Some personal impressions about the Delaware GOP:
From the beginning of my acquaintance with the Delaware GOP leadership, it was clear there were insiders and outsiders, as is generally true of any organization. As time wore on, it became equally clear to me that Republicans conservatives, especially those deeply concerned with social issues had a hard time of it within the upper GOP circles.
Perhaps one of the biggest clues I found at the beginning of my association with the GOP involved a casual comment about Christine “O’Donnell, who was then running for senator. Being new to Delaware politics, I asked about her status as candidate. “Oh,” the insider replied, “she’s just a throwaway candidate. We don’t have anyone else to run right now.”
Well, I’m maybe a bit wiser now, but the distinct impression I have gotten again and again is that GOP leadership is adamantly anti-conservative (except for fiscal conservatism) and committed to insider games, particularly when, for example, DRC chairman Tom Ross has committed himself to shredding O’Donnell again and again.
Ross has stated publicly: “She’s not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware. She could not be elected dog catcher.” Ross has defended the attacks on O’Donnell—a candidate once “supported” by the Delaware GOP—stating, “The stories might not be flattering, but they are factual. …Sometimes it is necessary to make sure that the facts get out there. He added later, “Is Christine O’Donnell actually this unhinged from reality? Or is she simply a liar, whose total lack of respect for Delaware voters leads her to deliberately and repeatedly deny the clear facts surrounding her many personal and professional failures?”
Now I realize Republicans disagree among themselves as to policy issues and their support of candidates. I realize Mr. Ross is a Castle supporter. That is his right. I don’t have a problem with that.
But here is what I consider the primary issue of concern regarding Mr. Ross’ attacks: As I understand it, Mr. Ross’ position is dependent on, paid for and supported by contributions from the NRC as well as all contributing Delaware Republicans. (Correct me if I’m wrong.) He heads an organization that is supposed to be a “Big Tent”—so I’ve often been told–for ALL Republicans.
But he has used his position to target a fellow Republican—a conservative Republican. In so doing, he has deliberately and perhaps irrevocably divided the party.
Further, just what message is he sending to the entirety of the Republican body of Delaware, especially to conservatives? What kind of a “Big Tent” are we talking about? It seems to me pretty obvious that he has invited conservatives and Tea Party members to get out of the “Big Tent” altogether.
As if that were not enough, the GOP leadership has decided not to field a candidate for Attorney General, one of the most powerful positions in Delaware. Why is that? It isn’t as if Delaware doesn’t have a sufficiency of lawyers. Perhaps it has something to do with yet another statement by a Republican leader with whom I spoke who said the wonderful thing about Delaware politics is that everybody got along. He added that the fact that everybody got along was also a big problem. He seemed like a nice guy, but I now wonder if he felt, as I have sometimes felt, that the distinctions between Republicans and Democrats have been blurred to the point the party leadership has become a “good ol’ boys’ club” cooperating with Democrats state and national. It would not surprise me.
I’ve found it interesting that one blogger at Ourcountrydeservesbetter.com put his frustration with insider games at Delaware GOP as follows:
“The Chairman of the Delaware Republican Party, who has become one of the principal spokespersons for Mike Castle’s campaign for U.S. Senate, has decided to run cover for Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Beau Biden.
Astonishingly, Ross and the Delaware Republican Party have decided to not even field a candidate to challenge Democrat Beau Biden as he runs for re-election as Attorney General for the state of Delaware.
Delaware Republicans are outraged that Ross and the Castle team have orchestrated one sellout to Democrats after another…This acquiescence to the Democrats has emerged as the greatest liability for Mike Castle and his campaign. During his time in Congress, Castle voted for Barack Obama’s agenda (on issues where Obama took a position) nearly 60% of the time.
The blogger concludes “the Castle political network has once again protected the Democrat Party’s agenda…”
Wel, that gives one pause, to say the least.
Let me conclude that I have not been or never will be a GOP “insider.” I have no skin in the game. I don’t even know all the games; don’t want to know and don’t want to play.
But I am a concerned member of the Republican Party in Delaware, and I for one, find the attitude of the Delaware GOP leadership reprehensible. I am particularly appalled at Mr. Ross’ “leadership” of the GOP and frankly wonder if he shouldn’t resign if he can’t represent and support all Republicans.
The Republican Party deserves better.
I totally relate and agree with your sentiments. I thought we couldn’t do worse than Terry Strine but we did with Ross. The New Castle Republicans run the party and are becoming increasingly hostile of conservative attempts to have a seat at the table. Especially social conservatives. I noticed at several events there were always a group of “insiders” that would huddle together in the middle of the room. I guess you have to have an invite to those gatherings.
Waaaaah. The Delaware GOP reflects the positions of the majority of Delaware Republicans, who are not unyielding social conservatives. You want more? Move to Alabama.
The social conservatives in Delaware don’t want a seat at the table. They want the whole table. Always have.
If you understood elections, you’d know that having no opponent for Biden significantly increases the chance that Republicans win the Congress seat (with either candidate), the Treasurer’s office and several Delaware House races. It was a smart move, especially since no one wanted to run.
Where was your social conservative Cuccinelli-type AG candidate? Social conservatives could have shown their power and influence by getting behind a culture warrior for AG. Where were you then?
Run cover for Beau Biden? Please, his last name could win an election despite the terrible job he’s done without blinking in an AG race. The bottom line is that the Party’s viewpoints match most of their constituents. The stuff you cited is the same tired rumormongering and fact cherry picking BS that the far right has been spewing about Castle all year, he could not care less about giving Beau Biden political coverage. Take off the tinfoil hat.
Give me a break, social conservatives just want a seat, the liberal and moderate DE republicans are the ones who want the whole table, took the whole table and are mad that the rest of us even want in the door.
Faye just so you know, which by now I’m sure you do. The phrase “BIG TENT” is code speek used by the liberal wing of the Delaware GOP. What it translates to is, ” all of you social conservatives, move to the back of the tent, sit down and be quiet until it is time to get on the bus to go vote, and then vote the way we tell you.”
For far too long the Delaware GOP has expected to give its marching orders to the rank and file and we are supposed to ask how far, well I believe it is time to turn this march around, and the GOP establishment can either walk with us or get walked over by us.
And Faye, don’t buy into this idea that the Delaware GOP leadership is even fiscally conservative, not when they are backing Mike Castle.
And the social conservatives are of the big tent mentality? Please, they are hell bent on giving away this election to the Democrats because they will only vote for a hard line conservative in a state where they can’t win.
Fay, for the record, mainstream Republicans like me think Tom Ross is the most courageous Party Chairman in the country. He expressed the feelings of many of us, when he had the ball to call out the Tea Party candidate in plain english. A liar. A fraud.
The Tea Party’s been acting like the playground bully. Bullys always ends up getting their asses kicked. That’s what’s happening.
You are mistaken to think you own the definition of “conservative”. I’ve been conservative all my life. I’m as entitled to define conservative as anyone. This Tea Party with Christine O’Donnell is not conservative. It’s just extreme right wing.
Understand this, we are hoping Tom Ross does indeed “irrevocably divide” the Party. Our Party is lost, and we won’t be found again until the Glenn Beck extremist go somewhere else.
Sure Bill, it takes lots of courage to verbally assault a Republican primary candidate in your own party, I don’t have a problem with Ross stating ” facts” as he sees them. What I do have a problem with is the nature and spirit of the attacks. As for your last comment, well therein lies the real issue. The values and foundation that the Party stood for during the Reagan years are now considered extreme right wing. You guys sound more like democrats everyday.
Our Party is lost, and we won’t be found again until the Glenn Beck extremist go somewhere else.
Why do you call Beck an ‘extremist?’ Because Chris Matthews told you to? Try watching him sometime; you might learn something.
And you’re not fooling anyone with that ‘lifetime conservative’ crap.
Frank and Chris,
Well, Frank. I hear the phrase “Big Tent” just about the same way you do.
Chris, I applaud your post. It is NOT courageous to viciously attack a primary candidate from your own party, especially when you are the official leader of that party; and,yes again, Reagan Republicans have now been redefined as “extreme” by members of their own organization.
I notice none of the protestors has addressed the point that Ross is supposed to represent all party members, including social conservatives.
And yet I don’t see you criticizing O’Donnell for her attacks. She brought this entirely upon herself by running a smear campaign and this is what happens.
And yes, Glenn Beck is an extremist and a moron. Glenn Beck’s lies, and general arrogant stupidity make every conservative look like an idiot. He is no better than Olberman or Maddow, and that is really saying something.
Fay, you’re totally missing one side of this. O’Donnell loses at the Convention. The Party backs the convention winner. So O’Donnell sets out to malign Castle as not being a real Republican, says the fix is in, he’s a closet liberal. She says Castle is bribing radio hosts and pollsters. She says Ross and Castle are following her home, possibly they’re the forces behind vandalizing her house.
So you’re saying what? Ross, Castle, The Party, the winners should play nice with this loose cannon? Get real. You guys can’t go around calling everybody socialists and RINOs then be surprised when people want to tar and feather you and run you out of town. Ross is doing the right thing. Purge the Tea Party extremists. If you guys are so hot, get your own Party and win something. Then come back a talk.
Rick, I call Glenn Beck an extremist because he told America that the President of the United States is a racist who hates white people. Does it get anymore extreme than that? Is the Pope Catholic. Beck is an extremist.
Chris, if Ross was the instigator of the verbal assault, I might agree with you. But O’Donnell implied Ross and Castle are fake Republicans. RINO’s. Phony Republicans. Good men devoting a lifetime to the Party. She calls them fake Republicans. That they might even be the forces behind the vandalism that struck her campaign. Naturally, Tom Ross is going to tell her what he thinks. Honest. Forthright. He says she’s a liar. Cool.
And, if you are a minority who just happens to be a Conservative interested in becoming involved in the DE GOP – you can’t even get inside the tent! They’ll tell you to walk around to the back so you can get started on cutting the grass or picking up their trash! You’ll be heckled and booed at their Convention while you speak, is that representing the best interests of their party and building a coalition?
Mr. Ross has done nothing to increase and diversify the membership of his party and that is unacceptable in 2010. Here’s something to mull over – the DE GOP has never even had a woman as their Party Chair – what does that tell you? They don’t have a credible minority outreach program or a woman’s organization were younger women can participate. They feel by having a couple of pages in Spanish on the NCC Region that were written by a feable Google editor are acceptable – it’s simply shameful. To say Mr. Ross has courage is disgraceful maybe he needs to make a visit to Emerald City along with Mr. Castle and ask the Wizard to help them both out and get them some cojones! As the best they can do is trash many good people and try to ruin their reputations because they are too paralyzed with fear to accept bold innovative ideas that will move them into the 21st century.
Fay – this was the best post I’ve read about the situation inside the DE GOP. Kudos to you to have the courage to speak out, you spoke the truth!
Think,
“…tar and feather you and run you out of town…”
Wow. That phrase has pretty racist implications, don’t you think, Think?
Did you just get back from a KKK rally?
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El Fuego,
Thanks for the kind words. I wrote what was on my heart out of concern for the future of the DE GOP.
The party has no shortage of outstanding women in elective office and in party leadership roles. One will be chairman someday.
Maybe you, Faye?
Bill Holt
If indeed you feel as you stated in your commentary, perhaps you and Tom Ross should change your designation to democrats.
Glen Beck is correct that the president and his wife are both racists. They’ve already started to redistribute wealth. The entire democratic party has been using the race card, lead by the president.
For the most part, the American people don’t see the president’s color as an issue. It’s his weak kneed stance, militarily and his apologetic demeanor to the world for Americans that we are inflamed about. The list of my own grievances is far too long to state in one comment.
