Republicans Chew Up Their Own and Spit Them Out

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This take on the current version of the Republican party is bang on.  This piece is in reference to Republican Rep. Bob Inglis who got defeated in the primaries by a tea party favorite.

The current Republican Party, one hijacked by hustlers and extremists, not only looks to destroy President Obama. It even starts to kill its own.

Rep. Bob Inglis, a voice of reason at a dumb, unreasonable time in American politics, is one of them. Inglis (R-S.C.) will be out of a job soon for not hating Barack Obama nearly enough. The irony, he says, is that he disagrees with Obama on almost everything.

Inglis, a conservative Republican from a state so red you worry it might set itself on fire, used to go after Bill Clinton with everything he had. But these days he comes up an even better American than a Republican, speaking his own mind, refusing to join a chorus of idiots and call Obama his enemy, or an enemy of the state. Inglis’ state or anybody else’s.

“I figured out early in the race I was taking a risk by being unwilling to call the President a socialist,” Inglis says. “I’d get asked a question and they’d all wait to see if I’d use the word – socialist – they were throwing around. I wouldn’t. Because I don’t think that’s what he is.

“To call him a socialist is to demean the office and stir up a passion that we need to be calming, rather than constantly stirring up.”

Listen to the guy. He doesn’t sound like some sore loser. Instead, Bob Inglis sounds like the ignored conscience of an increasingly crackpot party.

A voice of reason in a party now completely devoid of any sense of decency or fair play and Inglis is considered the outsider.  These last lines sum it up well.

“But then what do I know?” Bob Inglis says. “I lost.”

His district did. His state did. His party did. He did not.

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