EmptyTimCup
06-16-2012, 08:14 AM
Not Your Daddy’s Republican Party (http://pjmedia.com/blog/not-your-daddys-republican-party/?singlepage=true)
Neither is it your big brother's.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush came in for an avalanche of criticism from conservatives for saying that Ronald Reagan and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, “would have a hard time” getting nominated in today’s Republican Party.
Speaking to reporters and editors at Bloomberg News on Monday, Bush said:
“Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground,”
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“Back to my dad’s time and Ronald Reagan’s time – they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan suport,” he said. Reagan “would be criticized for doing the things that he did.”
For his trouble, Jeb has now been branded a RINO, having angered that perpetually outraged faction of right wingers whose self-appointed duties include keeping party members on the straight and narrow — and unthinking path — of “true” conservatism. This, despite the fact that many of these same Guardians of the Sacred Chalice of Orthodoxy were begging Jeb to run for president just a few months ago and save them from the scourge of Romneyism.
Why criticism of one’s own party equates with the notion of disloyalty or ideological impurity is a mystery. The GOP is not the politburo, but the conservative NKVD in the blogosphere acts as if it is. Evidently, echoing the criticism of some liberals is reason enough to throw the heretic into the Lubyanka and toss away the key.
Nevertheless, the reaction among some conservatives to Governor Bush’s statements was puzzling. Bryan Preston of the PJ Tatler wrote:
The GOP has nominated a Bush in 2000, re-nominated him in 2004, and then nominated centrist John McCain in 2008 and centrist Mitt Romney in 2012.
Ace of Spades:
[T]he GOP is so extreme our last two nominees have been John McCain and Mitt Romney . … I am so sick and tired of this garbage.
iOwnTheWorld:
Jebadummy Bush says that his father, as well as Reagan, would have a tough time getting nominated today because the republican party is too ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE. He says this while Romney swept through the primaries like a hot knife through butter.
:nomoney:
Neither is it your big brother's.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush came in for an avalanche of criticism from conservatives for saying that Ronald Reagan and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, “would have a hard time” getting nominated in today’s Republican Party.
Speaking to reporters and editors at Bloomberg News on Monday, Bush said:
“Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground,”
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[...]
“Back to my dad’s time and Ronald Reagan’s time – they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan suport,” he said. Reagan “would be criticized for doing the things that he did.”
For his trouble, Jeb has now been branded a RINO, having angered that perpetually outraged faction of right wingers whose self-appointed duties include keeping party members on the straight and narrow — and unthinking path — of “true” conservatism. This, despite the fact that many of these same Guardians of the Sacred Chalice of Orthodoxy were begging Jeb to run for president just a few months ago and save them from the scourge of Romneyism.
Why criticism of one’s own party equates with the notion of disloyalty or ideological impurity is a mystery. The GOP is not the politburo, but the conservative NKVD in the blogosphere acts as if it is. Evidently, echoing the criticism of some liberals is reason enough to throw the heretic into the Lubyanka and toss away the key.
Nevertheless, the reaction among some conservatives to Governor Bush’s statements was puzzling. Bryan Preston of the PJ Tatler wrote:
The GOP has nominated a Bush in 2000, re-nominated him in 2004, and then nominated centrist John McCain in 2008 and centrist Mitt Romney in 2012.
Ace of Spades:
[T]he GOP is so extreme our last two nominees have been John McCain and Mitt Romney . … I am so sick and tired of this garbage.
iOwnTheWorld:
Jebadummy Bush says that his father, as well as Reagan, would have a tough time getting nominated today because the republican party is too ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE. He says this while Romney swept through the primaries like a hot knife through butter.
:nomoney: