Posted on 11/04/2009 5:02:37 PM PST by rabscuttle385
The morning after Republicans lost an upstate New York House seat, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned that conservative activists will bring destruction to the Republican Party if they drive out moderate candidates across the country.
“To those people who are pursuing purity, you’ll become a club not a party,” Graham told POLITICO in the Capitol Wednesday. “Those people who are trying to embrace conservatism in a thoughtful way that fits the region and the state and the district are going to do well. Conservativism is an asset. Blind ideology is not.”
Graham, who has sparred with his party’s right wing on issues ranging from climate change to Guantanamo Bay to Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination, warned that those concerned about the state of the GOP should help find candidates who are electable — not ones who adhere to a particular type of ideology. And he said that both the GOP nominee, Dede Scozzafava and the conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman were both out of the mainstream of the upstate New York district – which lead to the victory of Democrat Bill Owens Tuesday night.
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It is quite painful to listen to such ignorance being spouted by an unprincipled twit.
Lindsey: Please stop trying to dole out philosophical wisdom. You don’t have any. And, it annoys those of us who do.
Gresham Barrett is not one of our fine republicans, he is a RINO who voted for TARP and when the house financial committee voted to give ACORN a REGULATORY ROLE OVER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS he did not vote yea or nay. He chose not to vote at all.
Our only good true conservative is Senator DeMint.
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