Laura Ingraham Can’t Tell Former Bush Speechwriter Michael Gerson From Former DNC Chair Howard Dean

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by Frances Martel | 8:51 am, August 28th, 2010

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Former Bush speechwriter and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson is a bit wary of the Tea Party movement, to say the least, but still considers himself a conservative. Defending his position to an increasingly incredulous Laura Ingraham on The O’Reilly Factor last night, however, he found himself fighting comparisons to DNC chair Howard Dean, the progressive website MoveOn.org, and a certain allegedly left-of-center cable network.

Ingraham, who was filling in for Bill O’Reilly, questioned Gerson’s assertion in his column this week that certain small-government tendencies within the Tea Party movement were “inconsistent with religious teachings” and that their ideas dangerously noninclusive for the Republican Party. Citing several big-government Bush administration policies, Ingraham challenged Gerson to explain how the alternative would be any better: “big government conservatism was tried and it failed… you guys gave it the old college try and it failed.” Gerson made one point that Ingraham agreed with, that campaign platforms “can’t just be simplistic anti-government agenda” the way many Tea Party rally agendas are.

While he refused to defend the concept of “big government conservatism,” he warned that “Hispanics will not support the Republican Party if they feel they are a target of prejudice,” and that the Tea Party attitude towards immigration was promoting that. This set off Ingraham, who countered that one of the reasons Hispanics may feel they are targets of prejudice is because of “the ridiculous things that people like you say about the Tea Party.” Gerson pointed to culprits on the right in retort: “It’s Tom Tancredo and JD Hayworth that say ridiculous things!” To the continued mentions of Tancredo and Hayworth and, later, shots at Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle, Ingraham compared Gerson to the aforementioned Dean and wondered if she was talking to the website MoveOn.org instead of Gerson.

The heated debate via Fox News below:

Bush Administration, fox news, Howard Dean, JD Hayworth, Laura Ingraham, Michael Gerson, O'Reilly Factor, Republican Party, Sharron Angle, Tom Tancredo, Washington Post

Puter Boi

One would think, after reading Mediaite all week, that Laura Ingraham was the biggest, most influential personality in all of “cable world”… she certainly has touched a nerve hereabouts.

More must see TV that I am missing….
NORBIT

The PRIMITIVE “Group Identity” Progressive Left has Played the RACE-CARD for 50 Years!!

FIGHT BACK AGAINST ‘THEIR’ RACIST SMEAR!

What’s the best GOP mantra & talking point to use from now until the mid-term elections -
‘THE INTOLERANT LEFT!’
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“Racist” – According to DEMOCRATS: (spread the word)

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF THE INTOLERANT LEFT!

Supported Bush…RACIST!
Vote GOP…RACIST!
Watch FOX….RACIST!
Police…RACIST!
Gun Owners…RACIST!
Southerners…RACIST!
Christians…RACIST!
Want lower taxes…RACIST!
Enforce immigration laws…RACIST!
Elderly @ town halls…RACIST!
Support family values…RACIST!
Personal Responsibility…RACIST!
White & disagree with liberals…RACIST!
Black & disagree (Clarence Thomas)…UNCLE TOM!
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Now take a good look around at who the real RACISTS are! – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
Just pay attention at who’s first to bring RACE into a debate – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
Who promotes the primitive concept of “GROUP-IDENTITY” – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
Who uses accusations of ‘RACISM’ to smear political opponents -THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
Who feigns outrage over Glenn Beck, yet lauds the likes of Olbermann, Sharpton, Shultz, and my personal favorite, the Rev. Wright – THE INTOLERANT LEFT!
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Well it looks like Beck will have more than 100,000 people in the mall today. Dems are still trying to say this a political event. Of course they think it is political.
When people talk about honor they are not talking about democrats because they have NO honor.
When people talk about charity they are talking about democrats because the only charity they know is charity with other peoples money.
When people talk about integrity they aren’t talking about democrats because they have no integrity.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

Gerson is a typical RINO. When Sharon Angle won the primary over another RINO he jumped on the media description of her being extreme. He saw Reid leading in the polls and he saw an opportunity to claim she can’t win. He likes the attention from the left-wing media. He looks down his nose at the real Americans.
Angle will win and make Gerson and ilk look like the fools they are.
NORBIT

gordonbloyershow said:
Well it looks like Beck will have more than 100,000 people in the mall today. Dems are still trying to say this a political event. Of course they think it is political..

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How many Rent-A-Mob, government-subsidized thugs will Tawana Sharpton have at his War Rally?

Compare the deportment and behavior of Glenn’s supporters to Tawana’s – CASE CLOSED!
FIGHT THE ANTI-WHITE, ANTI-CHRISTIAN PROGRESSIVE LEFT!

