North Carolina: Hotbed of GOP Revolt?
Fresh off the anti-war awakening of Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC), another North State Republican has given progressive bloggers something to chatter about. The Lincoln Tribune reports via Raw Story:
You can drop her a line and let her know what you think about all this.
CARY -- A candidate for North Carolina Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court has announced on her campaign's blog that she is leaving the Republican Party and denounced the Bush administration's policy on troop withdrawal from Iraq. Rachel Lea Hunter, a Republican and a candidate for Chief Justice, likens Bush’s administration to the “Nazis” and says that all who disagree with the administration are being branded as “traitors”.Incidentally, Hunter sees a direct line between attacks against her and the GOP uproar against Jones. As she writes on her blog,
Republican dirty tricks are not confined to just me any more. I also saw that Congressman Jones made the news by calling for a withdrawal of our troops. Whatever one may think about the war, one should ask when the mission will be over and when the troops can come home. Are we going to stay indefinitely? While it is nice that we are building Iraq, what about America? And what about the cost? Why do the Americans have to foot the bill when we can ill afford it? These are all legitimate questions to ask.She also has a clear perspective on where the crackdown on dissent within the GOP fits in the history of recent political scandals:
[W]hat I find disturbing is that we are criticized for nothing more than the exercise of our constitutional rights. those who disagree with any aspect of the administration are branded as traitors and must be silenced. i thought the previous administration was bad because of the amorality. this is far worse
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You forgot Coble who's also against the war. And some of the other Repubs are freaked out about free trade.
North Carolina: the state where Republicans have to face all their contradictions.
...is anybody going to ask the president "What is the mission these days?"
Is anybody going to ask the president "What is the mission these days?"
Madame Justice did and guess what? The mission failed and the da fuher is hidding in the bunker! How many people do you know has call the President a Nazi and stood their ground... This lady will not fold....Go Girl, Go
i like the NC GOP mutiny as much as the next librul but just watch, these guys are gonna get bitchslapped by bush and fall in line. jones is already caving ...
"these guys are gonna get bitchslapped by bush and fall in line. jones is already caving ..."
Not MJ, she just bitchslap Bush again on her site and said Bush is now on probation for one year to get his act together with the people....she is on his case and numbers are with her big time....This lady has shook them, check out her site and other fronts that she is pushing to expose the fascists .....http://www.realncrumors.com
Now that we have translated transcripts of recordings of Saddam and his top staffers discussing their WMD programs, including nuclear weapons development programs, and discussing their success at fooling the inspectors, those who called Bush a "liar" about WMDs, and who said we never should have gone to war, should feel pretty sheepish.
We now know that Bush was right about the WMDs. We also know that Libya's Qadhafi gave up his own suprisingly advanced secret nuclear weapons development program because of our invastion of Iraq. So anyone who STILL doesn't believe that our invasion of Iraq has made the world a much safer place must be in willful denial.
But the thing that is really unsettling about the liberals' criticism of our military action is the humanitarian aspect. We know that Saddam was directly responsible for an AVERAGE of about 275 violent deaths per day, OVER TWENTY YEARS! Why don't liberals seem to care at all about those people??? Our invasion of Iraq has drastically reduced the average daily violent death rate there, but most liberals couldn't care less.
Whatever happened to "bleeding heart liberals," the kind of liberals who actually cared about people other than themselves? Are they extinct???
-Dave
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