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McCloskey, other GOP elders seeking opponent for DeLay
Houston Chronicle ^
| May 1, 2005
| By RICHARD STEWART
Posted on 05/02/2005 5:24:18 AM PDT by bgsugar
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Oh boy, a liberal RINO from California is meeting with an opportunistic lawyer from Texas who got 2% against DeLay in the last election as an idependent cause he's run against DeLay every election for the last few years to promote himself as a terrorism expert and they are going to meet with the "party elders" to find an opponent for Tom.
BUT beware the danger within . . . . . lest we take them too lightly, the comment about the only way to take him is in the Republican Primary has some validity and look for a possible RINO coming out and trying to get Dem's to crossover vote in the Republican Primary.
The conservatives better turn out in the Primary to support DeLay.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:24:20 AM PDT
by
bgsugar
To: bgsugar
I wish DeLay was as smart as he is aggressive. This scandal reminds me of the bone-headed book deal that Gingrich did after fellow Republicans begged him not to.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:29:00 AM PDT
by
Brilliant
To: bgsugar
Leave it to the RINOs to wholesale buy into the Democrat's rantings. Funny, I don't ever recall Democrats looking for primary opponents for Jim McDermott, or that goober from Virginia.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:30:09 AM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: Obadiah
Funny, I don't see where this mentions that this "GOP" congressman endorsed Kerry and as such could hardly be considered a member in good standing of the GOP.
Will the Houston Chronicle be so charitable if lets say Zell Miller were to convene a "Council of Elders" to try to take down a prominent Dem?
Just wondering.
To: bgsugar
"Nobody can come into a Texas district and tell the voters who to support," McCloskey said. Bingo!
Now go back to the left coast.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:32:50 AM PDT
by
The_Victor
(Doh!... stupid tagline)
To: bgsugar
"Tom DeLay is an embarrassment to the Republican Party," said McCloskey, who represented Northern California from 1967 to 1983.
Sixteen years in the minority. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. We should listen to this dinosaur's opinion about one of the men who built the GOP into a majority party?
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:36:09 AM PDT
by
A Balrog of Morgoth
(With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the Rats in terror before me.)
To: Obadiah
Chances are these guys have something personal against DeLay, and this is the opportunity they've been waiting on to get back at him for something.
To: bgsugar
This idiot is not a Republican he is a covert left-wing democrat. He does not speak for the Republican party and should keep his stupid mouth closed.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:38:00 AM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
To: bgsugar
I am liking Tom DeLay more all the time. By the way, DeLay is the only Republican I don't blame for what happened to Terri Schindler. THE ONLY ONE!
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:39:44 AM PDT
by
Saundra Duffy
(Terri Schindler was murdered - IMPEACH JUDGE GREER!!!)
To: bgsugar
This is the same idiot who told all Republicans to vote for the TRAITOR John Kerry. So if you support a Traitor then you must be one.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:42:28 AM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
To: bgsugar
..a liberal RINO from California is meeting with an opportunistic lawyer from Texas who got 2% against DeLay..The conservatives better turn out in the Primary to support DeLay.Hmm...sounds like the torpid "Bluebloods/RINOs" wing of the GOP are longing for "the Good Old Days of ME-TOOs" of the 60s/70s, and Pete "I wannta-be a media darling" McCloskey is there to to preen in front of the camera.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:43:09 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: YOUGOTIT
This idiot is not a Republican he is a covert left-wing democratMcCloskey ran against Richard Nixon in the 1972 primaries, promising to pull out of Vietnam and implement even wackier economic and environmental policies than had Nixon.
He's about as much of a Republican as Howard Dean.
To: bgsugar
This is a group of bitter losers, do not worry one iota that they will be able to do anything to Tom Delay.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:55:00 AM PDT
by
jveritas
(The Left cannot win a national election ever again.)
To: bgsugar
Whew the Houston Chronical went all out bringing out this fossil RINO.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:56:59 AM PDT
by
Dane
( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
To: bgsugar
Former U.S. Rep. Pete McCloskey...Bigtime anti-semite, anti-Israel kook.
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posted on
05/02/2005 5:57:04 AM PDT
by
veronica
(CP=Jeffords Republicrats)
To: bgsugar
McCloskey was an embarrassment back in the 70s. Just another narcissistic jerk like McLaim, wallowing in liberal media adoration!
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posted on
05/02/2005 6:00:46 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(Don't let Terri's death be in vain!)
To: Brilliant
DeLay was as smart as he is aggressive...the bone-headed book deal that Gingrich did ..not belabor a point, $hrillary DID EXACTLY the same thing as Jim Wright's (Book, a word a page) in 1990..only difference was the media reaction. (liberals will always get a pass) Many Congress-critters, write books...check Pat Moyanhan, her predecessor. :)
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posted on
05/02/2005 6:01:27 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: skinkinthegrass
That may be so, but you've got to take that into consideration if you're going to be considered "smart." Either that, or you've got to figure a way to stick it to the media when they play their hand.
To: A Balrog of Morgoth
Pete "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride" McCloskey, just want some media Attention....like Sen. McPain (RINO-Az)
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posted on
05/02/2005 6:04:41 AM PDT
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: bgsugar
If the Republican Party ever becomes the moderate, centrist party, they will become totally marginalized. The conservative base will leave and form a new party because we are the ones who are energized and active, not content to sit around the country club, sipping Gin & tonic, feeling superior while completely out of power.
I've been writing the GOP for some time now warning them of what will happen if they put too many RINOs in positions of power. I support Tom DeLay entirely. He is under attack because he is effective. If a timid GOP leaves him twisting in the wind they will lose me, my financial support, my ideological support (letters to the editor, faxes and emails to various leaders supporting Republican initiatives, etc.), my political registration and my vote.
My loyalty is to my belief system, not to a political party that no longer embodies that belief system.
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