It is very clear that the Republican Party is bitterly divided on strategy toward President Obama, and on the issue of foreign policy and national security.
So we are witnessing sniping back and forth, and this is a hint of what is to come, as the Presidential rivalries heat up in the coming months!
Examples of the sniping are that between Arizona Senator John McCain and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with it being clear that the two Senators have no love lost for each other.
At the same time, we see Governor Chris Christie supportive of the gathering of intelligence by the National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency, due to the reality that New Jersey suffered the second most losses on September 11, 2001, and being critical of those who are libertarian, such as Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky!
Also, New York Congressman Peter King of Long Island has attacked the Tea Party Movement Republicans who were against aid to New York and New Jersey after Super Storm Sandy last fall!
And Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee of Utah, and Marco Rubio of Florida have been criticized for their threat to shut the government down if ObamaCare is not defunded, with major critics being John McCain, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Roy Blunt of Missouri, and Richard Burr of North Carolina!
And Establishment Republicans such as former Governor Jeb Bush of Florida, former Utah Governor and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, former Republican National Chairman Michael Steele, and George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove are shaking their heads at the splintering of the party, and the recklessness of many of the younger members of the party in the House of Representatives and Senate, as they well know that the future of the party is in tatters, if this extremist wing is allowed to become the face and image of the party! Finally,
Finally, Iowa Congressman Steve King’s ranting against immigrants has led to condemnation by Speaker of the House John Boehner and others in the Republican Party.
It looks more than ever as if the GOP is on the way to the worst Presidential defeat for their party since the demise of Barry Goldwater in 1964, nearly fifty years ago, and even Goldwater now looks “moderate” by comparison, and far less reckless!
Go Christie!!
I love it when I wake up in the morning and find Gov Christie has kicked one of the Pauls in their posterior!
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/07/30/chris-christie-stabs-rand-paul-red-state-heart-reminding-jersey-donor-state.html
I think this is a good place to take a walk down memory lane….
SHORT LIST OF GOP LIES (work in progress);
by Sandy Berman Jun 08, 2012 2:26am PDT
http://m.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/08/1098424/-SHORT-LIST-OF-GOP-LIES-work-in-progress
SHORT LIST OF GOP LIES (work in progress);
by Sandy Berman Jun 08, 2012 2:26am PDT
“President Obama wasn’t born in the United States” •• “President Obama is a Kenyan” •• “President Obama is Indonesian” •• “President Obamais soft on terrorism” •• “President Obama is a terrorist” •• “President Obama won’t protect the country” •• “President Obama is a Muslim sympathizer” •• “President Obama is a Muslim” •• “President Obama is an Atheist” •• “President Obama is an Israeli” •• “President Obama is a socialist” •• “President Obam is a Marxist” •• “President Obama is a communist” •• “President Obama is a fascist” •• “President Obama is a pussy” •• “President Obama is gay” •• “President Obama is a bully” •• “President Obama is a dictator” •• “President Obama will take your guns” •• “There is no “War on Women” •• “Women in the same jobs as men make the same money” •• “Women aren’t victims of violence” •• “A zygote is a person” •• “Slut” •• “Prostitute” •• “There is no sexism in the United States” •• “There is no ageism in the United States” •• “There is no racism in the United States” •• “All of our problems are caused by undocumented workers” •• “All of our problems are caused by public workers” •• “All of our problems are caused by unions” •• “All of our problems are caused by Fannie / Freddy” •• “All of our problems are caused by Barney Frank” •• “The media is liberal” •• “Voter fraud is rampant” •• “We Republicans are fiscal conservatives” •• “We in the Republican Party stand for reducing the size of the federal government” •• “Our heritage is Christian” •• “Evolution never happened” •• “War on religion” •• “War on Christmas” •• “FEMA Camps” •• “Smoking gun-mushroom cloud” •• “There are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq” •• “We are fighting terrorists in Iraq” •• “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” •• “We must stop radical judges legislating from the bench” •• “Social Security is going broke” •• “Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme” •• “Health-care reform will kill jobs” •• “Health-care reform will bankrupt the country” •• “Health-care reform will cut Medicare payments” •• “Death Panels” •• “Class warfare” •• “Distribution of wealth” •• “There is no income inequality in the United States” •• “Income inequality doesn’t matter because in America ambition and hard work can make a pauper a millionaire” •• “Anyone who believes in income inequality is just jealous of success” •• “Cutting taxes has always led to an economic boom” •• “Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves” •• “The Bush Tax Cuts Didn’t Add to the Deficit” •• “The Estate Tax Devastates Small Businesses and Family Farms” •• “Taxing the rich will slow economic growth” •• “Taxing the rich would not raise much money” •• “Cutting taxes on the rich creates jobs” •• “The Rich Pay Too Much in Taxes Already” •• “The price of oil is based solely on supply and demand” •• “The XL Pipeline will create hundreds of thousands of jobs” •• “Cuts in wages and benefits create jobs” •• “Regulations kill jobs” •• “The Government can’t create jobs” •• “There are too many Government jobs” •• “Public education is turning our children into liberals” •• “Public education is turning our children into homosexuals” •• “Public education is turning our children into Atheists” •• “Entry level janitors make twice as much as entry level teachers (Gingrich)” •• “The word “Palestinian” is an invented word first used in 1977 (Gingrich)” •• “Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded, (Brewer)” •• “Sputnik bankrupted the Soviet Union (Palin)” •• “The Founding Fathers really tried to end slavery (Bachmann)” •• “Teddy Roosevelt was a socialist (Beck)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Troy King R-Alabama – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Richard Curtis R-Washington – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Glenn Murphy, Jr. R-Indiana – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (David Dreier R-California – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Bruce Barklay R-Pennsylvania – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Roy Ashburn R-California – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Jim West, R-Washington – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Larry Craig R-Idaho – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Ed Schrock R-Virginia – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Robert Allen R-Florida – outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Mark Foley R-Florida (outed)” •• “‘Homosexuals are perverts’ (Phillip Hinckle R-Indiana – outed)”..
