Newsflash: There Will Be No Moderates Speaking at the GOP Convention

[russian33]

From Arianna's blog:

If I read one more article talking about all the "moderate Republicans" who are going to be speaking at the upcoming GOP convention, I'm going to have a seizure.

Let's get one thing straight: anyone who is backing George Bush in the 2004 election is, by definition, not a moderate -- no matter how warm and fuzzy their position on abortion and gay rights.

Social issues like choice, gay rights, and gun control are not the defining issues of this campaign. The defining issues are: how the war on terror is being prosecuted, the wisdom (to say nothing of sanity and morality) of slashing taxes in a time of war, and the blatant irresponsibility the GOP has shown by saddling our children with a national debt that will reach $12 trillion over the next ten years. Period.

And if someone is backing Bush on these fundamental issues -- as "big tent Republicans" Rudy Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are -- then they are immoderate fanatics, just like the man they are supporting. The rest is just a swing-voter-friendly smoke screen.

It reminds me of the party line put forth by the Reagan administration when the Iran-Contra scandal hit the fan back in 1987. Remember how Ollie North, John Poindexter and, yes, even the newly deified man himself, Ronald Reagan, advanced the notion that the objective of the scheme had not been trading arms for hostages but rather an attempt to open relations with "moderates in Iran"?

Of course, it turned out that these so-called "moderate Iranians" weren't all that different from their radical fundamentalist brethren. At the end of the day, moderate Iranians were still ardent supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini. As the then-president of Iran, Ali Khamenei, said of the notion: "There are no moderates among officials of our country."

Just as there will be no moderates speaking at the GOP convention.

http://www.ariannaonline.com/blog/index.php

[realFedUp]

1. The gropers and cheaters are speaking

not the evil and insane....

[Gman]

2. You mean they're not proud of Tom Delay??

Can't imagine why.

[Old and In the Way]

3. Plenty of airtime for the neo-cons, fundies, and anti-civil liberties

crowd, please. I hope that showcase their vision for America, because that vision is shared by about 10% of the country.