Posted on 08/23/2007 5:56:59 AM PDT by OBXFREEPER
I think you’re mixing the Club For Growth up with the some groups more similar to the Chamber of Commerce, like Main Street Republicans. The Club for Growth heavily supported primary challeges to Rep. Joe Schwatz and Sens. Arlen Specter and Lincoln Chaffee.
Jones, it seems, has out-served his usefullness. He has forgotten who he is to represent, and he will pay a large price for his stupidity.
Wrong answer bub. When you are an elected representative, your constituency always comes first. Your conscience doesn't matter.
“Kucinich, long considered an anti-war bogeyman by the right”
LOL...make that “an anti-war buffoon.” Any RINO who appears with Kucinnich is committing political suicide and deserves to be dumped in the coming primary.
Wow, what a stunning admission from a US Representative! The people that put him in office comes second to his own personal feelings.
This will be a repeat of the recent N GA election which replaced the sitting Rhinoish R with a possible true Conservative Dr. in the primary....but the RNC will ignore this and continue down the Spector death road!
The comments that jump out at me are the constant jabs at his constituents “ of the the conviction that patriotism means supporting even unpopular wars runs as deep as the Atlantic Ocean. “
“Those are fighting words in an unabashedly pro-Bush district that gave the president 68 percent of the vote in 2004. Supporting the troops here means supporting their mission, regardless of national approval rates for the war’s handling”
Dont you understand that these are silly hillbilly rubes that will blindly follow Bush off the edge of a cliff, no matter HOW much the rest of the Nation is against it?
What passes for journalism these days is just offensive
Back in the day, that was how it was supposed to be. People elected Statesmen for what they stood for. This is not a Democracy! I don’t want a representative who polls his folks daily to make up his mind. That said, good riddance Jones.
That is exactly wrong.
We have a representative democracy; our reps are not electors to do our bidding.
Besides, if you are Christian you know that it is always one's first duty to obey one's conscience.
This Club For Growth thing has had its spokes people out posting to blogs quite a lot. A novel fund raising method, which I suppose everyone knows means that their management funds their own pay raises.
Where is the independent audit trail showing what percentage “administration fees” represents of their budget?
RINO? Jones is one of the most conservative members of the House. His only sin is that he against world policing.
We’ll see. Jones and Paul were on the various pro-administration hit lists before the 2006 election, both survived and thrived as Santorum, Allen, etc. went down in flames.
Nice try.. but in a Republic , the representives do vote their conscience.
That kind of thinking almost got us shamnesty. thankfully, "we the people" reminding our elected representatives who the boss is.
Electing an avowed pro-amnesty presidential candidate in 2000 and 2004 got us shamnesty, more than anything else.
We would do far better if we returned our country to its Republican form. If representatives are just going to vote their constituencies' views directly, then we regress to a mobocracy, just like the Founding Fathers so rightfully feared. The moonbats at DU are licking their chops for such an opportunity.
While I support the CFG generally, notably just as with pro-life and pro-second amendments coalitions whether a candidate they support is right on issues other then, in this case, economics isn’t a primary concern. As stated in this article they backed an opponent against the war elsewhere.
My Feeling is that this Congressman needs a challenger. Whether this guy is the right guy I don’t know. Where is he on the other issues? IF he’s correct on them, then I’d support him.
I have no attachment to incumbents anymore. Not when they turn and support positions that are repugnant, especially when they are out of sync with what voters thought they were getting originally. IF this challenger is right on more then economics and the war, if he’s right on social issues and immigration? Jones shuld be tossed to the curb. And CFG would be a powerful ally to help accomplish this.
I would like to hear from his constituents about the actual chance of getting rid of this guy before he does real damage.
Can he realistically be beaten?
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