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Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care Says GOP

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 04:17:53 PM EST
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(Guest Post from Big Tent Democrat)

The Republican blogs say it baldly:

[N]ow is not the time for a leadership contest. Anyone who suggests otherwise is a fool or a foe. . . . Once the House is securely in the hands of a GOP majority on November 8th, we can reassess our leadership team.

Okaay. Isn't that what dictated Hastert coddling the sexual predator Foley? More:

If we decapitate our leadership right now going into the November elections, we lose the whole shooting match. Our base will completely deflate. There is a time and place to talk about vision and leadership [at the top], but now is not the time."

Shameless.

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    Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care Says GOP | 10 comments (10 topical)
    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 07:14:47 PM EST
    I am hoping for a total deflation of the base. I want the gop base so demoralized they will not feel like going to vote or cheat. or both

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 07:14:47 PM EST
    This is their pattern for the last 5 years....lie, cover up and don't investigate anything, so they can stay in power. THIS should be our talking point. This is how the REP leadership reacts to everything, the loss of billions of dollars in Iraq, can't investigate THAT. They had to be shamed by the 9/11 families into a sham investigation. And there is so much more and I have to finish dinner. Talking Point: This is how they handle everything.

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 07:14:47 PM EST
    To Republicans Ethics and morals take a back seat to elections.

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 07:14:47 PM EST
    Our base will completely deflate. There is a time and place to talk about vision and leadership [at the top], but now is not the time.
    Be nice to know who Rich Lowry's source for that quote is, and whether he has any conception of how he's deflating his and the gop's balloon just by saying something that dumb. Maybe he does, and remains anonymous because he does. Sometimes lately I get the feeling that there are people in the gop who are so fed up they are purposely trying to help speed up the end for the party. Like an addict who finally decides the only way out of his problems includes ratting on and walking away from everyone he knows, and from the whole life he's in. And people are supposed to consider these guys leaders, or think they are worth following? To where would they lead? Off the cliff they been running straight towards as fast as they can? Unbelievable.

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#6)
    by dutchfox on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 07:14:47 PM EST
    Anyone see this? FBI examining possible threat to La. teenager I found the link in a post by Is That Legal?.

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#7)
    by zaitefftheunconvicted on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 07:14:47 PM EST
    You must be forgetting that Mark Foley, along with his friends bin Laden, Saddam and Zarqawi, is really a Democrat.

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 08:26:12 PM EST
    I cannot understand how so many politicians think going against the UN is a way to get votes...

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 08:45:31 PM EST
    "Now is not the time for a leadership contest. Anyone who suggests otherwise is a fool or a foe. . . . Once the House is securely in the hands of a ... majority on November 8th, we can reassess our leadership team." Hmmm ... wasn't this exactly the position most "liberal" blogs took on that whole legalizing torture thing?

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#9)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Oct 04, 2006 at 11:04:00 PM EST
    JTL: Not this liberal blog.

    Re: Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care S (none / 0) (#10)
    by kdog on Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 06:17:53 AM EST
    I see your true colors shining through. I see your true colors, and that's why I despise you.

    Politics First: Right and Wrong? Don't Care Says GOP | 10 comments (10 topical)