Posted on 11/04/2009 6:43:44 PM PST by RobinMasters
How RINO is too RINO for Graham? It’s unclear. Even he’s sour on Scozzafava, but apparently only because she was too far left for the “mainstream” in NY-23, not because she was too far left, period. Like Ace, I’m happy to help build a bridge between centrists and conservatives, but a bridge has to end somewhere. Where does this one end? Or should we simply ask all Democrats to declare themselves Republicans and have a one-party system that encompasses everyone from DeMint to Pelosi according to whatever’s “mainstream” in their district?
“To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham told POLITICO in the Capitol Wednesday. “Those people who are trying to embrace conservatism in a thoughtful way that fits the region and the state and the district are going to do well. Conservativism is an asset. Blind ideology is not.”
Graham, who has sparred with his party’s right wing on issues ranging from climate change to Guantanamo Bay to Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, warned that those concerned about the state of the GOP should help find candidates who are electable — not ones who adhere to a particular type of ideology. And he said that both the GOP nominee, Dede Scozzafava and the conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman were both out of the mainstream of the upstate New York district – which lead to the victory of Democrat Bill Owens Tuesday night.
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Ping.
Poor Lindsay - his chances to be a blushing bride in Maine were destroyed last night by the good folks of ME.
Hey Lindsey, there’s the door, don’t let it hit ya on the ass on the way out..and take McCain, Snowe, and your new butt buddy Scuzzlebutt with ya
Hey Lindsey, if we do a Freepathon to purchase the negatives what will Rahm let them go for.
People like Graham are growing less less and electable. If he refuses to represent the will of his constituents, they will find someone that will.
Step aside! We are not interested in your partisan boot licking, “I want to be loved by you” parade. If you guys can’t realize by now that you are being taken for the suckers you have always been by these slimy decietful unAmerican socialist bottomdwellers than you have no place in the GOP! Grow some balls!
My message to the RNC is pretty simple. If you want my vote, and money, then give me a candidate I can feel good about, not one that I am told I should vote for simply because the Party ‘leaders’ said I should.
In my work as a photographer I often tell difficult subjects my motto is “If you want a better picture, bring me a better face.” Let me paraphrase that to say to the RNC “If you want better support, bring me a better candidate.”
“To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham
I’ve heard that word “purity” here from the GOP rah rah rahs.
OK GOP, then how about putting up imperfect candidates who won’t endorse Democrats when they bail/fail.
Lindsay, Dede is a backstabbing traitor. Nothing more need be said.
Well, I am a proud ideologue. That description gets a bad rap.
Can't we did didn't try to warn them. Just like we did with McCain and Dole before him.
Just look at what happened to Bush. So lame and unpopular in his last year he did not even go to the Republican convention.
Why? Because he governed from the squishy middle? People look for leadership and principles and follow that, not the undefined, sell-out moderation.
THAT INCLUDES YOU DAMN RINO!!!!!!!
Hannity, Gingrich, Scozzafava and Graham can go to Hell.
RINO’s are TOAST just like their RAT allies.
So, Lindy, finding candidates that can win is what the GOP needs to do. How’d that McCain thing work out you idiot!
Dang, a picture of gramnesty when he was twenty.
Apparently he's happy with 6%.
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