Sunday, October 21, 2007
What it means to be Republican and human?
It means you get a well funded primary opponent to punish you for the sin of questioning the wisdom of the Idiot Bastard Child, George W Bush.
But the warm reception wasn't for the Republican who since 1995 has represented this stretch of coast from the Virginia state line to the sprawling Marine base at Camp Lejeune. Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., a soft-spoken, deeply religious man who two years ago turned against the Iraq war, was not there.My king, right or wrong, trumps my country every time for these folks. And poor old Jones compounds the sin by abandoning Rush Limbaugh. How dare he breath the same air! Let us hope this trend continues. The more that decent people are driven from the Republican Party, the easier it will be to crush it and flush it down the drain.
The GOP activists dining on fried fish were cheering Joe McLaughlin, a county commissioner and retired Army major who has launched a hard-charging bid to dispatch Jones in next year's primary by highlighting Jones' votes against the war.
"His is a message of despair, a message of defeat," McLaughlin told the appreciative crowd as he derided Jones, accusing him of abandoning the troops, President Bush, even talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.
Jones, who has never had a primary challenge but is being abandoned by GOP officials across his district, is not alone.
Across the country, other Republican lawmakers who have broken with over the war are under fire from party loyalists.
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