Retired Republican Politicians Turning on Their Own

[ClydeR]

Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole says he doesn't believe he could make it in the modern Republican Party.

"I doubt it," he said in an interview aired on "Fox News Sunday" when asked if his generation of Republican leaders could make it in today's GOP. "Reagan couldn't have made it. Certainly, Nixon couldn't have made it, cause he had ideas. We might've made it, but I doubt it."

Dole, a wounded World War II veteran from Kansas and icon of the party, said he believes it needs to rethink the direction it's heading in.

More... (http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/05/dole-i-doubt-i-could-make-it-in-todays-gop-164794.html)


Warner, who left office in January 2009, has raised concerns about his party before. In 1994, for instance, he backed J. Marshall Coleman’s independent bid for the U.S. Senate, rather than endorse Oliver L. North, the Republican nominee.

As for the current contretemps, Warner said he is paying close attention to “this situation in the state.”

“Each person in our state’s got to make their own judgment,” he said, adding, “on that issue, I maintain a golden silence — because the facts are clear for all to interpret.”

More... (http://www.timesdispatch.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_e5166095-4ba7-55b8-a32f-3c3f1ad949b3.html)

John Warner and Bob Dole need to get their heads on straight.

[Latrinsorm]

And he should get his arm fixed while he's at it.

[Sjoldamn]

John Warner and Bob Dole need to get their heads on straight.

Maybe all the young'ns in the GOP need to display some "conservative values" and listen to their elders?

[Tgo01]

Considering Sjoldamn seems to be new to the PC I almost want to tell him but at the same time I almost don't want to tell him....

[Merala]

Considering Sjoldamn seems to be new to the PC I almost want to tell him but at the same time I almost don't want to tell him....

After browsing a few Clyder threads, he'll catch on. It took me a couple of threads too, but that's because I know people like Clyder, only for real.

[Sjoldamn]

Considering Sjoldamn seems to be new to the PC I almost want to tell him but at the same time I almost don't want to tell him....

That ClydeR is a right wing troll?

[Tgo01]

That ClydeR is a right wing troll?

Close.

[Sjoldamn]

Close.

Ahhh... so he's basically doing the Colbert thing, but just not funny?

[Tgo01]

Ahhh... so he's basically doing the Colbert thing, but just not funny?

DING DING DING.

[Androidpk]

That ClydeR is a right wing troll?

That ClydeR is an obsessed Miami Heat fan.

[Tgo01]

That ClydeR is an obsessed Miami Heat fan.

DING DING DING.

[diethx]

That ClydeR is an obsessed Miami Heat fan.

That's basketball, right? Hmmm, so who is that - Latrin? I can't keep up with who everyone thinks ClydeR is anymore. :(

[Tgo01]

That's basketball, right? Hmmm, so who is that - Latrin? I can't keep up with who everyone thinks ClydeR is anymore. :(

It's common knowledge that Latrin = ClydeR.

And by common knowledge I mean it's a rumor I heard from someone and keep perpetrating.

[Latrinsorm]

It is kismet that this accusation comes up now, when the Heat are playing the Pacers, who make their home not 15 kilometers from a penis shaped pond.

[diethx]

AHahahah, yeah. Didn't everyone once accuse Tabor of being ClydeR too? I think everyone from Keller to Kranar has been accused at one point.

[NinjasLeadTheWay]

I am ClydeR.

[TheEschaton]

AFAIK, I've never been accused of it. But everyone knows I wouldn't have the patience to sift through right wing news sites to come up with this crap.

[Warriorbird]

AFAIK, I've never been accused of it. But everyone knows I wouldn't have the patience to sift through right wing news sites to come up with this crap.

I've often thought he was a modern Republican attempting to parody Democratic views of their party.

You know. Somebody like Tgo01.

[Latrinsorm]

ClydeR joined in December 2007, what was originally the 10th month of year 7. Terrence joined in July 2010, or the 7th month of year 10. Coincidence?

[Androidpk]

ClydeR joined in December 2007, what was originally the 10th month of year 7. Terrence joined in July 2010, or the 7th month of year 10. Coincidence?

No.

[Tgo01]

ClyedeR is my real persona and I created Tgo01 later as my fake persona. How did you guys figure it out?!

[Liagala]

ClydeR joined in December 2007, what was originally the 10th month of year 7. Terrence joined in July 2010, or the 7th month of year 10. Coincidence?
Which 2 months did we get rid of to make December the 10th month? Please don't say August :(

[Latrinsorm]

August (>:-D) and July were invented by the Romans so everyone would believe July(us) and August(us) were important when in reality Doug February founded the Roman Empire.

[ClydeR]

President Obama today rolled out the welcome mat for Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, the Republican-turned-independent who now plans to affiliate with the Democrats before his 2014 re-election run, three Democratic sources told ABC News today.

More... (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/rhode-island-gov-lincoln-chafee-to-become-a-democrat/)

Good riddance. Another RINO we don't need in the Republican Party.

[Methais]

ClyedeR is my real persona and I created Tgo01 later as my fake persona. How did you guys figure it out?!

The dog in the suit gave it away.

[Tgo01]

The dog in the suit gave it away.

My avatar talks to you too?

[Methais]

Yes. I mean just look at him. Doesn't it talk to everyone?

[ClydeR]

This is big. I haven't heard anybody else recognize it.


Chafee's changing party affiliations tells a larger story about how polarized our country has become. It wasn't too long ago that Republican governors roamed New England, even though Al Gore carried the whole region in a presidential election (except for New Hampshire) in 2000, and Democrats moved into governors' mansions in the former Confederate states that George Bush won all of. Only recently, Republican governors included John Rowland and later Jodi Rell in Connecticut, Paul Cellucci and Mitt Romney in Massachusetts, Lincoln Almond and Donald Carcieri in Rhode Island, and Jim Douglas in Vermont. Democrats had governors like Don Siegleman in Alabama, Roy Barnes in Georgia, Ronnie Musgrove in Mississippi, and Jim Hodges in South Carolina.

Those days are gone; all these states now have politicians of the other party for governor, which matches how their state voted in the prior presidential election.

There is one Republican governor left in New England: Paul LePage of Maine, and one Democratic governor in the old south: Mike Beebe of Arkansas. LePage only won 38% of the vote in 2010 and would have lost had his competitors not split the vote. Polling shows he's incredibly vulnerable in 2014. Beebe is required by term limits to step down in 2014, and Republicans are favored to win his seat.

If Republicans win Arkansas in 2014 and Le Page gets knocked off in Maine, it could be the final dent in the old coalitions of a Democratic south and Republican New England. Assuming no other changes in these regions' governor affiliations, it would be the first time no Republican governor held office in New England and no Democratic governor did so in a confederate state since the end of Reconstruction. In other words, we're basically back to civil war-era politics.

More... (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/31/lincoln-chafee-democrat-party-switch)