Moderate Republicans Feeling Like Endangered Species

The New York Times ^ | Oct. 27, 2006 | CARL HULSE

[ConservativeMind]

Democrats have also made a concerted effort against vulnerable Republican moderates, which Senator Susan Collins, another Republican of Maine, said was not much of a reward for those willing to try to work with the opposition party.

Nutballs! Like the Democrats will stump for you, a 'Republican'?

That possibility also gives Republican moderates hope that even if they number fewer, they could potentially band with Democrats in the center to influence measures.

Like they didn't already do that? Good riddance!

[spyone]

They are.

[MamaLucci]

Moderate Republicans feeling like endangered species

Best news I've heard this election cycle.

[darkangel82]

There go the liberal Repubs, calling themselves 'centrists' again.

[kinoxi]

.While Republican moderates struggle to maintain their numbers, some top Democratic challengers are from the more moderate wing of that party, raising the prospect that some gains will come from the right.

I do not understand this statement.

[Lancey Howard]

Wow! Great post! This is very encouraging, and good news indeed for the future of the Republican party. This is what it's all about - - unloading the liberal garbage and boosting conservatives.

[fieldmarshaldj]

They misspelled "Liberal" again.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"I do not understand this statement."

Forget it, Jake. It's the New York Times.

[Lancey Howard]

I do not understand this statement.

That's only because it's poorly written. New York Times.

[kinoxi]

My names not Jake but I've already forgotten it.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

November eighth, we need to start the primaries to get rid of these RINOS.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"Chinatown" reference. ;-)

[Lancey Howard]

“I think,” Ms. Collins said, “the moderates in both parties could be empowered.”

God help America.

[decal]

Once the Dems fade away into The Land of the Failed Parties after 2012 (at the latest) the GOP will finally split into the Conservative and Liberal parties - what they're finally called doesn't matter.

[Unam Sanctam]

How about moderate Democrats like Lieberman? The Dem party is moving rapidly to the extreme left.

[armymarinemom]

OK. Where's the Rhino McCain px?

[MplsSteve]

If you think about it, you sound a lot like a Ned Lamont supporter - only from the right.

Lamont and his supporters wanted orthodoxy too.

Dissent or differences of opinion within a political party are not tolerated...right?

[darkangel82]

Why should we "tolerate" idiots like Chafee who vote with the other side anyway?

[MplsSteve]

Chaffe ain't a moderate Republican.

He's an old-school liberal Republican. Not even Snowe and Collins vote as liberal as he does.

The only reason I'd vote for him (if I lived in Rhode Island) is because he'd vote to organize the Senate on GOP lines.

What I'm talking about are those GOP members of Congress who don't vote in complete lock-step with conservative thinking.

Why are we so quick to trash them and throw them out of the party?

[Sterm26]

“There is no one who has voted more often with the Democrats than Linc Chafee,” Ms. Collins said. “Yet that didn’t stop them from going after him with everything they had. That is a good lesson.”

Geez, a Democrat would stab a supposed ally in the back? How shocking!

Reminds me of the story of the Scorpion & the Frog...the frog agrees to carry the scorpion across the river on his back, halfway across, the scorpion stings him. When asked why, as they both drown, the scorpion replies, "You knew I was a scorpion, it's in my nature". Never trust a Dem.