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Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin ruining GOP says Republican congressman

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Too many Republicans are falling victim to "demagoguery" led by Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin that will damage the party enormously says a GOP Congressman who lost a primary battle last month.

12-year incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolin states that Tea Party favorites such a Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck will end up doing enormous damage.

He said Palin's claim that the Democratic health care bill would create "death panels" was very damaging

"There were no death panels in the bill ... and to encourage that kind of fear is just the lowest form of political leadership. It's not leadership. It's demagoguery," he told the Associated Press

"I think we have a lot of leaders that are following those (television and talk radio) personalities and not leading," he said. "What it takes to lead is to say, 'You know, that's just not right.'"

"It's a real concern, because I think what we're doing is dividing the country into partisan camps that really look a lot like Shia and Sunni," he said, "It's very difficult to come together to find solutions."

He says racism against President Obama is at the root of much of the hatred of him "I love the South. I'm a Southerner. But I can feel it," he said.


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IrishAndProud | Jul 13, 2010, 07:15 PM EDT
And another hum-dinger, from the Washington Post (that bastion of the vast, right-wing conspiracy): "With midterm elections less than four months away, Republicans are fired up and ready to go. But they are not the only ones upset with Barack Obama. The president has also angered many of the key Democratic constituencies he needs to keep control of the House and Senate, and now Democrats are blowing furiously on the fading embers of their electoral coalition, hoping to stave off disaster this November. In the process they are abdicating their responsibilities to govern -- failing to pass a budget or any of their annual spending bills, while using their executive and legislative powers to appease their special interests instead. It is a far cry from the hope and change they promised two years ago." *** Sheesh, when your own base and the WaPo are bashing the hell out of you, you're in real political trouble. Zerobama's sinking faster than the Titanic full of barbells on quicksand.

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IrishAndProud | Jul 13, 2010, 05:06 PM EDT
And additionally, I guess McNamara thinks the American people are just a bunch of stupid sheeple who fall for bad tactics at election time. Yeah, that must be it -- it couldn't be that Obama has done a single thing wrong over the past 18 months, straight. And of COURSE it couldn't be that exact attitude toward the people that is now costing the Dems dearly (and will cost them exponentially more, come election day). No, that couldn't possibly be it. In fact, mass-painting the people as stpid election-year dupes just because they don't back Barack Obama anymore couldn't POSSIBLY be 'hate, fear and (collective) smear' in and of itself...could it?

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IrishAndProud | Jul 13, 2010, 05:02 PM EDT
No, like the majority of Americans I don't want to return to the same old dinousaur thinking -- and I want to think with a little vision and plan a course for a stronger future. Which is precisely why we are abandoning Obama, and leaving liberalism, in droves. Liberalism IS the tired old dinosaur past, by definition. Of course, anyone who opposes Barack Obama and McNamara31 are just using 'hate, fear, and smear...' (busts out laughing, here)

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McNamara31 | Jul 13, 2010, 04:31 PM EDT
The GOP "Grand ole boys Party" knows using hate, fear and smear, at a time of economic decline, works every time to win elections in the "short term." The question is what is best for America in the long term? Do you want to return the same OLD Dinosaur thinking, that totally broke the American economy with its greed and deregulation back for collapse, part two. Or do we want to think with a little vision, and plan a course for a stronger future?

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IrishAndProud | Jul 13, 2010, 02:50 PM EDT
Well for 'ruining' the GOP, these folks certainly aren't diminishing that party's chances very much. From today's Washington Post (wow, now THERE's a really right wing publication): "Public confidence in President Obama has hit a new low, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. Four months before midterm elections that will define the second half of his term, nearly six in 10 voters say they lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for the country, and a clear majority once again disapproves of how he is dealing with the economy..." So, the Obamaniks on this post can continue to flail away at the wind, attacking unelected commentators who have no actual politial authority (all these folks have to do is just turn their TV's off...duuuhh!!), or they can face the music and admit what a large and growing majority of the USA already knows: Barack Obama is a bad man with a bad agenda...and we're going to duly correct some things in a very major way, come November. But oh, no -- it COULDN'T be what every single poll indicates. No, it must be some sort of evil plot, a 'vast, right-wing conspiracy' hatched by old, white men conspiring in some seedy back room in the red light district (never mind that it could not be happening without mass public support). HA! Anyway, back to reality...sitting around and hating people like Glen Beck (who only have the influence they have because...guess what...PEOPLE ACTUALLY WATCH THEM AND LIKE THEIR VIEWPOINT!) only shows contempt for the people themselves ultimately, since they are the ones who give these folks any influence, at all. Conservatism is successful and attractive, nowadays, and liberalism is dying on the vine right in front of our eyes -- and certain people simply cannot stand that. So, they froth and flail away at utter irrelevancy, as we're seeing on this very post.

