Republicans Ashamed of their Party (pix)

[ProSense]

Republicans Ashamed of their Party (pix)

by Land of Enchantment
Mon Oct 13, 2008 at 09:51:30 AM PDT

After the 2006 midterm election, I posted a pictorial diary of all the Republican Senators and Congresscritters who'd been given the boot: Goodbye... and Good Riddance! When I was putting it together, I realized that some of the websites get scrubbed quickly. So I've started gathering material for a followup this year already, before the election.

And I noticed a funny thing. Looking at Republicans targeted by Red-to-Blue or Orange-to-Blue (etc.), they don't seem too eager to let people know what their party affiliation is. Check it out!



Independent? Buchanan is a Republican - one who barely got elected in 2006 - and is facing a hotly contested rematch with Christine Jennings. And he's not alone in trying to hoodwink the public into thinking he's "above" mere partisan party affiliation. Or, rather, in hiding from the GOP.

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Holy crap! Another Independent! I'm starting to wonder if that's a new word for Republican. Definitely works that way for Lieberman...



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Yet another independent! I guess most of 'em don't want to be mavericks, so they just stick to "independent".



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much more

Republicans running away from Bush and McCain.

Edited to add: Demoralized Republicans

[elkston]

1. Heh. I love how everyone is "Independent" and a "Reformer" n/t

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

2. Egads, you are such a treasure to us. Thank you ProSense!

K&R

[Historic NY]

3. Shouldn't we inform the voters that they really are *'s in drag....

Do we have an independant party?

[Barack_America]

4. What? No "Mavricks"? Hmph. nt

[VoodooGuru]

5. Capito too?

Never would have figured that one.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Same here in Connecticut - Shays, Cappiello & Sullivan

No mention of their party affiliation on their home pages.

http://davidcappiello.com/dc/
running a tough race against Chris Murphy, a first-termer in my area.

http://www.sullivan2008.com/content/
running way behind first termer Joe Courtney

http://www.shaysforcongress.org/
Chris Shays, a long-time Republican in wealthy fairfield county, CT...

[mokawanis]

7. The badge of shame

the Repug tag is odorous. The legacy of shrub and his ilk.

[AllentownJake]

8. Charlie Dent

Will probably win re-election. I see houses with Obama signs and Dent signs. He also was "busy" the day McCain had is rally in Bethlehem

It doesn't help that locally we ran a very good person but not the greatest candidate with some scandals and a Hillary vs. Barack type primary election for Mayor 3 years ago that still have people mad at her. No Dent 2010 will be my personal project after this election if voter turnout doesn't remove him this year.

[Agent William]

9. Don't forget Dino Rossi

Running for governor of Washington. He got sued because he was putting GOP on his signs and stationary. Unfortunately he won the case and this Rossi guy stands a chance. I hope to hell that he looses...

[PatGund]

13. Indeed!

Rossi is a Bush Republican, but trying damn hard to hide it.

Agreed, Rossi needs to be re-defeated.

[uponit7771]

10. Don't forget Cornyn here in Texas, he's running commercials that don't say ANTHING about reThugs

[DangerousRhythm]

21. He's too busy playing fake cowboy to mention them.

I saw the latest one with him wandering around some pasture with cows or something, wearing a cowboy hat and talkin' lahk this. It was enough to make me hurl.

Ah, here it is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6z_ltECY6M

:rofl:

Big BAD John! :rofl:

[Erin Elizabeth]

28. He's such a douchenozzle.

I swear I HATE him.

[DangerousRhythm]

33. Haha, you and me both.

Btw, LOVE your kitty! :D

[political_Dem]

11. Reformer, my behind.

The pictures in the original post say it all. They're nothing but crooks in masquerade.

Don't they even see that the "reforming" meme is not working for neither McCain nor Palin?

[spanone]

12. desperate measures.....at least they are aware of how screwed up their party is

[Essene]

14. hahaha that is really funny

[NYC_SKP]

18. Same here in CA, not using the R word.

[complain jane]

15. How long until McCain suddenly lurches to "Independentness"

Independent Mavericks!

