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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: cuz_it_aint_their_money
GAG ALERT! Arlen Specter
Yeah, ooooo, can't stand Arlen Specter...she should be thrown out of the Republican Party....What a joke...
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:25:57 AM PST
by
KLT
To: KLT
Lincoln Chaffee, Olympia Snowe, John McCain, Chris Shays, Jim Jeffords(Jumpin Jim), Trent Lott. I know there is more.
To: KLT
Yeah, ooooo, can't stand Arlen Specter...she should be thrown out of the Republican Party....What a joke... Is throwing him out allowed in Scottish Law?
To: KLT
Michael Bloomberg, mayor elect of the City of New York, who switched from the democrapic party to the Republican Party soley to run for mayor, because he couldn't get the nomination running as a democrap.
To: KLT
Plane crashin' McStain.
45
posted on
12/11/2001 10:28:00 AM PST
by
Trinity5
To: KLT
1. McShame
2. NottALott
46
posted on
12/11/2001 10:28:02 AM PST
by
Neets
To: clamper1797
Hey clamper, what about the most horrible Rino of all:
GAG ALERT!
LINCOLN CHAFEE, CHANGE HIS NAME TO BENEDICT ARNOLD, INSTEAD OF LINCOLN! UGH!
47
posted on
12/11/2001 10:28:17 AM PST
by
KLT
To: RooRoobird14
You are correct. I lost my mind.
To: Silly
Now that I think about it, that's the best one. Bloomberg runs as a Republican just to avoid the Dem primary; he meets with Al Sharpton right after the election; pro gay-rights, anti 2A; anti death penalty; calls himself a liberal outright. There's absolutely NOTHING that qualifies him as a GOPer. Rudy should be ashamed.
49
posted on
12/11/2001 10:29:01 AM PST
by
TheBigB
To: Jeff Smith
Trent Lott, as Majority Leader in the Senate, had the Sworn responsibility to conduct a Senate Trial of Impeachment for W J Clinton, Impeached by the House. Fearful of his image, his ability to horse-trade in the future with Democrats in the Senate he felt more closely toward than his Party, constituants, Oath or Nation, he bartered away all his power to conduct a real trial.
Couple that with his actions in failing to use a Majority when he had it on virtually every single bill that came before the Senate, and you get the picture.
Now, to be true, a Senate Majority that has not enough votes for Cloture (60) is a pretty lame tool. But failure to even sharpen the tool is Lott's legacy.
50
posted on
12/11/2001 10:29:19 AM PST
by
KC Burke
To: KLT
Jeffords, hands down. He was a Republican In Name Only for a little bit this year, so I think that ought to qualify him.
To: KLT
Every conservative who has enrolled in the Republican Party. (If you're truely a conservative, then put your money where your mouth is and join the Conservative Party --as I have -- and stop trying to hijack the Republican Party.
To: KC_Conspirator
I agree with KC; Jeffords was indeed RINO.... and proved it.
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:31:45 AM PST
by
Malcolm
To: Jeff Smith
I'd be obliged, Mr. Smith! Trent Lott is regarded in these parts as a Senator who finds it next to impossible to stand firm on principle when the rubber meets the road.
Case in point: during the conviction trial of President Clinton, Senator Lott allowed extremely constrictive rules that would in effect not allow the House Managers to present their case. No witnesses, etc.
He conspired to allow Clinton off without a real trial because he was desperately afraid of how the leftist elite would treat him. So I and many others blame Lott for Clinton being able to stay in office an extra two years and wreak untold havoc on our governmental system.
To: Cyber Liberty
LOL, Cyber you're more sane with a "lost mind" than McInsane could ever hope to be!
To: KLT
Not in the same class as McCain, but I nominate for honorable mention Texas Governor Rick "Hate Crime" Perry.
To: Freemeorkillme
The entire Republican ESTABLISHMENT in New Jersey who didn't support Schundler
To: Labyrinthos
Every conservative who has enrolled in the Republican Party. (If you're truely a conservative, then put your money where your mouth is and join the Conservative Party --as I have -- and stop trying to hijack the Republican Party. You know, my Friend, you are right....Especially with the power of the super silly Reform Party these days!
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:34:52 AM PST
by
KLT
To: Labyrinthos
Another wackjob; for the 1000th time, it's either the Republicans or the Democrats. There IS NO VIABLE THIRD CHOICE, VOTING 3RD PARTY JUST PUTS THE DEMS IN POWER. If you can't tell the diff between the Republicans and the Dems, maybe you should not be voting at all.....
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posted on
12/11/2001 10:35:06 AM PST
by
Malcolm
To: KC Burke
But failure to even sharpen the tool is Lott's legacy.Sharpen it, indeed. He made sure any semblance of an edge was hammered so dull and useless that it couldn't cut butter if it was hot.
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