Rep. Thaddeus McCotter: Ideologues like Sen. Jim DeMint are ‘nuts.’

[HowHasItComeToThis]

Source: THINK PROGRESS

If the Republican Party wants to become its own antithesis, which is an ideological party, we’re going to continue to have these problems. Remember, ideologues, there’s a reason why they purge all the time — it’s because they’re nuts. Hope the ideologues weren’t listening. If, however, as I said before, we understand that we represent constituencies and America is a vast country full of a variety of opinions and peoples, way of life, then we will get where we need to go. As for the attitude of the Senator from South Carolina that it is better to have fewer friends than more, that’s easier to say in South Carolina than Detroit.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/05/mccotter-demint-nuts/

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. That is an insult to nuts!!!

[watrwefitinfor]

2. In a party full of nuts,

Jim DeMented is out there in a class all by himself. Only good thing I can think of to say about him is, he makes my other senator look sane.

Wat

[Are_grits_groceries]

3. McCotter is a loon too!

Today, you are being asked to choose between bread and freedom. I suggest the people on Main Street have said they prefer their freedom, and I am with them".-- Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.)

He proposed a bill asking President Obama to apologize to Officer Crowley.

He was at the start of the euthanasia bandwagon.

He's a sheep in sheep's clothing. He and DeMint are peas in a pod.

[kpominville]

5. Loons calling the Loons Loons

Thad McCotter is Glen Beck level nuts.

[No Elephants]

6. Thanks. I was going to post something about a regional party, but I should have known better. After

all, no one on the McCain Palin ticket was from the South (even though Palin prided herself on being a "redneck").

In any event, thanks for saving me from posting something silly.

[Arkana]

4. If? IF?

No, Mr. McCotter. Your party is ALREADY an ideological wasteland run by a fringe group of nutjobs who have hung the political equivalent of a "NO HOMERS" sign on their clubhouse door.

[sufrommich]

7. McCotter is covering his own butt here in his precinct.

He has two personalities, one for the kooky base and one for his precinct (which I live in). I think he fears a real challenge brewing and wants to separate himself from the kooks without really losing their support. He's as right wing as the rest of them.