RRD:It is too soon for me to rule out voting for Thaddeus Mccotter,however if his statement adopting a stance of moral equivalency between Tea Partiers & Rinos is typical then he would be a disastrous candidate. Rep. McCotter calls for a truce between Republicans, Tea Party - The Hill's Floor Action
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/174503-mccotter-calls-for-truce-b... ..."McCotter said on the House floor. "It is as unwarranted and injurious for a Republican to call a Tea Partier a hobbit, as it is for a Tea Partier to call a Republican a RINO." McCotter was referring to a comment earlier this month from Sen. John McCain (R -Ariz.), who compared Tea Partiers to hobbits."
RRD:Ah,no,it's not,anymore than it's unjust to distinguish between people acting out of conviction & cowards who break their promises & sell out their voters.
..."We cannot unite America if we divide the movement," McCotter warned. "Consequently, the time has come for the Tea party to grow up and the Republican Party to wake up, and come together to serve and save this great nation.".... RRD:Actually,(regarding this) the Tea Party(and some Tea Party Republicans) are the only "Grown-ups in the room".The others(both Republicans like Bush et-al,and Democrats) are more comparable to drug addicts who claim that if you will meet them halfway--you give them half of what they initially asked for--they will cut their heroin intake in half.Then when they don't they go through the whole process again. Mccotter is here guilty of being the "man in the middle".A concept developed by Ayn Rand here:
...."There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube . . . When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the forc
e of
an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self -righteously uncompromising evil."
Galt’s Speech, For the New Intellectual, 216; pb 173.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/174503-mccotter-calls-for-truce-b... ..."McCotter said on the House floor. "It is as unwarranted and injurious for a Republican to call a Tea Partier a hobbit, as it is for a Tea Partier to call a Republican a RINO." McCotter was referring to a comment earlier this month from Sen. John McCain (R -Ariz.), who compared Tea Partiers to hobbits."
RRD:Ah,no,it's not,anymore than it's unjust to distinguish between people acting out of conviction & cowards who break their promises & sell out their voters.
..."We cannot unite America if we divide the movement," McCotter warned. "Consequently, the time has come for the Tea party to grow up and the Republican Party to wake up, and come together to serve and save this great nation.".... RRD:Actually,(regarding this) the Tea Party(and some Tea Party Republicans) are the only "Grown-ups in the room".The others(both Republicans like Bush et-al,and Democrats) are more comparable to drug addicts who claim that if you will meet them halfway--you give them half of what they initially asked for--they will cut their heroin intake in half.Then when they don't they go through the whole process again. Mccotter is here guilty of being the "man in the middle".A concept developed by Ayn Rand here:
...."There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no choice or values exist, who is willing to sit out the course of any battle, willing to cash in on the blood of the innocent or to crawl on his belly to the guilty, who dispenses justice by condemning both the robber and the robbed to jail, who solves conflicts by ordering the thinker and the fool to meet each other halfway. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube . . . When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the forc
e of
an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it’s picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self -righteously uncompromising evil."
Galt’s Speech, For the New Intellectual, 216; pb 173.
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