On this one, I must agree with O’Donnell, both Castle and Ross are fake republicans and after Castle looses the primary, Ross needs to be censured by the party and removed.
Should Castle win, (God help us) Ross will become more arrogant and attempt to remove those of us that are in the Republican Committee for pure revenge.
Windjammer, if you get removed from the Republican Committee, it won’t be for revenge, it will be because you sound like you don’t really belong in that kind of job.
Man that was a class act piece of writing, Fay.
Not only true, but of course, but concise,to the point.
Maybe YOU ought to think about replacing Tom Ross.
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Mike – please correct yourself – it’s a Chairperson not a Chairman! You’ve just proven my point about the DE GOP not being a visionary or for that matter an inclusive party.
BTW – Name me one woman or a minority is who is a Region Chair??? That’s right you can’t! You have 3 women in your party leadership out of 11 people, that’s pathetic. And, not to embarass you anymore, you have no person of color there either. I won’t bother to go into how many women elected officials have been elected in the General Assembly, the Delaware Senate or hold an statewide elected positions. Because if you are a conservative woman, they will malign your character and question your integrity. Sound familiar?
Fay, FYI “tar and feathering” has no racist implications as far as I know. It was employed mainly by colonialist opponents of British rule. My understanding is tar and feather is almost always associated with the American Revolution.
Captain William Smith is said to be among the first Americans tarred and feathered in 1766 for informing on smugglers to British authorities.
Today we’ll probably just send the Tea Party extremists to some kind of deprogramming intervention therapy to get them back to reality. Like we did with the Moonies in the 1970′s. Maybe even non-invasive surgery to remove the excess ego.
Is there something about getting rejected by the voters the Tea Party does not understand. First they hate Obama for winning. Now it’s winners Ross and Castle who are the problem. I’d hate to play a round of golf with these poor losers.
Ross is a mental cripple, a complete total zero.
The Delaware GOP is indeed a goner in almost every statewide race for years to come. Until the GOP gets some one who won county wide in NCC it will never win anything. Does the GOP have any viable County candidates? Tansey was a lifelong Dem bought and paid for by Gordonberry and Weiner is a two faced talker.
Outreach? nah, after the Tea Party in 2009 there were several overtures to Boss Ross and he was not interested in the 2000+ Tea Party people who want fiscal restraint and less onerous taxes. Nothing extreme there.
Of course you are a total idiot who works for Tom Wagner you would not know what day of the week it is.
Anon the moron, how can you win in NCC when the Tea Party keeps insulting everybody? Is that the way you sell cars. Tell the prospect his car is a piece of shit? He’s a godless socialist for driving it? Democrats are Marxists. Normal Republicans are fake RINOs. You can’t get respect, if you don’t know how to give.
Let’s see: the DE GOP is run by moderate-to-liberal types who aren’t interested in doing serious outreach to conservatives or their ideas. The DE GOP also hasn’t had a candidate (besides center-left Castle) elected to major statewide office in years. It doesn’t sound to me like conservative Republicans are the ones dropping the ball here. Maybe being the typical Northeastern style GOP (i.e. Democrat Light) isn’t the way to go; considering that the result is usually being a distant 2nd.
Faye
Great piece, you’ve brought out the best and the worst of the republican party.
It was thought provoking to say the least and a little visionary in its scope to put it more correctly.
I fear, when this is over, by that I mean the midterms, there will be much finger pointing.
The best thing to happen in this race so far is the Tea Party Express’ arrival on the scene.
Tom Ross and his troop of leftys must be cringing in fear of poor little Christine.
Whatsa matter Ross and Castle, she’s only 5’3″ tall and yes just a woman. C’mon out and debate Mikey, what are you afraid of.
Oh! That’s right, it’s not politically expedient.
I think Rick has got it right.
Is She gone yet. Can I come out now Squeak, Squeak, Squeak.
Unthinkable123
If there were ever a person that doesn’t belong in the conservative wing of the party, that would be you. Aren’t I fortunate that you haven’t been put in the position of making those decisions.
