The Great GOP Purge of 2009 commences in earnest now

[CatWoman]

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The decision by Dede Scozzafava to endorse Democrat Bill Owens in New York’s 23rd congressional district has set the right wing a-howlin’ anew. It’s downright comical.

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Scozzafava is “a skank … a nasty person.” She had “plunged her knife into the back of the party that had chosen her for the nomination.” Michelle Malkin even condemned that “radical leftist Dede Scozzafava” for showing a lack of proper gratitude to the Republicans.

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Gratitude?

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Scozzafava had served 11 years in the New York Assembly as a Republican, rising to the leadership post of minority whip. In the congressional race, her work over the years won her the support of GOP leaders in all four counties that comprised the district. Yet over the last few weeks, she has been told by a roster of national party leaders that she is not fit to serve the Republican cause. It was made very clear that she had no place in the party, that she and others like her were in fact utterly despised by those they once saw as colleagues.

After all that, they expect gratitude?

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And what about Newt Gingrich, one of the few party leaders to support Scozzafava? He is scurrying back into shamefaced conformity, lamely explaining that he had been tricked. “I’m very, very let down because she told everybody she was a Republican, and she said she was a loyal Republican,” he said Sunday. Loyalty is a two-way street.

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http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2009/11/02/the-great-gop-purge-of-2009-commences-in-earnest-now/

[Jennicut]

1. Let them make the smallest tent possible until it is merely a teepee.

If I were Olympia Snowe right now, I would at least switch to being an independent.

[Zorro]

3. Pup tent politics

Let 'em keep it up.

[Jennicut]

4. If they keep it up they will need to build tents for ants.

No political party can survive by shrinking the core voters.

[Sebastian Doyle]

8. Somebody should really tell the DC "Democrats" about that.

They seem to be fine with driving away the Democratic base.

If the Repukes want to drive the moderates out of their party, that's fine, but they should not come to the Democratic party.

We don't need a "moderate" right wing DLC party, and a batshit insane right wing Repuke party. Let the "sane" Republicans fight for their own party, and drive the lunatic fringe out. Not co-opt (no pun intended, Senator Conrad) OUR party.

[Jennicut]

11. We actually have moderates, they are called Obama. Conrad and co are simply Rethugs calling

themselves Dems. They do not get voted in by Dems. Lieberman was not voted into office by the power of Dems. It was Rethugs at 70% who put him into office here in CT. My own parents that voted for Bush also voted for Lieberman. The moderates of the Rethug party used to be in the mainstream. Ike was the mainstream. Then Reagan came along and they thought that the party had to be to the extreme right to win and it got worse and worse. They would not even like Nixon today.
I think it is becoming less about party and more about individual beliefs of the candidates right now. Look at the NY 23 race, the Repub was more liberal then the Dem!

[uponit7771]

2. Moderates will be even more demonized now, if candidates don't feed the fring they don't win

[Beetwasher]

5. Frankenstein's Monster

n/t

[CatWoman]

6. Hey you

:hi:

How's the twins? :)

[Beetwasher]

10. Awesome And Exhausting!

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[vaberella]

7. This is fabulous. Hah...Palin wins this round. People talk about Chicago---my home state is so...

much cooler. Drama galore!!

[Bitwit1234]

9. Fox is still running

the scroll saying that she resigned to make room for Hoffman. Not one thing about endorsing the democrat. And the MSM has been kinda quiet about it also.

[xultar]

12. We almost did that shit to ourselves. We're still on the border now...

so I'm not laughin.