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Olympia Snowe: The GOP's lonely heretic
Miami Herald ^ | 10/22/2009 | Michael Gerson

Posted on 10/22/2009 5:11:26 AM PDT by IbJensen

Edited on 10/22/2009 6:19:03 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

There are 18 states, as columnist Mark Shields recently pointed out to me, that have gone Democratic in each of the last five presidential elections.

Of the 36 senators who represent those states, only two are Republicans. Both are from Maine, one of the last, storm-lashed, surf-pounded footholds of the Yankee GOP. So it is hardly shocking that the lone Republican supporter of Democratic health reform on the Senate Finance Committee should be Maine's Olympia Snowe.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; gop; maine; republicrats; snowe
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So, all the GOP has to do is to continue to 'go along' with the Communist Democrat Party and facilitate screwing America and using the Constitution as toilet paper.
1 posted on 10/22/2009 5:11:27 AM PDT by IbJensen
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See how the commie media tries to paint her as a Joan of Arc?

She’s not a lonely heretic.

She is a traitor to her constituents and the fundamentals of her party and she is in good company with plenty of other RINOs and a whole hell of a lot of leftists.


2 posted on 10/22/2009 5:14:06 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'd rather be a teabagger than an ankle-grabber.)
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Does Olympia have a remaining brain cell? When she speaks, she’s right in there with our two ultimate bimbos: Pelosi and Boxer. Must be something in the nylons.


3 posted on 10/22/2009 5:14:08 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: IbJensen

my next protest sign:

Start Following the Constitution
or Follow the Moving Van.


4 posted on 10/22/2009 5:15:28 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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Democrats rightly fear the central role that Snowe has taken.

BAHAHAHAHAHA!!

5 posted on 10/22/2009 5:15:38 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: IbJensen

She is not alone. McCain and Lindsey Graham take turns with her being stupid.


6 posted on 10/22/2009 5:16:06 AM PDT by bmwcyle (We need more Joe Wilson's. OBAMA is ACORN ACORN is OBAMA)
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To: IbJensen

She needs to do some Jumpin’ Jim Jeffords/Arlen Sphincter switching of parties...

whats the point having her....if you dont really have her.

also she needs to take her Olypia Snowturd and Lindsay Grahamcracker.....with her. and John McLame needs to retire and take his meds....


7 posted on 10/22/2009 5:16:11 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: IbJensen

Sadly, she’s is NOT alone!! She’s always got Susan Collins and a few more in her horrible corner.


8 posted on 10/22/2009 5:16:14 AM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION.......the HUMAN SACRIFICE to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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To: IbJensen

OOOPS

I meant Collins not Snowe


9 posted on 10/22/2009 5:17:37 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Da Coyote

She has about as many brain cells as 90% of the rest of the republicrats that are worhtless. Heretic??? She has a whole supporting cast around her in her own party.


10 posted on 10/22/2009 5:17:43 AM PDT by HiramQuick (work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
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To: Da Coyote

Does Olympia have a remaining brain cell?

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I think her brain has been taken over by something. I notice that when she speaks it’s as if she is repeating something that she is hearing through an earpiece.


11 posted on 10/22/2009 5:18:23 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
She is a traitor to her constituents and the fundamentals of her party and she is in good company with plenty of other RINOs and a whole hell of a lot of leftists.

Both her and Collins need to go! Why do we keep messing around with these rino prix in this party? It's such foolish nonsense. Conservatives need to change the way they vote and act politically. We conservatives HAVE to take control of this party back or this country we love is going to be lost! We know good and well it's on the track to socialist hell right now, who is going to save us?

12 posted on 10/22/2009 5:21:47 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Gravity Of The Situation...)
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Obamacare is bad policy - period. If Snowe actually has ‘principles’, she will vote against it based upon that one fact alone.

It may not please a lot of her constituents, but it would be the right thing to do, and she may actually earn some respect for doing so.


13 posted on 10/22/2009 5:22:58 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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Olympia Snowe should run as a Democrat. That’s what she is. She can then continue to play the maverick by voting Republican from time to time. We, in turn, should run a true Republican, someone who believes in balanced budgets, small and (as best we can make it) efficient government, and individual liberty.

Of course, we have the opportunity to challenge her in the primary. She’s there because the people of Maine keep her there, and she has little reason to switch parties in order to appease those of us on the right. If we want her gone, we’ve got to force her to go!


14 posted on 10/22/2009 5:25:08 AM PDT by CitizenUSA
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To: IbJensen

Olympia has been made the special project of a White House stooge.


15 posted on 10/22/2009 5:27:08 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: IbJensen

Snowe can’t really be described as a RINO anymore. She has attained DIABLO status. Democrat In All But Label Only.


16 posted on 10/22/2009 5:28:23 AM PDT by saganite (What would Sully do?)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
-- She's not a lonely heretic. --

Bingo. She's popular, moneyed, and influential.

And the GOP supports anything that is popular, moneyed, and influential - THOSE are the core principles of nearly all politicians.

17 posted on 10/22/2009 5:29:27 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
She is a traitor to her constituents and the fundamentals of her party and she is in good company with plenty of other RINOs and a whole hell of a lot of leftists.

She's not a traitor to her constituents who consistently return her and Susan Collins to Washington. The voters in the PRM, like the rest of the People's Republics in New England, have abandoned their independent Yankee roots in favor of the statists.

18 posted on 10/22/2009 5:29:52 AM PDT by Dahoser (The missus and I joined the NRA. Who says Obama can't inspire conservatives?)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe; Ann Archy
Olympia Snowe: The GOP's lonely heretic

I first read it as:

Olympia Snowe: The GOP's lonely harridan

19 posted on 10/22/2009 5:31:57 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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Just returned my RNC fund-raiser card back to em...with a note: Until you quit supporting and/or denounce Snowe, Collins and a couple other RINOs, you’ll never see another red cent from me. Sent it back at their expense.


20 posted on 10/22/2009 5:36:08 AM PDT by lgjhn23
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