Bill Clinton: New-Look GOP Makes Bush Look Like a Liberal

[bigtree]

September 15, 2010

Former President Says Republicans Pushing Out Pragmatic Voices

MINNEAPOLIS – Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the Republican Party is embracing "ideology over evidence" and pushing out pragmatic voices that would make even his White House successor seem like a liberal.

"A lot of their candidates today, they make him look like a liberal," Clinton told an enthusiastic crowd at a downtown hotel as he campaigned for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton.

Clinton pointed to the tea party movement's influence on the GOP.

"The Boston Tea Party was protesting abuse of power. This is now trading public power for the abuse of private power," Clinton said, just as a tea party-backed candidate was declared the winner Tuesday night in Delaware's hotly contested Republican primary for U.S. Senate

Clinton was in Minnesota to support Democratic gubernatorial nominee Mark Dayton. Dayton served in the U.S. Senate with Clinton's wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and supported her for president in 2008.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100915/ap_on_el_gu/us_clinton_minnesota_governor_2

[Kolesar]

1. Is that a back handed compliment?

The headline "works on several levels"

[madokie]

3. Sure read like it to me

damn near had me fuming before I read the rest of the story.

Bigtree if you're listening you can do better than that

[bigtree]

5. I dunno what you're fussing about

He made a good point. I think folks here are more than capable of reading beyond the headlines . . . if they so desire.

[madokie]

6. You miss the point but thats ok

[rock]

8. bush* doesn't even deserve a back-handed compliment

A simple insult will do.

[HughBeaumont]

2. He makes a good point.

"trading public power for the abuse of private power."

I never understood why conservatives who are so hellbent on "gettin' the gubmint outta EVUHthing" have absolutely no problem with a corporation of some kind deciding every move they make, every benefit they can or cannot get and even if they're allowed to live or die.

[deacon]

4. Yeah, it's about how much more extreme the party has become since gw. n/t

[NJmaverick]

7. K & R!