This made me laugh out loud:
Charleston County Republicans fought among themselves Monday night before deciding to issue a “censure” of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham for not being Republican enough.
The vote was immediately criticized by Republican National Committeewoman Cindy Costa as “foolish” on the eve of an election.
“Terrible. It’s a dumb thing to do,” said Costa, who did not take part in the vote but said precedent is being set to now “censure” Republican politicians any time they stray in the slightest.
The censure document, running to about 30 points taken from Graham’s two terms in the Senate, covered a variety of Graham criticisms, ranging from supporting President Obama’s Supreme Court nominees to cooperating with Democrats. Similar censure votes have been considered in other counties around the state, pressed by Graham opponents. Still, they have no weight of force and are more considered to be debated statements of disapproval.
The 39-32 vote among the county executive committee was done by secret ballot and with limited discussion.
Supporters of the resolution said they wanted to make a statement. “I want my politicians to be more conservative,” said Tom Sheridan of James Island.
“He really represents the establishment and the ‘usual’ in Washington,” added Cameron Groen of Johns Island, who said he wanted Charleston County Republicans to “distance” themselves from Graham.
I wonder how much this is about Lindsey’s alleged sexual orientation.
Poor, poor, Senator Limpseed Cornpone Grahamcrackers.
Always having to prove to his native (too large to be an insane asylum, too small to be a country) state of SC, how BUTCH he really is!
You can’t see me, Senator, but I’m on my fainting-couch, holding my weeping-hankie to my eyes – lest my bitter salt tears ruin my laptop!!!
Even Eric Cantor is too liberal for the rabid right.
This is called takfiri in Islam. It is a general concept where a violent fundamentalist sect attacks other Muslims for impropriety and impurity in Islam. And it turns the population against their sect as they purge ever increasing members of the tribe. Eventually they start purging themselves.
Republicans, much like the takfiri sects, are always going to be calling out their fellow tribe members for impurity. And as we witness now, their popularity is plummeting as their brand name is being dragged through shit before the tribe members start rubbing that shit into their hair (h/t Driftglass).
If Democrats want to win the House and Senate, their “friendly” ads should be about the things that Democrats have done to help people. Their attack ads should just criticize whichever Republican is running as just another Washington insider/RINO and not nearly pure enough to be considered a conservative.
The high-level grifters who have been using this particular monster to win elections for the past 50+ years have let the monster loose, and it’s tearing them apart all over the country.
Watching it occur is about the only thing that cheers me up politically, and I’d love to see the Democratic party use it to their advantage. Anyone want to help me admin a SuperPac? I got all the paperwork, can you design a website? Let’s become a Republican SuperPac powerhouse. I’ve said it before, but liberals need to carpetbag the Republican party. I’m serious about the above, by the way.
This is as old as politics, which is the oldest thing in human history. Every revolution consumes itself. Thermidore, the period in the French revolution in which aristos were hunted out and purged by Mssr le Guillotine, was just so. First it was the actual aristos. Next it was those who were related, and next their friends and next the more tangential, until Robespierre himself architect of the entire process was denounced and killed.
Today, the Tea Nazis are seeing the same process. Heads are rolling. More are gonna roll.