Wouldn’t a Real "Moderate Republican" be a Democrat?

[Demeter]

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorials/111

We are constantly amazed to find even our most progressive friends fall into the "moderate Republican" trap. "Oh," we will hear, "He (or she) is such a nice person and good on choice and Head Start and things. We need to encourage moderation in the Republican Party." Sorry, folks, that’s not our job.

Here’s the scoop: There are no moderate Republicans in Congress. The phrase itself is an oxymoron, given the current radical GOP agenda.

In this day and age, when one-party rule means that the issues so-called moderate Republicans champion never even come to a vote, all that they do is enable right wing, anti-democracy thuggish rule by giving the Straussian, Theocratic Republicans control of both houses of Congress. This, in turn, enables the "Non-reality based" psychotic Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld crowd to continue trashing the Constitution and this nation. No House or Senate Committee has conducted any credible investigation of the Bush Administration or of the corrupt Republican Congress. And the "moderate Republicans" enable this behavior.

What’s more, when their votes are really needed to pass an authoritarian, profiteering or anti-Constitutional Bush bill, they will vote with the caucus if their vote is needed to pass the legislation. "Moderate" votes that don’t affect the actual outcome of legislation don’t count. The extremist GOP strategists are smart enough to know that they have to let "moderates" vote for some "moderate" issues so that they can appear "moderate" come election time. Otherwise, the Republicans will lose suburban (for the most part) districts where there are Republican voters with some sanity.

In the 2006 election, there are no local races. You are either voting for a thuggish, Anti-American Revolution, Tory, dictatorial Republican Party or you are voting for supporters of the Constitution and democracy in the Democratic Party. You are voting for who controls the House of Representatives and the Senate. Period.

If the Republicans maintain control of both Houses of Congress, the "moderate Republicans" won’t be worth a bucket of warm spit. They will just be pawns that allow the GOP to keep the machine of corruption, secrets, the shredding of our Constitution, a spiraling deficit, the further gross enrichment of the wealthiest, and an unending war going on full strength.

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"Moderate Republicans" are just pieces Rove plays with on his chessboard.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

[zbdent]

1. No, because ...

If the only reason you vote Republican is for:

being "pro-life", "you can't vote your conscience as long as Dems are killing babies ...

tax cuts for the rich saving the universe, "you can't let those 'tax and spend Democrats' take away your money ...

[Totally Committed]

2. In case no one has noticed...

all "moderate" Republicans are "Democrats" these days. Actually some pretty conservative ones are, too. This Party triangulated itself into traditionally Republican stances during the Clinton era, and it has only gone further to the Right ever since.

It sucks. Sorry, it does. This Party MUST get back to REAL, honest-to-goodness Democratic ideals soon, or it'll never be an "opposition" Party again. (Note to the DNC/DLC/DCCC/DSCC: It is impossible to OPPOSE an entity you EMULATE. Stop it!)

TC