Republican Party starts to kill its own: S.C. Rep. Bob Inglis ousted for not hating Obama enough

[MrScorpio]

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Rep. Bob Inglis has been ousted by a Republican Party that is increasingly held in thrall by the likes of Glenn Beck and the Tea Party.


There are landmarks all over our city named after LaGuardia and Javits and Rockefeller, names out of the city's great Republican past, when the party was one of intelligence, not fear-mongering and hate. When its membership included even the great name put to the Jackie Robinson Parkway.

The current Republican Party, one hijacked by hustlers and extremists, not only looks to destroy President Obama. It even starts to kill its own.

Rep. Bob Inglis, a voice of reason at a dumb, unreasonable time in American politics, is one of them. Inglis (R-S.C.) will be out of a job soon for not hating Barack Obama nearly enough. The irony, he says, is that he disagrees with Obama on almost everything.

Inglis, a conservative Republican from a state so red you worry it might set itself on fire, used to go after Bill Clinton with everything he had. But these days he comes up an even better American than a Republican, speaking his own mind, refusing to join a chorus of idiots and call Obama his enemy, or an enemy of the state. Inglis' state or anybody else's.

"I figured out early in the race I was taking a risk by being unwilling to call the President a socialist," Inglis says. "I'd get asked a question and they'd all wait to see if I'd use the word - socialist - they were throwing around. I wouldn't. Because I don't think that's what he is.

"To call him a socialist is to demean the office and stir up a passion that we need to be calming, rather than constantly stirring up."

Listen to the guy. He doesn't sound like some sore loser. Instead, Bob Inglis sounds like the ignored conscience of an increasingly crackpot party.



Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/08/09/2010-08-09_gopers_eat_their_own_sc_votes_out_pol_whos_not_conservative_enough.html

[blondeatlast]

1. Apparently, there is no longer any respect for the office, much less for a fellow human,

permitted within the extremist party. I may hate 90% of what Inglis stands for--but I gotta salute him for having principles. Sadly, he sounds like one of the precious fes decent ReBPulicans--and his career is finished.

Funny--weren't they all telling us that we must respect the office a few years ago? Oh, wait, IOKIYReBPublican.

And this nation sinks ever further. :cry:

[notesdev]

2. nonsense

Inglis was tossed because he voted for bailouts including TARP. Why is the corporate media trying to deflect from this very important issue?

[savalez]

3. Fun read. Thanks.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup: