Posted on 10/08/2013 2:26:28 PM PDT by neverdem
Kelly Ayotte was furious.
One media account after another (as here) has the Republican and theoretically conservative New Hampshire senator angrily attacking Senator Ted Cruz in a recent closed-door Senate GOP Caucus. Behaving as follows, this much cited and notably un-refuted coming from the New York Times, bold print supplied here for emphasis:
And on Wednesday at a private luncheon, several Senate Republicans Dan Coats of Indiana, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Kelly Ayotte of...
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NR was spot on here about Ayotte, and theres one more thing to add about that Ayotte comment of seeking a thoughtful, bipartisan solution to a tough problem. We have cited it here before and, since Ayotte herself used the word, we will again cite William F. Buckley Jr.s alarm at the very word bipartisan with the bold print emphasis.
The most alarming single danger to the American political system lies in the fact that an identifiable team of Fabian operators is bent on controlling both our major political parties(under the sanction of such fatuous and unreasoned slogans as national unity, middle-of-the-road, progressivism, and bipartisanship.) Clever intriguers are reshaping both parties in the image of Babbitt, gone Social-Democrat. When and where this political issue arises, we are, without reservations, on the side of the traditional two-party system that fights its feuds in public and honestly; and we shall advocate the restoration of the two-party system at all costs.
So the red flag was already raised about Ayotte, both by Palin and NR, in that case for abandonment of well-stated conservative principle on immigration in the name of bipartisanship a word specifically cited by Buckley as the most alarming single danger to the American political system. With no less than Governor Palin herself accusing Ayotte of having gone back on principle...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
I can smell a RINO when I see one...I didn't vote for her in the primary or the general. Of course, I'm not a native, either.
Both Johnson and Duffy have been big disappointments over this.
Jeffrey Lord is reliably one of the best observers we have on the scene, but IMO he is too kind to Ayotte here. She campaigned as a conservative, as that was the will of the voters in 2010, but then she immediately hooked up with McCain and Graham, giving them an unfortunate new sidekick—it didn’t take her any time to “grow” in Washington and she was immediately known by the company she kept.
I take it she’s looked to the Collins and Snowe examples next door in Maine to try to secure a long-time senatorial position, but she has been a huge disappointment from the start.
Shame on Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin. He Lied to Bill OReilly.
I was actually thinking of that old SNL bit with Dan Aykroyd, where he used to dress down Jane Curtain after she delivered her diatribe on “Weekend Update”...
“Thank you, Jane, you ignorant slvt!!!”
The application in this situation with Ayotte fits like a glove...
(I hope my speelcheeker caught all the mispeeled werds in this post...I dunno...)
awwww! you write us off ? We are the battleground, fighting behind enemy lines ...
Standing on principle will put you in the loner position in any organization you want to name: politics, religion, academia, recreation, education, science. The only place such a principled attitude cannot be easily overridden is in engineering, where proven calculations sustain a solid conclusion.
That's why good engineers make poor politicians, and successful politicians make such poor engineers. Think of Carter.
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