DEGOP Heaps scorn on John Carney for his Johnny-come-lately conservatism
I don’t know who John Carney was trying to impress with his vote to give the GOP a veto proof majority. It seems to have filled Charlie Copeland with contempt.
Newark, DE — The Chairman of the Delaware Republican Party, Charlie Copeland, released the following statement this morning in reaction to Congressman John Carney’s vote in support of Republican legislation that would implement a “timeout” in relocating Syrian refugees in the United States:
“John Carney was against keeping Delaware citizens safe until he was for it.
“The question is, as a Democratic candidate for Governor, what is he actually doing to ensure that Governor Jack Markell changes his position on opening his arms, and Delaware taxpayer funds, to the ‘needles in the haystack’ who want nothing more then to bring harm to Delaware residents?”
“Will John Carney vote to override President Obama’s expected veto of the legislation? Has he picked-up the phone to call the Governor to demand he change his position? These are questions he needs to answer.”
Hey, Charlie and I finally have something in common: outright and vehement contempt for John “Coward” Carney.
The electorate is highly polarized, so this makes no sense as an election/political strategy.
He must be genuinely shitting his pants over the idea that Muslims are threatening. Fucking chickenshit.
Charlie wants John to get Jack to change his mind because Lacey Lafferty hasn’t had any luck thus far.
Frickin Charlie ought to be welcoming John to the GOP because he’d be a hell of a lot better candidate than anyone else they can find.
The electorate is highly polarized. So why would he chose the other side to side with??? That side would never support him in an election, no matter how often he votes with them. And by voting with them, he destroys any good will and support he has on his side of the aisle.
For example, I will never vote for John Carney again. I will actively seek his defeat. I will work to support any Democrat or Republican who opposes him. By his vote yesterday, he turned an ally into a vehement enemy.
Copeland’s statement proves my point about why voting with the R’s to save your skin is a foolhardy exercise. They’ll attack you anyway. So why not have some principles and stand for something? Granted, that may be asking too much of Carney, possibly the emptiest suit in politics these days.
I called Carney’s office yesterday whenI heard of his vote. I told his office that the coward has more to fear from the right wing idiots in Sussex County than he does from Syrian refugees. I also reminded him that voters will vote for a true republican before they will vote for a Democrat that tries to act like a Republican!
Hey, John, congratulations on ‘reaching across the aisle’. See how well that works?
Craven.
Quoth the craven, “Give me four.”
“The electorate is highly polarized. So why would he chose the other side to side with??? That side would never support him in an election, no matter how often he votes with them. And by voting with them, he destroys any good will and support he has on his side of the aisle.
“For example, I will never vote for John Carney again. I will actively seek his defeat. I will work to support any Democrat or Republican who opposes him. By his vote yesterday, he turned an ally into a vehement enemy.”
Ditto.
Might as well vote for some crazed fear mongering republican
Mouse, John Carney is already running.
John did the right thing. He’s demonstrating he’s not a left wing nut.
Demonstrating he’s not a left wing nut? How so?
Carney’s Republican leanings are the REASON he doesn’t have a credible opponent. The minute Carney does something progressive, the checkbooks will come out and credible opponents will show up both in primary and general elections.
Carney IS the oft-mentioned establishment Republican. As long as John keeps “crossing the aisle,” Charlie Copeland can keep running GOP tomato cans for cheap.
Carney wins with 60% of the vote. Yawn.
Yup.
Here’s where I am in the f–ked up world of American politics.
In Delaware I cannot even hold my nose and vote for anybody currently running for Governor, at least not and look in a mirror anytime within the next year.
In the larger picture, not only is there not a GOP candidate for President that I could even contemplate voting for, they are so bad that I can’t even stay home. I will actually have to go out and support Hillary when she wins the nomination, because even if she is the foreign policy disaster I believe she will be, it would be better than losing America’s soul.
I can’t even believe I’m having to write this.
Say this for her: She might represent the least disastrous foreign policy disaster on offer.
… and that’s part of the overall disaster.
Maybe I have lost perspective. Been a long week.
When given a choice to side with Barack Obama and Joe Biden or Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, Carney chose Cruz and Trump. Not even him deciding to re-grow his mustache can cover up for being 100 percent wrong on the defining humanitarian issue of the day. And for all the criticism that Jack has received lately, his core values had him being a leader on this issue – a leader we can all be proud of – while John followed Cruz, Trump, Ryan and even Lacey Lafferty.
@SN “I will actually have to go out and support Hillary when she wins the nomination, because even if she is the foreign policy disaster I believe she will be…”
Why would you believe that???
No candidate come closes to her on foreign policy… NO ONE!!
Why don’t you read this and feel better. This is a mainstream conservative commentator heaping praise on Hillary’s foreign policy positions:
“Hillary Clinton Takes On ISIS”
by David Brooks
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/20/opinion/hillary-clinton-takes-on-isis.html
“Candidate Clinton laid out a supple and sophisticated approach. The next president will have to provide the action.”
Awesome op-ed.
@LE. Not the post for it. Suffice it to say that Hillary represents mainstream heavily corporatized bloated defense spending excessively interventionist militarized foreign policy. Whether that policy emanates from her or Obama or Bush it has in general been a disaster for the U.S., not making us safer, costing inordinate lives and treasure, and slowly bankrupting us as a nation.
At that, however, I will take it as a necessary evil to prevent the conversion of my country to either theocracy or outright Naziism.
But it doesn’t mean I have to like the choice.