Lee: GOP Infighting Will Lead to a Stronger Party

[brooklynite]

Source: Roll Call

Utah Sen. Mike Lee said Tuesday that the turmoil he and others have fomented in the Republican Party is all part of a Reaganesque revolution that will return the GOP to its glory days.

“The gaping hole in the middle of the Republican party today, the one that separates the grass roots from the establishment leaders, is precisely the size and shape of a new unifying conservative reform agenda,” Lee said in a speech Tuesday at the Heritage Foundation. “The establishment will not produce that agenda.”

In the speech entitled “What’s Next for Conservatives,” Lee characterized his leading role in the government shutdown as part of a touchstone moment for Republicans fed up with party leaders who have strayed too far from conservative ideals.

Read more: http://www.rollcall.com/news/lee_gop_infighting_will_lead_to_a_stronger_party-228733-1.html

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...says the man who bumped out an Incumbent Republican Senator for "cooperating" in order to get something done.

[hobbit709]

1. I'd like to know what they're on that they get these delusions.

I want to make sure I never take any of it.

[Jackpine Radical]

20. High on Believing…

[GatorOrange]

2. A smaller, nationally insignificant party run by purists is more like it.. n/t

[cstanleytech]

35. Bingo !!! nt

[eggplant]

3. Please proceed, Senator. n/t

[Heather MC]

5. +1

War is the only thing these idiots understand
It is fun watching from a safe distance on a hill like the olden days of war

[JNelson6563]

4. We're just re-arranging the deck chairs...

nothing to see here.

Julie

[Plucketeer]

6. Right - senator.....

When you winnow down "road apples" from the "apples" to a fine, golden brown dust...... You STILL end up with horseshit!

[DetlefK]

7. I bet, the Teabaggers will use some communist propaganda-slogans for this struggle:

A new republican party with "a new conservative agenda" from "the grassroots".

The communists have words this: Conservative "revolutionaries" are trying to establish their power. They are fighting the "counter-revolutionaries" who represent the tyrannical old regime and stand in the way of freedom.

Sound familiar?

[IkeRepublican]

25. TP's always been lifting pages from the communist manifesto handbook

It's what they really want - a communist dictatorship by big business. Many refer to this as fascism, but I see more of a Soviet-style draconian attitude toward the population coming from these wingnuts. And, we all know that they love to take exactly what they do and shift the blame towards anyone who questions their agenda.

[lastlib]

36. Straight out of Mao's script....

from the same guy who said "Political power flows from the barrel of a gun."..........Who knew the Teabaggers were secretly Maoists??!?

[gordianot]

8. If only they could screen voters at the polls Republicans will survive.

Voter supression, gerrymandering, intimidation at the polls the best hope for the entire Republican Party.

[gopiscrap]

9. no it won't but it might lead to two parties instead of one, one could only hope.

[BlueJazz]

10. "Reaganesque revolution that will return the GOP to its glory days"

The only "Glory Days" you Republicans have ever experienced is in some part of your Sociopathic minds.

As for the dumb-ass Reagan, I like what Bette Davis said about him.

Bette Davis on Ronald Reagan:

"Everybody called him 'Little Ronnie Reagan the boy scout' at the studio and we didn't think he was terribly bright. For instance, in DARK VICTORY he is playing a gay man and he never really understood that. He did love to talk, though. He would go on and on and would eventually bore everyone. Jane Wyman divorced him because he was a bore."

[Tom Ripley]

11. Broken bones heal back stronger, not boneheads

[Stainless]

12. Senator Short Sale

He is known by that moniker here in Utah where he defaulted on his home mortgage. He is also a delusional fool.

[Javaman]

13. in concept, yes, if the ones that actually have a working brain cell or two win out...

but given the fact that the now majority of repuke morons in congress are in a competition in a race to the bottom of the intelligence scale, what we will get is a super concentration of incredible stupidity.

[DallasNE]

14. But This Is The Opposite Of "Reaganesque"

In fact Lee replaced a Reagan Republican so what is he talking about.

[bemildred]

15. The Democratic Party. nt

[cosmicone]

16. This is amazing

The Tealiban thinks exactly like Taliban !!

[OneCrazyDiamond]

17. And draining half your blood out

will help you loose weight.

[Populist_Prole]

18. And a much smaller one as well

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Too small to win elections...gerrymandering nothwithstanding.

[Gore1FL]

19. He's right in one sense.

After the radical know-nothings like him are purged after the infighting, the GOP will be stronger.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. GOP Drama Queen in Rose Colored Glasses

Walking Dementia

absolutely patting himself on the back

The Bubble Senator

Tea Pottie IQ on Viagra

[Gothmog]

22. Lee Truly believes that the GOP keeps losing because they are not conservative enough

Lee and his fellow teabaggers really believe that the key to winning is to be even more radical and more conservative.

[truthisfreedom]

23. The gop wouldn't know how to party if they had red solo cups stapled to their chins.

Bunch of redneck misogynist gundamentalist old white guys with a couple of freaky religious attention whores thrown in, and not one of them is capable of governing. Oh, wait, there is the fat man, but he's an outlier.

[dbackjon]

24. Reagan? You teahidts would primary him out for not being conservative enough

[truebrit71]

26. Reagan-esque? Does this dummy even know HALF of the "liberal" shit Ronnie pulled?

How about raising taxes? Or granting amnesty to illegal aliens? Just for starters...

Plus, what about his golden rule of never speaking ill of another republican...

Methinks this guy is dumber than he looks...

[Swede Atlanta]

27. I suspect he is very wrong....

I believe the GOP is going to split in two.

There will be the traditional, establishment GOP that is focused on smaller government, limiting the rights of minorities, supporting gun rights and war and limiting abortion.

There will be the new "tea" party that will be focused on destroying government (more than Grover Norquist's desire to get it small enough to drown in a bathtub), eviscerating the rights of women and minorities in voting, employment, access to healthcare, etc. At the same time wanting to enshrine "Christian Sharia" law.

[Arkana]

28. "Senator Lee then went on to tell the assembled crowd that up is down,

black is white, and we have always been at war with Eastasia."

[beachbum bob]

29. too funny

GOP is eating itself in prime time and they only delude themselves concerning end result. Which is OK with me!!!

[olddad56]

30. In my 65 years, there has only been one elected GOP President that was tolerable...

and that was Eisenhower. (and I was too young to really understand politics at the time, so I can't rule him out.) The others with the possible exception Gerald Ford have been criminals and liars.

When Reagan is the one they all admire, you know they were all bums.

[madrchsod]

33. agreed..

that party died long ago.

[Snake Plissken]

31. These are the same guys who believe inbreeding leads to a stronger gene pool too

GOP's game plan for the future ... extinction by design

[madrchsod]

32. that gaping hole is filled with democrats

the last time a republican did anything for america was years ago.

[hollowdweller]

34. Really worked for us in the late 70's huh?

Dem congress refusing to work with Carter, weakening him. Ted Kennedy running against him in the primary. Somebody leaking his debate notes to Reagan.