(Seven) Maine Republicans Quit Party

[babylonsister]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/08/20/maine_republicans_quit_party.html


August 20, 2013

Maine Republicans Quit Party


"One of Maine's three voting members of the Republican National Committee and six other members of the Maine State Republican Committee have resigned and left the party, lambasting Gov. Paul LePage, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans for abandoning what they said are key principles for libertarians and conservatives," the Portland Press Herald reports.

[sheshe2]

1. Good for them and Just in time!

They are adrift~

[MineralMan]

2. They're starting a new party, I suppose.

The Grouchy Old Assholes Party. GOAP.

They'll be fielding candidates real soon now.

[KamaAina]

3. Let me see if I've got this straight.

LePew and Boner aren't conservative enough for them?!

[progressoid]

6. I know, crazy huh?

[shenmue]

4. See if they join the human race instead.

I've always thought the right wing were sent here from another world, like in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."

[SummerSnow]

9. If you see any very large pods....RUN!!!...oh a never fall asleep around them either

[Hell Hath No Fury]

5. Some of their grievences -

A kind of weird mixed bag:

• Anger over rule changes adopted during the Republican National Convention in Tampa last year.

• Congressional Republicans' support for the National Security Agency surveillance programs publicly revealed in recent months and for immigration reform, online-sales taxes and gun control.

• Maine Republican lawmakers' failure to block enactment of a state budget that includes tax increases.

• LePage's vetoes of several bills that were important to libertarians -- including those restricting the use of surveillance drones and allowing wider sales of raw milk – and the LePage administration's "atypical meddling in the business of the Maine State Committee."

[Jamaal510]

7. Thanks, Obama.

[phantom power]

8. never interrupt your opponent from making a mistake

3rd party! 3rd party! 3rd party!

[ProSense]

10. "for abandoning what they said are key principles for libertarians and conservatives"

Unintended consequences?