Two leaders of the Republican Party are staying in the U.S. Senate. One crybaby RINO — Republican In Name Only — is leaving. Guess who the RINO is blaming for the problems facing the GOP?
That’s right. The two leaders as well as Southerners and conservatives.
The RINO is departing Sen. George Voinovich (RINO-Ohio). The leaders are Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Sen.Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).
Here’s what the departing crybaby RINO had to say:
We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns. It’s the southerners. They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr. People hear them and say, “These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?”
No, Sen. Voinovich, you have it backwards. There’s too many of your types that have dragged the Republican Party — the Party of Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln — toward the left and turned it into the Me-Too Party of borrow-and-spenders, spurning tax cuts, limited government and social conservativism that put it into power. The likes of Voinovich, former GOPer Arlen “Magic Bullet” Specter, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins have been reliable votes for the Democrats Statists year in and year out.
You are the remains of the Go Along Get Along Gang, the likes of Bob Michel and Bob Dole, who were just happy being at the table with the adults and were all too willing to give the Democrats Statists everything they wanted just to receive some crumbs.
In the words of Stewie Griffin, you RINOs suck.
Over at Right Wing News, John Hawkins says:
[I]t seems to me that it’s always moderates who want to run blocks of voters out of the party. “Oh, we can’t afford to be fiscally conservative anymore. Forget about that.” “Social conservatives? We need to get rid of those Jesus freaks!” Now, we’ve got George Voinovich actually saying that the problem with the Republican Party is that it has Southerners in it. As a Southerner, I would be offended by that except for the fact that nobody I know gives a damn what George Voinochich thinks about anything.
Additionally, since when did Tom Coburn become a Southerner? Granted, the great state of Oklahoma is right above Texas, but they also fought for the Union in the Civil War. If they’re a “southern state” in any meaningful sense, so’s Arizona, Colorado, and half of California.
Setting that aside, it’s worth asking: how did Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn become “leaders” in the GOP? Neither of them is actually in the Republican leadership, right? Perhaps it has to do with the fact that Coburn and DeMint usually didn’t go along with the crowd in the Senate over the last few years, while the party was getting creamed at the ballot box, and now they both still have their credibility.
Meanwhile, George Voinovich was following the party leadership over the side of a cliff, like a lemming, and is mostly known for getting so upset over John Bolton that he cried like a girl in the Senate.
Here’s the girlie man crying like a baby in the Senate:
Good riddance. Don’t let the door hit you in the rear end on the way out.
