GOP Should Tell Bush, Limbaugh, and Gingrich to Zip It
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog.
If Limbaugh, Gingrich et al., keep going, the GOP will end up a party of two. National Republican Senatorial Committee Chair John Cornyn lashed out at them for calling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, "racist:"
"I think it's terrible," Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR's "All Things Considered" Thursday. "This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent."
The comment is particularly important coming from Sen. Cornyn, who used to sit on the Texas Supreme Court.
And while GOP leaders are at it, they ought to tell former President George W. Bush to zip his lips. Bush tried to explain to a Michigan audience yesterday why he permitted "waterboarding" (to wit, torture) to extract information from alleged terrorists.
Democrats will be running against the Bush record for the next two decades. The more the former president and his former vice president keep talking, the more material they hand to Democrats to run against.
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Bonnie, Bonnie, Bonnie. Why should anyone tell the one voice that stays true to Reagan principles - the last successful President, that he should be quiet. Maybe, just the opposite would be more appropriate. Maybe they should tell people like you to listen. Really listen, not just respond to soundbites. But you can't reason with people who fail to think. Limbaugh is dramatic at times, but he speaks truth which is more than can be said about virtually any of the "leaders" in Washington - from either political party.
Thank you Cornyn!
""This is not the kind of tone any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advise and consent."
I haven't laughed so hard in weeks! The Truth "is not the kind of tone any of us want to set". And I'm sure Cornyn is still wondering why the Repubs lost so big in 08.
I wonder if he thought the kind of tone the demonic Democrats set in the Advise and Consent hearings for Alito and Roberts, and for Bork and Thomas, and for all the rest of the eminently well qualified-- BY DEMOCRATS before they were named-- candidates that the evil Dems trashed, slandered and lied about was the right kind of tone.
Sonia Sodomyzer made a racist remark. It was made voluntarily and thoughtfully. Ergo she is a racist. The proper tone to set is always the Truth. The Republican Party is not going to recover it's value by being a mirror image of the Despicable Dems.
Bush, Limbaugh & Gingrich?
Bush hasn't said a word and has been repectively silent. It's those other two, so I don't know why she grouped them together. Force of habit, I guess. He's still the left's boogeyman.
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