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 ...
Dana Dana Dana, get your orange earflaps on and dream on.
I’m here in S. Utah. People are thrilled about Bennett.
As I said repeatedly last weekend, that vote was not only to get rid of Bennett, it was a SHOT OVER THE BOW to Orrin Hatch, who is also on thin ice.
We’ve had enough of senators who act (while in Utah) as though they are as conservative as Jim DeMint, but vote like Lindsey Graham when in DC.
It’s not just TARP.
It’s not just voting through left-wing crackpot judges.
Bennett voted for cloture over amnesty during Bush’s term. Hatch was hooked to Ted Kennedy and Dick Durbin over the DREAM Act.
Keep something in mind over these positions these guys took. Utah is a right to work state, essentially non-union. Therefore the wages are automatically lower here. Yet, we are being inundated with escapees from places like CA, who were bringing the proceeds of their overpriced home sales, thus driving up the cost of housing! Now, as if that were not enough (and trust me, it is!) consider the legislation they were in favor of: illegal immigration amnesty. This is a direct result of the majority religion in this state, which regards illegal aliens as not only cheap labor, but potential “converts” to join the church and go on missions, etc.
The people here are mad, and none of them are madder than those in St. George, as we are 6 miles from the AZ border. There are more amigos here than there are in Mexico City, honest to God. Nearly every female is pregnant, and pushing a shopping cart with two little ones already in it. We are all behind them in line at Albertson’s or Smith’s, watching them using EBT cards for groceries. This low tax and low wage state cannot afford it. And we can’t afford people like Bennett. He is out of touch. And if Hatch doesn’t have a “come to Jesus” moment....he’s next.
Milbank is just a typical “skim the sterotypes off the top” lazy journalist. There is much more going on here than he knows.
Had I taken the advice given to me when I first moved here, brand new job in hand, I’d be homeless now and penniless, as well. I was told to buy a house, use all the proceeds of my old home as a DP and use my job to make the payments.
I lost the latter, and had I listened to “experts” instead of that little voice inside that we all have, I’d lost the former, as well.
The liberal faction currently in power is indeed afraid of the conservative movement. They fear the possibility that their way of life would includes a host of loose living options will be curtailed. They are like teenagers who want to hang out and get high, only to have their party spoiled by someone’s parents being home.
MEMO TO MILBANK: Global warming IS a myth no matter what AlGore says. Real science uses the scientific method, not altered data to suit the so-called scientist!
The Federal Reserve is there to save the biggest banks. Not the people. There should be a better way.
One world government? Are you going to use the effete and corrupt UN as a model? That will REALLY work, huh?
Borders: All nations need an orderly process to control who gets in, to make sure they leave, and to allow citizens to travel. Open borders are historically a liberal failure. You do not know who is here, where they are, who has left, who has overstayed, and where they went or where they are now. Open borders are chaotic to a society.
“...sensible New England mix...”
Sez who?!?!?
It’s okay, Larry—we haven’t ALL drank the Kool-Aid just yet. Just most of the folks around us. But they’re waking up, rest assured.
“Proud to be “WaPo Insane”!
LOL!
Milbank must not notice government cuts being accomplished in traditionally left-wing locales around the globe and at home. It’s happening because it HAS to happen. Socialism failed. Anyone who thinks that this is a temporary lull in the advance of “social democracy” has been cloistered in the DC cocoon for the last year.
His head surely explode when Arizona says No to McCain in the primary.
Since we now have a theme a’ goin as you know who might say....I think this apropos
I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more
No, I aint gonna work for Maggie’s brother no more
Well, he hands you a nickel
He hands you a dime
He asks you with a grin
If you’re havin’ a good time
Then he fines you every time you slam the door
I ain’t gonna work for Maggie’s brother more.
Margaret Thatcher called this the rachet effect. The Lefties push the Govmint left while the conservatives just stop the Lefties from going left. Net result is a gradual march to the left.
That is why I scream for a lurch to the right, for crying out loud. The Fair Tax movement is one such effort; Repeal the 16th and institute a national sales tax. This takes much power away from Washington.
You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning
You got a lotta nerve
To say you got a helping hand to lend
You just want to be on
The side that’s winning
You say I let you down
You know it’s not like that
If you’re so hurt
Why then don’t you show it
You say you lost your faith
But that’s not where it’s at
You had no faith to lose
And you know it
I know the reason
That you talk behind my back
I used to be among the crowd
You’re in with
Do you take me for such a fool
To think I’d make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don’t know to begin with
You see me on the street
You always act surprised
You say, “How are you?” “Good luck”
But you don’t mean it
When you know as well as me
You’d rather see me paralyzed
Why don’t you just come out once
And scream it
No, I do not feel that good
When I see the heartbreaks you embrace
If I was a master thief
Perhaps I’d rob them
And now I know you’re dissatisfied
With your position and your place
Don’t you understand
It’s not my problem
I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you
“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”
Here in CO, a local politician rated R’s in the assembly and state senate by how often they voted with D’s where (1) the vote was split on party lines and (2) the vote was very close. Shocking results. The state party landed on this poor guy and he disappeared from politics quickly.
One of my all time favorite movies. Out of bubble gum yet??
“With a name like Dana Milbank I’m assumng he’s comes from a long line of privileged sissies.”
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He’s another Yalie member of Skull & Bones. To his credit, President George W. Bush couldn’t stand the guy.
Oh the foe will rise
With the sleep still in their eyes
And they’ll jerk from their beds and think they’re dreamin’
And they’ll pinch themselves and squeal
And they’ll know that it’s for real
The hour when the ship comes in
And they’ll raise their hands
Sayin’ “We’ll meet all your demands”
And we’ll shout from the bow “Your days are numbered”
And like pharoah’s tribe
They’ll be drownded in the tide
Like Goliath they’ll be conquered
Milbank assumes that his version of a moderate Republican will either not vote in November or vote for a Democrat based on their faltering allegience to a party trending wholly conservative. Milbank should realize that the passion and concerns of most voters over the current political status quo will give RINO advocates a choice that more conservative types have faced for years...having to vote for the best of two bad alternatives. I doubt RINO advocates will refuse to vote and will hardly vote for a candidate of a (curent) majority party that thy know is making a huge mess of the country.
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