Gee, I'm sorry GOP, but that guy has already been Senator, and now he's the president...try again.
Posted on 04/03/2010 8:26:09 AM PDT by dangus
It sounds like a joke to say that isn't not fair to call William the Red a "pot-smoking, hippy"... to hippies. But it's not. Many hippies actually distrust Big Government/Big Fascism, bearing an oft-forgotten libertarian streak. But former Massachusetts Governor William the Red loves Big Fascism.
How outrageously leftist is Weld? The Republican Senate pretty much rubber-stamped anyone Clinton nominated, but not Weld. The Massachusetts Democrats opposed him by flanking him to the right. He appointed the brother of fugitive crime boss Whitey Bulger to run the state university system.
As leftist as his politics are, he is no 'man of the people,' but a 'limousine liberal' of the worst sort! He is named "William Floyd Weld". William Floyd is the Long Island slave plantation master infamous for his torture dungeons. He joked his ancestors were not on the Mayflower... only because they had sent their servants over first to set up the cottage. His first wife was a Roosevelt. HE ENDORSED PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA.
What kind of an idiot would seek out a Republican candidate to out-flank Gillibrand to the LEFT? Ed Cox, who previously failed to recruit DEMOCRAT Mainstream Media modul Mort Zuckerman, or Campbell Brown's husband, Dan Senor.
I often find the leftist SwingStateProject.com's data useful, marred chiefly by its silly grade-school, potty-mouthed descriptions of Republicans, but I must concur with their characterizations of Cox's recruitment: "They've scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard that they've clawed a hole in the damn thing."
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Wierd connections: Remember how Sen. Scott Brown had been introduced as the father of an American Idol finalist? So far the most politically experienced actual candidate for the Republican nomination, Joe DioGuardio, is the father of an American Idol JUDGE.
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P.S. In fairness, "William the Red" stuck as a monicker because of his red hair. Still, it was an obvious play off his leftist leanings, even though he comes from Massachusetts.
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P.P.S. Yes, Weld is an actual pot-smoking hippy.
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Actual quotes from Bill Weld:
"Courts are the least dangerous of the three branches of government"
"There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy. "
"We need a complete ban on soft money, ... and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race." (Coming from a self-financing gajillionnaire.)
"Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that. "
"Government can contribute to a shared sense of purpose on the part of the citizenry; that's its highest and best application."
"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."
"I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me. " (Like lower taxes, anti-communism, Christian values?)
"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong." (Uh, Bill,... you do know that slavery was an institution OF THE STATE, don't you?)
"conservatives don't see the promise, of government."
But don't be discouraged! Weld has some limits to state control that he supports:
"Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government"
Oh, wait, By abstaining from "managing people's sex lives," what he really meant is cramming homosexual marriages down people's throats. Funny how skillful the left is at portraying an all-powerful, ruthless and undemocratic government as a font of freedom:
"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."
Please tell me you’re kidding. The nimcompoops that run the NYS RINO party are trying to get Weld to run for senate now?
“conservatives don’t see the promise, of government.”
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Conservatives know the freedom-stealing dangers of radical socialism.
I hope this isn’t so, this guy was nothing but a Clintonista Democrat agent who laid the groundwork for the murder of the MA GOP.
The Obama-endorsing uber-RINO party killer is back. Spew.
I can’t imagine that he could win the primary. You’re right that he was a total failure as a party leader while Governor, and Republicans were making gains everywhere else durign his tenure.
The Stupid Party rides again!!
"Weld favored fiscal conservatism and was supportive of abortion rights and gay rights. Later, his appointment of gay and lesbian officials to his administration and his support for a state commission on gay and lesbian youth made him a hero among gay rights activists, who hailed him as the most supportive governor in the country at that time.
Weld was up for re-election in 1994, the year Romney ran against Kennedy. Romney, in his interview with Bay Windows, made it plain that he hoped to ride Weld's coattails to victory. "I think Bill Weld comes as close as anyone," he said when asked whom in his party he aligned with. "I think Bill Weld's fiscal conservatism, his focus on creating jobs and employment and his efforts to fight discrimination and assure civil rights for all is a model that I identify with and aspire to."
Haven’t we seen this movie before? Weld makes Pataki look like John Ashcroft by comparison.
Tell you what, though, I would welcome a Weld candidacy against Schumer—better than giving him a free ride.
I don’t want to read your vanity but I hope you added carpetbagger and also that he’s been a lifetime Yankee fan...lol.
a bit of hyperbole in play here...Floyd was a signer of the Declaration and had 14 slaves at the family plantation on Long Island that we now call Fire (Fag) Island
by contrast Jefferson owned 187 slaves at the time of his death and 600 throughout his lifetime
Andy Jackson had 150. Washington had over 100.
It is of note though that slavery was practiced in the north while it was viable.
let him run against Schumer.
"In his 1990 campaign, he actually ran to the left of his Democratic opponent, the combative former president of Boston University, John Silber, scoring points with Massachusetts' socially liberal suburbanites by stressing his pro-choice, pro-gay-rights, and pro-environment views. (Only on taxes did Weld strike a more conservative posture than his opponent.)
And once elected, he earned stratospheric popularity by defining himself in opposition to the cultural conservatism of the national Republican Party. Weld used his speech to the 1992 Republican convention in Houston to attack the party's anti-abortion plank, a tack that earned him loud boos in the hall -- and better poll numbers in Massachusetts. He also proudly appeared on the cover of a gay magazine in 1993 under the headline, "The most pro-gay governor in the country," and as national Republicans lustily pursued investigations of the Clintons, Weld thumbed his nose at them and offered to appear as a character witness for Hillary Clinton. When Bill Clinton nominated him as ambassador to Mexico in 1997, Jesse Helms single-handedly blocked the nomination. (Not that Weld minded too much; he'd merely been looking to escape the governorship, which he resigned when he was nominated, and liked the publicity he received from fighting Helms.)"
Mitt Romney: "I'm not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses."
I can’t, under any circumstances, endorse or condone such a candidacy. This guy is no more a Republican than Joe Biden. The only purpose his candidacy would serve would be to deliberately undermine the Conservative/Republican agenda and to willfully harm and hamper GOP candidates in NY. He is a complete and absolute menace.
Yes, but Floyd was infamous not merely for his slave plantation, but for his diabolical torture dungeons. Anyone who ever lived near Shirley, NY knows of his legend.
Yeah, and it’s the job of the GOP to oppose such people in the Senate, not multiply their number!
>> Tell you what, though, I would welcome a Weld candidacy against Schumer—better than giving him a free ride.<<
Very dangerous way of thinking. When a Democrat is a foolish leftard, the Republican party naturally opposes him, gathering the support of his victims to the promotion of conservatism. When a Republican is a foolish leftard, what hope is there? He can never be deposed, and will rule as an absolute despot, discrediting conservatism, obstructing and confusing an opposition.
No, we are far, far, far better off with even the likes of Chuckie Shumer than with William Weld.
What you have written is as foolish as a general giving command of his armies to his enemies.
NY can certainly do better than this guy. I hope that they get their act together to at least give Schumer a run for his money.
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