To paraphrase Reid:
HOW CAN ANY CHRISTIAN VOTE DEMOCRATIC?
NORBIT

gordonbloyershow said:
Gerson is a typical RINO. When Sharon Angle won the primary over another RINO he jumped on the media description of her being extreme. He saw Reid leading in the polls and he saw an opportunity to claim she can’t win. He likes the attention from the left-wing media. He looks down his nose at the real Americans.Angle will win and make Gerson and ilk look like the fools they are.

So, in other words, HE’S JOHN McCAIN!
timzank

What most RINO advisors (Gerson included) fail to grasp, is the huge backlash from the moderates and independents to the Obama/Dems radical legislative and social agenda. The polls aren’t completely indicative of the uneasy sentiment out there. Most normal people are freaked out by the abrupt left turn and the economy and the indies & moderates will overwhelmingly tack right again in 2010, 2012 and probaly through 2016…all the mosque stuff and the hispanic rhetoric hype makes for good tv & radio but this country is having a really really averse reaction to the sudden “left turn”…

Look at history, whenever a party over reaches (either one) there is a backlash, and we’re seeing that now.
BatBoy

“…he (Former Bush Speechwriter Michael Gerson ) warned that “Hispanics will not support the Republican Party if they feel they are a target of prejudice,”

Gerson makes the same mistake the Democrats make thinking Hispanics can only be Democrats.

It just does not work that way as much as the left would like to think!
NORBIT

“Former Bush Speechwriter” should Disqualify him from ever appearing in public – Anywhere at Anytime!
lol!
Azarkhan

Democrats have controlled the California State Legislature for 38 of the last 40 years, and during that time they have served as whores for the public sector unions:

“roughly 80 cents of every government dollar in California goes to employee compensation and benefits… Thanks to huge unfunded pension and retirement health-care promises granted by past governments, and also to deceptive pension-fund accounting that understated liabilities and overstated future investment returns, California is now saddled with $550 Billion of retirement debt… This year, retirement benefits—more than $6 billion—will exceed what the state is spending on higher education. Next year, retirement costs will rise another 15%…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447004575449813071709510.html
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Gerson represents a large group of centrist-not-extremist Republicans who will either not vote in November, will stay home or, in self-defense, vote Democrat. Look at Florida’s turnout and the battle for the Governor’s office – in November will those who voted against Scott vote for him in the final? There’s the split and there’s the danger for the GOP. I’m looking forward to the long faces of the Tealiban.
NORBIT

Azarkhan said:
Democrats have controlled the California State Legislature for 38 of the last 40 years, and during that time they have served as whores for the public sector unions: “roughly 80 cents of every government dollar in California goes to employee compensation and benefits…

…and if we don’t PURGE DEMOCRATS from Congress this November, WE’LL ALL BE PAYING CALIFORNIA’S BAILOUT!!!
NORBIT

It’s AMERICA vs. the PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS!
timzank

Bill Adkins said:
Gerson represents a large group of centrist-not-extremist Republicans who will either not vote in November, will stay home or, in self-defense, vote Democrat. Look at Florida’s turnout and the battle for the Governor’s office – in November will those who voted against Scott vote for him in the final? There’s the split and there’s the danger for the GOP. I’m looking forward to the long faces of the Tealiban.

Adkins, make sure you are on line here on November 3rd….I’m going to really really enjoy your excuses.
Greg

Public employees are Americans as well… unionized or not.
tomcable

Alleged left-of-center cable network? Matthews, Schultz, Olbermann, Maddow, O’Donnell is your primetime lineup. What is alleged even doing in that sentence?
timzank

Greg said:
Public employees are Americans as well… unionized or not.

True, albeit pampered and secure unlike the rest of us poor schlubs.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

I want to remind you that after Obama won many of these talking heads said the republicans may never win again because of the demographic changes in the country. LOL. If you tax everyone to death even Hispanics, women and blacks will run from your party. All of the Hispanic people I know are conservatives.
CAconservative

Being at odds with the GOP is exactly why there is a need for the Tea-Party. Being at odds with Government in general, is why we desperately need a Tea-Party. Washington has become an oligarchy. Obimbo issues orders to ignore Congressional immigration law and Congress rolls over like a bitch-dog waiting to be scratched!
We have a 2nd Amendment for a reason. It’s time to implement that Amendment.
D REX

LAURA INGRATE CANT TELL HER ASS FROM GORGONBLOWER……LOLOLOLOL
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

CAconservative said:
Being at odds with the GOP is exactly why there is a need for the Tea-Party. Being at odds with Government in general, is why we desperately need a Tea-Party. Washington has become an oligarchy. Obimbo issues orders to ignore Congressional immigration law and Congress rolls over like a bitch-dog waiting to be scratched!We have a 2nd Amendment for a reason. It’s time to implement that Amendment.

Do you feel lucky, Punk?