There Will Be Blood
The lines of battle have been drawn. The Republican Civil War begins.
Jim Nuzzo, a White House aide to the first President Bush, dismissed Mrs Palin’s critics as “cocktail party conservatives” who “give aid and comfort to the enemy”.He told The Sunday Telegraph: “There’s going to be a bloodbath. A lot of people are going to be excommunicated. David Brooks and David Frum and Peggy Noonan are dead people in the Republican Party. The litmus test will be: where did you stand on Palin?”
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He said: “Win or lose, there is a ready made conservative candidate waiting in the wings. Sarah Palin is not the new Iain Duncan Smith, she is the new Ronald Reagan.”
To our Republican/Conservative friends/foes at DL… which side of this war are you on?
It looks like John Ensign isn’t on McCain’s side.
http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/ensign-mccain-makes-senate-races-more-difficult-2008-10-27.html
Not his.
Not whose? McCain’s side? Tom Nuzzo? George Bush?
I think Dave is referring to Nuzzo.
Sarah Palin is not the new Iain Duncan Smith, she is the new Ronald Reagan.
Criminy, this bit just screams Clown Shoes! Am I wrong or what?
I think I said last week that Sarah Palin is my Republican Party barometer.
And yes, Cassandra, we have officially entered Clown Shoe territory. Gotta love the whole “they are dead to me” drama.
I love this post so freaking much. I want to take long walks on the beach with it.
Whoever Jim Nuzzo is, he should have his own 2 hour a day show on fox and a syndicated radio show.
Palin is really putting on the clown shoes. I’m watching Olbermann and Palin is going on and on and on about the clothes. She really hates that story! I don’t know why she’s keeping it in the news.
McCain’s people were telling CNN that they didn’t provide her any remarks about her clothes and this conservative outlet is reporting that the folks leading the ant-Palin charge right now are Romneyites.
Onward Christian soldiers!
Bring out the snakes!
annon
Mitts folks are not Christians study the history
Mitts folks are not Christians study the history
I think you should have a long discussion with Mynym about this.
Mittens and Sarah should handle the snakes to prove WHO IS THE TRUE BELIEVER!
To our Republican/Conservative friends/foes at DL… which side of this war are you on?
I’m on the side that to this day embraces and understands the morals and dedication people such as Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Edward Brooke brought to the party. I’m not into the token acknowledgement that seems to be muddying the waters. I’m into the full acceptance and insistance that people like them were the real Republicans. It’s been a long time, indeed.
Palin represents the ultra right…the white supremacists, the anti abortion ilk, the evangelicals (snake handlers) and the KKK. That is the new republican base and will continue to be until the republican party purges those anti americans from their party. Whether Palin or O’donald they are same characters who do not believe in the Constitution, who believe in no government. Why does the GOP in Delaware embrace that nut Christine? For the same reasons they embrace Palin.
The GOP is hooked on the evangelical vote as completely as the worst down and out junkie is hooked on smack.
They know it is killing them, but they can’t get off those easy dependable “single issue” votes and never will. At this point they seemed resigned to dying with the needle in their arm.
R Smitty,
Do you understand why many people look at repubs as reality-challenged? It is posts like yours in number 15.
You can dream that the “real Republicans” are the people who have been dead for more than 50 years if you find that comforting, but in reality the real repubs are Bush and Cheney and McCain and Palin. Until the last few months, Bush and Cheney had the support of more than 80% of self-identified repubs. Mcinsane and Palin haven the support of close to 90% of the repubs. They are the center of your party. That is the reality of YOUR party.
Staying in your party because of who they were 50 or 100 years ago when what they are today is completely different requires an enormous amount wishful thinking and denial on your part. It isn’t going to turn around anytime soon. It is amazing to me that a thoughtful person such as yourself can live in such a fantasy world.
The horrendous policies of the repubs have had the vast support of the party members. That is the reality. Your party membership equals support no matter what caveats you try to apply.
Edward Brooke is still alive, tho (heck, ask Babara Walters…she knows how alive he is). The current power-trips in control would rather pretend he doesn’t exist, tho.
Look, I am doing what I can to not compromise myself, which includes not giving up and walking away. I am not saying that’s not possible, but very far down on my list. Take Edward Brooke for an example, though. He too, refused to quit, when he was heavily pressured to become a Democrat, but he acknowledged the party quit on itself. I’m certainly not looking for nor asking for sympathy, though. This is a fight for an identity and it’s going to be rough.
I have been asked in the past why I don’t switch to being Democratic. Well, I don’t think I’d be well be accepted there, either. Plus, I am far more into state government than I am national-level and I am no fan of the powerbrokers of my immediate-local Dems. No offense to Jason, either. Of course, he is a PDD, anyway. Our local Dem powerbrokers are old-school and confrontational if you don’t go-along. Additionally, my local R-powerbrokers are more centered and not the stereotype many have of R’s. It’s really a local thing.
Please give my apologies to Edward Brookes! 🙂
We gotta change the local Dems, too. No argument there from me.
With candidates like O’Donnell and Lee, I am not sure that local R-Powerbrokers are “more centered”. Who are you referring to? Priscilla Rakestraw? Mike Castle? (I don’t follow internal Delaware repub politics much.)
You might consider that staying a repub is more compromising than walking away. Take a look at former Governor and former Republican Russ Peterson to understand why he made the decision to leave the R’s.
My “local” is extremely local, meaning my RD. That was my reference point to the local DEMs, as well; hence, my “no offense” to Jason. We are the same RD. Although, I can see the confusion as Daniello is certainly old school and very confrontational to anyone that casts a challenge to the status-quo.
BTW, you won’t convert me! NOOOOoOooooo! Must…resist! Bad anonone! Bad!
Ditto to RSmitty posts. It’s the local side keeping me R on many choices. Just cleaning up my own little corner of the world…where the cobwebs have cocoons.
JC,
You can clean it up by working to elect honest progressive Dems. 🙂
Actually, my District Rep (R) is not bad legislatively or in constituent services. Too bad he is an R, but his Dem opponent would be good, too.
Honest and progressive I like…unfortunately, I never knew of your splinter group until a little over a year ago, because the mainframe D was so perverse, I could never align. Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset. I am troubled a PDD would vote D regardless, if a proven, hardworking, ethical, R stands before them. I don’t and won’t do that if the situation were reversed.
Joanne, anonone and I danced this dance yesterday and we both realized that we won’t budge each other; however, we did agree that it comes down to one thing: what it is that the person is smoking.
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Saw that Smitty–and that was a double deal breaker!!