Comments on: Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'

By: OpenPen » Southerners Drag Down GOP

OpenPen » Southerners Drag Down GOP — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:31:52 +0000

[...] to a report on CNN, one GOP'er blames the South for their [...]

By: Republican Congressman Says The Southerners Ruined The GOP - The Liberty Journal

Republican Congressman Says The Southerners Ruined The GOP - The Liberty Journal — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:35:42 +0000

[...] throws out this gem, in an interview, bashing the few Senators who actually take the Constitution seriously. He says, "We got [...]

By: Davey in Denver

Davey in Denver — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:43:08 +0000

The man is correct. It pains me to say it as a Republican, but we should shed the "Southern Strategy" begun by Nixon/Bush Sr. I am an unapologetic TRUE Republican....a fiscal conservative who believes in fairness and equality for all men (a la President Lincoln....remember him?)....and me and those like me are increasingly angry that my party is defined by the "least of us"...the muck-raking, small-minded, you're-with-me-or-against-me Republicans that typify the South. Not all Southerners, mind you....but a number too large to sustain any longer. Break off, start your own under-educated, simplistic, bigoted party, and let the intelligensia within the Republican party get back to running things. You're dead weight around our necks.

By: walleye

walleye — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:43:00 +0000

The South is a GREAT place to live: If you enjoy 95% sweltering humidity, if you like living among bigots, if you still think the Civil War is being fought, and if you still fly the Confederate flag on your buildings instead of Old Glory.

By: CS from VA

CS from VA — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:42:50 +0000

Voinovich could have chosen his words more carefully. I believe he is referring to individuals who have less of a tendency to reach compromise; who take hardened points of view and believe theirs to be the standard against which others are judged. Would be worthwhile to read John Dean's "Conservatives Without Conscience" and "Broken Government" for a better perspective. Then one can come to better understand the dangers to democracy as we know it when Government is dominated by headstrong authoritarians.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:42:26 +0000

duh, you think?

By: Randy Worley

Randy Worley — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:41:51 +0000

What an IDIOT! The reason Republicans are lagging in popularity is their lack of planning along with the likes of Cheney, Bush and Palin!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:41:30 +0000

I am a Southerner and quite honestly take offense to his GENERALIZED statements. I am a registered Democrat and vote strict party lines. Just because there are a couple idiots in the South doesn't mean that we all are idiots. I mean come on what if we in the South started yelling Yankees and Carpet Baggers? I am kind of glad that the "Southerners" are taking over the GOP. It makes the GOP look even more ridiculious. But his broad "generalization" was definately uncalled for. Thats my two cents!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:41:25 +0000

Voinovich proves you don't have to be a Southerner to be a redneck. Don't let your the door hit your behind on the way out, bigot.

By: Chris - Seattle

Chris - Seattle — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:41:17 +0000

***NEW FLASH**** Sociology 101: All peoples perceptions are colored by their experiences in life and we're all products of our own environments. To all the Southerners on here obviously taking offense to his comments shouldn't take it too personal because there is a great deal of truth to what he's saying! I don't give a rats booty if you're a republican, democrat or independent, the problem here becomes peoples perceptions of one another! American history has taught us that some politicians (North, South, East or West) can't see past the nose on their face and realize their seperatist ideals are killing people and making folk seem real stupid!

By: dominican mama 4 Obama

dominican mama 4 Obama — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:41:08 +0000

By the way Sen., how far away are YOU from the Southern border? Let me guess.... 2, 3 miles at best!

By: cool rock

cool rock — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:40:49 +0000

Yes, those Republicans do sound ignorant with that errrr sound. I don't even trust the GOP. They are undercover Socialists!!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:40:20 +0000

I hope the GOP keeps courting all of these southerners, it will continue to alert us who NOT to vote for.

By: Joe Poindexter

Joe Poindexter — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:40:19 +0000

I'm a Westerner living in the Southeast, so I don't have a bone in this North vs. South fight. However, I've got to laugh at comments about racism, bigotry and ignorance coming from the befuddled hypocritical masses still trapped in the Rust Belt and New England areas. Those labels, I refer to as PC "isms", can be found across the entire United States and not the sole proprietorship of Southerners. You can find just as many ignorant rednecks living in Wisconsin as you can in Alabama. In reality, the Southeast is a thriving, growing and creating community. The mid-west is dying, because it's hanging on to labor union practices that have priced their job opportunities to other regions and overseas competition. The mid-west will continue to see population declines as opportunities and education worsen. The Southest is the future, the mid-west is the past. It's better to face it and get out while there's a U-Haul to be found.

By: nj

nj — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:40:02 +0000

he's right

By: The Lonely Libertarian of Liverpool NY

The Lonely Libertarian of Liverpool NY — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:39:41 +0000

It has nothing to do with the south, north, east or west, what it has to do with is the past forty years of misleading the American voter. The RNC and the DNC telling one thing to get elected and doing the complete opposite instead.
Neither of the two major parties have the best interest of the American people as their top priority. Their top priority is getting elected and raising billions of dollars for their re-election. The American people have been lied to repeatedly by both of these parties, and we are sick of it. We are Americans, we do not what a "New World order" we do not want progressive government, we WANT a return to the basic principles of the founding fathers, we want to have a return to the US Constitution!

By: Shawn - GA

Shawn - GA — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:39:30 +0000

P.S.

When the GOP takes back majority in 2010.... I am going to laugh myself dizzy

By: David - Charlotte, NC

David - Charlotte, NC — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:39:07 +0000

This gentleman is exactly correct, but lets also remember they've also been hijacked by the Religulous Right. Until the Republican Party moderates itself on abortion, same-sex marrage, right-to-die, et-al, they will be in the minority. That's why they lost me years ago, and I doubt they'll ever get me back. And I'm white, 50's married, heterosexual and have family income in the top 1%.

By: Vicky from Milwaukee

Vicky from Milwaukee — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:38:34 +0000

Perhaps all Republicans should be required to present their birth certificate. If they're from south of the Mason-Dixon line or Alaska ignore them completly.

By: bill b. from Stratford,Ct

bill b. from Stratford,Ct — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:38:33 +0000

Let's just call it like it is people, what he really means is that, the southerns, not all of them, but some of them are a bunch of racist bigots in his party. You really see their racism since Pres. Obama has been in the White House. calling the Pres. racist names, sending out racist pictures, racist e-mails, saying Pres. Obama isn't really an American, screaming they want there country back, back from what, that black guy, it's just ridiculous, but that's what they believe, it's a sad life.