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Ahead of today's RNC chairman debate, Gentry Collins dropped his bid for RNC chairman, Politico's Martin reports. Collins, a former RNC political director, received the support from only three committee members, but a scathing letter he wrote detailing the problems of the current RNC, many believe, was perhaps the final nail against Steele.
"Phil Cox, who managed Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s landslide victory in 2009, will serve as the next executive director of the Republican Governors Association, POLITICO has learned."
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On The Daily Rundown this morning Chuck Todd mentioned the "Tea Party Wing" of the republican party. Is it now official? we no longer have listen to the pundits spin the lie that the teabaggers are independents?
HAHA!
Thanks... Chucky for finally letting the 'cat out of the bag'! lmao
That WAS the worst kept secret in DC!
The Libertarians called...they want their movement back!
They continue to eat their own.....how's all the GOP/TP 'big tent' working out for you, Michael?
Gingerbread Mamma
They continue to eat their own.....how's all the GOP/TP 'big tent' working out for you, Michael?
Poor Mickey he'll eat anything!!!
Hmmmm, not one relevent post discussing the article presented. How can it be that many FR libs can't write a relevent post on the subject at hand?
If gingerbread wants to infer that "they eat their own" what do you all infer from obama reading up on reagan?
American:
I'm a liberal poster on here, and I can tell you that while I'm hoping he's reading Reagan for historical purposes, I have a very uncomfortable feeling he might be modeling himself after RR. Despite all the right wing hysteria around here, Obama is NOT a liberal. Nor is he a socialist, a communist, a fascist, or a Marxist. If anything, he's a centrist appeaser.
That's a bunch of nonsensical bile, Bilweeler. Obama is a smart pragmatist. You need look only at this nation's history to know that a nuclear agenda on every issue (liberal or ultra-conservative) does not benefit this country. Every piece of legislation in this nation's 234+ year history has its roots in the ideal but comes to fruition through compromise. Which is why Boner's third-grade, slobbering cry-fest on 60 Minutes about his ascension to Speaker-hood rings hollow when he can't even bring himself to acknowledge or accept the fact that compromise is the way of life in DC. So-called Liberals better start accepting that reality too. The fact that the buffoons on the right repeatedly went nuclear during Dubya's reign doesn't justify a vast pendulum shift in the opposite direction. All that does is force Congress to perpetually engage in corrective action rather than moving ahead. Tea Party lummoxes and their Republican numb skull allies will eventually experience the same fate as the idiots that made up the John Birch Society! See. Didn't even know who they were, did you? 'Nuff said.
Mad:
BS. I don't have to accept what you call "reality." Sacrificing your values is not pragmatism. It's cowardice, which Obama has repeatedly shown in the face of GOP opposition. He has turned on his base, preferring to work with conservatives instead of liberals.
The difference between Obama and the GOP is practically gone. It no longer matters what the party label is; you get the same results from both. I'll be sitting out elections from now on. It just doesn't matter who gets elected.
By the way, I'm very familiar with the John Birch Society. They were the crazies in the 50s and 60s, now reincarnated as the Tea Party. And frankly, they never went away. They just morphed with the times. And if you think the current TP version will disappear in the next election, well, I think you're just naive.
"BS. I don't have to accept what you call "reality." Sacrificing your values is not pragmatism. It's cowardice, which Obama has repeatedly shown in the face of GOP opposition. He has turned on his base, preferring to work with conservatives instead of liberals. The difference between Obama and the GOP is practically gone. It no longer matters what the party label is; you get the same results from both. I'll be sitting out elections from now on. It just doesn't matter who gets elected."
See, that so-called logic and diatribe make you die-hard liberals just as dangerous as the idiots in the Republican Tea Party. What modern-day politico in your past has delivered everything he/she promised exactly the way they promised it on the campaign trail? Obama never professed to be the Messiah. He never promised to blow sunshine out your fat a$$e$. He didn't predict you'd have a pot 'o gold at the end of every rainbow or even a pot to pi$$ in. He promised to work hard for the American people and be honest with them along the way. He promised health care reform, financial reform, repeal of DADT, and others that he has yet to deliver on all of which he told you repeatedly would be hard to change. Rather than appreciate the fact that he has delivered most of this despite vitriolic opposition by the GOP (and blue/yellow dog Dems) you sit back casting aspersions and inanities between bites of your tofu and granola and would stupidly withhold your vote this next cycle because, let's see, "it just doesn't matter who gets elected"?!?! With that simpleton missive you have just qualified for the "Coward of the Year" award. And you have the nerve to suggest Obama's actions exemplify "cowardice"!
