Comments on: Snowe says GOP isn’t ‘encouraging’ of ‘moderates,’ will she follow Specter?

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By: CruzBustamove

CruzBustamove — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:01:44 +0000

Arlen Specter is trailing badly in the polls and is looking out for his own ass. I don’t expect much from him as a democrat.

By: WAYNEBRO

WAYNEBRO — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:27:47 +0000

Specter’s switch to the Democratic Party “underscores the blunt reality” that the GOP is not a welcome place for moderates, she said.

She’s right. There is no moderate GOP anymore. It’s all far right Joe McCarthy type wing nut insanity. No one worked against Bush like this his first years in office. No one. Bush enjoyed a very reasonable measure of support from the moderate left and even far left for years.

But President Obama has not had ONE SINGLE DAY of support from the right wing. Not ONE. In fact they’ve gone out of their way to damage him at every turn and in doing so, damage the country. The republicans have turned into some sort of religious fanatic group, and I’d be looking for a lot more defections from within their ranks over the next four years.

President Obama WILL succeed. I am confident of this. And the more he succeeds the more the radical and insane the right wing will become.

By: Eugene atrax robustus Debs

Eugene atrax robustus Debs — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:39:56 +0000

Don of Cali Says:

Poor MORONS of the GOP. So stupid their CESSPOOL of a party is going down like a crackwhore after a ten dollar bill

By: Xisithrus

Xisithrus — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:35:13 +0000

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Xisithrus — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:34:34 +0000

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By: Buckie Boy

Buckie Boy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:26:01 +0000

Guess they know that they are a dwindling party of bigots, hate mongers, extremist christians and mindless simpletons….

….of course that new poll showing only 21% of the voting public claiming to be republicans might have something to do with this.

By: had enough

had enough — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:23:58 +0000

The goppers are jumping ship to save their job as they see the high approval ratings of the Obama administration and do not want to be on the side of evil when and if the investigations begin.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:08:28 +0000

I wouldn’t bank on Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins joining the Democratic Party anytime soon. They’re in a different situation altogether–they won’t ever face serious primary challenges from the right, and they’re in no danger of losing a general election.

By: had enough

had enough — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:06:11 +0000

Could it be the right as we know it today is folding and the dems will (continue?) to split into 2 groups – the moderates and the dems?

By: ElBruce

ElBruce — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:05:47 +0000

Now comes another round of “purging the moderates.” Just like they did with the op/ed writers, now it’s eating into their actually remaining officials.

By: Chris LeJeune

Chris LeJeune — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:00:14 +0000

Red rover, red rover send Olympia right over! I would love to see how the republicans plan on making any kind of progress with the nation when they can’t even keep what they already have.

By: RUCeriousMaggot!

RUCeriousMaggot! — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:47:23 +0000

What the hell do the Publicans think is going to happen when their party is reduced to having Limbaugh as the titular leader, and SteelyMike as their malinformed, gaffeaminute spokesmoron.

By: kasinca

kasinca — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:46:24 +0000

curious Says:
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I don’t want either one of them. They will be blue dog Democrats. This man has been a life long Republican.

He has been a republican for a long time but he was democrat a long time ago. He is a moderate vote. Many times he has stood for one thing but in the end voted the other way with republicans.

By: Druids Dream

Druids Dream — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:45:22 +0000

A good old fashioned star-spangled Snowejob.

By: RantingTommy

RantingTommy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:41:34 +0000

actually, curious, Specter was a Democrat until 1966

By: curious

curious — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:41:20 +0000

I don’t want either one of them. They will be blue dog Democrats. This man has been a life long Republican. And he will continue to vote like one. This cynical change is because he faced defeat in his re-election bid.

As for Snowe, I don’t want her either. The only good thing is we may get a little more leverage. But I still don’t trust them any more then I did Lieberman.

By: Bluestocking

Bluestocking — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:38:45 +0000

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) a fellow moderate, didn’t seem suprised. On the national level, she says, “you haven’t certainly heard warm encouraging words of how they [Republicans] view moderates. Either you are with us or against us.”

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No-o-o-o-o…really??? Gee, Senator…YA THINK???

so she finally woke up and smelled the Starbucks, did she? One thing is certain…she’s not very quick on the uptake. Good grief! The Republican Party has been moving steadily and doggedly to the far right for, oh…let me see now…only the past couple of decades, probably even before Clinton took office. There really hasn’t been much room in the Republican Party for genuine moderates in quite a long while.

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:38:09 +0000

I would have expected Snowe to change parties before Specter, now I wonder if she will do so.
The repugs have cemented their position as the party of NO, as the party with no wish to cooperate or negotiate, but to bully and obstruct their way through wherever they can. Senators who don’t ascribe to such polarization are being pressured to march in lockstep or else – not a good sign for their party.

Having said that, this does not mean that Specter won’t continue with his familiar ways, and say one thing then vote another. The 60 vote filibuster proof majority the Dems will have soon isn’t an automatic Democratic vote.

By: Zimzone

Zimzone — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:35:59 +0000

How ’bout if we trade Bill Nelson for Olympia Snowe?

He’s more conservative.

He’s holding up appointments because of anti-abortion views.

He’s a liar.

He could go from DINO to RINO with just a ‘lil flip-flop.