I have to admit I enjoy watching the Republican infighting. Yesterday, Senator Sen. Jim DeMint (Wingnut, S.C.) went after John McCain for, yes, being too liberal.
"McCain, who is proponent of campaign finance reform that weakened party organizations and basically put George Soros in the driver's seat," DeMint said. "His proposal for amnesty for illegals. His support of global warming, cap-and-trade programs that will put another burden on our economy. And of course, his embrace of the bailout right before the election was probably the nail in our coffin this last election. And he has been an opponent of drilling in ANWR, at a time when energy is so important. It really didn't fit the label, but he was our package."
GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles
Any wonder why Palin is so popular with the base? God they are f..g dumb.
More, after the fold.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.
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Had Republicans not strayed from their core beliefs in recent years, DeMint argued, the election results might have been different.
"Americans do prefer a traditional conservative government," he said. "They just did not believe Republicans were going to give it to them."
GOP senator: McCain betrayed Republican principles
Yep, tax cuts for the rich, no regulation of business, peeping in our bedrooms in case anyone is enjoying sex or having it the wrong way. Starting wars, destroying our economy. Yep, that's what Real Mericans want!
Meanwhile, that damn liberal McCain wasn't right wing enough. "Illegals." There's an issue bound to increase the size of the Republican Party. Right. And keep denying global warming. You may win Alaska and Oklahoma, and Fundiland, but the rest of us actually read books.
I hope they keep listening to the DeMint and Palins, and ignore this guy:
In a speech Wednesday to Republican governors in Miami, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said the GOP must change and grow or face the prospect of becoming irrelevant in a changing nation.
Pawlenty, whose national profile rose significantly this year while he was being considered as a running mate for John McCain, said that the party must find ways to compete in regions dominated by Democrats -- the Northeast, the West Coast and, increasingly, the Great Lakes and mid-Atlantic states. He also said it must win more support among women, Hispanics and blacks.
"The country is changing culturally, demographically, technologically, economically and the like. And the Republican Party isn't changing in a way that reflects those major or macro changes across the country," Pawlenty said, according to a New York Times report.
Republicans need to be farsighted on such issues as energy, health care and education, and broaden their appeal to working-class families and small-business owners, he said.
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"We're going to have our differences," he said, according to MSNBC. "But in places like the Northeast and Minnesota and out west, there aren't enough Republicans to throw people overboard."
GOP must change if it is to thrive, Pawlenty says
Sorry, Pawlenty. It's Palin's Party. The DeMints and the Inhofs. Damn Yankee. :-)
And you can't "broaden [your] appeal to working-class families" so long as your screwing them as you do, but that's another story.
Someday, the Republican Theocrats and Wingnuts (Trademark pending) will realize that God, indeed, is on our side, but until then, let's wish them all the luck in the world.
Right now, the Republicans don't even have the entire Confederacy.
Throw them an Anvil!
Palin/DeMint 2012