[foo_bar]

16. "reformer with results" was Rove's response to McCain (of all people) in 2000

Full circle:

In the speeches that preceded McCain's last night, the words reform or reformer came up no less than 11 times. But what it means is unclear. It does not appear to have much to do with campaign finance reform, immigration reform, reforming the selection and confirmation of judges -- all issues that McCain had something to do with and have helped define his career in the Senate. They have gone largely unmentioned in St. Paul, Minn., where many of the delegates fought him on each of those efforts. <...>

John Weaver, a former McCain aide and confidant, was less charitable: "It's whatever that viewer happens to believe is reform."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403559.html?hpid=topnews

On Monday, Bush revealed a new slogan, one designed to wrest away McCain's maverick mantle -- "A Reformer With Results" the white-on-blue banners proclaim. <...>

"I look forward to explaining to people that I've got a record," Bush said, "I'm a reformer with results ... If you want somebody from outside of the system, if you want somebody who can't lay claim to being a chairman of an important Senate committee ... come and join this campaign."

http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/02/10/bush/

[Starry Messenger]

17. found another one:

http://deanandal.com/home2.asp

Running in the 11th in CA. Warning: his video starts right up with no prompt. I found him on the Alameda County Republican website which is both funny and sad.

http://www.alamedagop.org/photogallery/index.cfm?Photo=10&Event=Headquarters%20Open%20House%2010%2E21%2E06

[ProSense]

19. LOL!

Bush worst president ever. They were for him before they were against him.

Rot you lying bastards.

[Starry Messenger]

24. Double LOL.

Looks like they are trying to evoke the Richard Pombo days like they were covered in glory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pombo

Amazing a guy from Tracy would get wrapped up in the Abramoff scandal. Guess he was kind of an overachiever.

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061011/NEWS01/610110323

Dean Andal is toast.

[ProSense]

32. Good old Pombo.

It was fun watching him go down.

[14thColony]

20. Of all the mailings I've received for my county/district in FL

(and it has been a whole bunch), exactly ONE Republican has identified his party affiliation in print. But ALL Democrats have done so.

[central scrutinizer]

22. Gordon Smith is really scared

I was watching football yesterday and he had at least four ads every half hour. One showing him with Ted Kennedy with the Matthew Shepherd hate crime bill and another one touting his vote in favor of funding for SCHIP, sandwiched between attack ads from a 527 directed against his opponent for being a "tax-raiser"

[swishyfeet]

23. No red meat ballot measures this year. If ever we could take down that coward...

The time is now!

[bunny planet]

25. Psssst, guys....

The Republican hair gives you away every time. You're not fooling anyone.

[opiate69]

26. And another one...

http://www.dinorossi.com/templates/fdg/images/layout/rotator/rotator.php

I seem to recall reading that in polls indentifying Rossi as an Republican, he scored about 25-30 points lower than when he's identified as "G.O.P".

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

39. A sure sign of the stupidity of some WA voters.

He ran 4 years ago people! As an unabashed Pug!

[Erin Elizabeth]

27. Yep.

I live in suburban Dallas and the republican signs used to have the word in BIG BOLD letters. This year? You can't even FIND the word "Republican." Not even on the freaky-deakiest of them.

Weird. I wonder why they don't want to identify themselves as Republicans anymore? :crazy:

[Patiod]

29. Ha! One of my girlfriends used to date Charlie Dent

(they were both single at the time) Wish I had some good juicy details - will have to ask her at book club next week....

[Occam Bandage]

30. I believe in Charlie Dent.

[Towlie]

31. Here's another one from my district in South Florida

Republican Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida's 21st Congressional District doesn't identify his party either:

http://diaz-balart.house.gov/

However, I was disappointed to find that that his Democratic challenger, Raul L. Martinez, doesn't either. His site says "Our problems today do not have D’s or R’s next to them."

http://www.raul2008.com/

That's disheartening to someone like me who believes that our problems very definitely DO have R's next to them, but I guess I'll have to hold my nose and vote for him anyway. At least the ballots will be marked with the candidate's parties whether they like it or not.

[RollWithIt]

36. Heck, Connie Mack over here in SW Florida doesn't even have a website....

And he spends more time in California than he does here. The yard signs don't say republican anymore though.

[WillyT]

34. Big K & R !!!

:kick:

[Essene]

35. looks like many more being added to the Kos list... a RNC strategy?

[tekisui]

37. No Republicans running this year, same as 2006.

[demokatgurrl]

38. This is their current modus operandi

It's been happening in local elections where I live (suburban Philly) for several years, and right now we have several "independent" candidates who are really Repukes. Our part of Montgomery County is strongly Dem (there are other parts of the County that are just the opposite). So, a Repub cannot win in a small area if they are honest about what they are. The problem is, they went and got themselves endorsed by the Republican party so all the slightly savvy voter has to do is go onto the county repub web site and look for their names. And the names will be there. So they try to hide it out in public but wear their colors proudly for the party faithful.

Moral: Always check up on an "independent" candidate. Look on party web sites, find out who their donors are.