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IDemo

(16,926 posts)
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 08:53 PM Jun 2014

Congressman adjourns Idaho GOP convention amid infighting and jeers from attendees

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.

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Congressman adjourns Idaho GOP convention amid infighting and jeers from attendees (Original Post) IDemo Jun 2014 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author alp227 Jun 2014 #1
I'm not seeing that at your link IDemo Jun 2014 #3
thank you for the post.... chillfactor Jun 2014 #2
Both groups, the libertarian and the tea party can not stand alone and win any Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #4
Please let there be video MattBaggins Jun 2014 #5
Is this it? DJ13 Jun 2014 #14
Raul Labrador pitches himself as a master of gridlock Zambero Jun 2014 #6
officiating over shouting and yelling.. IDemo Jun 2014 #8
never, NEVER think the republican party has hit rock bottom Skittles Jun 2014 #7
this^^^ OffWithTheirHeads Jun 2014 #9
Only when we have our own Rwanda, will the GOP have hit the skids, until then anything goes. Katashi_itto Jun 2014 #10
hey I have a new coworker from Rwanda Skittles Jun 2014 #11
Rwanda genocides started with hate radio Katashi_itto Jun 2014 #12
My first evil thought on this: freshwest Jun 2014 #13
Libertarians and Tea Partiers have serious differences on the MIC and foreign policy. Jim Lane Jun 2014 #15

Response to IDemo (Original post)

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
3. I'm not seeing that at your link
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 09:08 PM
Jun 2014

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:

Chaney, 32, has filed bankruptcy twice since 2004. He also pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, disturbing the peace and malicious injury to property, stemming from a 2009 argument with his girlfriend, whom he later married and divorced.


chillfactor

(7,573 posts)
2. thank you for the post....
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 09:05 PM
Jun 2014

the republicans are tearing their party apart and I am enjoying the show!!!!!!

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. Both groups, the libertarian and the tea party can not stand alone and win any
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 09:09 PM
Jun 2014

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.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)
6. Raul Labrador pitches himself as a master of gridlock
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 09:18 PM
Jun 2014

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)
8. officiating over shouting and yelling..
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 09:22 PM
Jun 2014

That's pretty much the job description for any Repub leadership position.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
13. My first evil thought on this:
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 10:19 PM
Jun 2014

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)
15. Libertarians and Tea Partiers have serious differences on the MIC and foreign policy.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 02:52 PM
Jun 2014

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.

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