I Don’t Think The Message Could Be Clearer. Moderates Are You Listening?
Via Think Progress:
This morning on CBS’s Early Show, RNC Chairman Michael Steele strongly endorsed Rush Limbaugh’s reaction to Sen. Arlen Specter’s (PA) decision to leave the Republican party. Limbaugh had responded to Specter’s departure by calling him “dead weight” and claiming that it said “nothing about the state of the GOP.” Steele said that he agreed with Limbaugh. Ask why he wasn’t phased by Specter’s departure, Steele cited Specter’s “debilitating” vote in favor of President Obama’s economic recovery package. “It went against core principles. … I’m not weeping here. I’m sorry,” Steele remarked.
Dead weight? Dead weight???
I guess it’s okay since seconds later he threw in… “There’s room for everybody who wants to be a part of a party that believes, first and foremost, in the value of the individual to make decisions that empower him or herself.”
Anybody buying that?
Then there’s the NPR interview:
By the way, is the tent still big enough to accommodate pro-choice Republicans?
Yeah, sure, why not? Look, I’m not going to stand at the door with a little checklist and say, well, you can be a Republican and you can’t. I welcome everyone to this party. But understand, it’s like — you know, when I come to your house for dinner, all right, and I sit down at your table, what do you think of me when I look at your wife or look at you and go, “You know, this is a nice meal but I would have preferred chicken. And if you could take this plate off, I think I’d like a different type of china.” It is what you serve.
Hmm… where have I heard words similar to these before? Oh yeah… here. (comments 21 and 22)
Tags: Moderates, Republicans
But you can wear you GOP ball-cap frontward, backward, or to the right side. They’ve got a lot of room to manure.
Awesome link:
In other words: Those dang moderate Republicans immoderately not lying down and letting us real Republicans kick them in the head. What are they thinking?
I find all these comment amazing and pretty damn clear. Moderates are not welcome.
J, did you move my post up?
Yes. Don’t hate me.
My favorite line from the last link…
“Moderates are welcome in my party as long as they don’t try to push others out.”
My party?
No problem, Jason. I’ll take it as compliment!
I personally feel like the Dems are the Jets and just picked up Brett Favre.
“So to be a national party we have to put blue and purple states into play. We must be a national party and we must run candidates that can win in every region of the country.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, admitting the obvious: The GOP is no longer a national party.
Oh, happy days.
I’m getting up to speed on all of this. None of this actually happened, did it? It’s all an elaborate scheme to get me to finally finish off what I started months ago, isn’t it? It’s all about ME! ME ME ME ME ME! 😛
You You You You You You (and Maria)
This post actually started out with your name in the title – “I Don’t Think The Message Could Be Clearer. Smitty, Are You Listening?”
It is funny that you linked to one of my posts. I was thinking when I read the quotes that this is just like what I wrote. It just makes me more confident in our leadership. We finally have a chairman who gets it.
BTW Benedict Arlen proves my point about destructive moderates who flip the table over instead of taking a seat at it.
In fact, In my recent post –the IQ Average of both parties went up yesterday– I called B. A. deadweight. It must be true because people all over the country are coming to the same conclusion. Now he is your deadweight. Look at his being the 51st vote to kill the President’s bankruptcy provision. Counting on Specter is like leaning on a reed for support. It will bend and pierce you. It will not give you support just the appearance of support and pain instead. Hope that you enjoy him.
Funny, I don’t recall having been invited by the home-owning social conservative sect. So, to say someone like me is in the house only by the graciousness of that sect’s host/hostess skills is contemptible, conceited junk.
Please, please, do come in, for we need you (to vote like us), but do keep your mouth shut. We don’t prefer it when you speak, plus, we think the breath you emit is woefully spoiled by your idealist attitudes. So, come, and take that seat in the other room, pointed away from us. When we think you will be useful, we will call. We anticipate around an hour, for that’s when we will be done our dinner at our table and scraps will be available to you before you begin cleaning our dishes. Now, off with you. Shoo.
Sounds so inviting!
Seriously, why is it so hard to understand that this so-called open-door-“invite” is an insult at best?