Everything that comes out of your mouth is anti-republic.
You call O’Donnell a “loose cannon.” But the way I see it you are the destructive loose cannon.
You would keep the republican party, as a left of center subsidiary of the democratic party, receiving the few scraps that fall from their table. Tom Ross is scared of his own shadow, and he would have us follow him.
The primary is only is less than a week away, then maybe you’ll shut your liberal piehole.
So much wingnut crybabyism here as usual. This is game time. I say Castle wins with 65% of the primary votes. Any takers?
Jason
You’ve crawled out you hole this morning, or did a larger rat force you from it. I believe that anyone interested in wagering with you on the primary wouldn’t be paid anyway.
*crickets*
All of you Christine O’Donnell supporters are brimming over with faith in your candidate I see.
Rick, I call Glenn Beck an extremist because he told America that the President of the United States is a racist..Holt
And I think Obama is an extremist because of his neo-Marxist agenda.
We are in a battle for the future of America, and what we don’t need are conciliatory appeasers like Castle.
Hold your yuks, Jason. O’Donnell supporters know it’s uphill for the candidate.
What’s your point? If Castle wins the primary he wins the primary. What, we’re going to turn into the monsters you assert we are?
It’s not likely Christine supporters, if they’re wise, are going to be taking odds with you about the primary. It’s not like it’s going to do a damn bit of good.
I don’t think Christine’s going to win the primary but I bet she’ll scare the hell out of Castle. If nothing else, if God is in His heaven and the obvious fact that votes have consequences, maybe Castle will do the intelligent and start moving a little right, like maybe the rest of the country for God’s sakes.
After this, we’ll likely begin dismantling and reconstructing this awful Delaware Republican party. I, for one, have been inspired to get out at it again and give it another go. We got Frank as head of the Sussex GOP and Fay the head of the Delaware GOP. We’ll get Windjammer in there somewhere.
To your boohoo, the O’Donnell candidacy might have changed things more than you know.
Even if she doesn’t win.
Oh, and I definitely think Urquhart’s going to win.
Rollins has run an awful campaign while Glen has done splendidly.
That victory alone will shake up the Delaware GOP and we’ll take it from there.
I know SF has his Nazi thing he’s banking on….HEH.
Dream on.
Pat
I definitely give the primary to Urquhart. But I think that the dems have too much garbage on Glen for him to win the general.
Rollins has a much better chance in the general but will not get there if she is defeated in the primary.
…for the record, mainstream Republicans like me think Tom Ross is the most courageous Party Chairman in the country. He expressed the feelings of many of us, when he had the ball to call out the Tea Party candidate in plain english. A liar. A fraud.
All he did was engage in petty politics, i.e. largely manufactured issues and narratives. There wasn’t a large issue of principle there that he needed to supposedly be “courageous” about and so on.
You are mistaken to think you own the definition of “conservative”.
Those who tend to the Left tend to attack and change definitions more than they actually stand for anything. Apparently you tend toward the Left.
I’ve been conservative all my life.
In your own imagination, perhaps.
I’m as entitled to define conservative as anyone.
No, you can’t simply define yourself as conservative whenever you feel like it because words actually have meaning and definition.
This Tea Party with Christine O’Donnell is not conservative. It’s just extreme right wing.
Perhaps you are mistaken to think that you own the definition of “right wing.” Maybe there really is no such definition and they’re entitled to define themselves.
Understand this, we are hoping Tom Ross does indeed “irrevocably divide” the Party. Our Party is lost….
The grand old party was already generally corrupt and losing before the Tea Party arrived to attempt to reform it. If the old party of the aristocracy is supposedly fiscally conservative then that just goes to show that the fiscal is linked to the social. And even if the Tea Party loses that doesn’t mean that the old party of “At least we spend a little less than Democrats.” is worth supporting.
….and we won’t be found again until the Glenn Beck extremist go somewhere else.
Perhaps you could try the Democratic Party while you’re waiting.
