We're on a 'RINO' hunt, Tea Party Express leader says

[kpete]

Source: CNN

We're on a 'RINO' hunt, Tea Party Express leader says
Posted: April 12th, 2010 08:19 AM ET

From CNN Political Producer Shannon Travis

Lansing, Michigan (CNN) – A leader of the Tea Party movement has a warning for Republicans: the conservative grassroots movement intends to clean house in the Republican Party.

“We need to purge the Republicans of the weaklings,” Tea Party Express 3 Chairman Mark Williams told CNN. “And we’re on a...RINO hunt. And we’re going to drive them to extinction.” “RINO” - “Republicans in name only” – is a bit of a political slur within the GOP that is sometimes used by staunch conservatives to refer to those fellow Republicans who they do not regard as hewing closely enough to the party’s core principles.

“I got more knife wounds in my back from Republican operatives, than Democrats could ever do,” Williams said. He added, “The Democrats at least stand there and tell me they hate me, and tell me that they hate America. These Republicans smile at me, shake my hand and then they stab me in the back.”

While the Tea Party movement has not officially aligned itself with the Republican Party, it champions similar goals, including less government, less taxes, less spending.

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[Ishoutandscream2]

1. "The Democrats...tell me they hate me, and ...they hate America."

Oh, I bet, you dipshit.

[emulatorloo]

60. Pretty outrageous. These creeps will tell any lie

[NJmaverick]

2. Let them purge their party of Rinos, I invite all the Riinos to join the Dems

then you will have the tea party as the permanent minority

[No Elephants]

21. Then we'd only be even more like Republicans. Is that our goal now?

A two party system, consisting of Right Wing and Even Righter Wing. Wow! Something for Democrats to rejoice over.

Let the Tea Partiers purge their trash, but I don't it.

[YOY]

25. He just wants company.

We all get lonely.

[No Elephants]

27. Way too many DINOs, IMO.

[NJmaverick]

34. A smart person learns from their mistakes. A wise one learns from the mistakes of others

[bc3000]

45. The situations are not the same.

This country has pulled drastically to the right. If we continue to allow and encourage democrat politicians to fill the center-right void there will be no more left.

The proper response to teaparty madness is not "yay, we get to become the traditional republicans!"

[YOY]

47. That's fine by him. Believe me.

Because the left are just so "extreme"...

[Thor_MN]

61. and Conservatives are incapable of learning.

You forgot one.

[grantcart]

62. And some people miss the irony of posting on an OP about the stupidity

of purges in the Republican party to advocate more purging in the Democratic Party.

[NJmaverick]

33. You desperately need to get out more and meet and talk with all different types of people

you would begin to understand how America thinks and feels and have a much better understanding how to EFFECTIVELY push a liberal agenda.

[YOY]

35. Yes, I'm totally a shut in...oh 'master of reality' and knower of how "America thinks and feels"

:crazy:

[NJmaverick]

36. Too many liberals are from liberals area of the nation and don't know how conservative

other parts of the nation are. Worse yet many liberals have not engaged in honest and respectful debate with conservatives and moderates. These things are critical to have a good understanding of what will and won't work.

[YOY]

37. And I'm not really that young either! O for 2! Damn! More faux wisdom! I beg of you!

Please keep telling me 'bout my lying eyes, how "moderate" are and by all means keep considering me some kind of "extremist" for having completely sane left-of-center views!

If you're a 'moderate', I'm Herbie Hancock.

Now please...don't you have some RPGs to see in some pictures?

[NJmaverick]

32. What would happen would be that the the Republicans would have about 20 seats in the Senate

and they couldn't even threaten filibusters much less pull one off. Beyond that the chances of a Republican president would be slim and none so eventually the Supreme Court would be retained.

[Odin2005]

55. So you want MORE DLC corporate whores?

I don't think so. I want those bastards super-glued to the teabaggers so they down with the ship with them instead of hijacking our ship.

[YOY]

3. OK Which one of you rascals told Mark Williams you "hate America"?

Because it wasn't me!

[Ohio Joe]

8. Sorry... That was me

It just slipped out :P

[YOY]

10. Oh, you little shenanigan maker!!!

n/t

[Ishoutandscream2]

16. We'll have to send you to GITMO. Sorry, you left wing terrist

Off with your head!

[mac56]

12. He misunderstood me.

I said that I DATE America.

I was misquoted! Taken out of context!!!!1!!

[Ishoutandscream2]

17. Seriously, one of my former student's first name was "America"

I always had a kick calling her in class.

