Michael Smerconish Rejects GOP

[Devil505]

"The national GOP is a party of exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on social issues by the religious right, with zero discernible outreach by the national party to anyone who doesn't fit neatly within its parameters."
http://www.huffingto...r_b_470793.html

The GOP is imploding!

 

[Little-Acorn]

So someone who endorsed Barack Obama is now bashing the GOP and telling the usual lies about it?

What does that have to do with the GOP? Or, with reality, for that matter?

 

[Devil505]

So someone who endorsed Barack Obama is now bashing the GOP and telling the usual lies about it?

What does that have to do with the GOP? Or, with reality, for that matter?

Seems to me allot of GOP types are bailing out.....Arlen Specter, Colin Powell, now Michael Smerconsish & more. The first thing an alcoholic needs to do is admit there's a problem,......& the GOP is still in denial.

 

[Diamond]

Seems to me allot of GOP types are bailing out.....Arlen Specter, Colin Powell, now Michael Smerconsish & more. The first thing an alcoholic needs to do is admit there's a problem,......& the GOP is still in denial.

Three people? Really..

 

[Gipper]

Seems to me allot of GOP types are bailing out.....Arlen Specter, Colin Powell, now Michael Smerconsish & more. The first thing an alcoholic needs to do is admit there's a problem,......& the GOP is still in denial.

All three voted for BO.

 

[Devil505]

Three people? Really..

Alan Keyes & many others. Do you argue that the current GOP is actively trying to broaden its base?
Nnational elections can't be won with just a far right base, right?...What are they doing to attract others?

Nothing according to respected Repubs like Michael Smerconish. Is he wrong? (if so, how?)

 

[Diamond]

Alan Keyes & many others. Do you argue that the current GOP is actively trying to broaden its base?
Nnational elections can't be won with just a far right base, right?...What are they doing to attract others? Nothing according to respected Repubs like Michael Smerconish. Is he wrong? (if so, how?)

Not going to speak too much about Republican activity so concrete, how they're attracting people to their party is beyond my knowledge. The point for my comment to your post is that your way of pointing the finger at people leaving the Republican party either in favour of the Democratic party or to just leave politics is arrogant, because the same, I am sure as in almost every party, is going on in the Democratic party. Members come, and members go, it's not a Republican phenomenon.

 

[Devil505]

The point for my comment to your post is that your way of pointing the finger at people leaving the Republican party either in favour of the Democratic party or to just leave politics is arrogant, because the same, I am sure as in almost every party, is going on in the Democratic party. Members come, and members go, it's not a Republican phenomenon.

Funny....I don't remember saying anything about going to the Dems???
In Smerconish's defection from the GOP, he accurately describes today's GOP's problems which have nothing to do with any other party. My talking about his defection is arrogant???
I suggest you read my OP again. It relates strictly to the GOP, was written by Michael Smerconish (not me) & reflects a problem within the GOP......not any other parties.
Here it is again:
"The national GOP is a party of exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on social issues by the religious right, with zero discernible outreach by the national party to anyone who doesn't fit neatly within its parameters."
http://www.huffingto...r_b_470793.html

 

[Diamond]

Funny....I don't remember saying anything about going to the Dems???
In Smerconish's defection from the GOP, he accurately describes today's GOP's problems which have nothing to do with any other party. My talking about his defection is arrogant???
I suggest you read my OP again. It relates strictly to the GOP, was written by Michael Smerconish (not me) & reflects a problem within the GOP......not any other parties.
Here it is again:
"The national GOP is a party of exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on social issues by the religious right, with zero discernible outreach by the national party to anyone who doesn't fit neatly within its parameters."
http://www.huffingto...r_b_470793.html

You're deliberately misunderstanding my post. I never said you saying anything about the Democratic party, I was the one talking about the Democratic party. The point I was trying to make is that your determination to show how the Republican party is failing because some members decide to either go Democrat or end their political careers is not a Republican phenomenon, it does occur in other parties too. This is simply objectivism.

 

[Kool aid kid]

Three people? Really..

3. RINO's

 

[Devil505]

The point I was trying to make is that your determination to show how the Republican party is failing because some members decide to either go Democrat or end their political careers is not a Republican phenomenon, it does occur in other parties too. This is simply objectivism.

OK.....If this is not just a GOP problem, which other parties would you say share Smerconish's concerns of being a party of "exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on social issues by the religious right, with zero discernible outreach by the national party to anyone who doesn't fit neatly within its parameters."??
Sorry....The old weak defense of.."OK, but they all do it"..... is just not accurate. The problems Smerconish is leaving the GOP due to... are exclusively GOP problems. No one is leaving any other party due to them & they reflect intolerant & quite un-American thinking & demand for strict obedience, imo. These demands are more appropriate for the 17th & 18th century....than they are for today.

 

[Webrockk]

OK.....If this is not just a GOP problem, which other parties would you say share Smerconish's concerns of being a party of "exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on social issues by the religious right, with zero discernible outreach by the national party to anyone who doesn't fit neatly within its parameters."??
Sorry....The old weak defense of.."OK, but they all do it"..... is just not accurate. The problems Smerconish is leaving the GOP due to... are exclusively GOP problems. No one is leaving any other party due to them & they reflect intolerant & quite un-American thinking & demand for strict obedience, imo. These demands are more appropriate for the 17th & 18th century....than they are for today.

Well, there you are!! I see you're still making shrill (the GOP is imploding!)
strawman arguments to deflect from the abject failings, and increasing rejection of your beloved progressive ideology and its leadership.

Please continue...it's amusing.

 

[Devil505]

Well, there you are!! I see you're still making shrill (the GOP is imploding!)
strawman arguments to deflect from the abject failings, and increasing rejection of your beloved progressive ideology and its leadership.

Please continue...it's amusing.

A rather pointless post my good friend Webrockk. How's that Photoshopping working out for you today?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

So someone who endorsed Barack Obama is now bashing the GOP and telling the usual lies about it?

Yeah....let's avoid the timeline of his conversion (especially if you're a DICK Cheney fan).

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September 11, 2008​

"Where the hell are Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri? And why does virtually no one ask anymore? What's changed since the days when any suburban soccer mom would have strangled either of them with her bare hands if given the chance? And what happened to President Bush's declaration to a joint session of Congress nine days after 9/11 that "any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime." Doesn't that apply to Pakistan?

To begin, bin Laden is presumed to have been in Afghanistan on 9/11 and to have fled that nation during the battle at Tora Bora in December of 2001. Gary Berntsen, who was the CIA officer in charge on the ground, told me that his request for Army Rangers to prevent bin Laden's escape into Pakistan was denied, and sure enough, that's where bin Laden went."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

My talking about his defection is arrogant???

I'm thinkin' arrogant might be the new Hate; one o' those terms that's required in any future "conservative" Talking Points, when crticising The Dems.

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