Republican candidate calls Bush Admin 'Nazis,', quits party

[FreedomAngel82]

Link: http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Republican_candidate_calls_Bush_Admin_Nazis_q_0623.html

Snip: < Republican candidate calls Bush Admin 'Nazis,' quits party

RAW STORY

The following is excerpted from the Lincoln Tribune. Their servers currently appear to be down. The North Carolina Supreme Court Justice candidate's personal website is available here.
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Cary, NC - A candidate for North Carolina Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court has announced on her campaign's blog that she is leaving the Republican Party and denounced the Bush administration's policy on troop withdrawal from Iraq. Rachel Lea Hunter, a Republican and a candidate for Chief Justice, likens Bush’s administration to the “Nazis” and says that all who disagree with the administration are being branded as “traitors”.

Hunter is an attorney in Durham, NC with the firm of Browne, Flebotte, Wilson, Horn & Webb. Hunter’s web page says she offers pre-paid legal services. Hunter ran unsuccessfully in 2004 for the North Carolina Appeals Court. She recently announced her intent to run for the Supreme Court.>

Snip: <On her blog, she declared:

"Republican dirty tricks are not confined to just me any more. I also saw that Congressman Jones made the news by calling for a withdrawal of our troops. Whatever one may think about the war, one should ask when the mission will be over and when the troops can come home. Are we going to stay indefinitely? While it is nice that we are building Iraq, what about America? And what about the cost? Why do the Americans have to foot the bill when we can ill afford it? These are all legitimate questions to ask. Congressman Jones did nothing more than make a proposal to start pulling out.

"But it seems that the administration in Washington will brook no criticism of its policies. So it has sent out its dutiful attack dogs to shoot the messenger. What have we heard? That Walter Jones is a member of the lunatic fringe. That Walter Jones should resign. Its the same stuff that COPAM pulled on me, only this time its orchestrated by those in Washington instead of those in Raleigh.>

[swimmernsecretsea]

1. A 'duh' moment, if I ever heard one.

Glad the power went back on upstairs, Ms. Hunter.

[Independent_Liberal]

2. The tide is turning...

It definitely is.

[quaoar]

3. Why does Rachel Lea Hunter hate America?

[merbex]

4. Somebody in the GOP must have sent a bad batch of Kool Aid to NC

they're starting to wake up there

[salin]

5. uh... wow.

and good. Each time there is a story like this - at least on the local level a few folks who are growing uncomfortable by the GOP bully antics... wake up, shrug off their drowse... and leave the party with a "whew... I thought it was just me who was beginning to feel this way."

As the GOPinDC has made acceleratingly bad moves - and then reacted heavy handedly (was was effective for them for several years) - this pattern is recurring faster - each time losing a tad more support.

Thing is - that because their moves have been so egregious - those who leave do so due to deep cynicism... which means they will not be manipulated again so easily with GOP created fear or other rhetoric. These folks are lost to the GOP for quite some time to come.

[davidinalameda]

6. if you read the article this was taken from

she sounds sort of like a loon

don't know how credible she is

[Straight Shooter]

7. I didn't know Jones had been called a "member of the lunatic fringe."

Nor was I aware that the "attack dogs" had called on him to resign.

Very interesting, if true. Walter Jones isn't going to sit down and shut up just because someone tells him to, not if my character assessment of him is accurate.