At Least One Third Of The Featured Speakers At Virginia GOP Retreat Say Medicare Is Unconstitutional
Source: THINKPROGRESS
If the Virginia Republican Party wants to move past the far right candidates that shut them out of their state’s top offices last November, they may not want to take advice from people who believe that most of the Twentieth Century is unconstitutional.
This weekend, Virginia Republican activists and elected officials from around the state will gather at the Homestead Resort for the party’s first opportunity to take full stock of a disastrous election season that likely turned the GOP out of all three of Virginia’s top state offices. Tea Party Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli lost his bid for the state governor’s mansion to very weak Democratic candidate. The party’s failed candidate for lieutenant governor was a right-wing activist who said Democrats are worse than the Ku Klux Klan. And their candidate to replace Cuccinelli is narrowly behind apparent Attorney General-elect Mark Herring (D), although a recount is currently pending.
The Virginia GOP’s dismal performance in 2013 is widely blamed on their failure to nominate candidates who appeal to voters beyond the party’s hardcore base. Cuccinelli, for example, authored a book that labeled programs like Medicare “despicable, dishonest, and worthy of condemnation.” And he has a long history of fighting to keep laws criminalizing oral and anal sex on the books. Yet, if the speakers program for this year’s meeting at the Homestead is any indication, Virginia Republicans appear to believe that they are doing just fine running candidates like Ken Cuccinelli...
Update: Politico reports that Perry was unable to speak due to an ice storm.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/12/08/3035681/featured-speakers-virginia-gop-retreat-medicare-unconstitutional/
Bwwaaahaaaa! The keynote speaker Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) whited OUT by Mother Nature!!
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right???
Yet you have to work so long in order to even get Medicare and then you don't have to buy it. What is it about Medicare they hate so much? The fact that the maddening crowd actually do work and actually choose to buy or not. It is not free. Social Security is not a freebie. We have earned every coin,every gray hair through years of labor,stress and sacrifice. How dare they bitch about one of the few benefits left in the great desert of seniorhood and little by little they plan on chipping that away. They must be so proud of themselves.
Heck, even teabaggers like Medicare...