This deserves its own post, because I happen to think that it is much more likely that Castle will move to the left. What would he have to gain by knuckling under to a bunch of nit wits like you during his victory lap in the Senate.
No. Castle would be the most liberal Republican in the Senate in order to cement his legacy as a grown-up among children.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Election-2010/Senate/2010/0908/Could-Mike-Castle-be-part-of-a-new-Republican-middle
FYI
No. Castle would be the most liberal Republican in the Senate in order to cement his legacy as a grown-up among children.
What do YOU know about grown-up, Trust Fund? You’ve never grown up, particularly socially and intellectually.
Grasshopper, You don’t have to know how to drive a bus to know if one you are on is being driven badly.
Michael Borgia, thank you for your supportive comment. Considering the precision and lucidity of your writing, maybe the post of chairman is something you’d like to consider for yourself.
Pat, thanks as well for your vote of confidence.
And thanks to all for taking the time and trouble to comment.
Kudos to Mynym for systematic debunking of puffery.
For Think 123 (actually, for all readers of this blog), please read the following article, which because it is so incisive in debunking the “extremist” and “racist” epithets routinely flung at conservatives, has spared me the trouble of writing long refutations.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/conservatisms_extreme_makeover.html
Also, tarring and feathering blacks was in fact a hallmark of the Jim Crow era and not confined to the Revolution. But more importantly, I wanted you to see how the term “racism” can be flung about at will with no particular evidence that the person to whom you attach the term actually IS racist.
The phrase “tar and feather and run out of town” is in itself not racist. It is a description of what evil people did to one another. Sometimes it had to do with politics, sometimes it had to do with race, and sometimes it had to do with both. In all cases, people were tortured by vigilante groups hell bent on disposing of the resistance.
You don’t have to know how to drive a bus to know if one you are on is being driven badly.
Funny how you never seem to apply that to your pampered self and your nitwit minions.
Rick, I quoted some extremist race baiting statements by Glenn Beck – “the President hates white people”.
Now you say the President has a marxist/communist agenda?
Would you be kind enough to site some evidence? Quotes by The President where he champions the cause of Marxism? Can you define neo-Marxism for us?
From what I know, Marxism is the belief in a one Party dictatorship of the proletariat. No elections, no Bill Of Rights , no private property. A total repudiation of Capitalism. In the USA, that requires a total scrapping of the United States Constitution.
Is that what you’re saying? Obama wants no Constitution, no Bill Of Rights, no private property, no Capitalism? Kind of like Cuba or North Korea? See, that’s where I start saying “extremism”.
The only thing I can think of even remotely counter to our shared belief in Capitalism, is when the Treasury purchased large equity stakes in our biggest private sector financial institutions under TARP. That very unusual intrusion into the heart of Capitalism was engineered by the previous Administration – as was the initial okay to bail out automakers. Regarding the auto industry President Bush rightly stated that “under normal circumstances, we would let the free market work things out – but these are not normal circumstances.”
So I really don’t understand where you get it, that this new President has a “neo-marxist” agenda. I have only heard that on extreme right wing radio and TV. I even saw Glenn Beck holding up pictures of Marx, Castro, Mao, Lenin, Stalin, even Hitler – linking them all to our President. That really is extreme.
I am surprised you buy into that cheesy made for TV tabloid crap. Next thing you know they’ll be telling us there are still people alive on the Titanic. Tune in a 6 for more.
At first it just sounded dumb and crazy to me. But now, when I see so many good people suckered in, I figure we have to stand up to it.
Lifelong Republican conservatives like me reject that kind of extremism. Too bad Ronald Reagan is not around to lecture us on civility. He would not tolerate this kind of slander directed at a sitting President, even a Democrat.
So, tell us how you, Glenn Beck and the Tea Party justify slandering the President Of The United States as a neo-Marxist. I figure you came to the conclusion Obama is a Marxist racist who hates whites from listening to Glenn Beck. No?
