Defeated GOP rep unloads on Tea Party and Palin -- GREAT READ!!

[Ballygrl]

I'm not posting the entire OP because it's a long winded article so I'll just post an excerpt:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8871106

Enrique  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)       
Tue Aug-03-10 01:43 PM
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Defeated GOP rep unloads on Tea Party and Palin -- GREAT READ!!

As he tells this story, the veteran lawmaker is sitting in his congressional office, which he will have to vacate in a few months. On June 22, he was defeated <1> in the primary runoff by Spartanburg County 7th Circuit Solicitor Trey Gowdy, who had assailed Inglis for supposedly straying from his conservative roots, pointing to his vote for the bank bailout and against George W. Bush's surge in Iraq. Inglis, who served six years in Congress during the 1990s as a conservative firebrand before being reelected to the House in 2004, had also ticked off right-wingers <2> in the state's 4th Congressional District by urging tea-party activists to "turn Glenn Beck off" and by calling on Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) to apologize for shouting "You lie!" at Obama during the president's State of the Union address. For this, Inglis, who boasts (literally) a 93 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union, received the wrath of the tea party, losing to Gowdy 71 to 29 percent.

What I found interesting about this is the fact that Conservatives are defeating Republicans, and while reading the comments you see this typical response:

AnArmyVeteran  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) 
Tue Aug-03-10 03:32 PM
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15. The Tea Party is to Republicans as Arsenic is to a Rat.   Updated at 1:45 AM
   
It will lead to their death. RIP GOP...

BTW: RIP is Rest In Purgatory. I wouldn't want them to rest in peace...

Now as I'm reading these comments I'm thinking to myself that these people just don't get it, they're celebrating but there's nothing for them to celebrate, then I'm thinking that Conservatives are achieving in their party what Progressives dream of, defeating the wishy washy Moderates, and finally someone gets it:

Radical Activist  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Aug-03-10 01:55 PM
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4. Why can't liberals accomplish this?
   
It would only take defeating a few conservative Democrats in a primary to change the national scene.

Juche  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Wed Aug-04-10 12:39 AM
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26. No idea
   
Not sure why the GOP primary movement seems to be much better than ours. We had Sestak beat Specter and Lincoln was almost pushed off, but I think that is about it.

Plus Lamont, he won the primary but lost the general.

But by and large it seems the right is better at using primaries.

Then we have someone who sees the tea party is not to be taken lightly, although I disagree with his choice of words:

Doctor_J  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)
Tue Aug-03-10 04:49 PM
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18. Why does everyone in this thread think this is killing the Repukes?
   
The replies here exhibit very deep denial. This Gowdy nut is going to be a Congressman in 6 months. This problem is getting worse, not better.

The rest of the thread is full of denial of course, but I find it amazing that we're accomplishing what the Progressives want to accomplish, only difference though is America is more in tune with our ideology then theirs.

[Chris_]

I'd be suspicious of any Republican drawing support or sympathy from Mother Jones magazine.

[AllosaursRus]

Any Republican that voted in favor of "Zero's" agenda, is no conservative or Republican as far as I'm concerned!

I say kick every single incumbent out who believed any business in America was or is too big to fail!

Let 'em go thru bankruptcy just like any other person or company that can't manage it's bottom line!

Kick the Unions out, and you'd be surprised how easily it is to get back on track. Pay a decent wage for a decent days work instead of obscene dollars to twist lug nuts onto the left front wheel of a Volt!

Tell them, "Well, we tried to tell you we couldn't afford to pay you 20 mil apiece for your retirement, but you didn't believe us, so don't let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out"!

Arrest the frikkin' bankers and their bosses who knew the paper they were trading was worthless and send them to jail to meet Ben Dover! Bwarney Frank and Chris Dedd , ought to be right there with their cronies from Freddie and Fannie breakin' rocks, too! Just when did our gubmint officials start gettin' a free pass? We need to back up and take a look at what we have let them get away with for too long!

[Ballygrl]

I'd be suspicious of any Republican drawing support or sympathy from Mother Jones magazine.

Those are the Republicans who need to be defeated at the ballot box.

[blitzkrieg_17]

I knew who it was before I clicked on the thread. Inglis, screw off, you're a tool.

[Karin]

That was a sweet, sweet defeat.  I remember that incident, where he said to "turn off Glenn Beck."  Remember the audience reaction?  "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Of course, Glenn replayed it on the radio show after said sweet defeat.  Funny.  Heartening.