What a joke !!
Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) made an announcement last week that the reason the Republicans are losing so badly these days is because of "forced unionism". He said that especially in the Northeast, good Republican voters are leaving the area to migrate South to avoid labor unions and "forced unionism". So now Dems outnumber Republicans in these non right to work states.
Is this guy a joke or what??
He doesn't explain why the Democrats carried North Carolina or Virginia, both considered Southern right-to-work states, in 2008. Nor why other right to work states abandoned the Republican party that year, like Florida, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
The Republicans really need to put a clamp on who's allowed to speak publicly for the party and who's not. Statements like this only make the Republicans look stupid.
Is this guy a joke or what??
He doesn't explain why the Democrats carried North Carolina or Virginia, both considered Southern right-to-work states, in 2008. Nor why other right to work states abandoned the Republican party that year, like Florida, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.
The Republicans really need to put a clamp on who's allowed to speak publicly for the party and who's not. Statements like this only make the Republicans look stupid.
This guy, Jim DeMint has made other dumb comments. Consider this Op-Ed from the New York Times on May 1st by Bob Herbert entitled "Out of Touch"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/opinion/02herbert.html?hp
Quote "Senator Jim DeMint, a Republican from South Carolina, described President Obama as “the world’s best salesman of socialism.” And Mike Huckabee, a former Republican governor of Arkansas and presidential candidate, said of the administration’s economic policies: “Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff.”"
It surely seems that the republicans have lost their way. They are clutching at straws and the public as a whole are not buying any of their stuff.
I have read Herbert's Op-Ed column in the past, especially during the Presidential Campaign. This one is a good read. Jim DeMint seems to be on the "fringe".
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