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McNamara31 | Jul 12, 2010, 04:24 PM EDT
Glenn Beck, Palin, and Limbaugh cherry pick every demeaning, smearing item; then frame their opposition, within the picture of their biased creation. This is their tactic, in a war of greed and corporate interests, over the good of the average American. They make millions because they can move, motivate, and get out the vote for those “corporate types” who truly fund and run the GOP. And here’s where “they” are masters of the” myth”, because they make you believe, your opposition makes you great Americans; And all the while the middle class is being steam rolled by the greed that has witnessed the largest transfer of wealth (two thirds prior to 2009) to the top 1% of America, and it’s corporations. The Christian social values, that once made America great, comforted the sick, the poor, the widow and the immigrant, are now being reframed and sold by Beck, as social justice or in his words “code words” for communism and Nazism because funding compassion dips into corporate profits and in "his" and FOX’s view, that’s become un American.

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Monsoonman | Jul 12, 2010, 10:34 AM EDT
So shirleyo, welcome to the world of free speech. What do you think the press was doing to bush for 8 years, it was a daily savage attack. Unfortunately for us, obama is getting getting vetted after the election. If the press had done its job, he would have been thoroughly vetted before the election. This is what happens when you "buy a pig in a poke"...Or you blindly choose what is behind door # 3. They say a person like Lincoln would never have been elected today, since he was so ungainly and not an attractive man on TV. Look at what we elect today.

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shirleyo | Jul 12, 2010, 09:49 AM EDT
It wasn't long after Mr. Obama's swearing in, that to my mind, a conspiracy to bring him down began: blatant resistance to his leadership: outrageous inuendos, public vocal and covert terror-mongering for any change of any ideas or action. Palin, Beck and everyone of their ilk have loudly done their best to sabotage any attempt for non-partisan cooperation. They've sabotaged all fundamentals of America's spirit for leading and governing. They're dangerous.

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chesapeake | Jul 12, 2010, 08:54 AM EDT
It is the extreme Left that is tearing the nation asunder. I personally don't care about race... that is just another tool of the Left - scream racism whem things heat up. I'm really not sure what Obama is other than simply not qualified for the position. We are racing so fast toward socialism and financial ruin that the he may screw (nice word) us up for years to come. The Left is terrified by Palin because she says what most voters think, Glenn Beck is entertaining; but many of his talking points hit hard at the truth. Representative Inglis is simply afraid of losing his next election run. The talk show commentators are not setting the agenda; rather they are informing and allowing the majority to make their own decisions. Would that the ABC, CBS, NBC, NPR, MSNB (the official Obama network); etc,. inform in any other way than with liberal bias. George Bush would truly be a breath of fresh air compared to our present POTUS.

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hollabackgurl | Jul 12, 2010, 08:22 AM EDT
Irishwxman, if it's 'nonsense' that Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are setting the agenda for the GOP then why would you actually defend them? Inglis is bluntly stating what the whole world knows. Today's GOP is an ideological purity test that only 25% of the nation adhere to. To the rest of us you look like the extremists you are: telling rapists to make lemonade out of lemons and telling black people the Civil Rights act should not have been enacted, etc etc

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irishwxman | Jul 11, 2010, 11:40 PM EDT
12-year incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolin is a sore loser. of course he is spouting this nonsense. I thank God everyday for people like beck and Palin for getting out there and telling everyone the horrible damage and destruction our new Community Organizer-in-chief is doing to our country. Bob Inglis was standing in the way, so he had to go.

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hollabackgurl | Jul 11, 2010, 08:38 PM EDT
How much of a lying demagogue is Rush Limbaugh? Enough to state that Obama caused the recession (a blatant lie) to punish America (total garbage) the nation he hates (complete rubbish). Only a racist would suggest that and only a racist would choose to believe it.

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Monsoonman | Jul 11, 2010, 01:02 PM EDT
There is news coming out that the voter intimidation practiced by the black Panthers in Philadelphia was not an isolated incident, but was part of an organized nationwide effort. How many of you who were going to your polling place would like to pass by a gauntlet of racist, hateful, club wielding thugs in order to cast your vote?...How many ballots were cast by dead people and phantom homeless voters in the Minnesota election which brought the likes of an al Franken to become a US Senator?..He only won by a few hundred very suspicious votes. Seems like a very quiet, bloodless coup is taking place in America and the ruling junta doesn't wear uniforms, but pin stripe suits and pant suits.

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Bushothehill | Jul 11, 2010, 11:45 AM EDT
Divisiveness and racism is rampant in our society, like never before. Not whites against blacks but rather the reverse as subtely practiced by the Obama, Holder etc crowd. Black Panthers have got a new life with an apparent untouchable shield from the W.H. America has been taken down the road to a third world dimension by Democrats and will never recover from the damage done by the extreme left-wingers in office. Wake up!!!!!!!!!

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Monsoonman | Jul 10, 2010, 08:54 PM EDT
Boy talk about an inflammatory headline, with glenn Beck and Sarah Palin...Throwing meat to the jackals.

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