[Heywood J]

48. Abbie Hoffman's kid? (nt)

[Ishoutandscream2]

49. No kidding, her name is "America Wright"

Yep.

[YOY]

51. "Grrrrr...America right! America right!"

You could be a RW AM Radio pundit just by repeating her name...

[old mark]

40. No, no - I told him I hate ARMENIA!!!11!! nt

[YOY]

46. And who could blame you? Alway complaining about the Turks and that silly genocide...

n.t.

[old mark]

53. Yeah, I mean, there are still SO MANY of them .......

whiners.




mark

[tanyev]

4. Tea Party Express 3?

They should use a decimal naming system, like Windows. It's hard keeping up with all the new offshoots.

[rurallib]

5. it champions similar goals, including less government, less taxes, less spending.

what a load of hogwash that is. They just don't want to pay for what they get.

OOOH! OOOH! Chuck Grassley is a RINO, I am sure of it. Happy hunting!

[meegbear]

6. No Mr. Williams, I LOVE America ...

it's dipshits like you I hate.

[CLANG]

29. Un-American dipshits at that!

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. 'Purge the party of the weaklings'? Must ... resist ... Godwin's Law ...

No, I can't do it. That's a straight fascist move - admire strength, demonise your rivals close to you as 'weak' and deserving 'extinction', say your opponents hate your country, and say you get stabbed in the back.

[LibertyLover]

15. It's ok - you skirted the invocation of Godwin's Law

quite masterfully. Analogies that allow the reader to understand what historical era you are alluding to, without the actual naming of that era, are permitted under a corollary to Godwin's Law.

[No Elephants]

20. Fuck Godwin's Faux Law.

[Javaman]

9. i have never seen a bunch of self aggrandizing morons as the ball licking

tea baggers. What a bunch of half-witted astro turfed water carriers.

[pattmarty]

43. "Ball licking tea baggers". Ya gotta love that!!!

[Judi Lynn]

11. He doesn't realize the country sees Tea Baggers as aberrations.

He's like Rush Limbaugh's anal cyst shouting that all the flesh around it is flawed.

http://cloudfront.mediamatters.org.nyud.net:8090/static/images/item/fox-tea_party_express4.jpg

Tea Party Express 3 Chairman Mark Williams

[momster]

13. Imagine Bugs and Daffy....

"RINO Season!"

"DINO Season!"

"RINO Season!"

"DINO Season!"

"DUCK!"

[Dinger]

14. They're Called DLCers (rinos)

Just sayin'.

[No Elephants]

23. No, those are DINOs. Of course, if the RINOs who are purged join the Democratic Party, the victory

of the DLC will be complete. The entire Party will be DINOs.

[totodeinhere]

28. That sounds familiar. Of course some Democrats including some at DU want to purge the Democratic....

Party of DINOS too.

[MicaelS]

18. Well he's right about one thing....

I do hate the Teabagging SOBs. I wouldn't hesitate to tell him that to his face.

[sui generis]

19. "purge party of .... weaklings"

Why do they sound so creepily Nazi-like? And I'll defend that comment using big words and long sentences if anyone decides they're offended, so try me.

[pattmarty]

44. I'm there with ya, brother.

[Mad_Dem_X]

72. Not offended. That was my first thought as well.

"Purge the weaklings!" I can hear that in a German accent right now. Scary.

[Aviation Pro]

22. You fucking motherfucking assclown.....

...say this to my face you obese, pasty, non-serving #4&$(!*(!2 ^#@*!

"The Democrats at least stand there and tell me they hate me, and tell me that they hate America."

GO AHEAD! SAY THIS TO MY FACE, FUCKWIT!

I can't write what the fuck I would do to you after you did.

[No Elephants]

24. Purge away. Get yourselves down to the 15% that everyone else in America sees as

one stop away from either prison or the looney bin or, er, whatever this very unfortunate woman's problem is.






I'll be loving it when Democrats get 85% of the vote!

[Jefferson23]

26. I don't see how they are going to win elections by continually alienating

Independents and Republican moderates. This is a declaration that Republicans embrace the anti-government and racist
crowd more than ever before imo.

[Crowman1979]

30. I thought they were FCINOs?

[HughBeaumont]

52. I mean, is Chainsaw Carly competing with Bachmann and Palin for "Most Batshit Insane Female"?

With weird exercises in infomercial batshittery such as that, she just may be a dark horse.

