Memo to GOP: Preserve RINO's, Ditch Dinosaurs
The dinosaurs who roam the Republican landscape have, for the past four years under President Obama, been devouring RINO'S (Republicans in name only) with great relish. Disguised as Tea Party Patriots complete with tri-corner hats and grotesque signs bearing demeaning images of a first class President, they purged any Republican who expressed even an inkling of moderation and willingness to compromise with Democrats to improve our nation (hence the brickbat: Republican in name only). Some of these RINO's like Senators Richard Luger of Indiana and Olympia Snow of Maine, simply recoiled in a Jurassic Park horror at these looming carnivores and retired. Others, like moderate Missouri businessman John Brunner (who lost to bizarre rape commentator Todd Akin) braved the dinosaurs in Senatorial primaries and were served up as lunch with dinosaur tea.
All these Tea Party dinosaurs managed to accomplish, or more appropriately, wreck, was the sure GOP bet to takeover the Senate and turn it into a 55-45 Democratic majority (including 2 independents who will caucus with the Democrats).
If the GOP doesn't want to disappear as certainly as the reptilian dinosaurs, its leaders better put their remaining RINO's on a preserve that's off limits to the human dinosaurs still rampaging incoherently on the GOP reservation; and pray they can coax a new breed of RINO to test the GOP waters. And if really smart, they will not add any Kool-Aid.
Walter Bruun
3:43 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
@ Walt - actually, Sen, Lugar did lose in the primary - just wanted to keep the record straight.
frank booth
12:41 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
Don't expect Walt to keep the record straight. He only talks about one side of things, and repeats the meme of MSNBC. He's just a conduit for the left, with nothing really original to offer.
Walter Bruun
5:09 am on Friday, November 9, 2012
@ Frank - from what Walt Z has written, he is correct. If Richard Lugar had won his primary, he would have retained his seat for the Republicans. Olympia Snowe complained about the Tea Party "No Compromise" paradigm that led her to decide to retire, or otherwise she would have retained her seat. in 2010 Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell in Maryland won her primary against her opponent who would have likely won against the Democrat - Chris Coons - who was elected in the general election, thus giving up another seat in the Senate - and it goes on down the ticket to US house & state legislative seats. Maybe if you would actually read not only what Walt has to say, but others even on your own side (like William F. Buckley's son Christopher) say - that the party has gone way too far to the extreme right. The Republican Party is on it's way to being as irrelevant as its predecessor, the Whig Party, if you want it to stop, you have to call out the crazies in the party.
frank booth
11:40 am on Saturday, November 10, 2012
I was commenting on his comment of Lugar retiring, and speaking in more general terms of Walt's body of work. I do agree that the Republican party has work to do, and I'm not a tea party fan, which unfortunately is a response to the movement further to the left of the Democratic party. Unfortunately, the mass media ignores this and. The biggest problem of both parties is that they have become so polarized and bent upon their own political agendas that they can't get to the middle ground where plenty of good work can be done. This whole sequestration issue is evidence of that. I'm not against some tax movements and defense cuts, but they have to be applied intelligently so as not to harm the wholesale economy. Any solution to the economy is not going to happen without some degree of pain, and people need to recognize this.