Message to the GOP — ‘Moderates Need Not Apply’

“Sarah and Rush, Glenn Beck and the rest of the Republican right “have basically hung out a moderates need not apply sign” says former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.” – ABC News
Ha ha ha!
David Plouffe must be some sort of Poufter.
Only a mental midget would draw that conclusion. Dede Scozzafava is a liberal disguised as a Republican. All the conservatives did was stay true to their convictions when they backed Hoffman instead of the Republican candidate. Moderates are welcome as long as they hold true to a few basic conservative ideals.

By using his own logic, Rush is an expert on all women…just ask his three ex-wives. Or is he the expert pharmacist?

“Moderates are welcome as long as they hold true to … conservative ideals.” Which in plain english means that moderates are not welcome, only conservatives. Stop drinking the koolaid, you can’t speak straight anymore. But I’m sure enjoying watching the lemmings march to the sea.

let me add this, please
For the people who are pro-abortion -
pro-choice as they like to be called -
You, too, are leaving the girls high and dry. So they get the abortion – then what?

I implore the Republican party to continue on this right wing , extremist road of disaster. Democrats will continue to rack up victories! LOL!! Please keep listening to right wing nut cases like Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin and propping them up as your leaders. Also, please make sure that all right wing protests show angry , White males carrying signs threatening and insulting the President . Democrats LOVE it!!!

Force out Crist. Take out Mike Castle next, and make sure Mark Kirk doesn’t make the Illinois ballot. That kind of take no prisoners march to the sea by Conservatives is actually the only way I see Democrats holding onto their 58 seats in the mid-term elections.

I got a questionnaire from the Republican National Committee, asking if I agreed with a bunch of statements they suggested. They were so slanted to the right with semantically powerful words, that I was disgusted. I threw it out, but now I wish I’d written “Only radical right-wingers would agree with these! You’re kicking the moderate Republicans out of the party! Enjoy your minority status — you won’t win elections any time soon!”

Amazing. Scozzafava wasn’t selected to be the republican nominee by a primary where real voters choose but she was selected in a “smoke-filled backroom” and when she is rejected as polls show her to be is the story “Democracy in Action”? Well yes, just not here at ABCNEWS. LOL

Abortion, pro life, pro choice, that needs to become a state right’s decision——I completely disagree. Just like slavery could not a ‘states’ issue. this is very much the same. No state should ever have jurisdiciton over another person’s body, in the guise of forcing them to develope a baby against their will. We dont lay eggs. IF God wanted all fertilized eggs to be developed, he’d have us lay eggs, so if a girl didn’t want the baby, you can sit on it and develope it. But instead God gave WOMEN sole KNOWLEDGE of the pregnancy for the first four to five months, he gave WOMEN The domain of the pregnancy, INSIDE THeir bodies. In doing these two things he gaVe women the POWER over their pregnancies. If a women doesn’t wnat to tell you she’s pregnant, then you will never know. period. Why? Argue with God. He gave women that knowledge, that power, and far be it for you to try to strip women of whta God gave them. God NEVER told you, Jesus NEVER told you to force women to develope babies against their will. They NEVER told so much as a single women to develope a pregnacy she didn’t want even though abortion has been going on so long as there have been people. My Lord people if ever there were SIGNS everywhere the abortion is between a women and God, READ THEM!!!!! This is NOT your place. It’s your delusion. You excuse to feel important maybe. How boring to just have to work on your own sins, huh? Well, surprise surprise, that IS what Jesus told you to do. How about you start actually caring about the things Jesus told you to care about, like helping the sick and the poor. You dont have to make up topics, Jesus did give you some. TOo bad those are the causes of ‘liberals’ huH? Funny, but liberals are far more in linewith Jesus’ actual words than self proclaimed “christians”.

Looks like the Democrats just picked up another seat in the house. These wing nuts would rather have a lock step of a few then have a honest debate of many.
Good Bye GOP.

