Posted on 05/13/2009 8:35:54 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
GOP to rebrand Dems as 'socialists' By: Roger Simon May 13, 2009 04:32 AM EST
A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”
When I asked if such a resolution would force RNC Chairman Michael Steele to use that label when talking about Democrats in all his speeches and press releases, the RNC member replied: “Who cares?”
Which pretty much sums up the attitude some members of the RNC have toward their chairman these days.
Steele wrote a memo last month opposing the resolution. Steele said that while he believes Democrats “are indeed marching America toward European-style socialism,” he also said in a (rare) flash of insight that officially referring to them as the Democrat Socialist Party “will accomplish little than to give the media and our opponents the opportunity to mischaracterize Republicans.”
Two other resolutions — to urge Republican lawmakers to reject earmarks and to commend them for opposing “bailouts and reckless spending bills” — are also on the agenda, but language that would have denounced Sen. Arlen Specter, a Republican turned Democrat, and Republican Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins for voting for President Obama’s stimulus package has been dropped.
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A little LATE....we’re heading for worse....
IS THIS TRUE????????!!!!!
So we have the Democrats Socialists (DEMS) Democrats (RINO’s) and Conservatives (no actual Party)?
They're actually fascists, in the true, corporate-nationalization sense of the word.
I’ve been saying that for years now.
They fit the history of the nazi party of pre WW2.
One can only hope this is true, however, I’d much prefer to use the term merely as the “Socialist Party.”
How fitting, DSP, the dipshits party.
Even taking the Nazis out of it, re Godwin’s law, just look at, for example, Peron’s Argentina.. fascism based on the economics of the National Socialists that the left praises often.
Michael Steele - Latest in a long line of Republican disappointments.
If it is I might consider starting to donate once again.
Sounds similar to the Republican Socialist Party we have on the right.
Sure don't want that happening, do we!
I have supported him in some situations because I understood his point and had no issue with the overall message he was trying to present, but this one leaves me scratching my head.
How is this a bad thing to call a spade a spade?
the leader of that Party is back home, I believe in Texas.
From the atricle:
When I asked if such a resolution would force RNC Chairman Michael Steele to use that label when talking about Democrats in all his speeches and press releases, the RNC member replied: “Who cares?”
Which pretty much sums up the attitude some members of the RNC have toward their chairman these days.
Steele wrote a memo last month opposing the resolution. Steele said that while he believes Democrats “are indeed marching America toward European-style socialism,” he also said in a (rare) flash of insight that officially referring to them as the Democrat Socialist Party “will accomplish little than to give the media and our opponents the opportunity to mischaracterize Republicans.”
After all, the GOP would take the opportunity regardless.
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