Reply #12: See a buzzflash editorial from last year [View All]

[MikeH]

The Myth of the Three Northeast Republican Moderates: They're Republicans, Stupid!

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/05/04/edi05042.html

Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, and Olympia Snowe like to cultivate the perception that they are Republican "moderates" with their Rhode Island and Maine constituents, reluctantly being pulled along by a right wing jihad. They kind of pretend that they are Quakers kidnapped by the marauding troops of Genghis Khan.

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Oh, yeah, Chafee, Collins and Snowe, it appears to us from a distance (we have never met any of them), don't seem to be your rabid, psychotic Tom DeLay or Rick Santorum type of Republican. They actually seem like people who might be nice neighbors.

But they made two big mistakes. (more)



It is no good trying to be a "moderate" Republican in today's GOP, according to Buzzflash. (And lots of people, including myself, would agree.) Just by being Republicans, they enable *, Karl Rove, Bill Frist, and the rabid radical Rethugs.