Posted on 11/05/2009 5:19:21 PM PST by Kaslin
Democrats have some thinking to do after Tuesday's elections, but Republicans don't have time to think. They're too busy trying to survive the party's internal purge and avoid being shipped off to political Siberia.
Will loyal members inform on others for harboring suspiciously moderate views? Will anyone judged guilty have to wear a sign saying "Republican In Name Only" as penance? Will there be re-education camps?
Will deviationists face the Enhanced Interrogation Technique of being forced to listen to the wit and wisdom of Glenn Beck, at ear-splitting volume, for days on end?
Or worse: When Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue," hits the bookstores later this month, will the ideologically impure be required to read — and commit to memory — every golden word?
Her publisher might consider culling the highlights into a pocket edition. That way, any Republican caught without a copy of "Quotations from Chairman Sarah" could be summarily expelled from the party.
The big story from Tuesday's vote ought to be that independents, who gave Democrats their sweeping victory last November, went with the Republicans this time in New Jersey and Virginia. Indeed, Democrats are trying to figure out what this means.
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we must be doing something right.
The “crucial center” can always form their own party. LOL
I suggest the weathervane party or the ankle grabber party.
LOL! I like it.
EUGENE ROBINSON is a TWIT!
Try Mega Ultra Barf Alert. He lives in his own fantasy land.
I’m not a purger myself, but I’m happy to kick democrats out of the republican party.
No point in BEING a party if you have no standards at all.
Most people here have to harsh a standard for membership in the party, but DeDe wouldn’t meet anybody’s definition of republican.
Let’s see - the Dems ceded the center years ago and now control all branches of government, the schools, the media, etc.
Not a bad model to follow.
The majority of the country is right of center so the left can have the center and the left of center.
Nope. RINOs belong in Africa.
No, Eugene Robinson, Sarah Palin's brownshirts are not coming to take you away.
Alan Colmes just told O’Reilly that Obama’s visits to New Jersey SAVED Corzine from REALLY being defeated. LOL!!! The ‘RATS are losing it. Corzine was only beat a little bit in the governor’s race thanks to “The One.”
What a great guy, so worried that Democrats will continue to win that he will let out the Democrat secret to help the Pubbies.
My reply
I’ve got some bad news for you, sunshine. The steaming pile you and yours continue to attempt to dump on our “diverse” points of view is illustrative of how much we frighten you. BOO! mo fo. You and yours are finished by 2012 (no I don’t mean the Mexican calendar nonsense).
Eugene Robinson should apply to The Onion.
Why are liberals so obsessed with trying to give advice to the Republican Party? And why are so many Republicans listening to them? Seems like Democrats are glad to dispense bad advice. Why don’t Republicans learn to ignore them?
Eugenie, Eugene, Eugene... Oui...
What this man doesn’t seem to understand is that there has been a sinister unspoken plot to purge, that has been going on a lot longer than the one to rid this party of Liberals.
This party has been tone deaf to the concerns of Conservatives for a long time. When that was going on I don’t remember the liberals in the party wringing their hands and moaning about purity of thought.
In 2008 the Republican party reached the murky depths it had been barreling towards for two decades. Over our objections as Conservatives, the party had decayed to the point where John McCain seemed a reasonable standard bearer for its leadership.
At some point this was going to come to a head. And in NY23, it finally did.
After twenty years the Reagan Coalition has once again raised its head, and I suspect things well never be the same.
The lessons of the Reagan years have long ago been forgotten by people who never agreed with them in the first place. Still others were confused with regard to what they were, having been lied to for years.
What was Reagan’s coalition? Reagan formed a coalition by clearly defining solid public policy that Republicans and Democrats agreed with. Republicans, Independents, and Democrats joined to dump Jimmy Carter. Some people think dislike of Carter was the real factor here. If so, why was Reagan reelected in 1984? Reagan policies of small government swayed voters. They made sense then. They make sense today.
The Tea Party movement has once again tapped the same bedrock values. Contrast them with the policies the GOP leadership seeks to push, so foul that not even the members of its own party can support them.
NY23 more clearly defined the decay of the Republican party’s morality than any other event in the last 20 years. Coming on the heels of backing John McCain in 2008, the rank and file of the GOP have finally had it.
It is now clear to anyone who will see, what 20 years of shirking Conservative principles has garnered us. We told you it was a dead end in the early 90s. In a word it is unacceptable.
There must be a viable alternative to Marxism. There is already a party hawking that ideology. We don’t need two.
If the Republican Party is going to continue to exist it must end the purge and dismissal of the tenets of Conservative Constitutional governance.
We will no longer support it, if it can’t get that through its fat head.
Capiche Eugene?
First step in that processed was avoided when Michael Steel unceremoniously rubber stamped R policy of having open primaries soon after he took his job.
This man is a friend to the other side, not to the Republican party.
There was a lot more than that, although those are some big ones.
This commentary is ridiculous. Liberalism is not "centrist." Scozzafava was not a "centrist". End of discussion.
Left wing lunatic AND Marble-mouth imbecile Eugene Robinson.
“GOP Will Cede Crucial Center...”
to those moderates Harry and Nancy? /sarc
Sort of like what happened in a big way on Tuesday? In New Jersey of all places? What was your point again, Eugene?
I see somebody forgot to read their DNC talking points this morning.
Hey Eugene! Conservatives do not force you to believe anything.
But if you want examples of indoctrination, there are about a dozen videos out there of students singing songs to Obama and being forced to memorize his speeches!
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