This is extreme Republicanism is at it’s worse. Moderates need not apply, nore shall women with a mind of their own, or Black men and women that step out of their place do not become a Republican. If your not a Conservative Chrisitian, a Southerner that includes Texas, not Anti Aboration, or into big military spending, invading other contries or just plain paranoid in general DO NOT APPLY. The Republican Party have put Abe Lincoln to shame as well as our for fathers that faught hard for this country to have seperation of ccurch and state. I am pro choice because NO ONE has the right to tell me what to do with my body, especially a man. I find that more men seem to be the ones that are against abortion that women, it’s like when women faught for the right to use birth control all over again. I know I want to start a movement that makes it mandatory that all men get snipped, that way abortion goes away and we don’t have to worry about having any children.

They say that for 100 years republicans have held this seat. Take a look around this district and it certainly— SHOWS. On Sunday, the Boston Globe wrote an article about the bridge between “this place” and VERMONT. (Due to planed or unplanned– negligent, it closed last week.) The article said “Hundreds of workers from impoverished upstate New York towns who have low-paying but steady jobs on the Vermont side now face long-distance commutes that add hours to their day and take dollars from their pockets.” The key word is “impoverished” but that’s fine, the “nice” folks up here like it that way. The joke is that the people around here pity Vermonters for the taxes they pay. Funny thing, however, taxes over here are not much lower– except of course unless they use tar-paper for sliding.. doing that sometimes gets the taxes back in line.. But generation after generation.. they line up to cast their vote AGAINST those awful liberals.. Standing in the voting line they each say their name– and over and over again. the same name is heard. Funny how that works.. But one thing they DO conserve on around here—-is last names. I guess genetic diversity is a liberal plot. I don’t hear dueling banjos playing yet.. but watch out “Burt Reynolds.” The good news is I can see (liberal)VERMONT from my kitchen window. about three miles distant— and 100 years away.

If Scozzafava was such a great choice and the true voice of the (Republican) voters why did she quit then?

I used to read this kind of propaganda in Soviet “Pravda”. This article would be fit there perfectly. Everyone who disagree with the government is mentally ill – let’s ridicule the oposition and lock them up in mental hospitals. Only Stu Shutzman-like are real patriots and camarades.
Way to go USA!! Very soon we will applaud camarade Obama kissing camarade Putin on the mouth, and everybody will sing “The International”.

OK, what happens when there are no old, white Protestant (Evangelical) rich males left in this country? I mean the best way to win a majority is to alienate as much of it as you can? The logic is confusing too me. Can someone help me out on this one?

These fringe element freaks in the Repub party better get a clue. The party doesn’t need more extremists to survive. It needs more moderates to survive.

As for Doug Hoffman.. the “C” word comes to mind… rhymes with “sheep.” I predict some deep dark skeletons in his closet.

“is the GOP tent becoming too small for a “discussion of the issues?”"
Republicans don’t like discussion. It reminds them too much that people are free enough to have an opinion. I get a little nervous around any political party that claims their beliefs as the will of God.
Looks like Independents will become the new moderate republican. It’s time to start listening closer to what they have to offer.

“Ha ha ha!
David Plouffe must be some sort of Poufter.”
And what are those conservative ideals? Hatrred toward, racial minorities, gays (you did just call him gay) education? What do they stand for that’s not “Anti-something-else”?

ha ha the libs are sooo upset. how dare voters express their views outside what the media tells them is good for them! the revolution is here libs and you will be OUT in 2010 and 2012. the american people do not want your socialism and don’t want your govt run healthcare.

Call them, Republican Taliban or American Taliban.. it matters not. What is clear,however, is that unlike their namesakes to the east, these people actually believe their own ideological nonsense. And so the term “incestuous amplification” comes to mind.. when you stop to realize that these people are mentally powerless to resist their own propaganda. Without a doubt—-the country comes second to their agenda.

The Republicans aren’t inclusive? Give us all a break! The Democrats demonize anyone who doesn’t tow the bama’s marxist line, insist that the Republicans select candidates that forsake conservative principles and call them non-inclusive don’t. Let’s have all of the RINO’s follow Benedict Arlen Specter into their true party and let the Republicans try to rebuild their party with (gasp), Republicans!

Not quite. Moderates are welcome. RINOs are not.
The Republican party has become the right wing of the democrat/socialist/liberal machine as emphasized by the nomination of the RINO McCain to last year’s presidential contest.
Conservatives, specifically Conservative Republicans, are simply taking their party back.
This can only be a good thing.

