Posted on 12/21/2008 4:53:45 PM PST by King of Card Games
WASHINGTON The reminders of public service are coming out of the office of Sen. John Warner, who leaves the Senate on Jan. 3 after 30 years:
A chair used by Teddy Roosevelt at a peace conference in 1905. An oil painting by Winston Churchill. A metal fragment of a Scud missile. A stone from the ancient Roman Senate.
Pictures with presidents and admirals. Colorful still lifes by Warner himself. A mounted smallmouth bass. Battle flags. The resolution, drafted by Warner, to go to war against Iraq in the first Gulf War.
The office overlooking the Capitol from the Russell Senate office building is one of the choicest on Capitol Hill, and Warner has occupied it for 18 years.
"In so many states the political system is so rigid," he added. "They send those voters to the polls and say 'You vote this way,' but we're an independent lot."
Warner thinks the Republican Party in Virginia, which he helped build, is substituting rigidity for independent thinking.
"I would have to say that I'm deeply concerned, indeed sad, about the Republican Party of Virginia," he said.
A year ago, when he knew he was not going to seek re-election, Warner said he donated $2,000 to the Republican Party of Virginia to help defray the costs of a luncheon and straw poll at the party's annual Advance in Arlington.
"Guess who they elected? Ron Paul. That was the worst investment of several thousand dollars I ever made."
In 1994, Warner chose to oppose North, the party's Senate nominee, then best known for the Iran-Contra affair. Warner enticed J. Marshall Coleman, a former attorney general and the Republicans' 1989 gubernatorial nominee, to run for the Senate seat as an independent. Many Republicans blamed Warner for North's narrow loss to Democrat Charles S. Robb.
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yes.
2 terms for the u.s. senate,
and 6 for the u.s. house
would be more than enough.
Finally!!! Bye-bye, John.
Soon to be on ebay.
Is today to soon for you to leave, Senator?
Why, oh, why did Dick Obenshain have to get in that damnable little plane ?
All evidence the world has held greater men than him.
sultan88 knew...or at least thought he did...
That was my first thought - how different things would have been if Dick Obenshain was alive.
Good riddance to Warnout.
And a bottle of “White Diamonds”.
Relieving America of the firmly entrenched “professional” political class via term limits, would go a long way to curing what ails us as a nation.
He did get to sleep with Liz Taylor, though. Well, back when that was a good thing.
“why did Dick Obenshain have to get in that damnable little plane?”
Good point. The whole country lost, as Mr. Elizabeth Taylor #5 was a mediocre Senator.
Yep --- almost as black a mark as his foolishness in getting "married" to a drug-sodden pig such as Elizabeth Taylor. Way back then, when that happened, my Republican roots gave a big hiccup.
“Good riddance to Warner”
ditto
Don’t let the door hit you in the a$$, RINO...
Love it...Thank God and Greyhound, he’s gone!!
LOL! Was that ever a country song?
Amongst Virginia Republicans, there has been on and off debate as to whether Obenshain would have defeated Andy Miller back in ‘78.
Obenshain had a devoted following within the Virginia GOP and did a lot of things to expand the GOP’s power base but in ‘78, he barely defeated Warner for the GOP nomination. There was great concern that Obenshain was maybe too conservative - even by Virginia political standards.
The book “Dynamic Dominion” talks about the Obenshain-Warner rivalry in great detail.
Another poster child for the need for term limits.
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Send treats to the troops...
Great because you did it!
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Failing to support North was unforgivable apostasy.
And on the flip conservatives like Santorum stuck up for RINO Specter.
Not too smart. RINOish types never return the favor.
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