Republican In-fighting
What’s a liberal to do except watch as Republicans eat their own. And I’m not even getting into the NY-23 race.
First we have Dobbs vs Rivera.
Rivera accuses Dobbs of “almost single-handedly responsible for creating, for being the architect of the young-Latino-as-scapegoat for everything that ails this country.”
And now Dobbs fires back:
DOBBS: I’m just still fuming over something that Geraldo Rivera said. I shouldn’t let — This guy is nothing but a fiction of his own imagination and a figment of whatever he sees in the mirror. But, I gotta tell you — the guy is so annoying. I should not let people get to me like this, but you know what? I’m starting to get short of patience with them. […]
Geraldo Rivera wouldn’t know a fact if it hit him in the rear end — and that would probably be an appropriate place if you wanted him to absorb the information. … This is the kind of vile stupidity and ignorance that he spews everywhere he goes.
Pass the popcorn, I have nothing to do but sit back and enjoy the fight. Also, might I point out, I agree with both men’s statements. Victim runs deep.
And speaking of victims…
South Florida Republicans held a weekly meeting at a gun range, shooting at targets including cut-outs of a Muslim holding a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
The GOP candidate to replace U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired at a full-body silhouette with “DWS” written next to its head. […]
Robert Lowry, who’s vying for Wasserman Schultz’s seat, initially described his target as a joke. Minutes later, he called it a mistake.
Others refused to apologized [sic] for the Southeast Broward Republican Club event, featuring assault rifles and handguns. A conservative activist said they should stand up for their beliefs in the heavily Democratic county.
Before I go on, could someone explain to me how shooting at a target identified as your political opponent equates to standing up for your beliefs? And isn’t it this mentality that makes sane people uneasy with the sudden trend of bringing guns to Health Care rallies? Hey, I’m just connecting the dots. And while the words and actions are the protected, the message is clear. Democrats and Muslims are fair game, and pretending to shoot them is simply standing up for your beliefs.
But the story gets better.
Republican activist Ed Napolitano, who runs the club where the target practice occurred is now claiming he was “pushed out” of all his party positions.
While he’s stepping away from the party, Napolitano said today he’s not ending his political activism. “I’m not going to be going away. You’re still going to see me around.”
He expressed frustration with Republican Party leadership, which he said doesn’t stand by and defend volunteer Republican activists – like himself – when they’re attacked.
“The leadership in the Republican Party is lacking in courage, and they do not stand by their people,” Napolitano said. “We’re volunteers. We volunteer our time and we volunteer our money. They’re there to facilitate us. We’re not there to facilitate them. They act like we’re their servants.”
Forget about the stalker-esque comment for a minute, and focus on yet another split. This guy isn’t angry with an individual, he’s furious with the entire party.
Which begs the question… can the GOP rein in their base without losing them? I’m thinking, no. I’m also thinking that their 20% ranking might not look so bad in a few months when they hit 15%.
Another fissure is Jane Hall citing Glenn Beck as one of the reasons she left FOX. True to form, Beck ups the crazy language:
BECK: Well, don’t let the door hit you on the ass when you leave. I’m going to miss you, I am, whatever your name is. My language is scary! Since when did language become scary? Boy, I put a lot of that language in books. Maybe we should gather all those books together and burn them as well. Because there is language in there. I wouldn’t want to scare anyone. Read our Founding Fathers. You want scary language, read the Founding Fathers. We haven’t even gotten to the scary language yet.
Can you imagine any of these people living next door to you?
Tags: Republican Crazy, Republican Party
Pandora, you gave me chills and not in a good way. The Republicans are definitely letting the crazies take over but they don’t have anyone filtering away the extremes of their rhetoric.
Cable news ratings just came out and CNN is in last place. I wonder if the continuing presence of Dobbs has anything to do this? I really do think CNN is having an identity crisis. I think they want to make their niche be straight news – so why do they have Dobbs on?
What’s really scary is the way I glossed over the DWS target shooting story when it first came out. A year ago we would have written a lot of posts about the incident. Now it’s like, “Ho hum, another Republican embracing violence.”
I’m worried about how numb I’m becoming towards this sort of behavior.
LOL, pandora. I don’t know how many times I’ve written those very words. I say them of course tongue-in-cheek but it is becoming depressingly common.
the repukes may be letting the crazies take over, but every news organization still puts those crazies on t.v to be “balanced”. SO in one corner you have a Nobel winner, multi-PHDs, and on the other corner you have someone like Glenn Beck who says education disqualifies someone from having an opinion in “real America” and further more, the educated are conspiring against “real Americans”
and CNN et all “leaves it at that” i wont be happy until people dont even remember what Conservatism was
Make no mistake, those who have gone into the bag-o-nuts© category (I am carefully telling you it’s not everyone that is a registered Republican) want all the extremism without any of the accountability. They are the loudest, therefore are the ones who are mostly heard (and seen). Keep on justly pinning accountability on their back and some day, they either will realize the nuttery, calm the hell down, and be more constructive with their debate, or they will get arrested (either literally or in terms of career progression) for most of their actions. Either is fine with me.
It must stop before it gets to that point. My fear is that they will start hurting and killing people before their profits… sorry prophets… are revealed as frauds. If a right wing terrorist kills someone because of arguments they heard Glenn Beck, or some of these horrific excuses for politicians make, it is too late. The country will have failed to save itself from this growing cancer within us.
I’m worried about how numb I’m becoming towards this sort of behavior.
This is the thing. We already know that the liberal media is numb to it. They continue to give this kind of BS plenty of attention because the crazy is apparently what gives them ratings. Don’t let a Democrat get out of line just once — because apparently being out of line is all anyone expects from the wingnuts.
“What’s a liberal to do except watch as Republicans eat their own.”
Republicans eat their own!? Look what you folks did to donviti for simply questioning the messiah!
Ho Hum. People with rocket launchers are killing our soldiers. They should be the target of our animosity.
This from a guy who put up a Sarah “don’t hate her because she’s beautiful” Palin post? Puhleeze.
They should be the target of our animosity.
Yes, and how’s that working within the kick-the-RINOs-out ideology?
No one is kicking out anyone, however the cowards and non believers are leaving which is a good thing.
The mountain of debt we have, the dropping of the dollar (www.delawarerepublican.wordpress.com) and the endless spending has consequences. Those who don’t get those facts should become Democrats.
The real eating your own parade is the Dems who have a super majority and can’t produce a single major piece of legislation. Maybe if we had a leader for President?
Nah, too busy playing three times as much golf as Bush and three times as many fundraisers as Bush.
Mike Protack
Theoretically, no one can kick anyone out of a party, everyone knows that. Heck, some people have planned their attacks on that nugget, *ahem*.
Realistically, the environment can become so poisoned that the common thread that kept people of many different views together erodes and the break-off begins. How do you pretend to not know this, Mr-Rebuild-the-DE-GOP? You’ve long harped over those who in your mind were a detriment to the GOP. Odd thing is, those detriments were simply people standing in your way.
…however the cowards and non believers are leaving which is a good thing.
So, as the Constitution Party’s ranks (no secret as it’s been popping up on various boards) begin to increase with people you know, I can pull up your comment and recite your sentiments towards them? Excellent.
I love it when Republicans come to Delaware Liberal and fight it out. 😉