[DeSwiss]

31. You have to be one dumb bastard.....

...if you're stupider than http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/09/AR2010040905145.html">Dan Quayle, who said: "There's a well-worn path of third-party movements in American history, and it leads straight to a dead end."


- I can understand no one wanting to listen to Dan though. I mean you get 500,000 or so things wrong, and no one wants to listen to ya anymore.....

K&R

[blue_onyx]

38. "not officially aligned itself with the Republican Party"

I've heard Tea Party members on the news talking about how it's not a partisan movement and there all types of people involved. It's nonsense. These are just angry Republicans/conservatives who are pissed that McCain/Palin lost. It's not just a coincidence that the time for "fiscal responsibility" started on Jan. 20 2009. It was ok for the previous administration to bankrupt the country. When this Democratic administration spends money to fix the mess, suddenly "we can't spend money we don't have." This is, indeed, a Republican movement.

[old mark]

39. Throw everybody out who disagrees with you - EVERYBODY!!!

I'd love to see the Right with about 2,000 people in it total, each one nuttier than the last.

They won't ever win an election, but they will be PURE!!!11!

mark

[pattmarty]

41. All I gotta say is fucking have at it you crazy nutzoids. Maybe this............

.............November won't be as bad as I believe it will be.

[waronbanks]

42. Why does it feel like

the main goal of this article was to print the words: "“The Democrats at least stand there and tell me they hate me, and tell me that they hate America." and "rid the Democrats of the Marxists,” with no follow up or rebuttal. Nice reporting CNN. Jeeeze.

[Plucketeer]

50. Great White Hunters

Senator Joe McCarthy meets Sarah Palin....

"Hey cutie! With your big game experience, and my ability to ferret out commies, we should go find us some RINOS and DINOS to slay! What say?"

[ShortnFiery]

54. The smattering of tea baggers are not our KEY ENEMY, it's the people who fund these

facades who are pure EVIL.

Go after the corporations that twist and spin the facts ... try to CONVERT the non-racist and mis-informed tea party individuals.

Don't dismiss all these people, the hard corps white racist part of it is admittedly LOST. However, there are people on the periphery who are sadly ill-informed. We can convert them - we should at least try?

[Odin2005]

56. This is gonna be fun to watch.

[county worker]

57. Extreme candidates generally lose.

[subaltern]

58. What kind of idiot thinks the way to be successful at politics is to have fewer people?

it's addition not subtraction. What a bunch of fools.

[kiranon]

64. Probably same people who say don't send in your Census Form.

[yurbud]

59. we should help them! The fewer supposedly moderate Republicans there are...

the harder it will be for Democrats to pretend they need to kowtow to them and the fewer voters will vote for the Republican Party.

[kiranon]

63. Since UPS has brown shirts, what color will the tea baggers claim?

They won't want green (as in green tea) - too close to the environmentalists so I guess they will go with black. Black shirts - how nice. Maybe a few electric bolts on the side for effect? Perhaps white wrap around shirts to indicate we're here and we're crazy? Ideas anyone? They will need to adopt something so that people can clearly identify the purists from the RINOS. Otherwise how can we tell who is and who isn't ok? Just trying to help.

[New Dawn]

65. The RINOs and DINOs should create their own party. Then everyone would be happy.

[clixtox]

66. "IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE", by Sinclair Lewis. Have you ever read it?

I am reading this perpetually topical example of timeless literature now. The book was originally published in 1935. The story is more or less about how a group with similar goals as the "Tea Baggers" win the presidency, and with their own militia take over the country. Pretty scary stuff. Read the book, or read about it at amazon, for example.

Fascism certainly can happen here...

[AlinPA]

68. The leader Buzz Windrip reminds me of Palin who also wrote a book. They aimed at the ignorant

electorate and won easily in that novel. It Could Happen Here for sure.

[Kablooie]

67. Excellent. Make a pure extremist party. The middle voters will have only one way to vote then.

[Vinca]

69. This is great. Let the baggers split the party and the November election

will be turned on its head, delivering a bigger majority to Dems.

[and-justice-for-all]

70. The nut jugglers are over exposed....

and I believe their numbers to be smaller than reported and they are just a tool for distraction.

[msanthrope]

71. RINO hunt? Wasn't Paladino's bestiality video enough

For them? They have to target more defenseless animals?

[LeftishBrit]

73. The Democrats stand there and tell him that they hate America?

I.Very.Much.Doubt.It.

I hope that the teabaggers drive themselves to extinction!