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June 19, 2010 12:43 AM UTC
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No matter how conservative someone is, no matter how badly they need the seat that the candidate is running for, Republicans cannot resist calling each other RINOs.
Not surprising that they haven’t gone after Ken Buck yet considering how badly they need him, but Cory has got to be steamed about this kind of treatment. Does King not know that Gardner is one of the NRCC’s “Young Guns”?
It’s like an addiction. They can’t help but purify their candidates, even when they’re vital to their party’s success.
Tancredo just loves doing it for recreation.
King, with no skin in a Colorado race, has a very bruised ego, and is settling a score.
but most wait until AFTER they seize power.
In this case, the Uber-right is starting its Stalin purge trial phase before they take office.
Even Hitler waited until he held the reins of power to purge Roehm, the Strasser Brothers and others who actually did believe the “socialist” part of National Socialism.
Keep in mind that Boyles is better off with Republicans losing. Tancredo just wants attention, and King gets elected by being a total dick. They’re not trying to do what’s best for Republican governance, they’re trying to do what is best for the 3 little pigs.
And kudos to Gardner & the tea party for doing the right thing. This can’t be fun for them and they deserve credit for standing up to the racists.
You hit the nail right on the head. Boyles is just in it for the commercials.
who has the power to clear a primary field?
or stop a candidate before a general election?
Follow the money
There are basically two camps of people.
One group says that we should not let the left wing media misrepresent King’s comments; we should stand up and defend him. Throwing him under the bus is cowardly. The other group realizes this is an election year and doesn’t want to see the Tea Party get dragged into another discussion of race. They want to stay focused on the core issues of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and strict adherence to the Constitution, because the Tea Party can win on these issues.
Outsiders may scoff at King and those who would defend them, but they seem to be those who view politics from a strategic point of view rather than a ideological point of view. They don’t understand that for many people the Tea Party is as much or more about remaining true to their principals and values as getting elected. They see the countless people, on both the left and the right, who have sold out to corporate and special interests, putting electability over their principles, and want none of it. For these people, canceling King’s appearance is an act of political cowardice and expediency.
On the whole, I don’t think this big “split” is really going to help Democrats any. It’s such a minor issue that it is not going to cause people to stay home and not vote for Gardner. They know that he represents 90% of their views and they certainly want Markey out of there for her vote on health care.
I disagree. This is going to help Markey big time. People who agree with Tancredo are a small percentage, but as a percentage of Republican activists and donors they are bigger. A campaign that can’t recruit enough volunteers will have a very difficult time winning. When the family conversation turns to politics those people will shrug and talk about something else. It’s going to be a long night in November.
I thought their principles DIDN’T have to do with race-bashing – but now you’re saying they do?
Please enlighten us.
From a general email this afternoon:
She already has a spine.
a conscience.
The Wall Street Meltdown of 2008 was a chilling reminder that unregulated capitalism isn’t Nirvana. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill showed that government is needed in situations where private enterprise is unable to fix problems that they have created. The debate shouldn’t be about limited government. It should be about effective government. Until conservatives can tell the difference between the two they will never be able to govern effectively. All they can do is let corporations run buck wild and eliminate public programs that help people.
And civil liberties. An effective government would not run our nation into the ground with debt and deficits.
Good thing, indeed.
Obama quadrupled the deficit.
It’s all Obama’s … err … who DID all that?
except to point out that the “economic downturn” mentioned above was brought about, in large measure, by the bilking of a couple trillion bucks out of us (the consumer) at the gas pump. When oil ran up to $147.00/bbl. and gas hit $5.00, the hedge fund managers, ins. co investors, and oil and gas companies made a killing…and almost killed our nation in the bargain.
Which dethroned Gray Davis, gave the world Arnold, and was indeed found to have been the work of Enron and other companies.
One of the few times I recall Paul Krugman to be wrong. IIRC, he said there was no manipulation of the markets.
If the Tea Party has any sort of future, it will be because of people like her, not provocateurs and “pussies” (their offensive word) like Boyles, Tancredo and King.
What battles have the No CO Tea party won so far?
I understand they have pro-liberty organizations, they have some candidates and causes, but have they won anything so far?
Besides that, nice job Lesley.
That said I actually came out of this experience with more respect for Cory. How hard must it be for a politician to not sell out their general decency to win an election. I think he has resisted that urge. I have slammed him many times before but am happy to see him make this call. I have known Corry since he was a little boy. Not well but I know him and his family. Nice guy. Don’t like his politics but nice guy. The Repugs will hurt themselves more than the MSM has understood by this tea party thing. Markey has a target on her back I was worried. Not so worried any more. Stay true.
Best regards,
Tim
“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.”
Martin Luther King Junior 1965
I’m a staunch supporter of Betsy but this did increase my respect for Cory.
Gardner is only covering his own ass. Gardner has been pandering to the birthers and teabaggers for the last year.
He’s an opportunist; pure and simple.
We should acknowledge it. Otherwise the message to Cory is that because we disagree with your past, we’ll never appreciate anything you do going forward.
David, the guy’s past was about five minutes earlier when he invited King to his fundraiser, despite a record of saying things like the Obama comment on a regular basis. Face it – Gardner knew who King was when he invited him in the first place and disinviting him was hasty damage control. He’s also clammed up about why he disinvited King — hardly a profile in courage.
