GOP Base Too Extreme. - Pat Robertson

[Harry Dresden]

Why is it when someone associated with conservative values comes out against conservatives the Left is all over it and suddenly they become voices of authority, but when someone from the left becomes conservative the Left vilifies him as a traitor?

Since when did Pat Robertson become authoritative to the Left?

ask Dean.....he quotes the guy every now and then.....and will then go on to say that this is what Republicans believe....

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Pat Robertson is a RINO ...

Yeah....sure......

.....a RINO.....

.....and, an average, ordinary, garden-variety.....

....OPPORTUNISTIC PIG!!!!!

"Should a "good Christian" profit from diamonds and lumber mined by the functional equivalent of slave labor? While other Christian relief programs donate aid to Zaire via private organizations to avoid any connection with Mobutu's corrupt government, Robertson rushes forth with open arms towards Mobutu."​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Yeah but Robertson didn't say "the GOP base is too extreme".

Yeah.......he's not that crazy, huh??

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV1JodANwgI]Pat Robertson's Predictions for 2011 - YouTube[/ame]
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[ame]www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Lg6aUZykw[/ame]​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

NPR cites Pat Robertson as a credible source?!?

Speaking of checking the temperature in hell.....

Actually, that is par for their course, IMO.

I agree.This is exactly what "It's All Politics" likes to talk about. And they're not citing his statements as fact, they're reporting his statements. Other NPR programs routinely have on fairly far-right guests, and some studies have even found NPR more likely to have on conservative than liberal guests: NPR - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Are Robertson's statements true? In general, politicians participating in primaries risk adopting positions that will hurt them in the general election. However, the nominee will probably be Romney, and I don't recall him adopting any extreme positions lately. Robertson's statements probably serve better as a general warning than as a response to any particular event in the current race.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJf5s5PXK4M]Pat Robertson Predicts Nuclear War - YouTube[/ame]
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[Dot Com]

That loon is one of the best FREE advertisements for the Left. I remember when he said one of the natural disasters was gawds wrath for allowing gays to live their own lives.

 

[Bfgrn]

He should know!

Victor Gold, former speechwriter for George Herbert Walker Bush is a Goldwater conservative...his book explains how the GOP was hijacked away from conservatives by far right theocrats and far left neocons...starting in 1980...

"He traces the beginning of the end to the 1980 Republican National Convention and the presence of 'a militant new element...personified by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.' The other half of the equation, the neoconservatives, are embodied by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, 'two cuts from the same Machiavellian cloth.'"

Book Review:

Invasion of the Party Snatchers

By Victor Gold

After four decades as a Republican insider, Victor Gold reveals how the holy-rollers and the Neo-Cons have destroyed the GOP. Now he's fighting to get his party back.

As a man who served as press aide to Barry Goldwater and speechwriter and senior advisor to George H. W. Bush (in addition to co-authoring his autobiography), Victor Gold is absolutely furious that the Neo-Cons and their strange bedfellows, the Evangelical Right, have stolen his party from him. Now he is bringing the fight to them.

Invasion of the Party Snatchers is a blistering critique not only of the Bush-Cheney administration but also of the Republican Congress. Gold is ready to tell all about the war being waged for the soul of the GOP, including the elder Bush's opinion of his sons work domestically and abroad, the significance of the newly elected Congress, and how Goldwater would have reacted to it all. Gold reveals, among other explosive disclosures, how George W. has been manipulated by his vice president and secretary of defense to become, in Lenin's famous phrase, a "useful idiot" for Neo-Conservative warmongers and Theo-Conservative religious fanatics.

Although there have been other books by dissident Republicans attacking the Bush-Cheney administrations betrayal of conservative principles, none have been by an insider whose political credentials include inner-circle status with Barry Goldwater and George H. W. Bush.

Review:
"Make no mistake: author Gold, a former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush and aide to Barry Goldwater, is one disgusted Republican. The GOP of the 2006 midterm election, he writes, is 'a party of pork-barrel ear-markers like Dennis Hastert, of political hatchet men like Karl Rove, and of Bible-thumping hypocrites like Tom Delay.' Gold looks to Goldwater, 'a straight-talking, freethinking maverick,' as the yardstick by which to measure just how far the party of Lincoln has fallen.

He traces the beginning of the end to the 1980 Republican National Convention and the presence of 'a militant new element...personified by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.' The other half of the equation, the neoconservatives, are embodied by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, 'two cuts from the same Machiavellian cloth.' In efficient prose, Gold scrutinizes a significant swath of recent GOP history, in particular Newt Gingrich's 104th Congress and the Bush II White House, without losing momentum.

