My Republican friends (yes, there are still a few of them walking around these parts) all have a similar damage control spin when it comes to responding to the charge that their national party is controlled by the lunatic right. These nuts are painted as a sort of crazy uncle, whose rantings are met with slight nods and uh-huh's before he is seated at the kid's table and ignored by the rest of the adults for the duration of the family meal. In other words, our GOP neighbors here in the liberal northeast will claim, that the wingnuts are just noisy members of the clan who really don't have any true influence within it.
Nice try, but it should be obvious to even the most casual observer that the crazy uncles have united under this Big tent and taken over the Republican party, intent on using it to re-shape the nation along their own warped view of heaven and earth. All one needs to do is watch the pummeling that Mr Guiliani is taking for being too much like, well, a New Yorker!
Here's further proof, as well as a means of giving the "we're really moderates at the core" crowd a chance to call their own bluff:
Uncle Dubya yesterday once again announced that he will veto a bill that will alow federal funding of the type of stem cell research that uses human embryos. Now, I think we would all agree that this is a good example of the current administrtation being out there. Not too many local Republicans would put their name on this policy.
But if the Congress has any chance of overriding this insanity, it would need the help of some of these so-called moderate Republicans to do so. You know, the ones that are supposedly REALLY the core of the party.
OK, then, if the GOP isn't the party of the far right, let's see them stand up and get counted on this one. After all, this stuff IS kinda important, ya know?
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