Posted on 07/26/2006 8:34:14 PM PDT by mdittmar
My weekend visitor was one of the founders of the postwar Republican Party in the South, one of those stubborn men who challenged the Democratic rule in his one-party state. He was conservative enough that in the great struggle for the 1952 nomination, his sympathies were with Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, not Dwight D. Eisenhower.
He has lived long enough to see Republicans elected as senator and governor of his state and to see a Republican from the Sun Belt behemoth of Texas capture the White House. His profession won't let him speak with his name attached, but he is sadly disillusioned.
"My wife was thrilled by the veto" Bush administered last week to the bill expanding federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, because she shares the president's belief that those clumps of cells destroyed in the research process represent human life. "I thought it was stupid," he said. "I know too many people who are like this" -- and he shook his hands like a victim of Parkinson's disease -- "and their only hope of a cure is in stem cells. Now Bush is forcing that science to move overseas."
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I had an imaginary visitor this weekend, and he told me that Republicans are bad people ...
Unfortunately.
You beat me to the question. He just comes back like a bad rash.
The old Socialist Broder is no authority on what is simmering in the Republican Party. The only thing simmering in Broder's world is the load in his Depends.
Howard Baker?
The old geezer has been taken in by the snake oil salesmen. The possibility of a parkinson's cure is about as likely as an AIDS vaccine. Remember they were promoseing that twenty years ago. Proof positive is that private money is not flowing into the research, even though it is perfectly legal. The smart money boys know moonshine when it tastes it.
ROFL!...Respected by whom, Broder?
He may be like a bad rash, but I hear the sentiment EVERYWHERE.
I'm on the board of a conservative/libertarian leaning group that holds monthly meetings with guest speakers.
Next month's topic is basically "Should we support the Republicans this fall, or send them a message!" We know a lot of folks who are sick and tired of the limp-wristed girly man globalist Republican Congresscritters and are willing to put up with the Democrats for a few years if it'll shake the RINOs out of the Republican Party.
That may be self-destructive and bad for the country, but I'm simply reporting what I hear, and I hear it ALOT!
Sure Joe, tell them to send their "message"
What a crock, put in a bunch of Democratic socialists to prove your point, why not take a gun and blow your brains out
It would be faster and they won't have to live with the results like we will
FANTASTIC POST......"THE ONLY THING SIMMERING IN BRODER'S WORLD IS THE LOAD IN HIS DEPENDS"
I know you've got more goodies like this, let's have 'em.
Mahalo
How can the party survive without the Taft wing?
What about the gold standard wing?
Don't you mean ""Should we support the Republicans this fall, or put the liberals back in power for the foreseeable future?"
You need to LEAVE that group: they're obviously losers.
You nailed it; these one agenda freaks that put themselves before this country are going to ruin it all for US.
Grown people actually get together, in a group, and talk about crap like this?
Tell your little group that you're not going to rid the party of RINOs. If you ever did, the GOP would never win a majority in Congress again.
How many times has Pat Buchanan been sited as an authority on what is "simmering" in the inner circles of the DNC?
But if your local rep is a RINO, if your group wants to really send a message, vote for an alternative candidate that does not look like a Democrat. If you vote Democrat, everyone in politics will assume a Democrat shift.
No. Bush is forcing them to move to California or Massachusetts, both of which have passed massive funding for unbridled stem cell research.
On the other hand, results are being obtained from adult and umbilical cord stem cells and very few developments show promise using embryonic stem cells.
Sorry fella but your lie doesn't wash
I will never, ever believe any story where the person giving the information is not named.
If you are too much of a coward to give your name - then shut your mouth!
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