on the Constitutionalists’ fight against the fascist clown and the buttlicking media?
Plenty want to be isolated from the likes of Peter King.
Poor Peter. Even the filthy, commie ‘RATS are feeling sorry for him.
Peter King is now a complete asshole.
Hopefully, all the ambition has been molly-coddled out of them like the "men" of the Kennedy clan.
“New York Republican. ‘nuff said.”
Yep, read the story of Nelson Rockefeller and how immensely he grew NY government in the 60’s.
We’re still paying for it today.
King is what I call a liberal that believes in “law and order” when it suits him and that’s about it.
Because we need a multi-party system, where coalitions are made between parties, each of which stands for clearly defined principles, and not within two parties each of which stands for ‘goodness’, in other words for nothing.
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