Huntsman staffer says she is ‘sick and sad’ for the Republican Party (after debates)

[Zephie]

The behavior by some members of the audience at the most recent Republican presidential debates has at least one campaign staffer concerned about the future of the GOP.

Sarah Reidy, the national director of scheduling for Jon Huntsman's presidential campaign, had some stern words for her own party after the audience at a debate in California applauded the number of executions during Texas Gov. Rick Perry's tenure, and then some in the crowd at a debate in Florida cheered when the moderator asked if a sick person without insurance should be left to die.

In a post on her Facebook page, Reidy, who joined Huntsman's campaign in August but was not speaking on its behalf in this instance, said the behavior made her "sick and sad" for the Republican party.

"For years I have tried to prove that the GOP isn't the Party of elitist, stereotypical people that lack compassion," Reidy wrote on her Facebook account Tuesday. "When did creativity and growth become secondary to hate? Hearing the debate crowds go crazy over things like executions and the uninsured dying makes me sick and sad for my Party that I devote my time and efforts."

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/huntsman-staffer-says-she-sick-sad-republican-party-200101192.html#more-19326


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Screenshot from her facebook post:
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[provis99]

1. has she been in a coma since 1980?

Reagan started all this lady; it didn't happen overnight

[JCMach1]

28. From the pic, doubt if she was even born in the 1980's...

[Syrinx]

36. and?

[JCMach1]

37. She's young... who knows what she will be when she grows up...

Hillary was once a Goldwater girl!

:)

[trotsky]

40. Makes you wonder how she expected anything else from her party.

This is it, ma'am. This is your Republican Party. Congratulations on working for the fuckers.

[Sherman A1]

2. I really don't want Huntsman to come anywhere near the

WH, but I do enjoy the voice of reason calling out the wacko's.

[tanyev]

3. Face it, Sarah, you are wasting your time and efforts.

[The Doctor.]

4. She's done.

The moment a Republican realizes that they're in league with hateful, selfish, ignorant people, they're kicked to the curb.

[RKP5637]

7. Stepped on the head, we've seen that video of the Teabagger Gestapo in action. n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. What took her so long to see it?

[Hydra]

6. Sorry Sarah,

It's a feature, not a bug.

I suspect Huntsman is going to wash out for this reason- he's too reasonable and open minded to be one of these real Repubs...either that, or he'll sell his soul like Palin did.

[RKP5637]

9. I don't think Huntsman is one of the loons, no way are the republicans going to

select a non-loon as a candidate.

[Inuca]

12. Palin did not have anything to sell n/t

[Hydra]

14. She doesn't now

But Todd Palin admitted that she doesn't really believe any of what she says, that she's doing it for the money.

That seems to be a rather common thing these days.

[The Doctor.]

23. One cannot sell something one never possessed.

Well, at least not without some finagling. Palin? Soul? She couldn't dance to an earthquake.

[barbtries]

42. somehow the way you put that

it's as if palin was reasonable at some point.

[gratuitous]

8. Sarah, it sounds like you have a heart

You may wish to reconsider your choice of political party.

[bluestate10]

33. She is too conservative to become a democrat. While she has a conscience.

I would not want her in the democratic party unless she becomes more open minded and inclusive minded and thinks of practical solutions for societies problems as a first instinct. She is truly lost in a party that has gone insane.

[bullwinkle428]

10. Do we really have to review the "scorpion and frog" parable one more time?

"You knew I was a scorpion when you agreed to carry me across the river"

[Supersedeas]

38. Classic truths never die

[Cool Logic]

11. Indeed--I feel her pain...however...

I am sick and sad for the US because of the corrupt nature of its two party system.

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. ~ John Adams

[yodermon]

13. If Huntsman had any decency he'd run as an Independent. n/t

[tammywammy]

20. I agree. n/t

[kiranon]

22. Agree also or change parties and become a Democrat. No one

with compassion or intelligence or love of country could stay in this Tea Party Republican party.

[Vicar In A Tutu]

29. Huntsman's best shot in future is to...

...endorse Obama or repudiate his own party publicly and speak of why.

The ONLY way the GOP is going to return to something approaching sanity is to lose again, and lose comfortably. It's also the only way Democrats will eventually be able to tack more to the left. All a GOP win next year says is that America once again far-right policy, and indeed wants it to be more extreme than ever. Everyone edges right if that transpires.

[NNN0LHI]

15. Lay down with dogs and chances are you will get fleas

[louis-t]

16. Uh, then maybe you should stop devoting your time to a bunch of

lying, cheating, self-centered, sick, phony, hypocritical, bigot bastards. Eh, what?

[markpkessinger]

17. About time she woke up

The problem (and this is something I was trying to get at in another thread -- see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1929253 ) is that this is nothing new. Sure, it has become a bit more blatant in recent months, but it has been there, sizzling just beneath the surface, for years, and it has taken an act of willful blindness not to see it.

Of course there are millions of every day, rank-and-file registered Republicans who want no part of the kind of ugliness that was on display in the two debates. But these folks (some of whom, as I said in the thread referenced above, I count among my own loved ones) have been refusing for years to look honestly at what is going on in their party. It is no longer the reasonable folk who are running the show over at the GOP, and it hasn't been for quite some time.

[DFW]

18. Yeah? Well, I am sick and sad, too

Sick and sad that it has taken so many Republicans THIS long to realize what has become of their party.
And STILL they won't vote for anyone else, wanna bet?

[mistertrickster]

19. Change parties, my dear. We'll take you! nt

[Arkana]

21. Wake up, lady--your party's full of sociopathic, selfish assholes.

[Number23]

24. She was probably out of a job .0000034 seconds after that hit Facebook

[cabot]

delete

computer messed up and reposted reply twice. d'oh.

[cabot]

31. You might be right

She no longer lists the Jon Huntsman campaign as her employer.

[applegrove]

25. LOL! Serves them right. They have been preaching hate for decades.

[ibegurpard]

26. really?

honestly if this is the first ugliness she's encountered from these people I don't know where she's been hanging out

[KOfan]

27. Welcome to our reality

Maybe there is hope for some of the idiots after all.

[Safetykitten]

30. Maybe he could become a Democrat. I am sure, hypothetically speaking of course, he...

would be quite popular.

[bluestate10]

32. Gee. A republican that has a conscience.

She is better off becoming a right leaning independent. Her party has lost it's sanity and is not getting it back.

[progressoid]

34. Wonder how many of her 1212 friends agree with her.

And what will they do about it?

Log off facebook? Golly, what a bold move.

[Juche]

35. Did she just figure this out?

lol. What took her so long. I'd wager a good percentage of the Duers here were driven into progressivism in part because of how radical and insane the current GOP is.

[GOTV]

39. Her ignorance has cost our country a great deal of money over the years....

... when will she write a check to cover the damage she has done?

[barbtries]

41. has she lost her job yet?

republicans aren't allowed to say things like that right?

[Scurrilous]

43. K & R

:thumbsup: