GOP Insiders Most Want to Silence King, Palin, Bachmann
GOP Insiders appear to prefer a Richard Lugar doll to a real-live Steve King, Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman. You are familiar with a Richard Lugar doll, aren’t you? Wind it up and it does nothing for 30 years.
The gameplan of the Congressional GOP and other GOP Insiders seems to be, “Don’t try to fight for the American people. Let’s bide our time and if we get lucky, Obama and the Dems will screw up and people might actually vote against them. But, let’s not do anything that might offend anyone, especially the Democrats.”
Kevin Hall of examiner.com writes:
There are very few brave politicians in the world. Most of them mince their words and tell you what they think you want to hear. Brave politicians are ones who speak their mind. They tell you exactly how they feel, consequences be damned. Iowa 5th District Congressman Steve King is among that rare breed.
King joins Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Glenn Beck and Tom Price as the Republicans their fellow party members would most like to mute. A new National Journal poll of 65 GOP senators and lawmakers places those five in a tie for second place, behind “no one”, on the list. They each earned 11% of the vote, meaning one out of every six GOP lawmakers wants the group to be muzzled.
This shows one of the inherent problems with the Republican Party. As the Obama administration subverts the Constitution and seizes more power, King, Palin and Bachmann seem to be the only ones showing true backbone and standing up to the socialist takeover. King, in particular, has become a major thorn in the side of the Obama White House. He has slammed Obama’s minions for their ties to Chicago’s corrupt political machine, calling it a “gangster government”. King is the most vocal House member demanding investigation into the obscenely corrupt ACORN, and Obama’s ties to it.
While too many Republicans sit idly by, Steve King shows true loyalty to his country and stands by his principles. He skipped his own son’s wedding so he could vote against PelosiCare and the government takeover of the health industry. He stood up for Joe “You Lie” Wilson, exposed the hypocrisy of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, and was the first Iowa politician to speak out against transferring Gitmo terrorists to the state’s border.
Sarah Palin also deserves praise, not scorn, from her fellow Republicans. Palin’s op-ed in Wedneday’s Washington Post exposes the scientific fraud of Climategate and the fallacy of man-made global warming. Palin’s piece articulately points out the economic disaster facing our country if Obama and the liberals are successful in Copenhagen. It is the most prominent stance from any U.S. politician against this scam. Palin’s piece has the liberals in an uproar and even merited a response from Al Gore, in which he failed to rebuke any of Palin’s points.
Sarah Palin and Steve King should not be muzzled. They should continue to speak their minds and stand up against the drastic leftward shift Obama is moving this country towards. If more Republicans showed the intestinal fortitude and bravery of King and Palin, our country, , and the GOP, would be in much better shape.
Hat tip: Examiner.com
Congressman King - You’re in good company.
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I would put Jim Demint in this group. He is a courageous man swimming against the tide of his own party in many instances.
“One man, with courage, makes a majority.”
~Andrew Jackson
He also said something that applies to many on this board, especially me.
“It’s a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.”
~Andrew Jackson
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
~~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Inhofe and Linder have both been vocal against the AGW scam. Let’s not get carried away, maybe 1 out of 6 wants this group muzzled, but that means 5 out of 6 do not.
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Bruce -
If you asked me who I would most like to see keep quiet, it would be Lucy Graham. He’s teaming with Kerry on Cap and Trade and Schumer on Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Yet, Congressional Republicans and Republican Insiders don’t seem to have a problem with him.
If you look at GOP Insiders, 28% want to silence Palin:
Political Insiders
Dems GOPers
Joe Lieberman 23% Sarah Palin 28%
Nancy Pelosi 15 Michael Steele 12
Perhaps the Insiders fear Palin the most as she could make a major contribution to their downward mobility.
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Since I didn’t really see to large a show of hands in the other thread, perhaps we will postpone poetry night till tomorrow. Yes, no?
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yews…let’s postpone…my brain is fried today w/ work! *sigh*
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American Politics is a matter of defense.
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Hey me too.
But maybe fried tomorrow too. Xmas shopping…. I hate Malls!
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That is fine for me too. Perhaps we can even change it up a bit and do Obama carols (since most of us will probably be shopping beforehand). Change Christmas carols to be about Obama. I got the idea from another site:
“Obama Tree, Obama Tree”
“Grandma Got Run Over By Our Healthcare”
“We Thirty Czars All Communists Are”
“Walkin’ in a Marxist Wonderland”
“Baracking Around The Christmas Tree”
“Allah want for Christmas is a Money Tree”
“Oh, come all ye sheeple”
“Do You Fear What I Fear?”
“I’ll be Broke for Christmas”
“Hark the Herald Angels Sing About Me”
“Bow to the World”
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Russia”
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? BACK ON SUICIDE WATCH!
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lol.
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Compliments to the poster, this sums up exactly how I feel about the GOP: They are worthless.
Our country is on fire, and not an ounce of fight in them at all.
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The R Gov association meeting a couple of weeks back was a total joke. Worthless. This is the reason why I re-registered to Indy last December. Actually, it was 1 year ago today that I completed the form.
If they nominate Huck, Romney or another Mac type then I am going 3rd party or I just won’t vote.
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Yes, even Haley sounded like a pathetic squish. That was discouraging. I think I’ll go pour an bourbon and try to cheer up.
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Hearing Haley sound like Olympia Snowe was the worst part of the whole thing and the whole thing was awful.