Cornyn is a voice of reason?

The R’s truly are on their last legs.

At least he has the intelligence of a box turtle, which is more than you can say of Gingrich and Limbaugh.

thin the GOP heard herd
(the grammer police have been lurking – time for a preemptive strike)

The first sentence of Michael Gerson’s “The Case Against Empathy” today warms the cockles:

It is a trap.

I didn’t feel like going much further than the second sentence

Republicans are poised to oppose an accomplished Latina federal judge for the Supreme Court, further alienating Hispanic voters the GOP has recently driven away in droves.

but I think I got the drift of why he’s distraught.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..03624.html

typo

“…which continues to thin the GOP herd”

It won’t be the GOP that screws over the voters on behalf of the corporations in the matters of health reform, worker’s rights and so forth.

“Nobody’s going to want to be 2010 cannon fodder for the Party of Lose.”

I am sure there is someone with a messianic ego willing to be that dog.

How many minutes before Cornyn offers a grovelling apology to Limbaugh?

For all their bluster, the GOP has not been able to recruit serious challengers to Blanche Lincoln and Harry Reid, the two most vulnerable Senate Republicans Democrats up for re-election in 2010. And the man tasked with doing that seems rightly worried about the influence that Limbaugh and Gingrich are having on the party:

I have a secret;

rush limbaugh is a double agent for the democratic party, he was recruited during the bush administration by the dnc, his job is to create as much vile hatred toward the republicans as is possible, his job is to make them entirely toxic, to make everyone who is not a nut case become a democrat

I know I souldn’t let this cat out of the bag but there it is

I think that former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo needs to be added to the list of rethug idiots.

He’d have to have an IQ infusion to make idiot!

It’s funnier than that. Joe Scarborough said this morning that Cornyn was in the Reagan mold, “very, very conservative, but prepared to tack to the middle.” Or something like that. A jaw-dropper, in any case.

Cornyn! A middle of the roader!

Only the likes of Scarborough could possibly utter such drivel.

John Cornyn is Hard Right. Mean. Cynical. Corrupt. Despicable.

What he is not, however, is stupid.

Jane is right. The Cornyns of the World know the party is in deep, deep trouble–and with it, they themselves.

Cornyn sees that Latino values-voter base in Texas (about the only place that it exists) going bye-bye.

What the “wall off the border” group (thanks, Richard Burr for that) hasn’t driven away, the Sotomayor critics are succeeding at driving away. Yee haw.

I love the smell of desperation in the morning.

The Cornyns of the World know the party is in deep, deep trouble–and with it, they themselves.

They aren’t in quite as much trouble as certain of their colleagues who will be headed for the dock in a war crimes tribunal.

Jane is right. The Cornyns of the World know the party is in deep, deep trouble–and with it, they themselves.

they have three people to blame;

rush limbuagh

carl rove

bushboy

boybush is out of the picture yet they keep going to the two republicans that have proven they are the ruin of their party

will they learn…ever?

no

When Cornyn is the voice of reason, you’re fucked.

When Gin-rich and Lumball rise to the top you know they’re at the bottom of the barrel and at the end of their rope.

Would that it were so.

well put

Mornin’ Jane and Firedogs,

as is my habit, I was cruising the winger sites to see their response to Cornyn – inexplicably, Malkin and Free Republic do not mention it (FR posts it only as a news item)

Cornyn does put in an appearance over at Red State – to discuss NSRC’s Crist endorsement

I’ll let others carry this thread forward, but I do want to remind everyone that John Cornyn, while Texas attorney general and preparing for a run for Senate, was at the heart of the Abramoff Indian tribal scandals. He was Jack’s catspaw.

“Big John,” as he styles himself in his campaign ads, is unctuous and oily, cynical and mean. And, like Warren Harding, he looks like a president. Only in boots.

He’s a longtime Karl Rove client as well. A better pedigree could hardly be imagined.

Cornyn is in Texas if Hispanics keep voting at the higher rates than they did before the Presidential Election, well he needs to be doing more if he wants to keep his job.

