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DEL.ICIO.USOh, those Young Republicans: ‘Talk radio is inflammatory, divisive’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Things were moving too fast on Tuesday to make mention of it, but the Georgia Young Republicans have picked a fight with the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham over their denunciation of emerging Republican nominee John McCain.
“It’s hard enough to reunite after a tough primary process,” said Jason Shepherd, chairman of the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs. “They talk into a microphone or TV camera with no consequences and it is us activists that must pay the price as we fight for our candidates precinct by precinct.”
While specifically excluding local talk artist Neal Boortz, the group’s board of directors issued a resolution that “condemns and denounces the actions and speech over the past several weeks by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and others for breeding contempt, disunity and hatred among the Republican Party in order to bolster their own careers.”
Read the entire collection of whereases and therefores on the jump.
Whereas: Political Pundits like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, and Ann Coulter, along with other talk show hosts in national and local markets, have viciously attacked Republican candidates running in the primary election; and
Whereas: Many of these same pundits have used their shows and their vast audiences to spread disunity among Republicans when we need to be uniting to face the greater threat to our national security and well being that is embodied in the Democrat candidates for President; and
Whereas: Despite all of these pundits invoking the greatness of Ronald Reagan, none of them have paused for a second to remember Reagan’s 11th Commandment; and
Whereas: Each of the above named have, through their actions and words, lost the confidence of millions of their fans and Republican voters; and
Whereas: The members of the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs are prepared to support our nominee, whether he is Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Ron Paul or Mitt Romney, against the real threat, the Democrat nominee; now
Therefore, be it resolved, this 5th Day of February, 2008, that the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs strongly condemns and denounces the actions and speech over the past several weeks by Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, and others for breeding contempt, disunity and hatred among the Republican Party in order to bolster their own careers; and
Therefore, be it FURTHER resolved, that the Georgia Federation of Young Republican Clubs praises talk show hosts like Neal Boortz, who, despite making their preference known, have chosen not to make it their mission to tear down other GOP candidates.
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By Chuck
February 6, 2008 3:57 PM | Link to this
Yes, thats the thing to do…bow down to the new masters of the GOP, the neo-cons…As your Republican Party dies and the Democrats take power…you will realize that trading your principles for power will get you nothing in return.
By Sincere Young Republican
February 6, 2008 4:33 PM | Link to this
Whereas: We the spoiled Young Repubs of America have basked in our privileged upbringings, college degrees we could afford, and bright upwardly mobile career-starts, we have ALSO cheered on the bloody Bush war in which so many fine soldiers have died and suffered great malady, that WE HAVE ALL DECIDED TO ENLIST IMMEDIATELY in the armed services of this great nation. Amen!
By Tater
February 6, 2008 4:41 PM | Link to this
Your kidding me right… A resolution denouncing radio talk show hosts? You must not listen to Boortz very often, he is critical of everybody.
Talk show hosts inform and entertain the listeners. Since McCain, Ron Paul, Romney, Huckabee, are all republicans we must all drink the same kool-aid?
And you wonder why the republican party has such issues these days…
By GodHatesTrash
February 6, 2008 5:16 PM | Link to this
Young Repukkkes should be in Baghdad or Fallujah and let decent people come home.
Trash. Yellow-bellied cowardly trash.
By Aaron Burr V. Mexico
February 6, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this
What is more cowardly, not liking the war in Iraq and ‘letting the terrorists win’ or refusing to see a leadership that has abandoned the very principles they espouse, simply because you are afraid to admit your mistakes, afraid to admit that your leadership has been morally bankrupt for at least 20 years, and afraid to admit that there has been rampant unending hypocracy on the part of Conservatives for the same amount of time?
Personally? I think that this is the kind of courage that will ensure that the Republican party will not be replaced by something else. Parties can die, and when a party so loses touch with its base that it cannot even remotely follow its own platform or ideas (things like small government, honesty, civility, honor, honest, honesty, honesty) then it will not last long.
By Go Army!!
February 6, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this
Type in your zip code to find the Army recruiter near you!
www.goarmy.com/contact/findarecruiter.jsp
The Army welcomes Georgia’s Young Republicans. Is tomorrow soon enough?
By Conservatism is DEAD
February 6, 2008 7:24 PM | Link to this
The Republican Party is dead. It is hilarious to watch these pathetic idiots eat each other as they spiral down the toilet bowl. Learn to swim, you pathetic Republican effluent. Soon you will find yourselves in the sewage processing plant, being burned away into methane gas, which will certainly stink for a little while, but will soon fade into memory as the final offense of the extinct failure once known as Republicanism. You will take your place alongside failures like Communism and Nazism in the ashbin of history.
By Churchill
February 6, 2008 8:53 PM | Link to this
No it is not. We conservatives are debating. Debating, message, the future, the very direction of our party and country. The libs are playing the race card, class card, and gender card during their “conversation”. Republicans/Conservatives are simply going through a debate. Good people on bith sides. Our “conversation” has nothing to do with race, class, or gender. Glass houses, right?
By Churchill
February 6, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this
Rush is right. The young ones want to win, I get that. With age wisdom will come, and they will realize that the message is more important than the messenger. I’m glad the college kids are engaged.
By GodHatesTrash
February 6, 2008 9:07 PM | Link to this
That Churchill is a masterdebater. Effing moron.
