This post obliterates the myth that Mike Castle is a moderate
Unlike the NYT, this guy looks at the voting records befor calling someone a “moderate.”
A gaggle of Republicans– nearly a dozen– scared that electoral doom has them on a list, perhaps a long list, wandered over to the White House today and told the head of their disreputable party, certainly someone who no one would confuse with a moderate, “that conditions [in Iraq] needed to improve markedly by fall or more Republicans would desert him on the war. The White House session demonstrated the grave unease many Republicans are feeling about the war, even as they continue to stand with the president against Democratic efforts to force a withdrawal of forces through a spending measure that has been a flash point for weeks.”
Is standing with the unmoderate Bush and his extremist and failed policies part of being a Republican moderate?
WHAT DO FOLKS LIKE THE NYT MEAN BY A “MODERATE” REPUBLICAN
I think what they have in mind is a party member who can point–or, if it’s beyond his/her mental capacity, have SOMEONE ELSE point on his/her behalf, to someone in the party who is MORE extreme.–Ken
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“The meaning of “G.O.P. Moderates” is decidedly less so. In fact, it’s a loaded propaganda tool, that the Times employs regularly.”
Your first clue that this blogger is off their rocker is the assertion that the NY Times would be a Republican propaganda tool. Anyone who believes that probably thinks MoveOn.org is a puppet of the Bush administration.
It is hard for me to accept anything else that may come out of his keyboard after that.
And yes, Bush is considered a “moderate” by many republicans. Not sealing the borders (for whatever reason), getting in bed with Kennedy on “No Child Left Behind”, and, war spending not withstanding, still spending more domestically than we would like.
If a “moderate” like Bush is considered a hardliner by that blogger, then in reality, Castle must be a downright leftist.
Thank you for providing the “to the right of George Bush” perspective.
“And yes, Bush is considered a “moderate” by many republicans.”
Yeah. Like Dick Cheney.
Bush is an extremist if there ever was one. The only thing moderate is his intelligence.
“Bush is an extremist if there ever was one. The only thing moderate is his intelligence.”
And they call me a wingnut…