Intersting post from a Republican on the NYT political blog

[Hawaii Hiker]

It was in response to a thread started earlier today:



.January 31st,
2008
1:16 pm This guy summarized what i wanted to say and he did in a very funny way.

I am a republican and i am going to say something my fellow republicans are going to hate: George W. Bush and his utterly incompetent administration have ruined the republican party and the country. There is nothing redeeming about his administration or his tenure in the White House that any of the very weak candidate can run on.

I have been around for a long time, and this is by far the weakest i have seen the republican party. Even after the 1964 defeat, i remember we did not look this weak; we always had the 8 years of the Eisenhower administration, which were very successful years.

Moreover, our candidates are just too weak for crying out loud. We are left with McCain and Romney. I guess i am going to have to vote for Romney just to stop McCain from getting the nomination. It isn’t that i think McCain is not conservative enough or too independent, i just think the guy does not play with a full deck. The guy is running on a pro-war platform; a war that has so far been a total disaster. And then he has the audacity to tell us that we should stay in Iraq 100 years. Is he serious? He tells us that our troops have been stationed in North Korea and Germany for 50 years and nothing happened to them. DUH, that is North Korea and Germany, not the Middle East where they can’t wait to see us leave. More importantly, about 65% of the American people say that it isn’t worth it anymore, and we need to leave. What kind of suicidal campaign platform is that?

However, in the general, on November 08, i will wake up early, drive my big gas guzzling SUV, pick up my 8 republican friends, and we all go vote for the Democratic nominee whoever he or she is. Then we will all go back to my home and have a nice game of poker (nickels and dimes) all day long and wait for the return (you can tell that we are all retirees). I am willing, as my friends are, to hand these elections to the Democrats because we need a time out to rebuild the party. We need to rein in the religious wackos because they are scaring kids and women; we need to rein in the anti-tax crowd because they are scaring the elderly like me; we need to rein in the global warming skeptics because they just sound and look ridiculous; and we need to rein in the anti-immigrant racist crowd because they are putting the future of this party in jeopardy. And for God’s sake, we need to open up our party to more women, and minority. This evening in the Reagan library, our candidates looked like a bunch of anemic retired undertakers playing shuffle board in a retirement community in Boca Raton.

This huge amount of work will take 8 years at least. By that time, Governor Crest and Governor Jindal will have garner enough experience under their belts to make a successful run and take the White House back. I am willing to wait, and so many fair minded republicans like me.

— Posted by Retired lawyer from Arizona

— Posted by Rob Summers

[Fresh_Start]

1. enjoyable

but once he gets rid of the global warming deniers and the holier than thou religious wackos and the anti-tax crowd and the anti-immigration crowd, who exactly will be left?

[rox63]

2. Wow - That's an eye-opener

He sounds like one of the few sane Republics out there.

[gateley]

3. I'd heard that some Reps were taking that approach - step back and give the

party time to heal. Interesting.

[Samantha]

4. That's a guy who puts his own interests (as well as that of his kids)

above that of the party. Well, he's doing what he thinks is best for his party (in not supporting whomever they place in front of him) for the long-term benefit of making his party heal itself; in that regard, he serves his own best interests and those for him he is concerned (his children) first.

[CitizenLeft]

5. thank you for posting that

I hope he's got lots of company.