What Is The repuke Equivalent Of "blue dog" Democrat?

[Dinger]

Just curious.

[Windy]

1. Olympia Snowe and Collins...that repubs that always cross theaisle and vote with dems nt

[theothersnippywshrub]

4. New England republicans definitely are the GOP equivalent of Blue Dogs.

Unfortunately for republicans (but fortunately for the country) the GOP has acted like Michael Vick in the way it has treated its Blue Dogs since the adoption of the Republican Southern Strategy.

[depakid]

11. They almost always vote with the looney right

The few times they haven't doesn't justify their reputation.

[DJ13]

2. Michelle Bachman could be a Blue Dog

[JayMusgrove]

3. But she's not smart enough to think.....that

she's one of the Palin Republicans.

[polmaven]

15. Um, huh?

How in this world could someone as far to the right as Michelle Bachman be considered to be the GOP equivilent of a Blue Dog? Has she ever done ANYTHING that is the least bit centrist, never mind liberal?

[pscot]

5. Blue dog Democrat

n/t

[bain_sidhe]

6. "Former"

That is, all of their "moderate" (read as "not marching to the party's drummer") members have been defeated or switched to the Democratic Party. What's left are pretty much the hard core ideologues.

[Atticus]

8. You beat me to it---"former Republicans" nt

[DailyGrind51]

7. A "pink elephant"?

[Sebastian Doyle]

18. Wouldn't "pink elephant" be more appropriate for Repubs with "walk in closets"

Or airport bathroom stalls, in Larry Craig's case.

[Juche]

9. Anyone from the northeast

I remember after Bush won in 2000, there were 5 moderate GOP senators Cheney had to intimidate into following the rest of the party. And all but 1 were from the northeast area. Specter, Collins, Snowe, Jeffords and Chafee.

So any republican from the northeast.

[democracy1st]

10. there's no equivalent,blue dogs are really just republicans. They bash democrats at church

they bash liberal policies,etc

[santamargarita]

12. Someone that's not getting re-elected

:puke:

[camera obscura]

13. Rockefeller Republican/New England Republican

That's what they used to be called, back when they existed.

[cleveramerican]

14. The gang of 14

something like that

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. Blue dog Democrat.

[TheKentuckian]

17. I think the RINO/DINO is the sort that is either/or

an actual fiscal conservatives or a corporatist that isn't into all the fundy non-secular "wedge" stuff. At this point though the RINO is a very rare creature at least on an elected basis but I suspect that if the DINO's/RINO's ever merged they'd make up a pretty big chunk of the electorate and until that contingent is allowed to be the opposition to a liberal party then our politics will always be pretty much FUBAR.
Almost anything that Republicans are about that isn't shared with the DINO/RINO types is unconstitutional and should pretty much be slapped down.

[stranger81]

19. Lincoln Chafee? [n/t]

[Honeycombe8]

20. Repubs don't allow nonconformers into their tent. If they have a tendency to do so...

they are reined in quickly, pressure is put to bear, and they are forced to vote the Republican Way on important matters.

And that's the way it is. (I still remember Spector doing a turnabout on a position a year or two ago, after he dared speak against a White House position on something. He actually looked scared when he took back his prior statement and gave his now-opposite opinion.)

[Rosa Luxemburg]

21. Lassie?

[Cha]

22. This doesn't look good for the blue dogs

"Where 'Blue Dog' Was Born"

Friday, July 31, 2009

"The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of conservative House Democrats founded in the mid-1990s, in many ways follows in the footsteps of the "boll weevil" Democrats who helped pass much of Ronald Reagan's agenda."

Many of the 52 members of the group hail from the South, but their ranks include lawmakers from rural districts across the country.

According to the coalition Web site, the name comes "from the South's longtime description of a party loyalist as one who would vote for a yellow dog if it were on the ballot as a Democrat. . . . The 'Blue Dog' moniker was taken by members of The Coalition because their moderate-to-con- servative-views had been 'choked blue' by their party in the years leading up to the 1994 election."

Sounds like they think of themselves as victims.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073004225.html