Comments on: The Republican Fringe Has Become The Republican Mainstream http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/the-republican-fringe-has-become-the-republican-mainstream/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-republican-fringe-has-become-the-republican-mainstream Campaigning for a modern liberal Conservative Party Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:28:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Platform 10 » Blog Archive » The Mid Term Elections May Not Be Cause For Republican celebration In The Long Term http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/the-republican-fringe-has-become-the-republican-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-41407 Platform 10 » Blog Archive » The Mid Term Elections May Not Be Cause For Republican celebration In The Long Term Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:56:16 +0000 http://www.platform10.org//?p=898#comment-41407 [...] Republican Party.  I do know, however, that they are shared by a large proportion, as I blogged here, and do not see what relevance such views have to modern, progressive British conservatism.  When [...] [...] Republican Party.  I do know, however, that they are shared by a large proportion, as I blogged here, and do not see what relevance such views have to modern, progressive British conservatism.  When [...]

]]> By: Fisking David Skelton, Modern liberal Conservative, on Tea Party movement « Autonomous Mind http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/the-republican-fringe-has-become-the-republican-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-26219 Fisking David Skelton, Modern liberal Conservative, on Tea Party movement « Autonomous Mind Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:14:12 +0000 http://www.platform10.org//?p=898#comment-26219 [...] alarmed that the most crankish part of an increasingly crankish Republican Party (see my post here about the rightward drift of an already right wing GOP) seems to want to replicate itself over [...] [...] alarmed that the most crankish part of an increasingly crankish Republican Party (see my post here about the rightward drift of an already right wing GOP) seems to want to replicate itself over [...]

]]> By: Platform 10 » Blog Archive » A British ‘Tea Party’ Movement Is The Last Thing British Politics Needs http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/the-republican-fringe-has-become-the-republican-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-26213 Platform 10 » Blog Archive » A British ‘Tea Party’ Movement Is The Last Thing British Politics Needs Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:42:52 +0000 http://www.platform10.org//?p=898#comment-26213 [...] alarmed that the most crankish part of an increasingly crankish Republican Party (see my post here about the rightward drift of an already right wing GOP) seems to want to replicate itself over [...] [...] alarmed that the most crankish part of an increasingly crankish Republican Party (see my post here about the rightward drift of an already right wing GOP) seems to want to replicate itself over [...]

]]> By: Michael McGowan http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/the-republican-fringe-has-become-the-republican-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-25596 Michael McGowan Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:43:06 +0000 http://www.platform10.org//?p=898#comment-25596 David, thanks for referring me to this but doesn't it miss the point? There is not a shred of evidence that the new Republican Senator for Masschusetts is a latter-day Pat Buchanan. The key point is that the voters in a left-leaning state have distinctly mixed feelings about Congress' mad dash to mortgage the future of the next three generations of Americans; and have therefore cast their vote for a centre-right Republican. Yet it seems from your previous post that the only "politically correct" response to the deeds and utterances of The One and his mates on The Hill is uncritical adulation. Bush undoubtedly bears his share of the blame for the economic mess but so do the Democrats who in many ways created the lax regulatory environment which led to the disaster of Subprime. Obama and Co do not come to this debate with clean hands. David, thanks for referring me to this but doesn’t it miss the point? There is not a shred of evidence that the new Republican Senator for Masschusetts is a latter-day Pat Buchanan. The key point is that the voters in a left-leaning state have distinctly mixed feelings about Congress’ mad dash to mortgage the future of the next three generations of Americans; and have therefore cast their vote for a centre-right Republican. Yet it seems from your previous post that the only “politically correct” response to the deeds and utterances of The One and his mates on The Hill is uncritical adulation. Bush undoubtedly bears his share of the blame for the economic mess but so do the Democrats who in many ways created the lax regulatory environment which led to the disaster of Subprime. Obama and Co do not come to this debate with clean hands.

]]> By: David Skelton http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/the-republican-fringe-has-become-the-republican-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-25595 David Skelton Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:59:32 +0000 http://www.platform10.org//?p=898#comment-25595 Michael - thanks, as ever, for your comment. I blogged about the results in Mass. here: http://www.platform10.org/2010/01/obama-needs-to-regroup-and-take-the-fight-to-an-increasingly-hysterical-gop/ Michael – thanks, as ever, for your comment. I blogged about the results in Mass. here:

http://www.platform10.org/2010/01/obama-needs-to-regroup-and-take-the-fight-to-an-increasingly-hysterical-gop/

]]> By: Michael McGowan http://www.platform10.org/2010/02/the-republican-fringe-has-become-the-republican-mainstream/comment-page-1/#comment-25581 Michael McGowan Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:16:05 +0000 http://www.platform10.org//?p=898#comment-25581 David, you really don't pay that much attention to US politics do you? If the Republican Party really matched your lazy Guardianista caricature, how come it has just managed to win Ted Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts? The biggest cause for voter concern in left-leaning Massachusetts seems to have been the Democrats' hideously expensive healthcare plan. Of course in this country the "progessive centre" (i.e. people like you) is always telling us that social justice requires us to spend ever more money that we haven't got on the left's pet projects. So I guess that means the average Massachusetts voter must now be a swivel-eyed rightwing bigot... David, you really don’t pay that much attention to US politics do you? If the Republican Party really matched your lazy Guardianista caricature, how come it has just managed to win Ted Kennedy’s seat in Massachusetts? The biggest cause for voter concern in left-leaning Massachusetts seems to have been the Democrats’ hideously expensive healthcare plan. Of course in this country the “progessive centre” (i.e. people like you) is always telling us that social justice requires us to spend ever more money that we haven’t got on the left’s pet projects. So I guess that means the average Massachusetts voter must now be a swivel-eyed rightwing bigot…

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