Bush will be the death of the Republican Party

[babylonsister]

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Bush will be the death of the Republican Party
Submitted by mole333 on 17 April 2007


Way back when, I remember a Doonesbury cartoon with I think it was Zonker's mom at a Republican Convention as the lone voice pushing for Pete McCloskey for President. That is most of what I personally know about Pete McCloskey: former Congressman, former failed candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, and someone from a long line of Republican McCloskeys.

Well, Pete McCloskey is ending a family tradition because of Bush and the barking crazy right wingers. McCloskey's statement says it all:

McCloskeys have been Republicans in California since 1859, the year before Lincoln's election. My great grandfather, John Henry McCloskey, orphaned in the great Irish potato famine of 1843, came to California in 1853 as a boy of 16, and joined the party just before the Civil War.

By 1890 he and my grandfather, both farmers, made up two of the twelve members of the Republican Central Committee of Merced County. My father's most memorable expletive came when I was a boy of 10 or 11: "That damn Roosevelt is trying to pack the Supreme Court!"

I registered Republican in 1948 after reaching the age of 21. We were the party of civil rights, of free choice for women and fiscal responsibility. Since Teddy Roosevelt, we had favored environmental protection, and most of all we stood for fiscal responsibility, honesty, ethics and limited government intrusion into our personal lives and choices. We accepted that one the duties of wealth was to pay a higher rate of income tax, and that the estates of the wealthy should contribute to the national treasury in reasonable measure.

I was proud to serve with Republicans like Gerry Ford, the first George Bush and Bob Dole.

In 1994, however, Newt Gingrich brought a new kind of Republicanism to power, and the election of George W. Bush in 2000 has led to wholly new concept of governance. The bureaucracy has mushroomed in size and power. The budget deficits have become astronomical. Our historical separation of church and state has been blurred. We have seen a succession of ethical scandals, congressmen taking bribes, and abuse of power by both the Republican House leadership and the highest appointees of the White House.

The single cardinal principle of political science, that power corrupts, has come to apply not only to Republican leaders like Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney and John Doolittle, but to a succession of White House officials and appointees. The stench of Jack Abramoff has permeated much of the Washington Republican establishment.

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[cliss]

1. Good.

I say they can keep him.

And while they're at it, make sure his face is on the TV for one reason or another, 24/7. That ought to make people real thrilled to watch.

[tularetom]

2. I agree with 95% of what he says

however Gerry Ford, the first George Bush and Bob Dole, were enablers for what has taken place. Somebody allowed the newt to gain power within the party and these elder statesmen (especially poopy bush who was in the WH when the seeds were sown) cannot eswcape blame for it.

[ixion]

9. exactly...

poppy was not much better than dumbya (remember the so-called first 'gulf war'?).

[Double T]

3. I think the rethugs have been stinking up 'the place' for a long, long, long time.........

the biggest problem is their minions have short attention spans and even shorter memories.

[marmar]

4. R.I.P.

:nopity:

[MadMaddie]

5. A Well written explanation....we need more like him to come out

and say that the party of * is a Facist and traitorous extremist group hiding behind the Republican title. They have committed Treason.....against the citizens of America and the Constitution.

[rodeodance]

6. promises promises. The repug party has a vast INfrastructure----it will not

die. Just look at all who are in the woodwork (including 150 plus grads of Pat. Robertson university who are now in the justice dept)

[ingac70]

7. One can only hope....

the rednecks love him so much!

[ljm2002]

8. That is perhaps the only silver lining...

...in our present morass of corruption, lies and bloodshed.