Monday, November 9, 2009
News What's Nathan's deal with birther probe?
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:22 PM
How kooky is today's GOP? It's off the deep end — and swimming for open sea.
What other conclusion are we to draw from U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal's decision last week to solidify his Republican bona fides by casting his lot with the birthers?
Deal has long been the most level-headed of Georgia's GOP congressmen. But these days, rational behavior and reasonable positions don't win Republican primaries — just ask Dierdre Scozzafava of New York's House District 23. If you want to compete with the likes of John Oxendine — Deal's opponent for governor — you best be prepared to board the crazy train.
As the Tea Parties prove, this is a national phenomenon, but it's doubly disturbing in a red state like Georgia, where most of the top elected officials are Republicans who now feel pressure to act like loons. (And then there's Rep. Paul Broun, who really is a loon.)
In other words the GOP's "big tent" is being reduced to a padded cell.
Lest you think this is more liberal whining, the purpose of this post is to draw your attention to an interesting blog item on the increasingly conservative Peach Pundit:
The real news here is that Deal has done what no other candidate in this race has been able to do thus far: He has taken a position so “out there” that Ox has been able to take a stance that makes him seem sensible and sane.
However, the comments suggest that not everyone on the right sees sanity the same way.
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Nathan Deal and his “Ghetto Grandmothers” language: Do white southern gentlemen always use those words in polite conversations? When it comes to race relations, he is a uniter not a divider, right? But maybe he thinks he only represents the white populous and the rest be damned. The meal Deal should join forces with Orly taitz, he is a closeted Birther. Oh wait what this; Judge Land and now judge Carter, smack down the crazies (case dismissed), poor little Birthers. Not even “Fake News” Bill O’Reilly believes the crazies, how funny. http://belowthebeltway.com/2009/10/29/bill-oreilly-slams-orly-taitz/ To all the birthers in La, La Land, it is on you to prove to all of us that your assertion is true (TOUGH WHEN YOU KEEP LOSING CASES), if there are people who were there and support your position then show us the video (everyone has a price), either put up or frankly shut-up. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over the most extreme religious right (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away the rights of those they just hate) and that is who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. I heard that she now wants to investigate the “Republican 2009 Summer of Love” list: Assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), Board of Ed Chair, and Kristin Maguire AKA Bridget Keeney (SC). I wonder if she is a mail order bride, just like her law degree? She is perfect reporter material for “Fake News”, where unfounded rumors and innuendo reign supreme , unlike a our US courts of law, where you need to present documented facts, not half baked lies (prepare for more failures). A lawyer, dentist, realtor and black belt, WOW I must say a JACK of all trades master of none.
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