He also has choice words for 'the Coulterization of Republican rhetoric,' the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street, and 'sideshow' legislation like the Flag Protection Amendment. Gold sees a promising future for the Republican Party, but not until they lose some major elections and are able to keep down a slice of humble pie; for those disillusioned with the state of the GOP, this quick, uncompromising polemic provides substantial support, along with a large dose of cold comfort." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:
The last real Goldwater conservative in America attacks the current state of his movement and his party.
Powell's Books - Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP by Victor Gold

 

[The Rabbi]

That loon is one of the best FREE advertisements for the Left. I remember when he said one of the natural disasters was gawds wrath for allowing gays to live their own lives.

How do you know he was wrong?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

That loon is one of the best FREE advertisements for the Left. I remember when he said one of the natural disasters was gawds wrath for allowing gays to live their own lives.

How do you know he was wrong?

I believe he blamed 9/11 on lesbians as well.

 

[Lakhota]

The DNC should pay Pat Robertson.

 

[Lakhota]

He should know!

Victor Gold, former speechwriter for George Herbert Walker Bush is a Goldwater conservative...his book explains how the GOP was hijacked away from conservatives by far right theocrats and far left neocons...starting in 1980...

"He traces the beginning of the end to the 1980 Republican National Convention and the presence of 'a militant new element...personified by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.' The other half of the equation, the neoconservatives, are embodied by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, 'two cuts from the same Machiavellian cloth.'"

Book Review:

Invasion of the Party Snatchers

By Victor Gold

After four decades as a Republican insider, Victor Gold reveals how the holy-rollers and the Neo-Cons have destroyed the GOP. Now he's fighting to get his party back.

As a man who served as press aide to Barry Goldwater and speechwriter and senior advisor to George H. W. Bush (in addition to co-authoring his autobiography), Victor Gold is absolutely furious that the Neo-Cons and their strange bedfellows, the Evangelical Right, have stolen his party from him. Now he is bringing the fight to them.

Invasion of the Party Snatchers is a blistering critique not only of the Bush-Cheney administration but also of the Republican Congress. Gold is ready to tell all about the war being waged for the soul of the GOP, including the elder Bush's opinion of his sons work domestically and abroad, the significance of the newly elected Congress, and how Goldwater would have reacted to it all. Gold reveals, among other explosive disclosures, how George W. has been manipulated by his vice president and secretary of defense to become, in Lenin's famous phrase, a "useful idiot" for Neo-Conservative warmongers and Theo-Conservative religious fanatics.

Although there have been other books by dissident Republicans attacking the Bush-Cheney administrations betrayal of conservative principles, none have been by an insider whose political credentials include inner-circle status with Barry Goldwater and George H. W. Bush.

Review:
"Make no mistake: author Gold, a former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush and aide to Barry Goldwater, is one disgusted Republican. The GOP of the 2006 midterm election, he writes, is 'a party of pork-barrel ear-markers like Dennis Hastert, of political hatchet men like Karl Rove, and of Bible-thumping hypocrites like Tom Delay.' Gold looks to Goldwater, 'a straight-talking, freethinking maverick,' as the yardstick by which to measure just how far the party of Lincoln has fallen.

He traces the beginning of the end to the 1980 Republican National Convention and the presence of 'a militant new element...personified by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell.' The other half of the equation, the neoconservatives, are embodied by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, 'two cuts from the same Machiavellian cloth.' In efficient prose, Gold scrutinizes a significant swath of recent GOP history, in particular Newt Gingrich's 104th Congress and the Bush II White House, without losing momentum.

He also has choice words for 'the Coulterization of Republican rhetoric,' the revolving door between Capitol Hill and K Street, and 'sideshow' legislation like the Flag Protection Amendment. Gold sees a promising future for the Republican Party, but not until they lose some major elections and are able to keep down a slice of humble pie; for those disillusioned with the state of the GOP, this quick, uncompromising polemic provides substantial support, along with a large dose of cold comfort." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)

Synopsis:
The last real Goldwater conservative in America attacks the current state of his movement and his party.
Powell's Books - Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP by Victor Gold

Amen! I would only add the following...

Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party

 

[BDBoop]

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Party-Snatchers-Holy-Rollers-Destroyed/dp/1402208413]Amazon.com: Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP (9781402208416): Victor Gold: Books[/ame]

Available for Kindle as well.

Gold sees a promising future for the Republican Party, but not until they lose some major elections and are able to keep down a slice of humble pie

Truly, truly.

 

[Political Junky]

Amazon.com: Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and the Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP (9781402208416): Victor Gold: Books

Available for Kindle as well.

Gold sees a promising future for the Republican Party, but not until they lose some major elections and are able to keep down a slice of humble pie

Truly, truly.

"Goddamn it, John ... the Republicans are selling their soul to win elections ... Mark my word ... if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem." -- Barry Goldwater as told to John Dean