Let me tell you, it’s getting harder to find the backbone on the elephant, but Senator Rick Santorium shows what many, many in the GOP should need to learn. It’s not what you say, it’s what you really believe. In an interview with Newsweak, he lays into those cowardly RINOs who the media is now covering with orgasmic glee:
“With growing unease on the right about prolonged U.S. engagement in Iraq, the White House is finding it more difficult to find defenders of its policies. But in an interview with NEWSWEEK‚Äôs Sam Stein, former GOP senator Rick Santorum criticized his former colleagues who have broken with their commander in chief. After losing his seat last fall, Santorum became a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington think tank dedicated to applying ‚ÄúJudeo-Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy.‚Äù He‚Äôs also writing a book on radical Islam and global terrorism. Excerpts:
NEWSWEEK: What are your thoughts on the GOP senators who have recently spoken out against Bush on the war?
Rich Santorum: I‚Äôm very disappointed that my colleagues are, I think, bowing clearly to the political pressure of the moment that is out there across America. Americans are frustrated with the prosecution of this war. They don‚Äôt understand why we‚Äôre in it. They don‚Äôt see any reason to continue the fight and instead of going out there and arguing more clearly than the administration has to this point, and putting this in the proper perspective for the American public, [the Republicans] have decided to join the other side and abandon ship. I think that‚Äôs absolutely irresponsible and will come back to haunt us as a party.”
Before, the difference between the us and them was that they – meaning liberals – would say anything to get elected, swaying in the polls like the weak pieces of crap they are. Those RINOs who have come out and said basically the same thing they’ve been saying all along are media darlings get all the bullet quotes.
Know this that it’s a promise that we will sweep them from office over the coming years as we begin to “cleanse the party of the so-called “moderates”, or “liberals in hiding”.
It’s a long time coming.
The largest problem with the GOP over the last ten years has been because we let outselves – for the sake of votes – get infiltrated by these literal “wolves in sheeps clothing”, who incidently ran in their particular campaigns as hardcore conservatives, only to backtrack once they got the job.
Pete Santorium shows that he is a man who says what he believes even if it will cost him the job because what he believes is the right thing to believe in. The Hagels, Domenicis, McCains and other fakers haven’t a clue what this type of character is and say only what they say because they lust for the limelight of Hardball or Meet the Press.
There is no revolt, it’s a cleansing and a revealing of who these RINOS really are, not only as politicians, but as to their character as well.
So let them rant and threaten to “pull their support“. If we lose in Iraq and withdraw the loss is on them. In fact the blood of every single soldier who has sacrificed themselves for freedom is on them.
And we will remember them for that and that alone.
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Mike
July 7th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
1Gee,
Ya think this has anything to do with the less than stellar performance in raising Campaign Contributions the PUBS are having compared to Da Dims?
I know as for myself I will not give “One Red Cent” to Rudy, Romney, or McNutt!
Now Fred, Tancredo, or Hunter, that’s a different Story! I would suggest that many conservatives have just said the Hell wit it and put on the “Ignore” button when it comes to supporting a PUB candidate! Just another RINO!
I think many, such as myself are so disgusted with the PUBS, especially after the “Shamnesty Bill” that they have just Walked away from the Political Process!
The PUBS could very well be in DEEP shit in 08!
Their only “saving grace” with be Nancy, Harry and Company showing their collective Arses every day and horrifying daily any “Right” thinking Sane person!
The Strata-Sphere » Blog Archive » America Has GOP Fatigue
July 8th, 2007 at 6:49 am
2[...] You want to know what is bugging the base – it has reached the end of its acceptable dogma. No one is buying their lines without challenge anymore. So they respond by wanting purity and compliance from all. One nation, under the right, with one ideology and view of justice thrust upon us all. I hate to do this, but one fellow blogger I was very close to for a time has taken the turn I hoped the far right would not take. But they did and I refuse to follow. Count me out of this kind of thinking: Before, the difference between the us and them was that they – meaning liberals – would say anything to get elected, swaying in the polls like the weak pieces of crap they are. Those RINOs who have come out and said basically the same thing they‚Äôve been saying all along are media darlings get all the bullet quotes. [...]
sjreidhead
July 8th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
3I have a serious problem with the term “RINO”. It is a rude tag created to insult Republicans who are not pure in idealogical thought. The problem is we live in a free country and the GOP has always embraced that freedom. Just the term “RINO” is a slap in the face to all Republicans who have spent time and money building a great political party that respects everyone. The problem with today’s conservative is, as AJ Strata Says, they have run out of ideas, ideals, and have embraced dogma that is questionable at best. When good people start discussing a pruge of those who have a believe system that isn’t 100% pure, I cringe. I think my father was involved in fighting a war half a century ago against individuals who demanded 100% racial purity. When that 100% pure solution is invoked I shudder.
This isn’t Republican. It may be conservative, but it isn’t the Conservative of Ronald Reagan who once said, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.”
Macranger
July 8th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
4As an early 80s Reagan campaign worker, I would disagree. He would have called out these RINOS with abandon. He actually referred to them as such – I heard it.
We haven’t run out of ideas, we have failed to uphold the ideas we have by a dilution of our core principles.
Call oneself a “moderate” or an “independent”, but a Conservative is one who upholds the principles of conservatism. Anything else is a phoney, and we’re hear to show them the door.
Liberals “cringe” at core principles and hate it when someone is dogmatic in their beliefs, for they believe everything and stand for nothing. So goes those who pretend to be something that they are not.
Nuff said.
Marilyn
July 9th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
5Thank you Mac Ranger for putting it so well. I too have not run out of ideas. I am still against same sex marriage, man-boy consensual relationships, abortion on demand, discrimination against anyone for any reason other than unacceptable behavior, and for other Conservative ideals. As long as Conservative Ideals are under attack by liberals and others who seek to infiltrate and undermine what they see as opposition to their multicultural view of how things should be, true conservatives need to be on constant alert, lest we find our supporting a party which is a half assed carbon copy of Dhemmicrat Party. Compromise on basic issues of right and wrong is the same as surrender.
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