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VOTE IN YOUR NOMINEE FOR RINO OF THE YEAR!
CLUB FOR GROWTH ^
| 12-11-01
| STEVE MOORE
Posted on 12/11/2001 10:07:00 AM PST by KLT
We are taking nominations for our first-ever RINO (Republican in Name Only) of the year award. This award will recognize a Republican who has advanced egregious anti-growth, anti-freedom or anti-free-market policies. The "winner" may be a member of Congress or any other state or local elected official. (Sorry, our economically challenged Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is not an elected official, so he is ineligible.)
Here are some front-runners who have already been nominated:
Governor Don Sundquist of Tennessee for repeatedly trying to enact a State income tax.
Rep. Greg Ganske (Iowa), a Republican sponsor of the Democratic bill to federalize 30,000 airport workers.
Sen. Mike Enzi, for co-sponsoring the Internet tax bill.
Sen. John McCain, for voting for a key amendment by Democratic Leader Tom Daschle and for offering his own amendment that would have gutted the Bush tax cut.
California Assemblyman Mike Briggs, for making it possible for Gov. Gray Davis to pass his tax increase budget this year.
Please fax (202-955-9466) or e-mail your nominations by 12/19/2001. You should include a few sentences about your nominee's anti-growth efforts in 2001. If you have particularly dumb quotes from the nominee that attempt to explain his actions, please include this information. We will then have a poll of our members and our Board will make the selection from the finalists.
Thank you for your nominations.
Stephen Moore
President
Club for Growth
1776 K St. NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006
SteveMoore@clubforgrowth.org
202-955-5500
202-955-9466 fax
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To: KLT
McCain. He COULD have voted for the ENTIRE 1.6 trillion dollar tax cut. To be fair, Yankee Republicans probably could not have gotten away with that. But Goldwater's successor sure could have.
McCain says he agrees with the President on Missile Defense, which is something that I think ALL politicians should abandon.
To: KLT
Abel Maldonado of Santa Maria, California, for co-signing legislation that would give in-state college tuition rates to ILLEGALS who had gone through high school.
To: KLT
Sen. John McCain, for voting for a key amendment by Democratic Leader Tom Daschle and for offering his own amendment that would have gutted the Bush tax cut. AND FOR SAYING W WASN'T RUNNING THE WAR RIGHT, SEND IN THE GROUND TROOPS NOW (UNTILL WE STARTING WINNING)...
McCAIN WINS IN A LANDSIDE!!
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:18:24 AM PST
by
putupon
To: KLT
No one has mentioned Bloomberg, NYC's soon-to-be mayor, the erstwhile Democrat who joined the Republican party just so he could by mayor?
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:19:28 AM PST
by
Silly
To: KLT
gotta be gun show mcpain. hero myass.
To: RaceBannon; Nitro; veronica; Snow Bunny; Mudboy Slim; Landru; backhoe; BERZERKER...
Hey, let's put in our nominations...Please Bump this Thread with our Bump lists...Thank You, My Freepers!
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:20:00 AM PST
by
KLT
To: KLT
McCain
To: RicocheT
I second the Trent Lott nomination.
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:20:27 AM PST
by
carenot
To: RicocheT
I keep some information. I have not paid attention to politics that much prior to 2000. For a while there was some real Lott bashing on FR. I know why McCain is hated, but why Lott? Could you humor me, and list most Freeper's greviences?
To: KLT
Well seeing as Don Sundquist has been nominated I nominate Trent Lott the party guest who keeps on giving in and giving in. Tell me Trent how's that power sharing deal going these day's? Had you acted like a traditional Republican and not Montey Hall then perhaps a corrupt POTUS would have been removed, checks and balance restored to congress, and quite likely retention of power with the bonus of a veto proof majority in the senate. Good old Clueless Trent the DEM's useful tool. You even make Bob Dole seem competent in his tenure before you. Then again that's a close call in itself.
To: RooRoobird14
Hey, RooRoo, let's get our nominations in...e-mail, call or fax, Mr. Moore!
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:21:57 AM PST
by
KLT
To: codebreaker
Agree. Jeffords in a landslide.
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:22:00 AM PST
by
rintense
To: putupon
I am amazed that no one appears to have mentioned Senator Lincoln D. Chaffee of Rhode Island, currently upholding his families Rino tradition.
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:23:02 AM PST
by
Aurelius
To: KLT
I wish Moore would have told us what a Republican stands for, then we could sort out those that don't stand for the same thing.
To: KLT
As much as I am embarrassed to admit it, being from Pennsylvania, there is little doubt who would get my vote.
The epitome of RINO-ism, none other than
GAG ALERT!
Arlen Specter
To: cva66snipe
Well seeing as Don Sundquist has been nominated I nominate Trent Lott the party guest who keeps on giving in and giving in. Tell me Trent how's that power sharing deal going these day's? Had you acted like a traditional Republican and not Montey Hall then perhaps a corrupt POTUS would have been removed, checks and balance restored to congress, and quite likely retention of power with the bonus of a veto proof majority in the senate. Good old Clueless Trent the DEM's useful tool. You even make Bob Dole seem competent in his tenure before you. Then again that's a close call in itself.I second the motion, anybody who just about gives away the majority...deserves Rino of the year!
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:23:58 AM PST
by
KLT
To: KLT
John McCain.
Runner up, "Boobie" Hatch for running his yap regarding our ability to track OBL's phone conversations.
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:24:01 AM PST
by
csvset
To: TheBigB
Orrin (Ted Kennedy's "my friend", Janet Reno's "my friend" and also said she is "a fine person") Hatch.
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To: KLT
Click on the McMutiny and go to:
The McCain Mutiny - Memo to conservatives: Ignore him and maybe he'll go away ~ John Fund
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EMPTY LOTT ?VACANT LOTT ?Arland MacSpecter ? Orin (Reno Escape) Hatch ?.
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:24:24 AM PST
by
Elle Bee
To: Elle Bee
DonnieD, for costing Schundler New jersey...
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:25:36 AM PST
by
hobbes1
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