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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 12:41 PM
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Olympia Snowe speaking truth about the Repub Party to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC
Edited on Wed Apr-29-09 12:46 PM by eleny
She's got her finger on the pulse of Repub Party troubles. How they lost so deeply in 2 elections - it's like a 100 year flood. Time for the Party to embrace what has happened to it so it can begin to rebuild. The ideological right has driven moderates away and that's not acceptable. You cannot be a majority Party and lose regions of the country.

They'll be going after her soon on tv and radio. I'm sure she knows she's secure in Maine, though, so she can speak truth to the powers in her Party.

An excellent interview. Not that her Party will listen to her.
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 12:46 PM
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1. Yet, she's still a Repug.
Why remain a Repug unless your political philosophy aligns more closely with the Rs than the Ds?
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 12:48 PM
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3. I hear she's got a safe seat so perhaps doesn't feel the need to change
:shrug:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 12:54 PM
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6. Because leaving just concentrates the poison
That's the way they got to where they are; by listening to ideological purists and ejecting from the party anyone who did not embrace the platform in full.

I call these ideological purists the idealoogies.

It's not Snow that needs to change; it's the party that needs to change by having more people like her.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 12:47 PM
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2. No no no. Michael Steele is going to bring Hip Hop Awareness to the Northeast...
...and that is how the GOP is going to rebuild there.

The GOP don't need to worry yo, it's all good 'cuz the Steele man knows wassup, ya see?

Word.

Snowe's acting a fool gettin all up on the radio with this nonsense. The GOP don't take responsibility for their actions and never will. Homey's don't play that!
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 12:49 PM
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4. Oh yeah, right, I forgot
:rofl:
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 05:34 PM
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15. New England Yankee Hip-Hop ? Oh dear ... the mind reels ...
I think I may have blacked out for a minute, there. :crazy:
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 12:51 PM
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5. Let's see if she gets attacked by Limbaugh and Hannity
They have no clue what respect is. And once Limbaugh gets on your case his dittoheads go to work making life threatening comments. There's a reason why the Republicans go running to him for forgiveness.
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get the red out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 01:03 PM
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7. I hope she doesn't get physical threats
The far right demands absolute obedience. She will get some awful crap thrown at her from those loons.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 01:06 PM
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8. She's pretty fearless saying what she said given the consequences you lay out
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Faryn Balyncd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 01:15 PM
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9. It's not just moderates the GOP repelled -- It's also civil libertarians, constitutionalists . . .



. . . honest fiscal conservatives, paleoconservatives, Eisenhower Republicans, Taft Republicans, Teddy Roosevelt Republicans, Lincoln Republicans, log cabin Republicans, Goldwater Republicans, antiwar Republicans, independents who once leaned Republican, Republicans who understand nuance, Republicans who read . . . . . and, in general, every (former and/or recovering) Republican who does not pledge knee-jerk allegiance to the current mutant blend of talk-radio-pseudo-populist, religious right pandering, neoconservative corporatist Orwellian dogma.
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 02:33 PM
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10. Well put!
:thumbsup:
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get the red out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 03:03 PM
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11. And they will take the remainder and proudly call them Republicans
All 30 that are left.
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Aragorn Donating Member (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 03:24 PM
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12. nice rant
and too true.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 03:26 PM
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13. Cough. Creationist Flat Earth Anti-Choice Jesus Loonies. Cough.
Really, Andrea, I can't shake this cough.
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Zing Zing Zingbah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-29-09 05:50 PM
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16. She'll get re-elected in Maine forever
unless she royally screws things up, which she hasn't up to this point. Mainers like moderates. She is popular here. Ultra-conservatives do not do well in elections here.
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