Look, whatever your problem is, it has nothing to do with Obama or his values. It has everything to do with your die-hard liberalism and its emotion eclipsing logic and reason. In which case I say you put down the bong, don your Birkenstocks and walk over to Mambi Pambi land for a visit with the Tooth Fairy. Her brand of reality is more your speed. The rest of us moderates will remain in our unscrupulous, valueless, compromising matrix, aka, the real world!
Mad
I am going to go out on a limb and say that you are a moderate Democrat or a "center left" independent who believes in compromise and governing in lieu of ideological purity.
If I am correct, I agree with you. I am a "center right" independent, more to the right fiscally and more to the left socially. I think fixing the economy, balancing the budget, lowering the debt and deficit, fixing the tax codes and getting people back to work is the order of the day. Both parties and the independents need to work together to get this done.
If I have read your views incorrectly, I apologize.
Robert--
You have pegged it right. Sadly though, proponents at either extreme, with the aid of the media, are too often erroneously presented as the majority view of their respective party. Moderation is discouraged and compromise is demagogued. God bless America soon...with smarter people!
Mad:
Your sarcastic, insulting rant confirms your naivete. Name calling is the last resort for those with no real argument on the facts. Note that while I disagreed with you, I did not insult you. Perhaps you should give up your self righteousness and try to add to the discussion rather than vent your emotions.
I'm not a coward; I've been standing up for progressive/liberal causes since the 60s. I opposed Goldwater, Nixon, the Birchers, and the war in Viet Nam. Perhaps those were all lost causes, but I didn't compromise my principles then, and I won't compromise them now either. Guys like Russ Feingold got shown the door, but I doubt he'd change any of his positions even if he had known he'd get voted out. Sometimes integrity is more important than pragmatism.
I don't wear birkenstocks, I don't eat tofu, and I don't do drugs. You think you know me; you don't. The guy who didn't promise to "blow sunshine out" my "fat ass" is getting ready to cave in to the GOP on Social Security. But you're right...he never promised to protect Social Security. He just promised us "change." And that's what we're getting...it's just not the change we thought it was.
bilweeler
When ideological purity is placed ahead of accomplishment of objectives to help the American people, it is wrong headed.
We need to work together - finding common ground where we can to get things done and get the economy fixed.
Shared sacrifice is the key to successful compromise in these trying times
Bilweeler--
This is my last comment and I'm done with you. You first called me naive. I take exception to that and responded to you in kind. I applaud your standing up for liberal causes since the 60s. Yet, here we are dealing with similar social wedge issues and your naive response is to just sit out the next election cycle?!? If 60s activism exemplified anything it was the culmination of change initiatives primarily through, yes, activism and the power of the ballot box. So, your plan to avoid the next election hardly typifies 60s-era activism. It is more befitting a modern-day Tea Party wuss. For all your talk about Feingold's staunch adherence to his progressive ideals did it ever occur to you that he was also known as a man of political compromise? Too often you die-hard liberals blur the lines between core values and political compromise and suggest that they are one and the same when they are mutually exclusive. Then you wield that "principle first/principle last" naivety like a club beating your own people to a pulp with it. Before long you are out of office, rendered powerless while the opposition overruns you with a thoroughly inane, stupefying but unified, purposeful message and agenda. Rather than using the art of the political compromise to facilitate change based on core values and beliefs, you continue to march in place litigating these issues over and over and over again and in the process demagogue or dismiss anyone as a sellout who dared to act or think otherwise. You may call that being "progressive". In the real world its considered "insanity". But good luck with that progressive thing. It'll probably get you elected to something meaningful some day. Oh, say, President of the Northeast Oak club. Lord knows we need some progressive thinking about getting oak trees to shed all their leaves before winter!
Mad:
Good luck with your naive delusion that you can make a difference by being moderate. Your moderation will continue to result in a status quo benefitting only the rich and privileged. Neither major party represents my interests. Nor, ironically, do they represent yours.
Pardon my cynicism. I've earned it.