Gardner did a less damaging thing. To call it a “good thing” is ludicrous.
King entire quote is more damming that just the out take.
Boyles played the entire King statement, and this is what I heard King saying:
King said on the Gordon Liddy (convicted felon) show that the black panthers standing outside a voting place in Phila was “hands down the worst case of voter intimidation in US history.” He is erasing a 100 years of Jim Crow law, poll taxes; literacy tests, and people losing jobs for attempting to vote, to say nothing of the murders. He is attempting to rewrite African American struggles to say nothing of our real history. That is racist in the extreme.
Somebody else brought his name up, but the comparison to a terrorist rings hollow. As far as I know, he’s not out there blowing people up.
that no matter the religion, it will have zealots.
Osama BinLaden = Muslim
Fred Phelps = Christian
they BOTH advocate death to infidels or people who do not believe the same as they do.
NOT surprised you missed that BJob.
And he sure was out there blowing people up, wasn’t he?
How do you know that most of the suicide bombers in Iraq and Afghanistan weren’t simply trying to rid their country of foreign occupiers, regardless of their religion?
But let’s be honest. A twisted minority (which unfortunately is probably still 100 million or so) of Muslims wholeheartedly buy in to spreading the religion by the sword.
There is no contemporary equivalent in Christianity. Not even close.
… and spreading some neocon’s definition of “freedom” and “judeo-christian principles” isn’t the contemporary equivalent?
Our mission isn’t to spread Judeo-Christianity. In Afghanistan, we are trying at least to help them come out of the 8th century and create a viable nation. It looks like a lost cause, unfortunately. They’d prefer to throw acid on girls that have the audacity to want to go to school and blow up thousand-year-old statues of Buddha so their religion isn’t so threatened.
The mission was to find and destroy AQ.
We found ’em, failed to destroy them, now they’re in Pakistan.
We have no reason to be there except to impose our form of government on a tribal culture that has resisted similar attempts for centuries.
I have a pretty harsh solution for that that I’d be okay with, but I can’t say I disagree with you.
Atlanta Olympics bomb, several abortion clinic bombs, lesbian bar bomb. Not as effective as some in terms of body count, but he did his best. Roman Catholic, and associated with the Christian Identity sect. His motivation was certainly religious.
As opposed to the hundreds of thousands of Jihadists we’ve been lucky enough to send on to their way the last decade?
It’s not even the same universe.
Dwyer’s comment neither attacks nor defends Black Panthers per se. Leaving that aside for the moment, I believe he’s pointing out that King is saying that some black panthers standing around is the worst case of voter intimidation ever, the worst thing he’s ever heard of. Considering all the far worse instances in the history of violence and discriminatory laws used to suppress, deny, intimidate and terrorize African Americans and deprive them of the right to vote altogether, he must either be a racist or a completely ignorant fool. Not that he can’t be both and dumb as a rock, too.
You said what I thought much better than I ever could.
Every once in awhile you say it about better than anybody else. I particularly enjoyed this one:
If that doesn’t become a sig line, I don’t know what deserves to around here.
That means a lot to me, coming from you.
P. S. Nice sig line. 🙂
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I used to listen to him, in fact, when 9/11 happened. (“Hmmm….this is odd, a plane has hit one of the World Trade towers.” Like the Kennedy assassination, I guess we never forget.)
Yeah, he was hung up on JonBonet Ramsey, but his schtick was less political and more just general social, current events, and even some good works.
I’ve not listened to him in years, but it sure sounds like he’s found better ratings, or he’s found a Tea Party soul in his old age.
Speaking of, isn’t he ancient by now?
He is looking at seventy in a few years and he never made the big time. He’s been doing talk radio for almost forty years and it must be tough to watch the younger guys….Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, etc….become famous and rich and he is still plugging away in Denver……..
Silverman is the talk show jockey that writes for Huffington Post and Fox News calls up when the national station wants a story from denver…….never boyles. But he does have twenty hours of airtime a week and is a local power broker…..I believe that ritter declined to run for a second term because of boyles relentless attacks. I also think that ken buck and dan maes owe their political popularity to boyles, IMHO.
boyles has embraced the birther people, the tea partyers, the 9/12ers etc…..he is a minor player on the right wing circuit…..he is a pathetic and bitter old man still trying to grab the brass ring….the Willie Loman of the airwaves….
he pretty much specializes in personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with him on anything….
Boyles has even jumped into the desperate “Cenegenics” bandwagon. He is literally trying to avoid getting old.
spend half of their life chasing around female genetalia and then use the slang term for it as a way to put down other straight men….
What is up with that?
To some of us, it doesn’t have a damned thing to do with genitalia. I apologize for others’ unfortunate choice of words that pissed you off.
Some of us just feel comfortable around women. I had two wives; raised two daughters, three female dogs, and a female hedgehog. Even the fish in the fish tank were females. Genitalia never entered into the picture.
I just like (and have always done my best to try to understand) females. I guess I just love solving puzzles.
The one about females, I mean. I have been studying the same for nigh onto 50 years and, sometimes, I still feel clueless. 😉
Does anyone else find it somewhat offensive that Clear Channel would have a radio host calling a female politican a “pussy”?
You mean Lesley Schoonmaker, she uses Hollywood as an alias so people don’t look into her past. Check it out ColoradoPols