Do real Republicans make you as sad as this make made you?
Posted on 07/27/2009 7:06:32 PM PDT by re_tail20
Too many conservative senators like Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) are to blame for the GOP's downfall, one of their retiring Republican colleagues complained Monday.
"We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns," Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) told the Columbus Dispatch. "It's the southerners."
Voinovich, a native Clevelander who retires after the 2010 election, continued after the southern elements of the GOP.
"They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr,'" he said. "People hear them and say, 'These people, they're southerners. The party's being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?'"
Voinovich has broken with his party at several significant points during his two terms in the Senate. He bucked leaders to vote against a dividend tax cut pushed by President George W. Bush earlier this decade, for instance, and only last week voted against an amendment sponsored by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) to expand Americans' ability to carry concealed weapons.
Voinovich, along with Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), voted against Thune's amendment, providing the key swing votes preventing it from passing
Hey George, Go cry to your mother!
As opposed to crying and voting and acting like a RINO, right George?
wah, wah, wah, whine, whine... actually, when I go up North, I see a lot more flagrant racism and hatred than I see below the DC line. ..take that for what it’s worth.
Nobody’s listening to you anymore, George, not that they did before.
Just the same, please close the door quietly when you leave, as we’re trying to get some serious work done and need to concentrate.
Sounds like George has lost his mind.
Hey Georgie Boy, err err... Screw.
Voinovich is beyond worthless. He’s a no-principles RINO who’s departure from the senate will make the caucus MUCH stronger. Hopefully Rob Portman can replace him.
He finally speaks up and proves he is the same idiot who voted like an idiot. I never did like the man.
Voinovichy is an embarrassment to the GOP. BTW, he is heavily involved in writing the Senate’s version of Cap and Tax. Be afraid, be very afriad.
He can’t leave the Senate soon enough for me.
I truly detest that RINO slime.
Do real Republicans make you as sad as this make made you?
Voinovich can kiss my grits!
Where’s the barf allert for Voinovich?? How dare he blame others for the demise of the Republican party... he’s one of the biggest rino’s in the bunch!!
Damn those southerners! They should just leave the party. In fact, they should just leave the US and take their backwards hick states, guns, and nutty religions with them!
Then we can finally get down to business and get the country rolling in a more progressive direction.
My fingers hate me.
What an elitist douchebag. Who the hell is he, coming from Cleveland of all places, to condescend about southerners?
Actually, it’s the RINOs. They know no boundaries.
Yo Mama Voinovich.
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