Yeah baby yeah, grrrr!
Posted on 04/27/2004 11:42:52 AM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm
After returning from voting for Toomey this morning at 9:30am, I heard a pro-Specter radio ad on WSBA-910AM, to the effect that "a vote against Specter is a vote against Pennsylvania's Republican Party."
When I got back to work, I emailed them a taste of my dissatisfaction:
""a vote against specter is a vote against the republican party"? what's that all about?
how utterly stupid.
arlie sphincter is a back-stabbing liberal scumbag, who's screwed us here in penna, for 24 years. he's gone, after today. your stupid radio spot helped seal his doom, and changed a lot of peoples' minds to vote for toomey.
i talked to several angry fellow republican voters at the voting hall in york, pa, and they switched from sphincter to toomey, because of your demeaning and lying ad.
happy? we are; and thanks!"
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Here is their reply:
I am sorry that you have interpreted our ad that way. Let me explain why we are sending Pennsylvanians the message that “a vote against Specter is a vote against the Republican Party” and encourage you to reconsider voting for Senator Specter.
Neither the White House nor the Senate Republican leadership – that includes Senator Santorum – wanted Toomey to run, and they made that clear last winter before Toomey announced his candidacy. Even though Toomey knew he was running against the wishes of President Bush and Senate Republican leaders, he chose to run for the Senate anyway.
Secondly, the Club for Growth, a Washington, DC interest group, has poured over $2 million into Pat Toomey’s campaign. The Club for Growth’s leaders frequently criticize the White House and the President. And in a New York Times article earlier this month, the group’s executive director, David Keating, even went as far to say that the Club has “no loyalty to the Republican Party.” I am sending you some comments that Stephen Moore, the group’s President, and Keating have made about President Bush and his policies. If Toomey is the real Republican that he claims to be, then why is he taking so much money and from an organization that repeatedly attacks the President and his policies?
Lastly, the Club and Toomey have spread a lot of misinformation about Specter’s voting record. According to the non-partisan Congressional Quarterly, Specter voted with Bush 89 percent of the time in 2002 and 2003 and 87 percent in 2001. Specter has always been a supporter of President Bush, despite what his foes will tell you.
I hope that you find this information helpful.
“We have no loyalty to the Republican Party” -- Executive Director David Keating, New York Times, 4/11/04.
“We've had too much compassion from government, thank you. That is the biggest impediment to freedom and economic growth in America today. The State of Bush's Union has become in some ways a State of Dependency and a State of Entitlement” – Stephen Moore, National Review, 1/20/04.
“It’s a rather anemic goal, actually,” -- Stephen Moore on Bush’s deficit-reduction plan, AP, Dec. 18, 2003.
“George Bush doesn’t have an anti-government bone in his body. Compassionate conservatism means never having to say no” -- Stephen Moore, Time, 12/08/03
“My term for this is fiscal child abuse. Somebody is going to pay for Granny's drugs, and it's going to be Granny's grandkids” -- Stephen Moore on the Medicare-Rx bill, USA Today, 11/25/03.
“With the war over in Iraq and Saddam gone for good, we should be giving Iraq a hand up through capitalism, not a hand out through welfare.” – Stephen Moore on Bush’s request for Iraq reconstruction funding, National Review, 10/17/03
''I don't really like the Bush people very much. 'I was never part of a fraternity or anything like that, and the Bush White House is like a club'' – Stephen Moore, New York Times Magazine, 8/10/03
“ … we already have a Department of Homeland Security and that is called the Defense Department.” – Stephen Moore on the Department of Homeland Security, Fox News, 12/21/02
“We are doing everything we can to quash this appointment ... but who knows what will happen.” -- Stephen Moore on the appointment of White House Economic Adviser Stephen Friedman, USA Today, 12/11/02
“So we wound up last year with a wretched education bill that nearly doubled federal education spending and further implanted the Department of Education as a fixture in local school policy. The bill was a conservative policy setback that it will take years to dig out from under.” -- Stephen Moore on No Child Left Behind, Human Events, 5/27/02
"We're not well liked by [Republican National Committee] types. We do not have a good relationship," Stephen Moore, The Hill, 7/31/02
Yeah baby yeah, grrrr!
The Club for Growth are supply side Republicans in the tradition of Ronald Reagan. The real question is why has Specter taken money from looney-left George Soros?
Also, does anyone here disagree with any of the policy positions described in the quotes from Stephen Moore? I sure don't.
He looks like he's about to melt...
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