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November, 2006 |
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A group of Republicans attacks their fellow Republicans in ads |
Will the Republicans Please Stand Up?
By Al Owens
I’m just about ready to join the Republican Party. I’ve seen those brand new
television commercials that group The Real Republican Majority for Choice is
running across the State of Pennsylvania, and I’m just about ready to join the
good ole G.O.P. In case you’re wondering, “What’s gotten into him”? - read me
out.
The commercial’s announcer asks, “If the Republican Party is the party Abe
Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt, or a party of a vocal minority of
extremists”? I raised my hand as if to answer my third grade history teacher
when I heard that part, but I didn’t get called on.
But I listened on with rapt attention, as that announcer talked about how the
“real Republicans promote tolerance, not bigotry.” For that part they showed
pictures of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Rick Santorum. I guess they’re
trying to tell us would-be Republicans that the real Republicans think those
people are intolerant and bigoted.
It’s refreshing when I hear a group of Republicans beat up their own. I was
ready to take a run for the County Board of Elections, until I found the Real
Republican Majority for Choice web site. (http://realRepublicanMajority.org ) I
searched for the online version of that spot and took a closer look at it, and
now I’m a little conflicted about my new political party of choice. (I love that
pun)
First, they’re talking about Abe Lincoln being an example of somebody who wasn’t
extreme. I’d say Lincoln may have been among the most extreme politicians of his
day. And thank goodness he was. Then they talk about Teddy Roosevelt not being
extreme or a bigot. Hum?
I would have thought the Real Republicans would have caught that one before they
put those commercials on the air. Wasn’t Teddy Roosevelt the guy who once told
an audience back in 1986 that, “The most vicious cowboy has more principal than
the average Indian”? He did tell some folks back then that he didn’t believe
that the only good Indian was a dead Indian. Just nine out of every ten of them!
Oh these Real Republicans sure can pick their role models, can’t they?
Teddy Roosevelt, by the way, wasn’t exactly liberal with his stand on
immigration either. The Real Republicans should have taken a peek at his July
4th (of all days), 1917 speech before slapping his picture on one of their
commercials that supposedly extol their open-mindedness. "We must have in this
country but one flag, and for the speech of the people but one language, the
English language.” What a guy. And did I mention he wasn’t even talking about
illegal immigration? He was protecting America against the evils of LEGAL
immigrants of the time. I’m guessing Teddy wouldn’t rush to become a member of
the Real Republican Majority of Choice these days then.
I’m wondering why they didn’t proclaim Gandhi had been a Republican and included
him in that ad.
Although I think it has even more problems. When that spot was first completed,
it featured Pennsylvanians Arlen Spector and Tom Ridge. They both requested
their likenesses not be used in the commercial. Understandable, because neither
wanted to have anything to do with a commercial that took verbal shots at their
fellow Republicans. In fact, I’m willing to bet that if Ronald Reagan were alive
today – even he would asked that his image be removed from it. Especially since
he once called his 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow
Republican." Ironically, I’d forgotten he’d said that, until I found that quote
on the web site of The Real Republican Majority of Choice. Ouch!
The organization says it’s going to run those commercials in Pennsylvania first,
then in the Presidential Primary states, of Iowa and New Hampshire. I may be
wrong, but it seems The Real Republican Majority for Choice has some major
editing to do on those commercials before they hit a wider audience. How ‘bout
they remove all of those flimsy examples of tolerance and non-extremism, and
just go with Bambi. I’m sure he’ll become a Republican before I will!
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