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GOP's Utah and Maine conventions show a party coming unglued
The Washington Post ^ | May 16, 2010 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 05/15/2010 5:10:55 AM PDT by Jim Noble

Future historians tracing the crackup of the Republican Party may well look to May 8, 2010, as an inflection point.

That was the day, as is now well known, that Sen. Robert Bennett, who took the conservative position 84 percent of the time over his career, was deemed not conservative enough by fellow Utah Republicans and booted out of the primary.

Less well known, but equally ominous, is what happened that same day, 2,500 miles east in Maine. There, the state Republican Party chucked its platform -- a sensible New England mix of free-market economics and conservation -- and adopted a manifesto of insanity: abolishing the Federal Reserve, calling global warming a "myth," sealing the border, and, as a final plank, fighting "efforts to create a one world government."...

Beck justifiably credited his viewers for "what happened to Bob Bennett in Utah." He warned: "People in Washington, you should be terrified."

We should be terrified -- particularly the Republicans, whose party is turning into this One-World-Government, Obama-worships-Satan, Jesus-opposes-climate-bill mélange. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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Well, you walk into the room Like a camel and then you frown You put your eyes in your pocket And your nose on the ground There ought to be a law Against you comin' around You should be made To wear earphones . Because something is happening here But you don't know what it is Do you, Mister Jones?
1 posted on 05/15/2010 5:10:56 AM PDT by Jim Noble
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GOP's Utah and Maine conventions show a party coming unglued

No it doesn't. In fact it shows the people finally finding their voice, will and determination.

2 posted on 05/15/2010 5:14:12 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Jim Noble

LOL at Dana Milbank.
Who thinks a nation of almost 400 million people should have a one party state with no divergence of opinions or philosophies, otherwise we are cracking up.
Psst Dana: check out North Korea, or Cuba. I think you’d like it there, politically speaking.


3 posted on 05/15/2010 5:14:29 AM PDT by silverleaf
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To: Jim Noble
So he took conservative positions 84% of the time but on the crucial votes, the BIG votes, he went left. He voted for those big things that serve to negate all the smaller things he voted on conservatively.His effective conservative rating would be considerably lower than his ACU number.
4 posted on 05/15/2010 5:14:59 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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chucked its platform -- a sensible New England mix of free-market economics and conservation -- and adopted a manifesto of insanity

No bias here-just straight news reporting.

5 posted on 05/15/2010 5:15:02 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Jim Noble

Conservatives tried to play nice - and got nothing but ridicule. It is long past time to take the gloves off. It is time that we fight to win.


6 posted on 05/15/2010 5:15:21 AM PDT by neutrino (Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.(173))
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To: Jim Noble

Dana you flaming fag. The only thing you are afraid of is a patriotic revival in this country which will expose you degenerates for what you are and marginilize you for a generation.


7 posted on 05/15/2010 5:15:31 AM PDT by DarthVader (That which supports Barack Hussein Obama must be sterilized and there are NO exceptions!)
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To: Jim Noble

Milbank thinks things are bad now, just wait until we come for the reds in the press.


8 posted on 05/15/2010 5:16:45 AM PDT by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Jim Noble

Future historians tracing the crackup of the Republican Party may well look to May 8, 2010, as an inflection point.

I beg to differ with the author. This is not a “crack up” it is a “crack down”! We are cleaning house, literally.


9 posted on 05/15/2010 5:17:34 AM PDT by marstegreg
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To: Jim Noble

You can vote conservatively 99% of the time but if the one vote you stray on is AMNESTY of CAP&TRADE then that 99% is indistinguishable from 0%.


10 posted on 05/15/2010 5:17:39 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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Sure, I trust the WashPost to have the best interests of the GOP at heart.

Really, I do.

11 posted on 05/15/2010 5:17:43 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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a manifesto of insanity: abolishing the Federal Reserve, calling global warming a "myth," sealing the border, and, as a final plank, fighting "efforts to create a one world government."...

Proud to be "WaPo Insane"!

12 posted on 05/15/2010 5:18:04 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Remember Neda Agha-Soltan|TV--it's NOT news you can trust)
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It’s a RINO purge and the Dems are scared out of their wits.

Contrast the dynamic, thinking GOP with any gathering of Dem zombies who show up for a standard recitation of grievances and 5 minutes of pandering per fringe group.


13 posted on 05/15/2010 5:18:04 AM PDT by relictele (.)
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Dana - Joe Lieberman was nearly ran out of the Dem party in 2006 and he was only "conservative" on the war. Where were you?

Spare me your sanctimonious, beltway political analysis bulls--t.


14 posted on 05/15/2010 5:18:54 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
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The main problem with Bennett wasn’t so much his conservatism as his having been there for wayyyyyyyyyy too long.


15 posted on 05/15/2010 5:19:04 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Jim Noble

This article has the smell of fear around it.


16 posted on 05/15/2010 5:19:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: neutrino
It is time that we fight to win.

The roots of the tree of liberty are dying of thirst. Just saying...

17 posted on 05/15/2010 5:19:28 AM PDT by Clint Williams (America -- a great idea, didn't last. R.I.P. America 3/21/2010.)
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To: Jim Noble

I find it amusing that these liberal columnists are so worried about the fate of the GOP.


18 posted on 05/15/2010 5:19:47 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Jim Noble

With a name like Dana Milbank I’m assumng he’s comes from a long line of privileged sissies.


19 posted on 05/15/2010 5:20:01 AM PDT by Oratam
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To: Jim Noble

Come Senators, Congressmen, please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block up the hall
For who gets hurt will be he who has stalled
There’s a battle outside and it’s ragin’
It’ll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’


20 posted on 05/15/2010 5:20:37 AM PDT by RetroSexual
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