Um…. Not know what Hube is getting at that so….
back to this:
Who here does not agree that this comment does not deserves its own post?
I think that a good case can be made that Castle could be the most liberal Republican in the Senate. It would certainly be a rebuke to the O’Donnell-ites.
Just going by the raw data, Castle would not be the most liberal Republican in the Senate. Snowe And Collins have him beat by a pretty substantial margin. Their respective ACU lifetime ratings are in the low to mid forties. Castle’s is 52.49%. Mark Kirk’s is pretty close to Castle as well.
I think Ms. Voshell stumbled upon a workable solution for everyone. Alas, the time has passed.
The GOP needs a nominee for Attorney General.
The Attorney General does not have to be a lawyer.
SO …
Christine O’Donnell for Attorney General!
Now THAT would be a laugh and a half.
Michael
I believe that Snowe and Collins are both liberal beyond belief but Castle and Pete King are at the top in my estimation.
After thinking about it a bit, I believe that Castle gets the crown of “King of the RHINOS.”
Unless he wins and changes parties. Then he and Specter are in a class of their own, with famous people like Judas, Iago and Benedict Arnold.
Snowe and Collins are presently Senators. Castle ONCE ELECTED would be the most liberal Republican in the Senate.
What reason would he have to kow tow to a bunch of wingnut losers?
Um…. Not know what Hube is getting at that so….
Of course not. A brick is brighter than you, Trust Fund.
Hube
Maybe Jason’s trust fund will collapse. They’ve got a chicken plant in Harbeson that is looking for people to work on the evisceration line. We can set him up with a job.
If wealth accrued to people who worked hard, people who work on the evisceration line in Harbison would own the state.
Correction: …people who work on the evisceration line in Harbison, and school teachers would own the state.
Now you say the President has a marxist/communist agenda?…Bill Dolt
Actually, I said neo-Marxist.
Would you be kind enough to site some evidence? Quotes by The President where he champions the cause of Marxism? Can you define neo-Marxism for us?…Bill Dolt
Sure, it’s Marxism lite, Chicago style…statism for a new era.
Things like the nationalization of industry (GM, Chrysler) and banking, socialized medicine, handouts for preferred constituents (‘stimulus’), mass unionization (card check), identity politics (gay and lesbian, Latino, African American, ‘working families,’ and so on), compulsory state education (anti-voucher), excessive taxation and regulation, and a general contempt for tradition (‘they cling to their guns and religion’).
Get it?
Now, drop the phony ‘I’m a conservative’ crap, and get lost.
Sick Rick is at it again. Calling names. Saying crazy shit.
Don’t you read the papers Rick? You’re not conservative at all. Conservatives get there facts straight. Conservatives are not suppose to dodge responsibility. That leaves you out dude.
Listen up Sick Rick, why do you even blog about this stuff went you don’t have a clue what the hell is going on? Obama is not the bank and automaker bailout guy. That was all signed off approved initiated in 2008. Did you have your fake “conservative” head up your ass back then? 2008? Lehman Brothers. AIG. Washington Mutual. GM. Chrysler. 2008. Remember?
Bush Cheyney Limbaugh Fox, that whole fiscal conservative gang – it was those boys in charge of that basket of shit they left us when we chased them out of town. “Conservative Bush” backed by all his conservative buddies gave the okay for the bank and auto company deals. Are you that nuts?
And Ricky, it was not “nationalization”. Look up that big word in the dictionary. Nationalization is something a tad different. You can comprehend nuance, the meaning of words? Learn to use english words correctly. English is the official conservative language. Nothing was “nationalized”. Loans were made. Equity held as collateral. Repayment terms agreed upon. “Real Conservatives” are capable of complex thinking.
Facist does not mean conservative. Communist does not liberal. Dog does not mean cat. Unions are not neo-Marxist. Get a grip Ricky. Learn to speak english.
You obviously weren’t paying attention to the “national emergency” the “fiscal conservatives” announced during that special emergency speech President Bush gave in October of 2008.
