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McCloskey leaves Republican Party
Contra Costa Times ^ | April 16, 2007 | Lisa Vorderbrueggen

Posted on 04/16/2007 12:31:17 PM PDT by calcowgirl

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To: calcowgirl

One RINO down.....how many to go?????


101 posted on 04/16/2007 2:39:26 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("Grow your own DOPE, plant a LIB""Fred Thompson/Duncan Hunter 08")
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To: calcowgirl

Is this a report that was placed in a time capsule? McCloskey left the Republican Party during the Nixon administration. Must be a slow news day to recycle this old stuff.


102 posted on 04/16/2007 2:56:01 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: wideawake
Government's minimal function is criminalizing murder.
Murder is a State crime, not Federal.
The federal government does not have that power over the people...unless you throw out the Constitution.

A title that accurately describes Jerry Ford and Nelson Rockefeller in the 70s, but not many GOPers in 1948

It describes every GOPer I knew in '48. Republicans were limited government back then and believed that government did not have the right to force a woman to give birth to an unwanted child...that goes against the Constituion and the Bible.
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103 posted on 04/16/2007 2:56:55 PM PDT by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: calcowgirl

McCloskey destroyed millions of jobs and ruined the tranquility of countless families with his Marxist Endangered Species Act. But I would expect no less from this filthy fascist scum.


104 posted on 04/16/2007 4:29:07 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Ice-cubes melting in the sun is an act of God. Get over it, Gore.)
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To: calcowgirl

San Mateo county... too close to San Fran to have any good Republicans.


105 posted on 04/16/2007 4:32:29 PM PDT by westmichman (They cried "Peace, peace," but there is no peace.)
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To: calcowgirl

He’s right about the GOP. They are a bunch of hacks and fundamentalist know-nothings who have done little to promote actual conservatism.


106 posted on 04/16/2007 4:37:09 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule-H.L. Menken)
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To: everyone

Good riddance, punk.


107 posted on 04/16/2007 5:18:02 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: westmichman

Every county in the U.S. has “good Republicans.” Be fair about this. McCloskey stinks, but there are good Republicans everywhere even if they’re a small minority. Even small minorities deserve to be recognized. It’s often not easy to be one.


108 posted on 04/16/2007 5:19:26 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: calcowgirl
Yep. I remember McCloskey. He was an a-hole in 1972 and he's an a-hole now. No loss. He probably has always voted 'rat anyway.
109 posted on 04/16/2007 5:22:00 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: calcowgirl
From Helen's and my standpoint, being farmers in Yolo County

Lying sack of sh*t. The only thing this pansy ever farmed was his mailbox the first of every month, when the Ag subsidy check arrived.

110 posted on 04/16/2007 5:25:44 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: California Patriot

I’m glad you are there!!


111 posted on 04/16/2007 5:28:12 PM PDT by westmichman (They cried "Peace, peace," but there is no peace.)
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To: westmichman

Thanks. A few of us do what we can in this state. Many others, of course, are wimps.


112 posted on 04/16/2007 5:32:00 PM PDT by California Patriot ("That's not Charley the Tuna out there. It's Jaws." -- Richard Nixon)
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To: calcowgirl

Good for Republicans. Another RINO gone. How many are left?


113 posted on 04/16/2007 5:41:10 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby
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To: mugs99; wideawake
It describes every GOPer I knew in '48. Republicans were limited government back then and believed that government did not have the right to force a woman to give birth to an unwanted child...that goes against the Constituion and the Bible.

1948? Where are you getting this? Abortion had been common practice in Moscow until Stalin found that they weren't producing enough good little communists. In California, abortion had been illegal since the 1860s and the law had not changed since 1872, allowing abortion only to save the life of the mother. In 1967, a democrat state lawmaker (Beilenson) pushed to liberalize the laws for just three reasons: to allow abortion in the case of rape, incest, or where the baby might be deformed. (His proposal was backed by the AMA, so I think your 1948 estimate is probably a couple decades off).

Governor Ronald Reagan's first response as "Here's an emotional problem that has so many facets of consideration. It is not only spiritual, but also legal... when does life begin? What right does the unborn life have? What legal right? I'm not prepared to answer now."

In subsequent statements, Reagan took great exception to the portion of the law addressing the possibilty of deformity. "I am satisfied in my own mind we can morally and logically justify liberalized abortions to protect the health of a mother. I cannot justify the taking of an unborn life simply on the supposition that the baby may be born less than a perfect human being... [this kind of thing] wouldn't be much different from what Hitler tried to do."

The deformity provision was dropped shortly thereafter. The final statute permitted abortions in the case of forcible rape, incest, statutory rape if the victim was under 15 years old or if there was a "substantial risk" that continued pregnancy would "gravely impair" the "physical or mental health" of the mother.

The issue then had little to do with "limited government," nor does it now (imo).

114 posted on 04/16/2007 6:35:46 PM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: calcowgirl
As a Republican, McCloskey served in the House of Representatives from a San Mateo County congressional district from 1967- to 1983. He was a brief presidential hopeful when he ran on an anti-war platform against Richard Nixon in 1972.

Not interested in HASBEENS
the driveby media finds an over the hill rino and thinks it's news

115 posted on 04/16/2007 6:40:13 PM PDT by Gone_Postal (Communism works only in Heaven, where they don’t need it, and in Hell, where they’ve already got)
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To: calcowgirl

Why didn’t he just re-register as “Decline to State”?


116 posted on 04/16/2007 6:43:01 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Mitt Romney for President !!!)
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To: Spiff

you bad, yez siree you is bad. :-)


117 posted on 04/16/2007 6:52:54 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: calcowgirl

McCloskey says he is disgusted with the “succession of ethical scandals, congressmen taking bribes and abuse of power by both the Republican House leadership and the highest appointees of the White House.”
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I guess we may assume from this statement that the Scandals and bribes, and crooked deals taken by democrats dont bother him in the least.

He disgusts me.


118 posted on 04/16/2007 7:18:04 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
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To: calcowgirl
McCloskey leaves Republican Party

Who?

119 posted on 04/16/2007 7:20:48 PM PDT by Jim Noble (But that's why they play the games)
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To: All; calcowgirl

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Anti-Freedom Rep. McCLOSKEY’s personal manipulating his Congressional “Fact-finding’ mission to a then Free Vietnam ...into recommending no resumption of U.S. Funding for the Free there to fight for their own Freedom with =

Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education (SLAVE LABOR) Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

..”JOURNEY from the FALL”.. Movie Premieres = Fall of Saigon CLARITY..

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts

NEVER FORGET

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120 posted on 04/16/2007 7:23:17 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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