The END of the GOP is now in sight...the inmates are now running the asylum

[Bfgrn]

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Maine’s Tea Party Coup

May 11th, 2010 at 7:42 am by Jeb Golinkin

The inmates (the tea partiers) are now officially running the asylum (the Maine GOP). Maine Politics reports that delegates attending the Maine Republican party convention voted “overwhelmingly” to rewrite much of the party platform to reflect their less than mainstream views. The new Maine GOP platform now calls for, among other things, getting rid of the Department of Education, and the Federal Reserve. It also rails against “the UN Treaty of Child Rights” and “Law of Sea Treaty” on the grounds that we must push back against “efforts to create a one world government.” The tea partiers also took the opportunity to call for an investigation of (this is an actual quote) the “collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth.” Also, we’ve adopted Austrian economics… whatever that means.

It’s hard to even know where to begin. On one hand, it is not exactly new news that Tea Party people have some unconventional views. What is news is that Tea Party values are imposing themselves on mainstream Republican party values. Up until now, the primary question for mainstream Republicans is whether the Tea Party would break off from the Republican Party and form their own movement. The events in Maine raise the possibility that the Tea Party is looking to ideologically transform the GOP to reflect their (gulp) “unconventional” ideas.

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[Liberty]

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Maine’s Tea Party Coup

May 11th, 2010 at 7:42 am by Jeb Golinkin

The inmates (the tea partiers) are now officially running the asylum (the Maine GOP). Maine Politics reports that delegates attending the Maine Republican party convention voted “overwhelmingly” to rewrite much of the party platform to reflect their less than mainstream views. The new Maine GOP platform now calls for, among other things, getting rid of the Department of Education, and the Federal Reserve. It also rails against “the UN Treaty of Child Rights” and “Law of Sea Treaty” on the grounds that we must push back against “efforts to create a one world government.” The tea partiers also took the opportunity to call for an investigation of (this is an actual quote) the “collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth.” Also, we’ve adopted Austrian economics… whatever that means.

It’s hard to even know where to begin. On one hand, it is not exactly new news that Tea Party people have some unconventional views. What is news is that Tea Party values are imposing themselves on mainstream Republican party values. Up until now, the primary question for mainstream Republicans is whether the Tea Party would break off from the Republican Party and form their own movement. The events in Maine raise the possibility that the Tea Party is looking to ideologically transform the GOP to reflect their (gulp) “unconventional” ideas.

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founding fathers = unconventional? lol. derpa derp, sonny.

 

[geauxtohell]

I love it.

Bend over and kiss the monster you created, GOP.

And good luck to the Maine GOP in getting anyone to support their platform in the general.

That shit wouldn't even go down in a red state.

 

[Maple]

FrumForum.com is a site edited by David Frum, dedicated to the modernization and renewal of the Republican party and the conservative movement.

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Maine’s Tea Party Coup

May 11th, 2010 at 7:42 am by Jeb Golinkin

The inmates (the tea partiers) are now officially running the asylum (the Maine GOP). Maine Politics reports that delegates attending the Maine Republican party convention voted “overwhelmingly” to rewrite much of the party platform to reflect their less than mainstream views. The new Maine GOP platform now calls for, among other things, getting rid of the Department of Education, and the Federal Reserve. It also rails against “the UN Treaty of Child Rights” and “Law of Sea Treaty” on the grounds that we must push back against “efforts to create a one world government.” The tea partiers also took the opportunity to call for an investigation of (this is an actual quote) the “collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth.” Also, we’ve adopted Austrian economics… whatever that means.

It’s hard to even know where to begin. On one hand, it is not exactly new news that Tea Party people have some unconventional views. What is news is that Tea Party values are imposing themselves on mainstream Republican party values. Up until now, the primary question for mainstream Republicans is whether the Tea Party would break off from the Republican Party and form their own movement. The events in Maine raise the possibility that the Tea Party is looking to ideologically transform the GOP to reflect their (gulp) “unconventional” ideas.

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There was collusion between the government and global warming, follow the money trail. Where do you think Al Gore has made all his millions??? BTW did you happen to see what happened to senator Bennett out of Utah, the GOP delegates FIRED him, they were tired of his earmarks. The tea party people are not only protestors they are delegates, as am I and we will determine who is conservative enough to be on the ballot for the GOP. You can bet your buck wheat that there will not be any RINO's on the ballots this year.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Getting rid of the Dept. of Education is out of the mainstream? It used to be a part of the Republican Party Platform.

 

[Bfgrn]

FrumForum.com is a site edited by David Frum, dedicated to the modernization and renewal of the Republican party and the conservative movement.

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Maine’s Tea Party Coup

May 11th, 2010 at 7:42 am by Jeb Golinkin

The inmates (the tea partiers) are now officially running the asylum (the Maine GOP). Maine Politics reports that delegates attending the Maine Republican party convention voted “overwhelmingly” to rewrite much of the party platform to reflect their less than mainstream views. The new Maine GOP platform now calls for, among other things, getting rid of the Department of Education, and the Federal Reserve. It also rails against “the UN Treaty of Child Rights” and “Law of Sea Treaty” on the grounds that we must push back against “efforts to create a one world government.” The tea partiers also took the opportunity to call for an investigation of (this is an actual quote) the “collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth.” Also, we’ve adopted Austrian economics… whatever that means.

It’s hard to even know where to begin. On one hand, it is not exactly new news that Tea Party people have some unconventional views. What is news is that Tea Party values are imposing themselves on mainstream Republican party values. Up until now, the primary question for mainstream Republicans is whether the Tea Party would break off from the Republican Party and form their own movement. The events in Maine raise the possibility that the Tea Party is looking to ideologically transform the GOP to reflect their (gulp) “unconventional” ideas.

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founding fathers = unconventional? lol. derpa derp, sonny.

Yea! JUST like the founding fathers = pushing daisies, cadaverous, extinct

Lee Atwater, Karl 'Goebbels' Rove, Fox News, corporate lobbyist run Freedom Works and the right wing echo chamber have created a class of human-like creatures that are totally devoid of a brain...pea brain would be a monumental step UP from where you cretins are.

The propagandists had no idea you morons would really believe their bullshit...

This is the GOP's death knell...Don't say you weren't warned...

Invasion of the Party Snatchers
by Victor Gold

Few political activists have a stronger Republican pedigree than Gold. A press aide for 1964 presidential nominee Barry Goldwater and later Vice President Spiro Agnew, Gold also was a speechwriter and adviser to President H.W. Bush. Gold coauthored the latter’s biography.

He also coauthored a novel with Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president. He cheered the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 and the presidency in 2000. He was one of those well-connected GOP activists whose loyalty appeared well-nigh absolute.

No longer.

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the Republican party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."
Barry Goldwater

 

[Bfgrn]

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Maine’s Tea Party Coup

May 11th, 2010 at 7:42 am by Jeb Golinkin

The inmates (the tea partiers) are now officially running the asylum (the Maine GOP). Maine Politics reports that delegates attending the Maine Republican party convention voted “overwhelmingly” to rewrite much of the party platform to reflect their less than mainstream views. The new Maine GOP platform now calls for, among other things, getting rid of the Department of Education, and the Federal Reserve. It also rails against “the UN Treaty of Child Rights” and “Law of Sea Treaty” on the grounds that we must push back against “efforts to create a one world government.” The tea partiers also took the opportunity to call for an investigation of (this is an actual quote) the “collusion between government and industry in the global warming myth.” Also, we’ve adopted Austrian economics… whatever that means.

It’s hard to even know where to begin. On one hand, it is not exactly new news that Tea Party people have some unconventional views. What is news is that Tea Party values are imposing themselves on mainstream Republican party values. Up until now, the primary question for mainstream Republicans is whether the Tea Party would break off from the Republican Party and form their own movement. The events in Maine raise the possibility that the Tea Party is looking to ideologically transform the GOP to reflect their (gulp) “unconventional” ideas.

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There was collusion between the government and global warming, follow the money trail. Where do you think Al Gore has made all his millions??? BTW did you happen to see what happened to senator Bennett out of Utah, the GOP delegates FIRED him, they were tired of his earmarks. The tea party people are not only protestors they are delegates, as am I and we will determine who is conservative enough to be on the ballot for the GOP. You can bet your buck wheat that there will not be any RINO's on the ballots this year.

Keep clapping you pea brain...can bet your buck wheat that there will nothing but Democrats in Washington...

 

[Oddball]

...Gold also was a speechwriter and adviser to President H.W. Bush. Gold coauthored the latter’s biography.

He also coauthored a novel with Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president. He cheered the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 and the presidency in 2000. He was one of those well-connected GOP activists whose loyalty appeared well-nigh absolute.

IOW, he's the kind of dyed-in-the-wool neocon dirtball that has ruined the GOP.

Yet, he writes a book about how dirtballs like him destroyed the party?...Well, I guess he would know, huh?

 

[The T]

...Gold also was a speechwriter and adviser to President H.W. Bush. Gold coauthored the latter’s biography.

He also coauthored a novel with Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president. He cheered the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 and the presidency in 2000. He was one of those well-connected GOP activists whose loyalty appeared well-nigh absolute.

IOW, he's the kind of dyed-in-the-wool neocon dirtball that has ruined the GOP.

Yet, he writes a book about how dirtballs like him destroyed the party?...Well, I guess he would know, huh?

And why dirtballs like him were roundly rejected in '06 and again in '08.

 

[Bfgrn]

...Gold also was a speechwriter and adviser to President H.W. Bush. Gold coauthored the latter’s biography.

