Posted on 11/02/2009 2:02:01 PM PST by pissant
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2369765/posts
"It appears Dede Scozzafava is funneling RNC, NRCC, and donor dollars through her campaign account to her family."
The Stupid Party: a film with endless sequels.
“Too much of the Republicans’ “Stupid Party” strategy is based on the mechanics of getting people with little elephants on their campaign signs elected. They view the election as the conclusion of a contest, when in fact it’s only the beginning.”
The white-hot heart of the problem, IMHO. Good article, thanks.
Colonel, USAFR
Exactly. What the heck is a moderate? A mostly massive spender? A mostly big government nanny state believer?
Egg on Newt.
It’s like this. Moderates want conservatives to support their campaign for party unity but Moderates won’t support conservatives. It’s strictly a one-way street.
The Republicans have just never learned that old lesson, “When given a choice between a democrat and a democrat, people will vote for the democrat!”
Always has been
I think that the GOP should file a lawsuit against her for fraud. The Republican Committee would not have given her any money if they had truly known her real colors (at least one can hope they wouldn’t).
Most of the talking heads are sticking by the idea that this finally, at last, reveals Republicans are ideologues, with a little-tent philosophy, and are forever doomed to lose elections for their counterproductive intransigence.
As if Democrats would ever run George Bush as a candidate.
That was perfectly directed at the GOP
Huh? What Republican Committee WOULDN'T have given a RINO $900,000?
What did they all do with McCain last year and so many others before?
how much money did they waste on Lincoln Chafee which could have been spent on Conrad Burns?
Getting a “moral victory” from the Republican leadership isn’t enough.
They screwed up, and they screwed up badly. And more importantly, this is *not* the first time that they have made this mistake.
RINOs are NOT WORTH IT. The Republican party leadership bent over backwards to support Senator Jeffords, who rewarded their loyalty by leaving the party. George W. Bush personally pulled for Senator Arlen Specter, because HE WAS A REPUBLICAN. He begged and pleaded for party loyalty to save his sorry rear end, and they gave it to him. And Senator Arlen Specter DOUBLE CROSSED THEM.
These were not little defections. They were done right at the very moment they could cause the most damage to the Republican party. They didn’t lose the battle, they lost the war.
But there is no surprise there. If you look at the recent history of the RINOs, something stands out. They ALWAYS betray the party right at the most destructive time. The time when it will cost the party the most. The time that will hurt the entire country the most.
Sure, they may vote with the party a hundred times, for little, piddly things of no consequence. But when the score is tied, and it’s the final seconds of the game, you can bet your bottom dollar that the RINOs will not just fumble the ball, but throw it into the waiting arms of the Democrats, so that *they* will win.
How STUPID do you have to be to fall for that, over and over again?
The RINOs always talk a good game, about how *essential* it is to the Republican party to be “inclusive” and “moderate”. How *vital* it is to give up on those principles held dear, for the hope of some minor gain.
The RINOs always pitch “selling your birthright for a mess of pottage.”
The RINOs prefer the Republicans to be in the minority, because that is when the RINOs are strongest. Because if just a few Democrats of conscience just cannot abide what their party is doing, the RINOs are there to step in and save the day for the Democrat radicals.
So why should such people get any support at all from the party? If Olympia Snowe wants to be a liberal so badly, why doesn’t she pay for the privilege herself? The same with Collins, Graham, and the other weaklings.
They are so committed to liberalism, so willing to support Democrats before conservatives, in fact so opposed to conservatives that they will support radical leftists before they will support conservatives, why does the Republican party even give them the time of day?
It is no wiser than nurturing vipers to your bosom because they look cold. RINOs will never help. RINOs will always betray, double cross and defect. So to hell with them all.
The country is at stake so the situation is not funny, but when I read this, I had to laugh .....
They are this very day shoveling money to Charlie Loafers in Florida to defeat a conservative challenger.
I think the Rep. insiders always knew what she was...but they didn’t care. Lets face it, the Republican leadership doesn’t like conservatives, they never did and never will. They just want our vote......skanks all..
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