Collaborators is the correct term.
They used to know how to deal with collaborators!!
Posted on 01/29/2014 5:48:03 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
With control of the U.S. Senate up for grabs this November, a single seat may determine who has the majority. That’s why Republicans should find it disconcerting that two of their establishment lions have broken ranks and are backing Democratic candidates in competitive races.
The latest apostate is former senator John Warner of Virginia, who announced this week he is backing incumbent Democratic senator Mark Warner for reelection. He is thus giving the back of his hand to former RNC chairman Ed Gillespie, a former George W. Bush adviser, who has a decent shot at winning and is no wild-eyed radical. Last year, Warner also endorsed the Georgia candidacy of Michelle Nunn, a Democrat, who is the daughter of former senator Sam Nunn, with whom Warner served in the Senate. He even attended a fundraiser on her behalf. Georgia Republicans who find themselves defending an open Senate seat in Georgia are furious since the Warner support allows Nunn to position herself as a bipartisan moderate.
Nor is Warner the only problem ex-senator the GOP has to contend with as it strives to assemble a team capable of winning a Senate majority. Former senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, who lost his Senate GOP primary in 2012 to conservative Richard Mourdock and then declined to endorse him, has also endorsed Nunn and had his political PAC send her the maximum $5,000 contribution. Nunn praised Lugar for his “collaborative approach” and pledged to “follow this legacy in the U.S. Senate.”
Somehow I doubt that Michelle Nunn will be caught giving large donations to candidates of the opposite party if she is elected to the Senate. “Collaboration” only goes so far.
Tea-party Republicans are always being urged to become better team players, and not to risk electoral defeat by challenging incumbent GOP Republicans. It’s true that in 2012 Republicans such as Todd Akin in Missouri and Mourdock in Indiana were flawed candidates and cost the GOP those Senate seats (although Akin was not the favored candidate of tea-party groups in the primary). But establishment Republicans such as Representatives Denny Rehberg in Montana and Rick Berg in North Dakota managed to somehow lose Senate races in states that were easily carried by Mitt Romney. It would be best if both tea-party and establishment Republicans paid more attention to the viability of their candidates and made some compromises. But so far it seems all of the compromising is being asked of tea-party forces and very little is expected from the GOP establishment.
PING!
“Ex-GOP” is right. They’re commie ‘RATS now.
D-bags.
GOPe, one degree of separation from the Democrats.
Yet McConnell says groups like the Senate Conservatives Fund and the Madison Project are working against a republican majority.
There will be no gnashing of teeth against Warner and Lugar, for to moderate republicans, in a race between a conservative and a democrat, the democrat is the “lesser of two evils.”
Behavior which proves that GOPe = DNC
People in KY will just never wake up no matter what truth is unveiled. McC again!
This is the kind of thing we can expect from John McCain in 2016.
Collaborators is the correct term.
They used to know how to deal with collaborators!!
These two have always been somewhere between Democrat and RINO on the political scale.
Part of the self “Anointed Elites” as Thomas Sowell so correctly describes them.
Talk about the mother of all oxymorons...
I can just see McCain pacing the room, muttering about how these guys are horning in on his act.
“Ex-GOP” is right. They’re commie ‘RATS now.”
They always have been. They are Obamanoids
just like McCain.
He was Elizabeth Taylor's sixth husband.
He was GOP-e from the gitgo, always referred to by the MSM as a "moderate" and a "bi-partisan" senator.
....and we know what that means.
He is 87 years old. I thought he was locked away years ago.
He should have been.
Leni
Cornyn likely heavily backed these two b0z0s.
There are probably more rinos lurking in the dark who also support the demodummies. I’m watching my “reps” and believe me will make a big noise when/if they “switch over”.
Guys like Lugar & Warner are more dishonest & disgusting than democrat liars like Schumer & Feinstein. At least the latter two are honest with their own constituents.
From the Nixon Watergate tapes, a discussion of a prospective nominee for Secretary of the Navy - Nixon: “Hell, any ******* can do that job; we even had JOHN WARNER do it”. Also, a statement from the Democratic State Chairman in Virginia the day after the 1976 election, when JOHN WARNER narrowly beat Dem Andy Miller on the strength of the celebrity of his then-wife Elizabeth Taylor - “well, the good citizens of Virginia just elected the three biggest boobs in the State to the Senate”. I am in agreement with both Nixon and the Dem official.
The next time I get a call from these commie RINO’s, I will pick up but this time to just tell them to piss off!!
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