Grayson: The GOP is a “lie factory”
October 2, 2009
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Today and for the past two elections, the Democrat party has been controlled by the radical left segment of the party. Speaking from the Conservative point of view, the old Democrat party had a lot to offer and respect. This included a love of country, respect of religious freedom, respect of equality between men and women, integrity and honesty. Where has that gone? Why do Democrats allow the loudmouth, pro-socialist party activists to run the show?
The result is not more power for Democrats, it's low approval ratings and lost elections. Time to speak up and take back YOUR party. Before it's too late.
Why would I recommend this since I am on the other side? Because I am fed up with the image we are projecting to the world and with the hate mongering in this country. To paraphrase John McCain, I would rather lose the election than lose this war. Because the consequences for us all of losing to the radical left are dire.
Never in my 55 years of life have I seen a party more negative, more wanting to throw the baby out with the bath water, more loud and strident than the Democrat party of 2008.
Howard Dean screams on the campaign trail and he is made head of the DNC. Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House (I know not why) and she goes marching around the world meeting with Arab heads of state like SHE is President. Barack (the Presidential candidate on a first name basis with the media and all his followers and worshipers) takes a World Tour, bleating his message to a hundred thousand Germans followed by eighty thousand semi-hysterical Americans in his nomination acceptance Barnum and Bailey Show.
Anyone embarrassed yet? My father, a lifelong Democrat, is probably rolling over in his grave. Along with my Grandmother, who worked the polls every Presidential Election. My nearly 80 year old Aunt who has never voted Republican in her life is considering it, and my 91 year old StepMother is just not going to vote at all. My Stepsister has already switched to the Dark Side and says she will never vote Democrat again due to the sheer ugliness of the party.
And there are the attacks on women. Women are too busy taking care of their kids to be Vice President. Or women are too inexperienced to be President. (Spoken by a man with 143 days of legislative experience no less). If it's OK for a man to come in with limited experience and a plan, why not women? And then there are the media members of the Democrat party – who threw Hillary Clinton to the wind in favor of a “redistribution of wealth” socialist.
Please let me ask this question as respectfully as I can — but what the heck are you thinking? As my Father, the lifelong Democrat and a man I respected more than any other on Earth would say, I am not going to get into the who struck John of who did and said what. But if you want to win an election, you need to move to the center.
And there's a fine thing – the Republican party has moved to the center in this election. John McCain is no conservative's dream, and the right wingers just can't stand him. But somehow we Conservatives – Republicans and some Independents – have realized that this is no time to sit on extreme principles. We need balance. We can't have everything we might want. So we looked for a candidate that can appeal to a broader base of Americans. Yet once again the Democrat party is running the most left-leaning member of its party. Deja vu all over again.
I can't tell you how frightening the concept of leftists running this country is to a child of the Cold War. Socialism does not work and communism is death to our society. Are you going to vote with 21 year olds who think youtube is the be all and end all of existence? I love my daughters but if they were running this country I would be afraid — very afraid. It takes wisdom and experience to make tough decisions.
So, wake up and smell the Communist Manifesto when it's in your own back yard. And take back your party. Maybe then we can all get along and save our country and way of life.
Grayson: The GOP is a “lie factory”
The now-infamous Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) unleashed another verbal tirade against Republicans on Thursday, calling the party a “lie factory” that hoped only to stall the healthcare debate.
Grayson also dismissed calls that he apologize for his remark earlier this week that Republicans' healthcare plan was to “die quickly” — an allegation that has since invoked the ire of the entire GOP.
“America is sick of you, Republican Party; you're a lie factory, that's all you do,” he told MSNBC on Thursday. “Why don't you work together with the Democrats to solve America's problems instead of making stuff up?”
Grayson then called the party a bunch of “no-mongers,” and he chided GOP lawmakers for failing to come up with their own healthcare plan in the 48 hours since he first attacked their strategy.
“The people who should be apologizing are the Republicans, they're the ones who should apologize for dragging us all through the mud here while we're just trying to improve healthcare in America,” he said. “That's all we're trying to do.”
The GOP has since dismissed Grayson's remarks as partisan hackery, and some party members are now calling for Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to sanction the congressman for his comments — much as Democrats rebuked Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) for interrupting the president during his address to Congress. But Democrats have grumbled at that suggestion, claiming it is little more than a distraction from the more important debates confronting Congress.
Grayson said Thursday he agreed with that perspective, but he also offered some tough words for his own party, which he said needed to work together to overcome Republicans' stall tactics.
“We've got to get past this point where everything is stalled; where the Republicans are winning just through inertia,” he said. “We have a majority, we have to use it.”
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