Leave it to Washington State Republicans to botch yet another golden opportuntiy to attract moderate and independent voters with a message of fiscal responsibility and strong values by trying to shove another round of super-cons down the throat of the conservative base, alienating everyone in the middle of the spectrum.
At the Tea-Party candidates forum in Yakima on 2/10/10, Senate Challengers Clint Didier and Sean Salazar (among others) demonstrated their lack of desire to court middle-of-the-road voters by drawing a comically unrealistic “with us or against us” line in the sand. Trouble is, when these guys finally look behind them in November, they’re only going see the same old faces that keep making a joke out of republican candidates across this state. All the potential swing voters that could have been easily won with a common sense, centerist tone have sprinted so far from that line in the sand, it’ll be years before they come back.
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They weren’t any better in Clarkston
http://www.klewtv.com/news/local/84420877.html
Just what is the Tea Party Manifesto? Is it but a power struggle being run by a couple of ideological conservative think tanks? The logic of their no tax increases and smaller government footprints is counter to their insistence of spending in excess of one trillion dollars on two of the longest most futile wars in our history and maintaining a health care system controlled by the “For Profit” health care industry that is essentially bankrupting millions of citizens..
By the way, did you know that the Memorial Hospital’s CEO was paid over $1.5 million noted on its tax returns available to the public? Send an e mail to the Yakima Herald and ask them why they won’t run an article on this and other so called nonprofit organizations that pay obscene wages to their upper management. The reporter is Leah Beth Ward@yakimaherald.com
So, Ron…you’re upset that the Republicans are running people you believe to be incompetent?
I would think you’d be thrilled.
Neal; I’d rather the Republicans put up candidates that try to solve problems and deal with issues. Better competition would make the Democrats even better.
And then there is always a quirky chance that one of these Tea Party airheads would get elected. If that happened, everyone loses.
Someone gets elected by quirky chance?
Maybe in Iran…
Here’s a good read..
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/02/19/2010-02-19_obama_cant_seem_to_manage.html?page=0
I think Obama was elected by quirky chance, and look at the miserable failure he is! Ron has a point, quirky chances create the need for democrats to become better. (maybe the democrats should start by listening to the people that they were elected to represent, instead of cram unpopular policies down our throats!)
Lets talk a little about incompetence… Obama’s leadership skills are driving his own party to resign… Evan Bayh’s resignation is just the latest of five democrats to resign this year. Bahy said, “I love working for the people of Indiana, I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress,” well, well, well… who controls congress and who promised to “change politics as usual”? Obama and the democrat party are to blame, and I love this… your party is falling apart, keep doing what you are doing, November is coming fast!
5 Dems have resigned or said they wont run again…but 6 Republicans have also done so. So….what might their reasons be, Jason?
Corie, how dare you mention republican problems at a time like this.
Corie
I do not know of the republicans resigning, but I would say it is the same reasons that the democrats have resigned…poor leadership from our president.
Seems to me a lot Republicans are pretty sure things are going to be quite rosy for them in a couple of years…why leave now???
Corie
Again, I do not know of the republicans that have announced their resignation this year… give me their names and maybe I can help you find out why they have made that decision.
I think republicans think things are going to be quite rosy this November, I do not know of too many republicans looking at 2012 yet, Corie, lets focus on 2010 first, a lot can happen between now and 2012.
Sarah Palin is most definitely looking at 2012. In light of that, she should probably quit playing the “victim” card, since history has proven it garners neither sympathy nor votes. In a poll just the other day, 67% of Americans said she is no where near qualified to be the leader/representative of the United States.
She is, huh, that is news to me. Funny how you think that responding to liberal attacks and fighting back, is “playing the victim card”. Maybe if your party stops attacking her kids, she would “quit playing the ‘victim’ card” and defending her children.
attacking her kids? How so Jason?
Of course it’s news to you, jason. You have no news sources. And when has any political party attacked Palin’s kids, ever? Are you making this up?
Bill Maher has certainly said things about her child no parent would want said publicly or privately.
Bill Maher doesn’t represent any political party.
Quite the double standard there, Drew. Any conservative pundit would be slaughtered by you for those remarks.
Maher is as liberal as they come. It’s unfortunate you can’t find the moral cajones to condemn his thoughtless remarks. I’m not surprised.
This thread isn’t about Bill Maher. But if you must, Maher has been repeatedly critical of both parties. And being liberal is not the same as party affiliation. Once again, what political party has attacked Palin, or her kids? The answer you and jason avoid is “none”.
I personally think “family” should be off-limits in politics, but it will never happen. As long as you can put little kids in an ad that reads “vote for my Grampa”, you’ll have radio and tv commentators the next day being critical of their clothes, their hairstyles, or the type of music they might be listening to. It’s exploitation of family members (especially kids), and it is a distraction from the real issues of the day.
