Posted on 08/27/2014 4:43:00 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
There’s been so much talk of late about the transformation of the Republican Party over the course of the last few decades that it is easy to become inured to reports of ideologically extreme new arrivals in the party’s ranks. After a while, the latest pronouncements of Michele Bachmann or Steve King fail to impress.
But what is going on right now in Wisconsin’s Sixth Congressional District is truly historic, and demands more attention.
The district, northwest of Milwaukee, has been represented for nearly half a century by only two men, both of whom were standard bearers for a brand of moderate Republicanism that has all but vanished from the landscape. The latter of the two, Tom Petri, is retiring after 35 years in office, and the Republican primary earlier this month to replace him was won, very narrowly, by Glenn Grothman, a proudly polarizing state senator (pictured above) considered by many to be the most radically conservative member of the Wisconsin legislature. The seat is solidly Republican and the Democratic challenger had only $42,000 in his account as of late July, so odds are that Grothman will take over for Petri in January and thereby pull off one of the most dramatic discontinuities in the annals of Congress.
The seat was won in 1966 by Bill Steiger, who at age 28 was the youngest member of the House and a highly promising prospect for the still-vigorous moderate wing of the GOP.
(SNIP) Challenged by Buckley to distinguish the Ripon Society’s program from New Deal liberalism, Petri countered, “We’ve felt that the role of government should be to enlighten self-interest in the society, to be a systems manager for the people rather than trying to do everything itself.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...
Ripon = Rockefeller = Romney
Alec, you ignorant slut.
Extremism...Wow. That must mean he is bad.
Extremism = understanding the Tenth Amendment.
Today’s GOP can only look ‘extremist’ to a rabid maoist.
Went to one of those “extremist terrorist racist” Tea Party meetings last night but it seemed like the meeting was attended by regular Americans discussing real American problems.
How about the extreme left taking over the Dems?
Where are the Scoop Jackson?
Where are the Zell Millers?
They never talk about that!
DUMMYCRATS GOT THE MEMO: NOW RUNNING AS
"CONSERVATIVES" (DUPING VOTERS TO SAVE OBAMA'S ***)
Breitbart.com reports that b/c of an increasingly hostile political landscape, Democrats are resorting to whining---asking voters to believe they have suddenly "seen the light" and are now conservatives.
In districts across the country, Democrats are campaigning as "true believers' in tax cuts, balanced budgets and for rolling back big government's harmful regulations.
The Dummycrats are so desperate, thry're even bleating about guns, fracking and coal....trying to appeal to the conservative heartland.
The list of Democrats carving out more conservative positions is too lengthy to mention. In fact, breitbart.com reports, it would be noteworthy to find any Democrat in a competitive election running on the platform espoused by the DNC, Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi.
Opportunistic Dem candidates are marching in lockstep--- separating themselves from Dummycrat-ism when facing actual voters.
As conservatives have always observed, Dummycrat-ism is not even a coherent party....just a collection of hyphenates.....and expedient alliances of special interest groups....all expecting payback.
This is an old Dummycrat trick---from the conniving shallow mind of Chicago-land kingpins of political crime. Obama suck-up Rahm Emanuel actually dreamed up the con.
As you may recall, the contrived Democrat wave in 2006 was fueled, in large part, by Dummycrat's beating the drum about public weariness with the Iraq War...... and Dummycrats piling on GWB.
Naturally, the complicit drive-by media failed to report that this was a con game devised by the aggressive then-Cong Rahm Emanuel to recruit moderate and conservative Democrats to run for office.
This strategy worked so well that before the GOP landslide in 2010, 54 members of the House Democrat caucus were conservative "blue dog democrats." With only 14 "blue dogs" now serving in Congress, this mythical creature has all but disappeared from the political landscape.
With contemporary support for golf-addicted Obama, and his policies, nearing record lows, Democrats in Congress are again trying to pull off this trick.
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WRAP-UP: Stupid Dummycrats can run wearing Reagan masks, for all that matters----the prog/nitwit in the WH keeps reminding voters about the Dummycrat-fashioned disaster that has befallen our beloved country.
As P.J. O’Rourke said, this country was founded by right-wing religious nuts with guns. Count me in!
Ripon = (also) = Bush
This article is BS AND I DIDN’T EVEN READ IT.
Odd that the New Republic doesn't do a short piece on Democrats 'reaching out' to NRA members, evangelical Christians, and people who believe in protecting our borders. Democrats could '“develop a program designed to educate Democrats on the importance of developing and tailoring a message that is non-inflammatory and inclusive to all.”
Of course, the New Republic - being blind to their own biases ... would miss the humor of the piece. So much for Alec MacGillis' pretensions..
Radical to the left means anyone right of Harry Reid...
The New Republic hits Glenn Grothman. I wonder what Petri was wearing when interviewed by this writer? THe last time I saw Petri was when he (one of the wealthiest men in Congress) addressed our local Lincoln Day Brunch a couple of years ago as Keynote speaker. His shirt cuffs were RAGGED and dirty. On a Sunday morning.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Well, the left is already going after Glenn, so that makes me see even more that he is the person we need in Washington. Nice of them to let us know who scares them.
Well, the left is already going after Glenn, so that makes me see even more that he is the person we need in Washington. Nice of them to let us know who scares them.
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