As the Republican party has continued to move to the right, long-time GOP operatives responsible for the nuts and bolts of elections and messaging are become more concerned. A lot of the grumbling has been behind the scenes, but some party officials are “coming out” with their criticisms. Case in point:
“Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams dropped his reelection bid on Monday, and fired some parting shots at the Tea Party and the hard-line conservatives he thinks are hurting the party’s electoral success.
“I have tired of those who are obsessed with seeing conspiracies around every corner and who have terribly misguided notions of what the role of the state party is while saying ‘uniting conservatives’ is all that is needed to win competitive races across the state,” Wadhams wrote in a memo to the Colorado Republican State Central Committee obtained by The Denver Post.”
When the man who had been dubbed “Karl Rove’s successor” tells the Denver Post that he has “loved being chairman” but is “tired of the nuts,” it’s telling.
It is hard not to sympathize with Wadhams. It sometimes does seem that the inmates are running the asylum. A friend shared a recent “Petition” sent from one Leo Toby, of Orleans, Indiana to Speaker of the House John Boehner and the Republican leadership; it began with a variety of “whereas” clauses, followed by a demand that they vote not to raise the debt ceiling, and it concluded with the following paragraph:
“Republicans and Democrats,
Let there be no doubt that if the mandates of the election of 2010 are not realized by the Republican Congress, we will vote you out of office in 2012. We are not joking when we tell you that we have had enough. Got it????
We expect nothing from the Marxist Democrats that (Including John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Susan Collins, and some other Republicans in name only) will save the republic because they have demonstrated over and over again their intention of destroying the United States . They intend to reduce us to a third world country. Making the entire world miserable is not the answer and we will fight to the bitter end no matter what it takes.”
In what alternate universe is Lindsay Graham a Marxist?
Nuts indeed. No wonder Republicans are bolting.
In Karl Marx’s 1848 Communist Manifesto theres a demand for free public education. Lindsay Graham also supports taxpayer-funded government schools.
Therefore Graham is a card-carrying Communist!
I always think they lump Lindsey in due to a) he compromised on something at some point, b) he’s a friend of John McCain – the Maverick, and c) he’s a little “funny”– ya know what I mean? *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*.
The alternate universe can be found on page 666 of the most recent version of the “Tea Party Manifesto”…it is called “Glennbeckistan” and has millions of honorary citizens following the paranoid conspiracy doctrines of their dear leader. As an aside, I love Wilson 46201’s version of a categorical syllogism. The flaw in the construction demonstrates that he perfectly understands what he is doing.