Plenty more to come… feel free to ADD 😉
HAHA, Maggie, I love your sarcasm!
And I thank you for the list from Daily Kos Of Republican lies, which continues to grow every day! They are incapable of telling the truth, or avoiding hate, prejudice and intolerance! What a sad state for the party of Lincoln, TR, Ike! But they will pay for their sins in the future, assuredly!
Who Me?? Sarcastic? Now now Professor… I’m just a delicate dew drop.
I have more!!
-The HPV immunization causes mental retardation-Bachmann
The IRS is going to be “in charge” of “a huge national database” on health care that will include Americans’ “personal, intimate, most close-to-the-vest-secrets.”-Bachmann
President Obama will “wave his magic wand†and issue an executive order allowing all illegal immigrants to vote before the 2014 election. And she claims that he actually did that in 2012: Bachmann
Mitt Romney tells 533 lies in 30 weeks, Steve Benen documents them – See more at: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/08/29/mitt-romney-tells-533-lies-in-30-weeks-steve-benen-documents-them/#sthash.lXNyUoEU.dpuf
Maggie, we all know how loony and stupid Michele Bachmann is! And the biggest corruption about her, beyond the investigation of her 2012 Presidential campaign, is the fact that her husband, who appears to most people as being gay, gets government funds to run a clinic to move gay people back to being “straight”! What a waste of government funds that we all pay!
And Romney is even now denying in Dan Balz’s new book on the 2012 campaign that he ever said the 47 percent comment. This supposedly devout Mormon is such a liar and hypocrite, and told much more than 533 lies during the Presidential campaign of 2012. The man has NO ethics or scruples, and has no concern for anyone NOT rich. In other words, he is a total SNOB!
Hello Professor,
I’m still hampered by having to use my cell phone but here goes.
As I have been saying for months, those of us more sane Republicans have had enough of the Wing Nuts Tea Party (laughable) Patriots.
As I have also passed on, Karl Rove is building a campaign war chest to go after Tea Party members holding office currently in the primaries. He knows that the only hope for the future of the Party, even if it means sacrificing the next couple of National Elections.
That scenario speaks volumes of the current health of the Party being infested by Reactionary Extreme Elements.
I may be a Democrat, Engineer, but I realize that in the long run, my party is NOT going to win all elections, so all I want is that Republicans who are elected are rational, reasonable, sane alternatives who I can live with. Such an example was William Scranton, who challenged Barry Goldwater in 1964, and would have made a good President. I wrote about him today, after it was learned that he had died at age 96!
“We had rabbits when we needed tigers.†— Ronald Reagan writing in his diary of congressional Republicans. Apparently history repeats itself. Liberals always like to scare and remind establishment Republicans of the 1964 election. Funny they (Democrats and establishment Republicans) never mention the the 1980 and 1984 landslides election by Ronald Reagan, a anti-Establishment conservative. They seem to have amnesia for the 80’s but not for the 60’s, they seem to live eternally stuck in the 20th century 7th decade.
“With some of our friends we don’t need enemies,†Reagan noted in his diary in 1984 after another frustrating presidential encounter with faint-hearted GOP moderates on the subject of budget cuts.
“I’m afraid I blew my top at one point. It seemed to me they [GOP Establishment congressmen and senators] are willing to let the Dems. run with the ball because they don’t think we can stop them. I told them before we do that, it’s time for us to agree on our position & then let me take it to the people (TV) & smoke them out. The way we’re going we’re not exerting any leadership.”
The “fraternal order” Republicans, as Reagan called them, are always afraid of losing. Well if you are always afraid of losing you end up losing, as they always have and never learn. The Democrats and the media, of course, are thankful.