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A GOP Senator Disgusting Enough to Make Even *ME* Bipartisan

That does it! Never mind that Hillary Rodham Clinton was the least Marxian of the major Democratic candidates in the primaries. Never mind that their nominee has quite literally voted in favor of retroactive abortions. I’ve now found a major GOP candidate for office that I would take great pleasure in being able to vote against.

Yes, I’ve told people that say the same about John McCain that a vote for anyone other than McCain is a vote for Obama. Yes, hypocrisy is the bow vice takes before virtue. But darn it, when Exalted Cyclops/Senator Robert Byrd stopped introducing himself to the good old boys at the Kleagle as Mr. AKAI, he became America’s 3rd most obnoxious Senator.

The man ahead of him not known for distance-swimming in Chappaquiddick Harbor hails from the Great State of Alaska. If a public official came any more corrupt or disingenuous than Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, Al Pacino could play them in a cheesy remake of The Devil’s Advocate. Either that or he’d be having cocktails with Bernadette Dorn at an Obama fundraiser.

Let me be direct, blunt and intentionally offensive. Ted Stevens is human filth. The GOP did a despicable thing by nominating this man for a 38th term in the US Senate. He is a Gilded Age Fossil. The type of Republican that helped elect another noted KKK Member/Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

There over 300 Republican incumbents and office-seekers who I genuinely wish Godspeed this November. Senator Stevens is one who does not fit in that category. Perhaps if Mayor Begich turns up on a sex-offender registry, I’ll change my mind. Otherwise, I can’t hate America enough to stay a GOP partisan on this one.

What was our party thinking on this one? Re-nominating Stevens is like feeding your own pancreatic cancer, in the hopes that it will kill off a few more good cells.

Obviously, a large number of Republicans need to grow up and accept the fact that we didn’t get handed our mutilated butt cheeks in 2006 solely because Foley was a perv and the media lied about Iraq. There was a culture of corruption in the GOP. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have both been corrupt long enough to know one when they see it.

The re-nomination of Boss Hogg, err, I mean Senator Stevens gives prima facie evidence that this culture of corruption still hasn’t gone completely into remission. Cry our beloved party, we proved too weak to expunge the powerful evil in residence within our own ranks.

As much as I deeply feel an acrid hatred for the Faculty-Lounge Bolsheviks and the P. T. Barnum Populists that write the ideological doctrine for the Democratic Party, I would feel unpatriotic if I actually rooted for Ted Stevens to remain in the Senate. If I lived in Alaska, I’d make like Emperor Caligula, and write in Incatatus. This cannot be what the GOP remains in future years.

COMMENTS

  • tankertodd

    Let’s assume that the best thing for the country is for Ted Stevens to LOSE. If I was in Alaska I would vote against him because it’s the right thing to do, assuming his opposition isn’t corrupt as well.

    Yet, we desperately need to avoid having Democrats control 60 votes in the Senate, because at that threshold a world of bad things can happen. If unions get to eliminate secret ballots for example, there’s going to be a great darkness over the land.

    So let’s focus our energy on supporting the other races even more. Elizabeth Dole could use your support to keep that seat, for example. Let’s plan on cutting Stevens loose and strengthen our other candidates.

  • NotSoBlueStater

    Two years in the wilderness have not been prescriptive enough. We’ve seen signs of life, but also many, many signs of … same.

    The most likely outcome in November is still a Democrat sweep (McCain is the only hope). What better time to clean one’s own house? It’s not as though that one seat will make the difference it would have made a decade ago.

    Clinton was right last night. The permanent conservative majority died at the altar of the Republican Party. Only the Republican Party can fix that. Routing out Stevens would have been a great start.

    • Tim_Schieferecke

      Stevens is a huge liability. His primary opponent should have been given everything necessary to beat him. We must demand our R leaders get away from the mentality of protecting incumbents at all costs.

      • alaskaescapeartist

        Adam C, what is your source for this info? The accusations by the DOJ?

        What is in question is $250k.

        Say what you want about Stevens, but he is not going to try to scam $250k worth of home improvements at the risk of indictment.

        When are the other guys going start tossing their own? Answer: never.

        We are going to gain exactly 0 votes on the basis that we have some sort of ethical purity. To the casually informed voter, it simply looks like we are eating our own, and justifies their belief that the Right is corrupt.

  • Raven

    This is not even deserving of being recommended.

    At least if you’;re going to write a hit piece, especially on someone as beloved to his constituents as Stevens, you need to provide sources. You need to support your claims with evidence.

    As it stands, your piece comes off even worse (if that’s possible) than the attacks by the Alaska State DOJ. Attacks, btw, no different either in substance or in vehemence from those leveled at Tom Delay a few years ago.

  • IJB
    • Ohiofreemarket

      Both Young and Stevens are awful and a serious blot on the GOP brand. Hopefully, they will both lose badly in November, thus freeing the GOP of their corruption and manipulation once and for all. Thankfully, they both trail their Dem opponents badly in the latest polls. Sadly, the NRSC and the NRCC will pour gobs of money into Alaska to try to save these two disgraces. That’s why I don’t give money to the GOP committees, only to individual candidates and the Club for Growth PAC.

  • Darin_H
    • jackbenimble

      I used to belong to the Party of Principle. I still belong to the same Party but they seem to have trashed that slogan. We used to also say that Character matters.

      • Martin_A_Knight

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  • alaskaescapeartist

    One of the weaknesses of the Right is a self-righteousness that does nothing but undermine the party, and fuels more attacks from the Left.

    Tell me the difference between the self-loathing of our party (no, we’re not all perfect… but in politics, like it or not, it’s the big powerful team that wins – the Dems get this concept very well) and the USA haters of the Left.

    Your rant is nothing but that, a rant. At least provide some facts.

    As a term-limits supporter, I feel your outrage at the institutionalization of the career politician… but I’m not throwing my own guys overboard in some holier-than-thou, cathartic spasm.

    Innocent until proven guilty. If Ted has run afoul of the law, then he’s outta here. Until then, Alaska has chosen him, he is there… get over it.

  • Adam_C

    as personal funds. That’s the definition of corruption. He’s corrupt and I hope he steps down. But if he doesn’t, I have a hard time wanting him to stay in office.

    Corrupt Big Government Rs sunk the GOP image. They do more harm than help.