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The Idaho state GOP convention collapsed on Saturday as the presiding Republican U.S. congressman called a halt to the proceedings amid infighting and walk-outs by delegates.
Saying the party had hit rock bottom, 1st District Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador adjourned the convention without electing a chairman, establishing a platform or completing any of its scheduled business, according to the Spokesman-Review.
This is as low as the party can go, said Labrador. We have hit bottom. I think the party has no choice but to go up from here*.
The three-day convention dissolved into acrimony as various factions representing the Tea Party and the libertarian wing battled over unseating delegates.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/15/congressman-adjourns-idaho-gop-convention-amid-infighting-and-jeers-from-attendees/
* - "Out from here" is also an option.
Response to IDemo (Original post)
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IDemo
(16,926 posts)Greg Chaney has changed his mind about accepting the nod for a run at the statehouse, but nothing about a chairman being selected.
And he sounds like a dyed-in-the-wool Repub:
chillfactor
(7,573 posts)the republicans are tearing their party apart and I am enjoying the show!!!!!!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Elections so they seek to split the GOP into and then have the nerve to want everything their way.
If they had a decent message they would be a major party, bet there was some kind of ugly going on.
MattBaggins
(7,898 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Zambero
(8,964 posts)And since he has put himself in the running for Cantor's vacated leadership job, I'm sure this Idaho train wreck is bound to impress his House colleagues. If getting nothing done other than officiating over shouting and yelling is a criterion for "leadership" in the GOP these days, Labrador was certainly able to rise to the occasion.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)That's pretty much the job description for any Repub leadership position.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)they ALWAYS find a way to go lower
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Skittles
(153,138 posts)very interesting conversations; yes INDEED
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)You mean they couldn't decide as to whether Bergdahl should be hung or shot?
icon for lurking GOPhers, Libertarians and Tea Party members.
That's the only thing I'd see these two factions in a fight about. Really, that's what I thought they would be fighting over, the fate of their native son and how to paint Obama as a Muslim terrorist.
OTOH, GOP Libertarians might've defended him, if they claim Bergdahl as one of their own Galts.
I gotta give credit to the GOP for not going that route, just saying that I expected it from those (insert foul epitaphs here).
Or has that particular media driven ship already run out of wind for the GOP? Along with their conventions that want to impeach the President or secede from the USA?
I mean, exactly what does the GOP have going for them, other than starving the poor, discrimination, stealing the Commons, destroying unions, public schools and services, forcing a theocracy on us and bringing down the government?
Inquiring and pissed off minds want to know!
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)The Tea Partiers say they want a smaller federal government but, to the extent I can claim any expertise on Tea Party "thinking", that doesn't apply to the military. Libertarians usually favor a less interventionist foreign policy; for example, Ron Paul and the Cato Institute both opposed the invasion of Iraq.
Thoroughly consistent libertarians would be social liberals (favoring marriage equality, legalization of marijuana, etc.), which I don't think would go over well with the Tea Party.