Yukon Sam – Wow, just wow. I’ve always felt that way but never put it into words with such eloquance.

scozzafavva wouldn’t know a moderate if she fell over one!!!!!!!!!!

Scozzafava wouldn’t know a moderate if she fell over one!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another amazing example of ABC’s liberal leaning ways. They make extreme by-lines to feed their liberal friends and fail to tell the story from both sides. Dede was not selected by the Republican voters in a primary, she was nominated to the ballot from the back room. Her moderate views were to the left of the Democratic nominee which allowed him to put up ads claiming she would install liberal values. Naturally, ABC can’t put those facts in the story. They have to create their by-line and story to feed the liberal pundits so the story can continue to spin that Republicans are a closed tent. The truth is that the front door is open, just not the back door like Democrats use. Its amazing how those robocalls for the independent got paid for by the Democrats in order to sneak their canidate in.

Good Riddance to the Trash..Palin is such a moron…but you know what money talks…that’s the way that party works just hand over the cash and they will say and do anything you want..

Moderate Democrats may apply but prefer fire breatheing far left loons.

I seriously doubt anyone force anything on Dede. She just thought she’d get her revenge by throwing her support behind the dem candidate. Since she was further left in her beliefs, we see the effects Wed morning.

With all due respect Scozzafava is a LIBERAL – not a moderate. She was LEFT of the Democrat candidate. She was for card check with the unions, gay marriage, abortion, and the stimulus bill – what – of all of that is even Moderate?
And yes – LIBERALS are no longer acceptable hiding out in the Republican Party. If you LIBERALS want to run – run in the Democratic Party – or as an Independent.

Yes, let’s cheer on the vitriol. Why work together when we can work AGAINST each other and create sensational sound bites that get us more speaking engagements for minority audiences. (I mention minority here in the context of a small group that doesn’t really wanna work for the attention they think they deserve and has nothing constructive to contribute to the current debate)
Because we don’t need no stinkin bipartisanship. Right? We don’t need a common ground to work from so that we can steer this country fully into the 21st century, as far as the Right is concerned, as long as we’re afraid and they’re in charge, everything’s good.

These so called moderates are the same ones that cost Bush I a second term and gave us Obama. People want a choice and every liberal group will do everything they possibly can to deny that. Once again they are not Moderates they are Liberals. Please report it that way. You always do it to the right!

Seems like you can be a “turncoat” politician, Philanderer, or just “dumb as a box of rocks” and you’ll be “accepted” into the GOP – just as long you abide by the Limbaugh “party line” …

I would point out that the right-wing of the GOP has successfully redefined what “Conservative” means. What’s now “Moderate” is the position of people like Ronald Reagan. The well-spoken Reagan would probably have compared today’s right-wing with the goose-stepping brown shirts of the NAZI Party. A German teaching in America, since the 1990′s, has a long essay worth reading where he points out that the Clintons would properly belong to the Conservative party in Germany and America’s right-wing would be under government surveillance for the threats to democracy they are. The essay is worth a read and is here:

Do you ever wonder what the world might be like in the hands of rodeo clowns, talk show drug addicts, and quitters who claim their experience is based on what they can see in their backyards ! Scary stuff but that is the world that wing nuts dream of. Somebody please wake them up, better yet – maybe we let them sleep.

Actually moderates did pay attention and spoke up with their vote in 2008 and are paying attention to what is going on with this “extreme push to the right”, “purifying the party” or whatever you want to call it. The viotes that count will be in ’10 and ’12 and I do not see a whole lot different result than occured in ’08. Moderates especially the well educated baby boomer segment will not accept an extremist approach and the smarter segment of the Republican Party understands that. Unfortunately for them they pandered too long to this narrow minded conservative extremist element and created a “monster” that they now cannot control. It is; however fortunate for our nation’s future. Because now that they have been exposed for what they are, they are much easier to defeat. And educated, progressive moderates realize that because we pay attention and are informed.

I could never vote for anyone who would support abortion, to do so would make me complicit in the killing!
Liberal voters can kid themselves that they are not part of the massacre, but no amount of misinformation can alter the cold hard facts!
The republican party needs to represent something other than drawing close to the democrats, if we want democrats we already have them!

Was ABC news as concerned for democrats when they kicked out Joe Lieberman – which happened by the way through a primary – not a committee selection.