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cygonaut
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Posted: Sat Nov 7th, 2009 06:03 am |
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Can it be? Another Republican leader taking on Rush Limbaugh? Apparently so. And that leader is Virginia’s Eric Cantor, the second-highest-ranking GOP member in the House.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/eric-cantor-takes-on-rush-limbaugh-harsh-gop-rhetoric.html
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George Aligator
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Posted: Sat Nov 7th, 2009 07:27 pm |
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What Mr. Limbaugh grasps firmly, and what has eluded Mr. Cantor, is that proclaiming welcome isn't really the issue. It is the legislation the Republican Party supports -- and even more the legislation which it opposes -- which has reduced to some 20% the number of voters willing to 'fess up to Republican affiliation.
Telling voters, "come on in and join our party; we invite you to vote for politicians who disagree with you on all the big issues," isn't much of a pitch. If you want folks to vote for your candidates, you've got to offer them something they want in return.
Mr. Limbaugh understands this clearly. He does not want to give what it would take to get a significant number of moderate independents to join the GOP. He would rather be right than elect a president. It is a curious political tactic, but at least it makes sense. Mr. Cantor, on the other hand, has the disguised self-interest of a child molester cruising the playground and inviting kiddies to help him find his lost puppy.
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Emaus_40
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Posted: Sun Nov 8th, 2009 07:17 pm |
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Cygonaut, did you actually bother to examine this link in detail? What you gave us was a very tiny summary of a more detailed article which can be found here: Cantor Calls For Inclusive Party, Criticizes Limbaugh rhetoric.
"Cantor, when asked about Limbaugh’s comments that Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate,” and his comparison of the administration’s health-care logo to a swastika, said the comparisons were wrong.
“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?” Cantor said. “No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”
That was the extent of Cantor "taking on Limbaugh". Wow. Cantor really socked it to Limbaugh!
Great fishing trip there, cygonaut. You caught a minnow and you wanted us to think it was Jaws. ![[eyeroll]](/forums/themes/default/sarcasm.gif)
Last edited on Sun Nov 8th, 2009 07:19 pm by Emaus_40
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katoblue
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Posted: Sun Nov 8th, 2009 07:22 pm |
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Emaus_40 wrote: Cygonaut, did you actually bother to examine this link in detail? What you gave us was a very tiny summary of a more detailed article which can be found here: Cantor Calls For Inclusive Party, Criticizes Limbaugh rhetoric.
"Cantor, when asked about Limbaugh’s comments that Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate,” and his comparison of the administration’s health-care logo to a swastika, said the comparisons were wrong.
“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?” Cantor said. “No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”
That was the extent of Cantor "taking on Limbaugh". Wow. Cantor really socked it to Limbaugh!
Great fishing trip there, cygonaut. You caught a minnow and you wanted us to think it was Jaws.
![[grin]](/forums/themes/default/grinning-smiley-007.gif) BUMP TO EMAUS..
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Posted: Mon Nov 9th, 2009 12:09 am |
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| Arguing for a more inclusive party actually is a complete rejection of Limbaugh's philosophy of governance. Republicans can't make policy without represenatives in the MW and NE (and the left coast) so at some point they will have to be inclusive unless their entire goal is simply to block future changes.
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Mailman Fred
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Posted: Mon Nov 9th, 2009 12:45 am |
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Imagine that...a Jew who doesn't like references to Hitler being tossed around recklessly.
I'm sure Cantor will soon speak out against all of the teabaggers who are marching around with Obama posters made out to look like Hitler, and all of the other Hitler, Nazi, and concentration camp references HIS party is tossing around almost on a daily basis (and on this site)
“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?” Cantor said. “No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”
Conjures up images that frankly aren't very helpful...what an ass.
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Emaus_40
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Posted: Mon Nov 9th, 2009 01:40 am |
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| God damnit!!! Why exactly is Cantor an ass? WTF?!
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Mailman Fred
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Posted: Mon Nov 9th, 2009 02:02 am |
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Emaus_40 wrote: God damnit!!! Why exactly is Cantor an ass? WTF?!
Because all summer and fall, when you couldn't turn on the TV without someone referencing Hitler, he said NOTHING.
David Harris, president of National Jewish Democratic Council said in October, "We have heard nothing from leading Republicans. We hear nothing from the Republican Jewish Coalition. We hear nothing from candidates. We hear nothing from Eric Cantor" - the lone Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives.
That is why he is an ass.
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Posted: Tue Nov 10th, 2009 02:52 pm |
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The cult needs a rest.
A long one.
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Posted: Mon Nov 16th, 2009 01:33 am |
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Frank Schaeffer: The Loony Right Eats Its Own
The former evangelical rightwing leader explains how the GOP became a 'paranoid cult' aiming to 'burn down our national home'
What a weird life! In the 1970s and 80s I helped my late Evangelical-leader, Religious Right founder father as his nepotistic sidekick. We helped establish the Religious Right and send it on its merry way to doom. Now I --- a backslider former Evangelical, former Republican --- watch in amazed fascination as once again the Right I helped launch like a nasty little torpedo into the guts of the Republican Party once again explodes.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7493
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