Comments on: Good Grief, Charlie Crist

By: baraqiel

baraqiel — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:17:47 +0000

Good-ish news! Harry Reid has indeed told Baucus (the Dem senator in charge of drafting health care legislation) to stop chasing GOP votes. He was mainly talking about having a public option, but I am hoping it will get rid of this anti-choice nonsense as well.

Plus, apparently the GOP has decided to appoint Sen. Chambers to head the anti-Sotoyamor effort. This is a guy who called the NAACP un-American and “Communist-inspired” and said he thought the KKK was good until he found out some of them smoked pot. So…great.

By: mischiefmanager

mischiefmanager — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:21:37 +0000

This shows us yet again that abortion, glbt rights and so forth have no meaning or importance to any Republicans except those who oppose them. That’s because women and glbt people are not real or important to those Republicans. So if it looks like a sensible, humane policy is going to cost them votes, they drop it without a moment’s hesitation and never look back. There is no-repeat, no-Republican who can be trusted.

Baraqiel, I’m so with you. Obama and the Democratic leadership (yeah, you craven political whores Reid and Pelosi, I mean you) had better make sure we don’t get the same treatment glbt voters have gotten up to now.

By: J.D.Regent

J.D.Regent — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:56:19 +0000

It’s so sad that the Republicans can’t see that they need to become MORE MODERATE in order to appeal to all those growing demographics of voters they can’t touch. I guess they are worried about their base of Conservative Christians who would probably never get out and vote (render undo Caesar what is Caesar’s) if it weren’t for abortion.

Then again I voted for Dennis Kucinich once and he is only a late converter to pro choicedom, and I would not have voted for him otherwise, so I suppose from their view I am just as bad.

By: sarah.of.a.lesser.god

sarah.of.a.lesser.god — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:27:01 +0000

@baraqiel: Oh yeah, that is so horrid. There was a lot of talk after last November’s massive defeat for them that the party would splinter. I think the midterm elections will be a real test of that, and 2012 will be to a lesser extent. But look what happened to false moderates like Giuliani*, who practically radicalized himself in his futile bid — the heart of the party belongs to the extremely conservative wing, and it makes me wonder if Crist’s shift will make a bit of difference in the end. Specter switched parties out of political expediency because even a Senate vet like him knew he had an uphill climb against GOP challengers. Crist faces the same thing now. It’ll certainly be interesting…

*Giuliani and I share a cardiologist. Last January, a day before the NH primaries, he came for an appointment and I saw him in the waiting room. That’s when I knew he was doomed, because he really should not have been in NYC right before the primary. Oh, and he looks even more weaselly in person.

By: baraqiel

baraqiel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:53:36 +0000

Honestly, I’m really fed up with the GOP after the news that they’re trying to keep abortion coverage out of health care bills in both chambers of congress. (Not that I wasn’t fed up before, but this was a bad day for it.) Anyone reasonable should either leave that party or force it to conform to them. No one who stays there and bends to the party’s will is respectable by any measure, for me.