Trash.
By ?????
February 6, 2008 9:11 PM | Link to this
“We conservatives are debating?”
How is the usual “Anyone but Hillary” or “I hate libs” posts of yours debating?
By Churchill
February 6, 2008 9:55 PM | Link to this
Trash, I’ll still rent you the hybrid for the last 40. What? That will save 1/4 of a polar bear. And you, ?????, I long since stopped debateing libs. I, now, ridicule them. I rejected liberals and specifically, modern socialism, long ago. I debate and engage my peers, you, sir(?), are not one of them. Peace.
Anybody But Hillary
By Churchill
February 6, 2008 10:29 PM | Link to this
I do not hate libs. I feel sorry and mock them. No hate. Peace!!
By charlescorley
February 7, 2008 5:22 AM | Link to this
goooooooooood morning/ be careful what you say about neal you may cause him to have an asthma attack which was his exemption from the vietnam war. he could play hockey but was too weak to carry a rifle. he fits websters definition of a wimp. rush’s exemption was bed wetting and i’m not sure about sean but mother’s boy sounds good. their boy romney has five boys who are all conscientious objecters like their father and grandpa.
By TVV
February 7, 2008 6:20 AM | Link to this
The talk radio hosts - the self-described brokers of conservatism - are barking commands down to the rest of us from their perches in Times Square. The sad thing is not just that they’re out of touch with most conservative voters (except for those who mindlessly do whatever Rush and Sean tell them to do and automatically repeat whatever they say), but that they’re also out of touch with who they themselves USED TO BE. Do you think that they have many conversations with ordinary people that they can’t dominate with the threat of hanging up on them? For the most part, they don’t.
The really insulting thing for me is that while they badmouth one guy who wants to eliminate the current tax code and who has solid social conservative credentials and another guy who is a war hero, they elevate and praise guys who have supported late-term abortion and who have outright liberal records. This is why they’ve lost credibility with me and this is why I’m not listening to them much anymore. I guess I’ve been de-Hanitized.
These guys have beat up on GOP candidates more severely than the liberal media ever has.
By Will Jones
February 7, 2008 7:33 AM | Link to this
Neal and Rush are Vietnam draft-dodgers and “capons” who support the fascist plutocracy/Fifth Column which, through their CIA action branch and the guidance of Nixon and GHW Bush, assassinated Kennedy and King to put and keep us in Vietnam.
Hannity and Ingraham are virulent Roman Catholics supporting the Roman Anti-Christ’s Fifth Column, which has now committed 9-11 to send us to die for lies again, to amass power over the People and to privately profit themselves.
By rrlcc
February 7, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this
Young republicans talk radio is not about politics or informing anyone of anything. Its about ratings and ad revenue.
By self-interest
February 7, 2008 8:08 AM | Link to this
The bread and butter of talk radio is controversy. It is not in their personal interest to have a president that they agree with. That would make for boring radio and apathetic listeners. Nothing would boost their careers and ratings more than having a Clinton back in the White House. A return to the good old days of talk radio!!
By Copyleft
February 7, 2008 8:19 AM | Link to this
The Young Republicans are simply stating the obvious: the purpose of talk radio is to agitate and deceive.
Fortunately, there’s a huge audience of gullible morons who are itching for just such a format, and will blindly follow Hannity, Savage, and the rest of these loons right off a cliff, ensuring the doom of the Republican Party.
Welcome to a better America.
By SpaceyG
February 7, 2008 8:24 AM | Link to this
Lemmings hesitating at the precipice, eh?
By Roy
February 7, 2008 8:40 AM | Link to this
It’s good to see Young Republicans questioning the likes of Limbaugh, Coulter, and Boortz. It shows me they’re thinking for themselves and thank God for that! I also like it when I see Young Democrats question the extreme left of their party. Citizens are taking a break from buying everything party big wigs say hook, line, and sinker.
By Antineocon
February 7, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this
Don’t forget to include our shameless VP, Dick Cheney, along with the other draft dodgers like Limbaugh, “Vannity,” and Boortz. Cheney was too busy securing a student deferment to go to war in Vietnam like the rest of us suckers did. And Coulter and Ingraham? They could have served. But it’s these so-called talk radio conservatives and likes of Cheney and Karl Rove who don’t mind someone else’s son or daughter getting killed. They don’t have the right to criticize John McCain who withstood torture in serving this country. May all of those cowrads die from some vile disease!
By Lemmings and Disney Fact Check
February 7, 2008 10:26 AM | Link to this
Lemmings do not actually jump off cliffs.
Rephuklycans do.
By Jason Shepherd
February 7, 2008 10:34 PM | Link to this
What you liberals fail to even learn is that “Young Republicans” is an organization with a median age of 33. You keep confusing us with College Republicans (median age of 22). Many of our YRs are currently in the military or are veterans who went in for a tour, some as long ago as the 1991 Gulf War, have left and are building careers and raising families. Now in my mid-30s, I doubt they would take a new recruit as old as me considering they rejected me a decade ago when I was in my mid-20s and was patroitic enough to serve under Commander-in-Chief Clinton.
It’s amazing how you libs will mindlessly spew whatever garbage your DNC handlers fee you.
Jason Shepherd State Chairman Georgia Young Republicans