As for Maher, I haven’t heard his remarks, so I can’t condemn them until I do and form an opinion to them, ya know? But he makes it very clear he’s no Democrat, if that’s your inference here.
Watch Bill Maher this Friday on HBO. That’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”. I almost forgot about his show, Neal.
Maher was spot on in his latest segment of New Rules
http://crooksandliars.com/heather/real-time-new-rules-tea-party-isnt-movemen
Mainstreeter
Here’s an article that is interesting…
Keith Olbermann and Michael Musto attack Governor Palin’s Children…Again
By Doug Brady
Jeff Poor, in a post for Newsbusters.org, discusses how the unhinged Keith Olbermann, with an assist from Michael Musto (who?), can’t resist another attack on Governor Palin and her children, even comparing her to Liza Minelli. I’m not making this up:
“You’re thinking of Liza Minnelli,” Musto said. “With Sarah Palin lately, you rattle the cash, she’s there. She needs that money to pay extra day care for her out-of-wedlock grandchild, and to help special-needs adults [sic] – special-needs children. The problem with her actually is that she’s starting to show up and talk. She should learn from Liza, stay home and practice her arm gestures.”
That’s an especially cheap shot at Palin, since her youngest child Trig has been diagnosed with Down Syndrome.
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However, it’s ironic, if not even hypocritical to some degree, that Olbermann and Musto dedicated over a minute-and-a-half of MSNBC primetime news coverage to discuss Palin’s public speaking deal, even though Musto attempted to convey the idea no media outlet deemed her worthy of coverage.
This latest attack is keeping with the MSNBC strategy of attacking conservative women. MSNBC personalities refer to a Republican congresswoman as a “Mata Hari,” and call a former female Republican vice-presidential nominee a “mail order bride” and characterize her as a dragon and a dog, and there’s no apology and no outrage.******
You guys criticized her 17 year old daughter for being pregnant out of wed lock and Obama said “If [my daughters] make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby”
The liberal Talking Points Memo website, which is deemed a respectable political site by the mainstream media, published an article that speculated Alaska Governor Sarah Palin resigned because “she wants to spread Down syndrome.” Palin’s son Trig was born with Down syndrome.
Libs like you make fun of her and her family; her Down syndrome child, her daughter’s pregnancy… accusations of Trig being her 17 year old’s child, your party has been all over her and her children. To the democrat party, Palin and her family have been an irresistible target… this you cannot deny.
Nice try Jason
Recently released documents from the custody battle show clearly Tripp Palin Johnston has socialized health care through Indian Health Services and the Alaska Native Medical Center.
Palin’s family has federally funded health care afforded to them…but if you had it Barack Obama might kill you. Put this on the list of Palin’s Greatest Hypocritical Hits…volume 97.
mainstreeter
The Alaska Native Medical Center is not federally funded…it is owned by native Alaskan tribes…it is funded by Native Alaskan Tribes, and just like our own Memorial Hospital, it is a non-profit hospital…do you think that is what makes it “socialized”? Is Memorial Hospital a socialized hospital?
jason, you, like Sarah Palin, are a serial liar. ANMC is in fact funded by the IHS. Which would mean that Sarah Palin has willfully subjected tiny Tripp to a Death Panel.
drew
I WAS wrong, the IHS IS a federal agency that funds ANMC… however, you are lying when you claim that Palin subjected Tripp to a death panel, your lies must be rubbing off on me, causing me to lie, or at the very least post things on here without all of the information that I should have looked up… so for that I apologize.
drew, I went to your favorite web site…wikipedia and this is what I found…ANTHC is co-manager, with the Southcentral Foundation, of the Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC), a 150-bed facility in Anchorage with a staff including more than 250 physicians and 700 nurses. ANMC is Alaska’s only level II trauma center, the highest level that can be achieved in Alaska. It has received Magnet Status for nursing excellence, a designation achieved by only about 1 percent of all hospitals nationwide. It is the only tribally-operated hospital with Magnet Status in the United States. ANMC opened in its current facility in May 1997. ANTHC is part of the Alaska Tribal Health System and is one of 22 co-signers of the Alaska Tribal Health Compact, a self-governance agreement with the Indian Health Service. What I get from this is that they are not run by the federal government, they are self-governed and not subject to Obama’s “death panels” that at one point you claimed did not exist, until now.
It is pretty small to bang on Sarah’s family. They are not responsible for her actions as a political has- been or a political- to- be. The folly over her daughters OOW child are private matters that should be untouchable by the hoi-polloi. Let’s put a wall behind her, and leave her family alone. Whoop