By Robert Romano || “While the voice of every Republican should be heard, our challenge is to figure out how to be a conservative party, without allowing the most extreme voices of the day to control our party and determine its future direction.”
That was former Virginia Lt. Governor Bill Bolling in the pages of the Washington Post responding to the election of Fred Gruber to head up Virginia’s 7th Congressional District Republican Committee. Bolling called the result “extremely disappointing.”
So, what was it about Gruber that compelled Bolling to refer to him as one of the “most extreme voices” in the Republican Party?
Judging from Gruber’s rather mundane campaign website, it is somewhat hard to say. His biography does state that “Fred believes our Party is on the wrong track, and has been an outspoken advocate for the need to reform.”
Okay, so he’s not an establishment guy, and is not supportive of the current Republican majority in the House, thinks we’re spending too much, and the like.
But so what? Isn’t there room in the Virginia Republican Party for activists like Gruber, who heads the Louisa, Virginia Tea Party and otherwise has spent his career as a financial analyst?
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Robert Romano is the Senior Editor of Americans for Limited Government.
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That would be the same Bill Bolling that refused to endorse conservative GOP nominee Ken Cuccinelli in the VA governor’s race.
Coochie was a horrible person/politician and deserved to lose, I don’t see the problem here.
that was an interesting detour into the websites that supply shitheads with their bogus thoughts of the day. i like to get mine locally from good ol farmer fits.
I have a confession to make. I am a god #$%# homosexual who votes for liberal tarians and I know that President Obama has done a wonderful job of keeping our country afloat. I wish we could keep President Obama in office for another eight years so he could continue to fix the harm done to this country by Republicans.
Welcome from the Tea Party to the Latte Party.
FITS….none of this smoke screen Bull-$#!t will save the democrats…. people have Essen who, and what, you are…your @$$ is grass
All this coming from a man who loves things that poop Mountian Dew and Cheetos.
Looks like DT is drinking again.
8 investigations so far for 4 people, and a cover up. Repuiblicans are done. simple common sense. What more do you need ? They were attacked, and killed.
The number of Republicans who call themselves supporters of the tea party has dropped 20 points in the last four years, a new survey from Gallup has found.
The survey, released Thursday, found 41 percent of registered Republicans and Republican-leaning independents saying they support the tea party. This represents a steep drop from when Gallup previously asked the question in November 2010, at which point 61 percent of registered Republicans classified themselves as tea party supporters.
A 48-percent plurality of Republicans now either express no opinion or say they neither support nor oppose the tea party, a jump of 14 points since 2010. While Democrats and Democratic-leaners have grown more solidified in their opposition, they have not had as big a swing as GOP voters.
“Particularly after the election, Fox keeps turning to the left,” said 70-year-old Stan Hjerlied to the Beast… Hjerlied believes that “we are really losing our only conservative network.” …
One boycotter, former New Hampshire state legislator Kevin Avard, said that he finds it difficult to go without his daily dose of right-wing commentary. “I am having withdrawal…” …
They have also demanded that the network feature ”at least one segment on Benghazi every night on two of its prime-time shows; that Fox similarly devote investigative resources to discovering the truth of Obama’s birth certificate; and that the network cease striving to be ‘fair and balanced.’”
“We need Fox to turn right,” Hjerlied said. “We think this is a coverup and Fox is aiding and abetting it. This is the way Hitler started taking over Germany, by managing and manipulating the news media.”
Benghazi,Benghazi,Benghazi!,,
One segment a night?The HELL with that!We need TWENTY FOUR HOUR coverage?This is THE biggest event on American history!
Trey Gowdy needs to RESIGN from Congress and become PERMANENT BENGHAZI investigator!
Let’s investigate it 50 times to find 4 people got killed. Republicans have been Nuked !! Even Linsey the faggot from SC knows that ?
A day after writing an op-ed in favor of amnesty legislation that the Congressional Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers, Sal Russo, the co-founder and chief strategist of the Tea Party Express group, claimed on Thursday that he stood with American workers and Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL).
The Tea Party is also not welcome in my home or in my mind.
Tea party: a group of old white people who are living pay check to pay check that believe the government is all evil because they are told so by corporate company’s like the Koch brothers and dont understand that their livelihoods will be cut due to entitlements they are receiving in the form of retirement pensions and social security by the corporate idiots they are supporting.
Many don’t live paycheck to paycheck – they get pensions (many from the Federal government) subsidized by others atop SS checks and or bloated disability payments. Their complaints represent the more vocal of the fight between the moochers.