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as is my habit, I was cruising the winger sites to see their response to Cornyn – inexplicably, Malkin and Free Republic do not mention it (FR posts it only as a news item)

Cornyn is a Special Kid who’s clouting him with Malkin and Free Republic?
If a Dem were to do something like this we would be all over him. Who pays Malkin and Free Republic? Why do they like Cornyn?

And he no doubt can count as well as Tom DeLay, the redistricting king. He must realize that alienating Hispanics is not very smart, as there are now more of them than there are of lily-white racist dingbats, even in Texas.

He must be auditioning for 2012 as their next Knuckledragging Bigot Who Can Fake Decency Long Enough To Fool General Election Voters.

Peggy Noonan:

“Politically, Sotomayor is like a beautiful doll concealing a canister of poison gas: break her and you die.”

their commenters clearly don’t like Cornyn much these days – whole lotta purge for purity types over at those sites – just found it strange none of the usual front pagers pushed back on his STFU Rush statement

“I think it’s terrible,” Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, told NPR’s “All Things Considered”

Just what GOPers listen to “All Things Considered “? Cornyn is trying to appeal to Moderates on the sly an, I like you but please my friends can’t find out scenario?
Are Malkin and Free Republic uninformed that Cornyn has moved to the Moderate side?
Or are did they both have their silenced bought?

Peterr has a new post upstairs: “Abuse Photos: Pentagon CYA with Oak Leaf Clusters”

The Righty Commenters already don’t like him. The Righty front pagers ignore a topic they know their readers would like?
The Righty Front pagers are either uninformed (not likely) about Cornyn or they are bought.
The GOP seems to be controlling the message at the cost of Readers who know better.
Only readers who only get their news from Righty sources are going to fall for this, hmmm we should profile Righty Commentors how long do they stay before they catch on?
I’m betting this is not the first time a Special GOPer has been protected from the Righty Commenters.

I don’t think he will be NRSC chair after the fall election.

Cornyn is saying in public what he thinks voters want to hear while privately he’s encouraging Rush and the other ideological surrogates to let loose with everything they have.

The more “establishment” Republicans can be seen to be critical of hate speech and calling for an end to trashing Judge Sotomayor the more they can masquerade as moderate members of a political party which the GOP ceased to be years ago.

This is all theater.

If it’s all theater, then Cornyn is a bigger political fool than we have imagined.

Yes, he probably is encouraging it to raise campaign money while at the same time trying to “stick to the high ground”.

Problem is, nobody is fooled anymore. Trying to leverage the Sotomayor confirmation into campaign cash is as desperate as trying to appear to be on the high ground.

The suggestion in The Early Morning Swim below that Conyers will be another Rushbo basher who crawls back to The Fat One begging for forgiveness is probably wrong. I have a feeling that the Congressional leaders are finally realizing that standing up to the right-wing nuts like Limpbaugh is a good thing, and that groveling before him just shows how weak they are.

I think Powell was the first to challenge the crazy wingers, and that more and more Republican leaders are starting to realize that bending to the will of the rabid 25% of their base is not necessarily a winning strategy!

What do others think?

This is how the GOP moves to the left and gets away from Cheney: set up irrelevants like Rush, Hannity, Newt, etc. as “The Voices of the Party,” then the electeds can come out publicly condemning their extremism in a gambit to look good. Sad, really.

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fixed

dontcha listen to the NASA countdowns ???

they never say “6″

10, 9, 8, 7, engine sequence on, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,

once that guy says “engine sequence on” that sucker is goin somewhere

Peggy Noonan is a bullshit dispensing machine

stick a nickle in her ear, and watch her spew the talking points

but if you look close, you can see that peggers is intelligence, and she knows she’s selling her soul

sometimes she looks almost like she regrets the deal too

At least he has the intelligence of a box turtle, which is more than you can say of Gingrich and Limbaugh.

Hey, what did the poor box turtles ever do to deserve this slam???

“rock” “steaming pile of dog poo” — Now that’s an appropriate comparison for Cornyn.

PS – why weren’t Dems able to kick his sorry ass out of the Senate?

The schism between the conservatives who actually have to face the voters once in a while and those whose only concern is their own ratings, is coming to a head.