“Our Mission is not to help Republicans
hold onto the majority.”
Pat Toomey, President, Club for Growth
National Journal, March 23, 2006
On September 14, Toomey sent out a club bulletin summing up its activities in the Republican primaries:
“. . . the Club’s PAC scored its first-ever knockout of an incumbent when Tim Walberg defeated Rep. Joe Schwarz in the Michigan Republican primary. WE ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING VITALLY IMPORTANT IN RHODE ISLAND DESPITE THE VOTE TALLY.”
“Politicians are risk-adverse. EVERY REPUBLICAN IN CONGRESS KNOWS WHAT WE DID IN RHODE ISLAND. They realize that Club members donated an incredible $725,000 to Chafee’s challenger. They know that the Club for Growth PAC spent an additional $515,000, mostly on TV ads, and took . . . (Chafee’s GOP primary) . . . challenger from being down 2 to 1 in the polls to the edge of an upset. As senators cast their votes on key bills, wavering Republicans will have to wonder if they could withstand the same punishment”
But for the CFG’s campaign against Chafee, the Republicans would still have retained control of the Senate even with the loss of Montana and Virginia.
Sooooo, you gotta love RINO Pat Toomey! The punishment the CFG delivered–in violation of Reagan’s 11th Commandment–to Republican Lincoln Chafee was a punishment Chafee could not withstand nor recover from. And, for that, the Democrats thank you!
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Jay Fawcett lost. That means he’s no longer paying you, so you don’t have to keep posting these idiotic diaries anymore.
http://www.republica…
Have a nice day!
?Tonight the Club for Growth?s dishonest campaign against Senator Lincoln Chafee may very well have cost our party it?s majority in the U.S. Senate,? said Sarah Chamberlain Resnick, Executive Director of the Republican Main Street Partnership. ?Harry Reid and the Democratic leadership in the Senate should call Pat Toomey and thank him for working hard to undermine the Republican majority.?
See, blah, it’s like this. Republicans think you’re an idiot too! <|:-(
Hastert is not seeking minority leader position. The two top candidates are John Boehner and Mike Pence, the latter being a 100 pointer with the CFG. Here’s the Pence site for a planned presidential run in 2008. http://www.pence08.c…
You should want to do your own due diligence on who the Club for Growth is and that for which they stand. If you approached it intelligently instead of emotionally you would realize the risks involved with Pence as minority leader and so closely aligned with the Club for Growth.
fuck off.
You got your guy in. He will be, as Jay said Tuesday night, one of the most incompetent and least productive congressmen in this next term.
The culture of greed that Club for Growth (and Doug “On the downturn” Bruce) promotes should disgust all the so-called Christians in this town.
See you in ’08.
sore losers huh?
You guys got the senate and house and most govs, what the hell more do you want? Communist style control?
Unless you are in complete denial, you know the main reason your party won as much as they did is that they got the anti Bush Republican/Independant vote.
Same shit happened after Clinton’s impeachement and scandals. The Reps got many Dems anti Clinton vote.
Not that your party has any fucking answers for Irag except retreat. Or for immigration except give in. Or for anything else except to raise taxes to increase social programs.
Dear Liberalism is Dead,
If you think liberalism is dead but also fear it’s like a vampire waiting to come alive at night and suck the blood out of your jugular, please help drive a stake in its dead heart by joining the national chapter of the Club for Growth.
If you are an indigent millionaire and cannot afford your dues, please contact us. We at the DNC we will be happy (seriously and undeniably happy) to send you and all your Republican friends the annual dues to join!
Yours,
The Majority Party
P.S. to Pat Toomey:
(We love you, Pat! Hugs and Kisses! Keep it up! Stay the course!)
Colorado Springs is held up around the country as being a beautiful place that is completely intolerant. And it has been touted that way because of the ridiculousness of the Religious Right and blind conservatism. You all use the word “Liberal” as dirty word that is consistent with Fags, Niggers, Spics, drug users, baby killers and any other ugliness that exist in American Culture. Shame on you all.
And as usual the Religious Right has been exposed through its leading pastor that is a gay man who uses drugs, yet has spent years condemning those that do the same. How many young men have committed suicide because of the religious right pointing out to them that they are unacceptable to God and society?
How about your leader Rush Limbaugh and his rants on people should be put in jail for using drugs. Yet he has his Latino maid “score” drugs for him. Then all of you gather in God’s house and look out at all the fags, niggers, spics, drug users and baby killers and judge because you are so much better. Have you all shown as much ?Love? to Haggard?s Gay Lover as you have to Haggard himself?
I don’t know, but someone said, “Let him without sin cast the first stone!” Step right up Haggard, Limbaugh, Farwell and Rumsfeld!
I was told about a situation of a Lamborn supporter who wanted to put bibles in all schools. When questioned if she would mind if the Koran and the Tora where also put there, she responded that America is a Christian nation and the congress once authorized bibles in schools. She was told that congress also once authorized slavery, but that doesn?t make it right. The Lamborn supporter?s response was, ?Well Black people are happy they were brought here!? How ignorant is their world that they believe that Black people were happy to lose millions of lives, be starved, beaten and chained? I guess the Jews were also happy about Hitler?
My point is simple, get over your selves. The Anglo Christian nation of purity that you THINK you created never existed. And the Republicans have clearly made a mess of the war. I guess that over 100,000 dead Iraqi children are as happy as the Black Slaves and The Jews!
So my party may not have all the answers – but your party sure did make a mess of things!
that’s what I would have said if I wasn’t so pissed.
You left Lamborn out of the list, though, “Haggard, Limbaugh . . . ”