When Judge Key of San Antonio says that the Republican Party has left him, that is probably the biggest understatement of the year. There are thousands of us like Judge Key that can no longer call ourselves Republican after the hard right lunge of the Republican Party to a radical agenda that is going backwards in time to where minorities and women could not vote.
From comments I have seen on the internet over the last ten years, the desire of many white male Republicans and third party members has been that only white males should be allowed to vote since all the Founding Fathers were white males. Thought it was a joke gone wrong and treated it as such. Lo and behold, they were serious and those people now are leaders in the 'old' Republican Party with 'old' ideas they still adhere to from the 'old' South. Many still want to fight the Civil War and see if they can win this time. In fact, they are acting like they are fighting a Civil War to take over the Country and put only southern white males in charge. Many of them still consider Mitt Romney an epic fail as he may have been a white male but he was no southerner and governed more liberal then a centrist. How he managed to convince people he was hard right is beyond me unless he was lying as Governor of Massachusetts. Maybe he is just a liar all the way around.
Judge Key tells the truth on what has happened to the Republican Party and how as a Party they have left him. The hard right Platform approved at the Convention should tell any centrist we are not welcome in the GOP. In fact, it should tell any fiscal conservative that if they are in a Red State and don't support social issues, they are not welcome. Matt Kibbe, Head of FreedomWorks makes that quite clear in his interview on Chris Matthews last night (see video at Raw Story link below):
“We’re in the process of repopulating the Republican party with people that stand for something,” Matt KibbeThat statement sent me the roof along with his comments of upgrading elected officials from Red States which means hard right candidates instead of elected officials who work for what is best for all Americans not just the hard right. No wonder people like Judge Key have finally had it with the GOP when they keep hearing elected officials like Senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, and Marco Rubio, along with Govenor Rick Perry, and Lt Governor David Dewhurst go totally hard right with their off the wall rhetoric. All of them and other hard right GOP are supported by the Koch Bros FreedomWorks headed by Matt Kibbe and other Koch organizations like the Tea Party, Americans for Prosperity, Heritage Foundation with their Heritage Action PAC along with numerous other Koch affiliated organizations all pushing the hard right agenda to end Government as we know it today.
If I lived in San Antonio, I would definitely be out working to elect Judge Key as a Democrat His words are refreshing on how he sees the law. Had enough ideologue justices to last a lifetime.
“I have tried to live a life of principles,” Judge Carlos Key says in the opening of his new ad.
The Bexar, Texas County Criminal Court #11 jurist goes on to explain how intolerance in the Republican Party both on the local and national levels has convinced him to leave the GOP he once called home, and run for re-election as a Democrat:
I can no longer be a member of the Republican Party.
For too long, the Republican Party has been at war with itself. Rational Republican beliefs have given way to ideological character assassinations. Pragmatism and principal have been overtaken by pettiness and bigotry. Make no mistake: I have not left the Republican Party. It left me.
I cannot tolerate a political party that demeans Texans based on their sexual orientation, the color of their skin or their economic status.
I will not be a member of a Party in which hate speech elevates candidates for higher office rather than disqualifying them. I cannot place my name on the ballot for a political party that is proud to destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands of federal workers over the vain attempt to repeal a law that would provide health care to millions of people throughout our country.
Key is clearly referencing the government shutdown led by the refusal of Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and the House Republican “Suicide Caucus” to fund the Affordable Care Act, which has sunk the party new lows in several polls.
He’s also alluding to recent comments by Republican City Councilwoman Elisa Chan that were secretly recorded during a meeting about San Antonio’s non-discrimination policies:You know, to be quite honest, I know this is not politically correct. I never bought in that you are born, that you are born gay. I can’t imagine it.
I don’t think homosexual people should do adoption. … You’re going to confuse those kids. They should be banned.
If you wanted to choose that lifestyle, we don’t want to discriminate you, but you shouldn’t affect the young people. How terrible. … They’re going to be confused. You see two men go into a bedroom. You see two women kissing. Is that not confusing? It’s confusing.
So disgusting.
“My principles have led me to the Democratic Party,” Key said, before giving out his Twitter handle and website address. “I can only hope more people of principle will follow me.”
Turned Hardball on last night while finishing up dinner and ended up sitting down watching the interview with Freedom Works Matt Kibbe and The Daily Beast Michael Tomasky. Kibbee laid out in detail the Tea Party plan to take over the Republican Party which you might as well say Koch Bros plan as they are behind all these groups. He left no doubt about how they are going to challenge any GOP in a Red State that is not hard right. There will be plenty of money to take on incumbent GOP who are not hard right enough according to Kibbe. I know what I would do -- I would tell the GOP to shove it and do what Judge Key is doing -- run as a Democrat.
This interview with Kibbe is unbelievable -- arrogance personified along with disdain for any one who is not hard right.
FreedomWorks CEO promises Chris Matthews: Tea Party will ‘upgrade’ southern GOP by 2014 (via Raw Story )Despite reports that his group is nearly broke, FreedomWorks CEO Matt Kibbe predicted in an interview with MSNBC host Chris Matthews on Monday that his group would help Tea Party Republicans dominate the GOP within a year. “I think it’s a process…
This blew my mind from Kibbe:
When Matthews specifically asked Kibbe if Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was among the lawmakers his group would like to see ousted in a primary — along with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Thad Cochran (R-MS) and Pat Roberts (R-KS), Kibbe did not deny it.
“I do think we should upgrade from a lot of these Republicans who haven’t done what it takes to get this done,” Kibbe told Matthews.
“So in other words, that’s nice language for, ‘Let’s dump these guys,’” Matthews responded. “I don’t know what ‘upgrade’ means. Does that mean get rid of them?”
“We’re in the process of repopulating the Republican party with people that stand for something,” Kibbe explained to a visibly bemused Matthews.
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