He also coauthored a novel with Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president. He cheered the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 and the presidency in 2000. He was one of those well-connected GOP activists whose loyalty appeared well-nigh absolute.

IOW, he's the kind of dyed-in-the-wool neocon dirtball that has ruined the GOP.

Victor Gold is a Goldwater libertarian. And YOU are a right wing Jethro.

Victor Gold was attracted to Senator Barry Goldwater for his strong stance against Communism, his libertarianism, and his contrarian tendencies.

In 1964 he became deputy press secretary for Goldwater's unsuccessful presidential campaign. In his chronicle of the 1964 election, Theodore White described Gold as having played a critical role in helping to overcome the press corps' hostility toward Goldwater. A 2007 article in the Washington Post quoted White as saying that Gold "carried [the journalists'] bags, got them to the trains on time, out-shouted policemen on their behalf, bedded them down and woke them up, and before they knew it, the correspondents, about 95 percent anti-Goldwater by conviction, had been won to a friendship with the diminutive intellectual which spilled over onto his hero."
wiki

 

[Oddball]

Pffffft!

Repeating "Goldwater" 20 times can't obscure the fact that he has been a neocon turd since at least Bush I.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Bush must have been a libertarian too, then.

 

[Bfgrn]

Pffffft!

Repeating "Goldwater" 20 times can't obscure the fact that he has been a neocon turd since at least Bush I.

Repeating The GOP even slightly resembles the party of Goldwater 20,000 times won't make it so.

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.

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

 

[Toro]

...Gold also was a speechwriter and adviser to President H.W. Bush. Gold coauthored the latter’s biography.

He also coauthored a novel with Lynne Cheney, wife of the vice president. He cheered the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 and the presidency in 2000. He was one of those well-connected GOP activists whose loyalty appeared well-nigh absolute.

IOW, he's the kind of dyed-in-the-wool neocon dirtball that has ruined the GOP.

Yet, he writes a book about how dirtballs like him destroyed the party?...Well, I guess he would know, huh?

You mean Goldwater libertarians ruined the GOP?

Victor Gold is a self-avowed Goldwater Republican who wrote a critical book about how the neocons have taken over the GOP.

[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Party-Snatchers-Gold/dp/1402212496/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273617630&sr=1-2]Amazon.com: Invasion of the Party Snatchers (9781402212499): Gold: Books[/ame]

If Goldwater Republicans are being labeled as neocons who ruined the party, then the GOP really has gone off the deep end.

 

[Toro]

Pffffft!

Repeating "Goldwater" 20 times can't obscure the fact that he has been a neocon turd since at least Bush I.

Continuously labeling someone a "neocon" doesn't make it so.

 

[AllieBaba]

No, it doesn't.
It's especially laughable when it's used in the wrong context.

Lunatics running the asylum...funny, I think of that everytime Obama or any one of his shrieking commie thugs opens their mouths.

 

[Oddball]

Pffffft!

Repeating "Goldwater" 20 times can't obscure the fact that he has been a neocon turd since at least Bush I.

Continuously labeling someone a "neocon" doesn't make it so.

Oh, so his stint as a Goldwater aide 40 years ago is more relevant than his nearly continuous association with the neocons ever since?

Really???

 

[LuckyDan]

"Politics and governing demand compromise." That may have still been true in 1994, but after this Presidency and this Congress, compromise will be just another quaint old unobserved custom.

And if we're praising Goldwater staffers and talking about the Tea Party, what happened to "Extermism in the defence of liberty is no vice" alla the sudden?

 

[Toro]

Pffffft!

Repeating "Goldwater" 20 times can't obscure the fact that he has been a neocon turd since at least Bush I.

Continuously labeling someone a "neocon" doesn't make it so.

Oh, so his stint as a Goldwater aide 40 years ago is more relevant than his nearly continuous association with the neocons ever since?

Really???

Show evidence that he is a neocon. Show us that he was associated with Leon Strauss, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, etc.

Simply because he was in the GOP does not mean he is a neocon. But that's the impression I get from Tea Party people.

Its pretty hard to take your comment seriously given that he has been a critic of the neoconservative movement. But if you can show me wrong and back up your assertion, I will be more than happy to admit my mistake.

 

[Oddball]

Continuously labeling someone a "neocon" doesn't make it so.

Oh, so his stint as a Goldwater aide 40 years ago is more relevant than his nearly continuous association with the neocons ever since?

Really???

Show evidence that he is a neocon. Show us that he was associated with Leon Strauss, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, etc.

Simply because he was in the GOP does not mean he is a neocon. But that's the impression I get from Tea Party people.

Its pretty hard to take your comment seriously given that he has been a critic of the neoconservative movement. But if you can show me wrong and back up your assertion, I will be more than happy to admit my mistake.

Well, he certainly has only allied himself with people who have modeled their politics after Leon Strauss, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, et. al.

What more evidence do you need?