See Rick, here’s how it works “real” conservatives don’t go borrowing trillions of dollars in a couple of years like the phony conservatives you voted for did. Real conservatives don’t turn a surplus into $5 trillion of new national debt.
Real conservatives man up to their mistakes. That’s why I’m the real conservative here Rick. I voted for Bush and Cheyney. But I know they screwed our fiscal situation up.
But phony conservatives like you weasel worm call names go off half cocked and stupid trying to dodge any responsibility. The girlie man fake conservatives, they run from the scene of their accident. Saying some other guy was driving.
So now pussy conservatives are saying it’s Obama the communist who got into the banks and the automakers. We didn’t do nothing wrong. It was the communist, and he hates white people too.
You really should find another place to spew that sicko marxist stuff. You’re not a conservative. Real conservatives, like me, are real real big on real facts. We don’t go around saying apples are oranges and Democrats are communists. We don’t weasel when we’re wrong. That’s for kids, not conservatives.
Sick Rick is at it again. Calling names. Saying crazy shit.Don’t you read the papers Rick? You’re not conservative at all. Conservatives get there facts straight. Conservatives are not suppose to dodge responsibility. That leaves you out dude.
Listen up Sick Rick..think?
Yes, they need to get ‘there’ facts straight.
I am glad to see that I am your Moby Dick. Stay obsessed!
“I’ll Smoke No More”…think Ahab
Fay, I just read your post 41 where you say any suggestions of racism within Tea Party conservatism have been debunked.
You could be right, maybe there is no such thing as racism at all anywhere. I think everybody is a little racist.
The kind of racism I’m talking about is the bad kind. Where one race sets out to pick a fight with another. Inciting racism.
Not all the good folks in Tea, but several prominent leaders are inciting racial division, Followers remain silent in denial, supporting those leaders.
Tea Leader Beck devotes a disproportionate amount of his programming to attacking black groups, NAACP, ACORN, says the President hates blacks, but you say can’t see a thing.
Like crime in the hood. Nobody saw nothing. The chains of tribal loyalty are hard to escape.
Here’s what I see. Two prominent Tea Party leaders, Glenn Beck and Andrew Brietbart making it their business to go after the two most prominent black organizations in American. NAACP and ACORN. The two chief lobbying groups for blacks, minorities.
In the context of the financial meltdown, Wall Street bankers taking billions in bonuses, AIG executives inexplicably pocketing billions of TARP, nobody knows where it’s going, all the rating agencies Standard and Poor to Moody suspected of aiding abetting the greatest financial fraud in American history – with all of that on the National platter of woe – these two very prominent leaders of Tea Beck and Breitbart set their priorities to taking down the lobbying groups for black people.
Hidden cameras, phony pimps, infiltrating black organizations. Reporting ginned up scandal night after night. To the point where the Association of Community Organizations for Reform is now all but destroyed. And Breitbart very publicly declares he is out to bring down the NAACP. Glenn Beck, devoted the last 20 months to investigative reporting almost entirely about black doings. No white groups.
Even though the greatest financial crimes of the century were perpetrated by white men at the very top strata of our society. Fox and Beck and Breitbart choose to turn your attention to bumbling blacks at the bottom of our social strata.
No hidden cameras sent to Standard and Poor setting up phony AAA ratings. No undercover investigation of Countrywide Mortgage or AIG.
The result being, hundreds of thousand of Tea Party folks can tell you all about the sins of the little black ACORN, but don’t even know what AIG stands for. It’s sleight of hand. Diversion. Bankrupt White men on Wall Street walking around with $50 million dollars taxpayer bonuses? Look over here, a black guy is talking to a pimp. Fox is the lobbying group for the TARP babies. You, unfortunately are the gullible “mark” as they say at the carnival.
I know you are a patriot. Just some food for thought.
Since you can’t bear to accept the idea that these men are inciting racism in America, deliberately diverting you from high crimes, maybe we need new language. Would you agree that these two Tea Leaders have a “thing” for blacks?