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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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mhichil | Aug 12, 2010, 04:52 PM EDT
its class warfare keeping the voting republicans poor, dumb and afraid and willing to garrot their neighbor for a job. Emo and Mama Grizzley? gimme a break,.. but then again there was Karl Rove and Cheney. Rust never sleeps.

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Monsoonman | Jul 24, 2010, 10:45 AM EDT
I want to thank the editor for his non partisan analysis and helpful advice to the conservative movement regarding Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin. I know his constructive criticism was heartfelt and that it would never be in league with any other coordinated wave of main stream attack on these two.

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IrishAndProud | Jul 21, 2010, 07:35 PM EDT
No, Dennis...the 'bookies' are betting on a GOP win because the people, by every single indicator, everywhere, say that's how they're going to vote. You're beginning to sound just a bit frantic as the darkness of reality closes in on you more and more (just like the Democrats in that Time magazine article I posted, which you did not even dispute). Obama's in hot trouble with the public, his party's polls are going south, and the odds-makers are simply cashing in. Nice additional cheap shots against the majority regarding taxes, defense and illegal aliens...but as usual, you're on the radical fringe minority on those issues, Dennis. You're getting frantic.

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DennisQ | Jul 21, 2010, 06:54 AM EDT
The bookmakers don't decide horse races or elections or when Lindsay Lohan is getting out of jail. That's all the analogy was about. Right wingers are predicting some huge win in November because that's what the bookies are saying. However, I'm looking less at the alleged probabilities and more at the fundamentals. Republicans don't have anything to offer the voters other than warmed-over George Bush, namely tax cuts, militarism and xenophobia. Let me know if there's something I'm overlooking other than this bizarre perception that Obama's some kind of left wing dictator.

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IrishAndProud | Jul 21, 2010, 01:18 AM EDT
Dennis, you're digging yourself in deeper and deeper with every prediction you make about this fall. That was one poor analogy you used. The American electorate are not some 'favored baseball team' going up against the underdog Obamaniks (who of course will pull out a 'miracle win' over us), nor is the election a 'game.' We are Obama's BOSSES, Dennis -- and we're about to give his party a rather bleak job critique. THAT'S how it works in a representative republic. 'Baseball game?!' Jeepers Xmas, Dennis.

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oneofeleven | Jul 20, 2010, 11:43 AM EDT
Twelve years in Congress, Bob - it's time for you to go. Amazing how frightened incumbent career politicians of both parties become when we dare to challenge and question their policies and lack of leadership. Thank God for TV, radio and the internet to let the common man voice an opinion. People need to read, listen and think for themselves. DC is afraid now that Americans are waking up to being led down a path to bankruptcy by politicians the last 30 years. The "racism card" is just a side diversion that is being used to deflect the real issue here.

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DennisQ | Jul 20, 2010, 08:48 AM EDT
It's worth remembering the 1981 World Series with the Dodgers against the Yankees. The Dodgers were given almost no chance of defeating the mighty Yankees; in fact they lost the first two games. When asked to comment on his team's prospects of winning, Tommy LaSorda said only that his team would "show up" to play. No team ever came back after losing the first two game, but L.A. swept the next four games to win the Series. Press spokesman for the Obama White House made pretty much the same pledge as LaSorda, that the Democrats plan to show up for the November election. I don't think the Republicans have a track record to speak of. They will probably win in traditionally Republican districts, but I don't expect a repeat of the 1994 Contract With America election. Regardless of the statisticians say, Republicans just don't have enough going for them.

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irishwxman | Jul 18, 2010, 12:06 PM EDT
Then prepare to be disappointed Dennis. You are in the minority in case you haven't seen the latest poll.s Liberals and liberal thinking is a dying breed.

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DennisQ | Jul 17, 2010, 10:30 PM EDT
Neither Glenn Beck nor Sarah Palin is a government official sworn to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution. Since they have no ethical obligations to be any more than entertainers, they are free to advocate positions that don't stand up to any kind of scrutiny. Their primary appeal is to people who are euphemistically called low information voters, which is a polite way of referring to gum-chewing vulgarians. Today's Republican party is led by people with no responsibility for governing this country. Glenn Beck doesn't have to prepare a budget or develop legislation to address the real problems of real people. Sarah Palin once had a respectable job in government but she quit to make big bucks as a political celebrity. Perhaps the withdrawal of Republican office-holders from active governance reflects the party's lack of ideas. However, I look for the voters to reject that dismal strategy. I will be disappointed if they don't.

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Monsoonman | Jul 17, 2010, 03:59 PM EDT
Thanks for the team pep talk Dennis, but if you haven't noticed, the socialist wing has dragged out its big guns a bit early this year, already employing the nuclear option, "the race card. But just like chicken little, it has been used too often and has lost its punch.

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DennisQ | Jul 17, 2010, 03:39 PM EDT
This may be the year the right wing pundits are exposed as the clowns they are. Let's hope so. I note that Republican election strategies are being narrowed down to tax cuts and deregulation. Militarism isn't the big seller it used to be, and we'll have to see whether xenophobia has the appeal it once had. You seem like a bright enough fellow, M-Man. But you repeat right wing talking points as if you actually believed them. Somebody has failed you, and I'm sorry they did. However, it's time to go with Plan B, whatever it happens to be. Try increasing your personal effort.

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Monsoonman | Jul 17, 2010, 01:11 PM EDT
ah, the old bookies deciding horse race logic...Well maybe they don't and maybe they don't decide who is going to win what football game by how many points either, but they are usually right far more often than wrong....I love it, when the polls don't reflect what you want them to say, you tell us to not read too much into them. Yes folks don't believe your own lying eyes, listen to Dennis for the straight scientific scoop....Now on to global warming, or is it climate change now?

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DennisQ | Jul 17, 2010, 08:19 AM EDT
Be careful of reading too much into statistical patterns, especially if the figures can be manipulated. Pollsters don't decide elections any more than bookies decide horse races. The right wing is making an all-out effort to lower Obama's approval rating, because they believe that midterm elections results are a function of presidential approval. That's a heroic leap of logic because it overlooks the uniqueness of this particular year. Republicans aren't participating in government, so they're not getting their knees scraped. We'll see if the voters reward pusillanimity because it seems quite possible to me that they won't. If you come home from the football game with no grass stains on your uniform, the reason is that you didn't get in the game at all.

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AltRockAddict | Jul 14, 2010, 10:57 PM EDT
I totally support you, IrishAndProud. You seem to be the only one who has a grasp of American government, as well as a republican sensitivity that rankles posters such as McNamara31. I can't believe Bob Inglis is quoted as saying those who disagree with the democratic ticket are racist against president Obama. I think Mr. Roberts made that up (!) to support his own partisanship.

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McNamara31 | Jul 14, 2010, 01:11 PM EDT
IrishandProud... From reading your posts over the past year about the Mexican, Nigerians, Poles, Obamanik etc... Sometimes, I wonder if you are "real poster" or just a shill to get the controversy going on IC. As you have stated many times, you think I am a liberal, elitist, snob, and worse....And I have to honestly say, I think you are a rabid, flaming, racist....So, at this point, I guess we will just have to agree, to disagree.

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