If you’re upset with the the party’s direction, what’s keeping you in it, congressman?
It’s true that Kasich has been the gentleman of the bunch. It’s also true that he’s the guy grabbing mics from reporters and telling women not to go to parties with alcohol if they don’t want to get raped. Gentleman, like everything else, is relative.
IOW: Anyone who is even remotely electable on the federal level, cannot possibly have the principles of today’s Republican Party.
Today’s Republicans are actually pretty much incapable of anything except being a bag of dicks.
tradition
This is true. The explanations for why may vary and it is very doubtful that any Republican will stand up and say what the real problem is.
The election of Obama has twisted them so hard and the prospect of him being followed up by another Clinton and being led by a woman has cast them into a form of hysterics not previously known to mankind.
If they could just get their pasty white, old, war loving, misogynist, faux-religious/faux-cowboy, dumb as dirt President, they would chill out. Black, feminine, wicked smart and world wise, with old school diplomacy skills just scares them, it isn’t their fault.
Endangered species alert
A moderate Republican was sighted in upstate New York late Tuesday. Long thought extinct, the moderate Republican was thought to have been hunted to extinction by the Tea Party in 2010. While the sighting is encouraging, experts do not expect the specimen to survive long due to the almost total destruction of its natural habitat.
The Republican party had an excellent slate of candidates this year. 5 governors, 3 senators, 2 CEOs, 1 neurosurgeon, a Bush. What more do you want? You can’t ask for a better set of choices.
Or from breaking rank and voting against Republican crazy orthodoxy.
No courage! Not found in the whole lot!
Well stated!
Republicans never lie.
“I think the orthodoxy of the Republican Party is really hurting the party and pushing it to the extreme,” he said. “These are people I never imagined would gain national prominence, and yet here they are.”
“Hurting the party”. Now when Hanna can see beyond his crazy, evil, unsavory party of characters and their harm to each other and look at the real harm to the country, he may rise above them. Until then he is nothing more than an equal member.
Rethugs incapable of leading meeting a media incapable of accuracy in a non pay per view cage death match makes me wonder, “What’s on the other channels?”
Who let him out?
A politician who endorses same-sex marriage and opposes abortion restrictions who still insists on remaining a Republican is like a celibate teetotaler working in a whiskey distillery that doubles as a meth lab and whorehouse.
They(the Republicans) started with 17 of their best(?) whitemen and what happened. The three left, who would have thought! Now, this clown and others, are complaining. Who’s voting for these three? How many are actually voting? And…
Dammit Jim I’m only a doctor!
There’s no such thing as habitat destruction … we all know this … Just ask Senator Inhofe if he’s awake.
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I need more caffeine.
And yet it seems that still, when it comes down to specifics, the difference between a ‘moderate’ Republican and an actual one is more their tone and appearance, not their views and policies. Kasich is routinely mentioned as a ‘moderate’ simply because he knows how to comport himself in public without screaming or drooling. He e.g. defunds Planned Parenthood with a smile, not a growl, and so…he’s ‘reasonable’.
It’s like he traipsed along with everyone to Jonestown and suddenly finds himself not that thirsty.
Drink, mofo, drink.