Comments on: War Against The House Republican Leadership

By: The Carpetbagger Report » Blog Archive » They still haven’t learned the lessons of the Culture of Corruption

Fri, 11 May 2007 23:44:39 +0000

[...] So far, some other conservative heavy-hitters are with him. James Joyner isn’t fond of the “declaration of war” rhetoric, but he nevertheless concluded, “I do, however, concur that the House Republican leadership continues not to ‘get it’ and find Calvert a worthy target of scorn, for reasons Erick’s posts details.” The American Mind linked to the RS piece approvingly, as did the Jawa Report. Patrick Hynes added, “I am not personally in a place to declare war on House Republican leadership, but I am deeply troubled that the GOP still does not appear to get it with respect to the corrupting influence of pork. I’m sick of it. Sick and tired. We are either the party or small, clean government or we are the party that merely rewards a different set of friends than the other party.” [...]

By: jeff b

jeff b — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:30:06 +0000

That was abuse? Lieberman got exactly what he deserved: kicked out of the party.

By: Sean Hackbarth

Sean Hackbarth — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:59:39 +0000

I see two parts to this: First is the ouster of Calvert. Second is to test the rightroots' ability to directly influence. Can they (we/me since I'm part of it) move the Republicans to action or will they simply be in the background talking to each other. There are those like myself who aren't that comfortable with the activism, but there are lots of people who write weblogs and/or hang out at Redstate who want to "do something." Erick's call to arms taps into that energy. It can be abused, look at the Kossites and their treatment of Lieberman. It will require leadership and a conservative temperment to make sure the rightroots is a positive force and not just a faction inside the GOP.

By: legion

legion — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:52:41 +0000

Does anyone really believe the RINO Leadership wasn't already in the crosshairs

RINOs may be in the crosshairs of the hard-right base, but non-RINOs are in the crosshairs of the remaining 70% of the country that aren't die-hard Bush-backers. Do the math.

By: boaz

boaz — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:39:00 +0000

And so the difference would be... What?
Does anyone really believe the RINO Leadership wasn't already in the crosshairs

By: Rick DeMent

Rick DeMent — Fri, 11 May 2007 19:16:16 +0000

...nor eager to see the Right Blogosphere go down the “you’re with us or you’re against us” route of the Netroots.

Well get used to it, the Blogosphere came of age in a period of right wing ascendancy so it was easy to play the calm arbiter of political discourse decency role (not that that it actually stopped a lot of the frothing, just that it was easier to do if you felt like going that route). Now that we are on the backside of the right wing peak, the natives will get increasingly desperate I fear.

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Fri, 11 May 2007 17:46:16 +0000

The rhetoric reminds me very much of that from Kos...Kossian rhetoric?