The shameful silence of Delaware’s “sane” Republicans

Filed in National by on October 8, 2013

Where are Delaware’s Republican grownups? Doesn’t Delaware even have a functioning GOP anymore? Take a look at Charlie Copeland’s official DEGOP Chair blog page. Ridiculous. Copeland is particularly craven given the politics of his father, a Republican who was instrumental in bringing Planned Parenthood to Delaware. What ever happened to the sane/insane divide in the party. I haven’t heard a peep about the GOP’s outrageous and unpatriotic brinksmanship from ANY Delaware Republican. Kovach? Lopez? Are you guys the future leaders of a political party or what?

While the “moderates” cower in silence, many Delaware Republicans live in the same self-imposed intellectual insulation that Ted Cruz inhabits. It is an intellectual ghetto in which the only voices are extremist charlatans who say there’s no risk associated with default. Because they never hear the thoughts of alleged Republican moderates like Copeland or Kovach, they honestly think that the government can structure payments so that the country’s creditors are held harmless. An alarming number of Republicans think this way, and that is to the DEGOP’s eternal shame. The Delaware Republican Party “moderates” no doubt strut their level-headed reasonableness behind closed doors, but there are publicly complicit in allowing the GOP’s dangerous fantasies to flourish.

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  1. Jason330 says:
    October 8, 2013 at 11:36 am

    Okay. Sorry. It is worse that I thought. The DEGOP is using facebook as their official blog now, and they are right with the lunatics in Washington. There are no moderate voices being heard, because there are no moderate voices left in the party. Get a load of this bullshit from Copeland:

    GOP RESPONSE TO DEMS FAILURE TO REACH BUDGET AGREEMENT

    October 1, 2013 – Wilmington, DE: The Chairman of the Delaware Republican Party Charlie Copeland today released the following statement regarding the failure of Congressional Democrats to work with Republicans to reach a budget agreement:

    “Today is a sad day for Delaware citizens. Senators Carper and Coons along with Congressman Carney and their Democrat colleagues have put special interest politics ahead of the welfare of our nation.

    “Negotiating for the good of Americans is what we expect from our elected officials. Over the last several days, Republicans in Congress worked to offer solutions that would have avoided a federal government shutdown while giving the same, fair, one-year delay to the individual mandate in the healthcare law that the President gave to businesses. Our Party understands and cares enough about the American people that we were willing to work to find a solution that would have avoided a government shutdown.

    “While Republicans worked to find solutions, the Democrat leader in the Senate, with no push back from Senators Coons or Carper, took Sunday off and encouraged the President and other Democrats to cancel negotiations with Republican leaders – an epic failure in their responsibility to do the work of the people.

    “Republicans are standing on the principle that ObamaCare is bad for jobs; it is bad for our economy and it is bad for America. In addition, the Democrats’ desire to unfairly target and raise taxes on medical equipment is a further slap in the face to every American – – and the desire for better healthcare for all.

    “It is time for the Democrats to be fair to the American people, and put their partisan agenda aside. We need to get America moving forward again.”

    XXX

  2. cassandra_m says:
    October 8, 2013 at 11:50 am

    Except that the Dems have been trying to go to conference (to negotiate a budget) since April. The GOP blocked every single opportunity for any negotiations over the past 6 months.

    Seriously, people. Post this just everywhere — the news media is slowly getting it, but this is the story of GOP negotiations on this budget.

  3. cassandra_m says:
    October 8, 2013 at 11:52 am

    OK so I posted it over there myself. We’ll see how long it survives.

  4. pandora says:
    October 8, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    And here’s an idea of what we’re dealing with:

    Jon
    “Isn’t “community organzier” another way of saying Obama was a “grifter” and a “drifter?” Or perhaps a “hustler?”

    He still is a grifter and his biggest scam yet is the “Affordable Care Act,” that will help almost nobody and exempt nearly all of his cronies and friends. It is Obama’s last harrah and coup de grace, at breaking the back of America. He is nothing but a cheap con man in an expensive suit that hates America.

    It is just like the immigrant Kenyan who works in Newark told me last month. Obama is a Kenyan who was born in Mombasa and has Americans so scared that they are in fear of revealing that he does not meet the qualifications for a US President.

    This Kenyan told me this while laughing in the face of gutless Americans, Knowing that the American people would do nothing about the situation. He and many other Kenyans were granted legal work status in America and they know they immediately have jobs as soon as they set foot on American soil.
    (emphasis mine)

    Yep, that’s Don Ayotte of Delaware Politics. These people are nuts.

  5. Nuttingham says:
    October 8, 2013 at 1:51 pm

    Awesome. How many GOP electeds “liked” it?

  6. bamboozer says:
    October 8, 2013 at 3:17 pm

    Agreed, the national insanity of Republican politics have taken root in Delaware, any semblance of moderation is now gone.

  7. Jason330 says:
    October 9, 2013 at 7:42 am

    This confirms where this conversation was headed – there will be no GOP “civil war” because the teabags have already won.

    The (AP) poll found that the hardcore conservative tea party movement is more than a rump of malcontents in the political landscape, as its supporters in Congress have been portrayed by Democrats, but rather a sizable — and divisive — force among Republicans. More than 4 in 10 Republicans identified with the anti-tax, limited government tea party and were more apt than other Republicans to insist that their leaders hold firm in the standoff over reopening government and avoiding a default of the nation’s debt in coming weeks.

    Calling John Carney – The Republican Party is the Tea Party.

  8. anon says:
    October 9, 2013 at 9:11 am

    For the record, Don Ayotte is not longer a Republican, he’s an IPODer.

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