Posted on 04/28/2009 8:37:10 PM PDT by Chet 99
Let's be sure to give credit where credit is due here: was Dubya's compromise of principles worth it?
Is it ever?
Could someone please hand me a hankie, I feel a tear starting to form.
Amazing how the NYT can find space immediately on its editorial page for certain “Republicans” when it wants to.
And Snowe just happened to pen this piece sometime today. Or maybe she wrote it a long time ago ‘cause she figured it would happen sooner or later. Like a pre-written obit...
“...it was when we began to emphasize social issues to the detriment of some of our basic tenets as a party that we encountered an electoral backlash.”
Let’s see...we did that from 1980-2004. Did OK.
In 2006/2008, we had moderates running for office, distancing themselves from GWB’s defense issues and all social issues. And how have we done?
What social issues were being pushed hard by GOP candidates in 2006/2008? Immigration? Not hardly. The RNC ran away from it, and McCain carried the standard in 2008. Abortion? Haven’t heard much about it. McCain sure didn’t hit it in 2008. Gay marriage? Lost where it was up for vote - so how did that hurt?
No, Snowe, it was the big spending, ‘we hate social conservatives’ who have run two losing elections.
I second what others have already noted - we haven’t ‘lost’ Specter, we never had him, he’s been a Rino for a very, very long time.
“Here you go, Oly; want a blindfold? A last cigarette?”
Dear Olympia,
PLEASE GO WITH SPECTOR.
Be honest for once in your miserable political life.
Arlen Specter was never a republican, he was a dim mole.
We didn't "lose" him. He was never one of us. He only used the GOP as a vehicle for his own career.
Good riddance.
Exactly.........let the RINO purge commence.
Exactly.........let the RINO purge commence.
and I wish all the freaking Rhinos would do the same... go to the other aisle. Stop pretending to be what you’re not. come out of the closet and go Liberal. freaking Rhinos are the reason the conservative movement is in the gutter atm.
Specter is guilty of both. The disloyal and the breakers of discipline make certain the defeat of a movement. Specter is a non-entity. He has broken his code and lost his honor...what little he had left.
Hey Snowe, go and take Collins with you.
And Jeffords left because he was looking out for No. 1, not because of “devaluation of diversity”.
“witnessing the departure of my good friend and fellow moderate Republican, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania”
Come on Olympia. Why are you so afraid of the L word. Say it. LIBERAL Republican.
I like how Dr. Michael Savage describes Senator Snowe as what Snow White would look like after she smoked a pack fo camels every day for 60 years.
The same could be said of Olympia. In fact, there’s an entire group of country club Republicans, patterned after Nelson Rockefeller and John Lindsay, who would fit in that category. They don’t mind expansive government as long as it suits them.
Folks like the aforementioned remind me of that British diplomat or general who was horrfied their intelligence service was reading the enemy’s mail. Anachronisms not meant to survive the changing face of battle, military or cultural.
One woman who married into money on Chicagoland’s North Shore was horrified by the idea of pre-emptive strikes against an adversary. Of course, she also thinnks Zero deserves a chance as far as his performance as President (she voted for him), which kind of tells you how brain-dead some so-called Republicans are. I swear the MSM has turned her and many of her neighbors into part of the Kumbaya crowd.
Has Olympia forgotten specter helped a murderer jump bail? Did she forget he was the hippest of the hippy lawyers?
Go away Olympia.
Bullseye - and, no doubt, Senator Snowe was flattered and effusive to the not-unemployed-soon-enough Editorial Page.
Oly, ol' girl:
'Twas not the RNC nor was it the GOP Senatorial Caucus that drove Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania from the party.
It was the obvious wrath of the Republican VOTERS in Pennsylvania that did the trick.
Being Senator is not a lifetime job. You have to be elected every six years. And to be re-elected, you have to have faithfully served your constituents' needs and catered to their reasonable desires.
It is not advisable to ignore them.
Apparently, Senator Specter's constituents believed that he had failed them. You and Senator Specter seem to think it was the other way around. Which, to my mind, proves the point.
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