Memo to GOP candidates: Stop mindlessly praising Commies in green clothing
GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman gushed with praise for Truther/Marxist/race-hustler Van Jones and his “climate change” work in May:
She met him at a liberal Aspen Institute event. “I got to know him really well. A lot of the work he’s doing to enfranchise broader communities. I’m a big fan of…I’m a huge fan of his. Very bright. Very articulate. I think he’s exactly right.”
Ooops.
Now, she’s disavowing him — telling the Weekly Standard that “of course I did not do a background check of his past over dinner.”
Lame.
She mindlessly name-dropped Van Jones, climate change snake oil salemsan, to try and bolster her eco-credentials — and ended up endorsing a left-wing nutball in green clothing.
Teachable moment.
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David Horowitz: Obama’s Communist Advisor and His Billion-Dollar Army
Ron Radosh on Van Jones: A Communist in the White House? 1992 and 2009
Fun fact: Van Jones is an ardent follower of Amilcar Cabral, the late Marxist revolutionary of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands, who lauded Lenin “as the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples.” In 2006, Van Jones named his newborn son “Cabral” in the Marxist leader’s honor.
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Seduced by his faux commie coolness.
Oh dear, this sure will not help her in her election. Words do have a way to come back to haunt you, don’t they?
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It’s getting really interesting watching all these “conservative” GOP wanna-bees, who will say and do anything to create a voter base. These are the “conservatives” WE need to vet thoroughly before we get to endorsing our champions later in the winter/spring of 2010. As an aside, we all knew all along that our government had become infested with traitors over the years. This stupid administration has gone to great lengths to identify them for all of us. For that, we thank you!
Hey, it’s all about personality. He has a very compelling personal story…or so the folks at San Quentin say.
This is Meg’s “Oh shiite” moment. This is not the Van Jones that she knew in 5…4…3…2..
Van Jones think’s he is Shaft reincarnated.
Such as the deceased community, the illegal alien community, the convicted felon community. You know, all of those people that “the man” has been trying to keep down.
Exactly what are his qualifications to have anything to say about environmental policy? Being a radical, cop hating community organizer doesn’t seem to be appropriate qualifications for creating jobs in the environmental industry. Sending young pups door to door with a clipboard and a liberal talking points is not creating green jobs.
I don’t think there were any vetting lapses there. Obama knows exactly what the guy is about. Just like Obama said he didn’t think Rev. Wright’s church was so radical.
Jones IS Obama but has the luxury of being able to be more honest about. Didn’t have to run for office.
What she meant to say…
RINO
McCain liked her. That should tell you something.
Clean house, Michelle.
Keep up the good work!
Van Jones epitomizes a “watermelon”: green on the outside, red on the inside.
OT: When did the large numbers start on each post? Have I missed something?
I wish republicans would stop referring to blacks as “articulate”. Who the hell calls anyone articulate unless you are surprised by it? It supports the dems claims that we are racist.
Any repub that says a positive word about this communist, lying low-life should be thrown out of office, or not be put in office. What is it about some spineless repubs that think if they make nice with libs, the press will love them?? RINO’s all.
Another RHINO.
Right now the only Republican politician I care much for is Oklahoma senator Imhofe. Sessions and DeMint are okay I guess. A golden opportunity lays before the GOP and it seems many from the party are afraid to seize it. They love that marshmellowy middle.
You’re kidding right? Deliberately avoiding the use of common words like “articulate” to describe somebody, is kowtowing to race baiting liberals. I have heard that word used a gillion times to describe people, and it is always a compliment. And here’s a newsflash: it is used to describe people of all races.
Um, Michelle…the root of environmentalism is planted in communism. They are one in the same thing. Research Ayn Rand’s writings on environmentalism.
Where’s zeroangel?
Look! A Unicorn!
Especially when you consider the environmental track record of communist countries, proudly holding oneself out as a commie is hardly comforting or inspiring in a “Guardian of Mother Gaia” posting.
How to make enemies, and influence friends?
This “fourth richest woman in California” just lost any support I might have considered for her in the upcoming Governor’s race. If she can’t judge a person’s character, given his vocally radical history of activism, then there is no way I could ever trust her with my life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. We already got saddled by one RINO, we don’t need another to take his place.
What’s this? Another politician too lazy to even familiarize herself with the people she is talking about, much less praising? How UN-surprized I am.
IDIOTS
If you want better information on the Global Warming Scam, read Michael Fumento’s article from the NY Post.
Here’s portion of it.
Meg Whitman is a viable GOP candidate. Van Jones is a self-admitted commie and a-hole. However, I don’t think commending someone on their work without having done a background check on them is “lame”. We have to stop evaluating everyone’s prior comments in light of today’s knowledge. This cacophony of outrage is ruining our discourse.
The same qualifications were apparently enough to get “The One” elected President!
Vicki, I have to disagree. For Meg Whitman to say “I’m a huge fan of his.” is simply not smart or belies her belief in the left’s politically driven Global Warming crusade.
I don’t know much about Meg Whitman, but what I see here… her ability to fawn over a radical socialist and her apparent willingness to buy into Global Warming… does not impress me at all.
So you say you got to know him really well during dinner, but don’t have the ability to recognize him as a radical communist? Either Van is quite the charmer or Meg has poor listening skills.
Sorry Meg, strike one.
MM’s using Obamamath now.
She liked him at first. No problem, he must have made a good first impression.
But, she had lots of time to check him out later.
Plus, she met him at a liberal Aspen Institute event. Why was she attending a liberal event?
I wonder, too, is she related to Christine Todd Whitman?
Overall, I think she’s just another RINO.
http://ellabakercenter.org/index.php?p=gcjc_glossary#eco-apartheid
This was posted on a recent related thread but seems worth spreading to other areas. Jones’s immediate roots.
Yet another person of the Caucasian persuasion refering to a person of Nubian extraction as “bright” and “articulate.”
They always sound so surprised. Did she expect Jones to say, “Yo, what it be, Bitch?”
MM said Word Press is doing maintenance.
Hope they restore the old numbering system and save the monster thread.
Another example for why holding your nose to vote for someone just because they are Republicans is foolish. Most of these sociopaths are nothing more than mouths on two legs. There is no mouth and brain coordination. They just say things.
The kind that Pete Stark uses that says the more in debt one is, the wealthier one is? And the kind that Duh One uses that says spending a trillion dollars and driving unemployment up to 10% means 100,000 jobs saved?
Incidently, here’s a good bumper sticker.
http://www.upyoursobama.com/
That is more fun than I can take in day!
She did all the background checking a thumb sucking politician needs. He’s black. She seized an opportunity to show how “evolved” she is. How accepting and non biggoted she is. Probably did not say more than a few words to him at the “conference”, but knew he was black. So it was a “look at me, I love diversity” moment. Just so happens she picked a bad example to show her PC prowess and it backfired. The guy is red commie by his own admission. Well, in the past anyway. And anyone who says diffent is a racisssss.
Why do all of these enviro-whackoes go on cruise ships? Those ships got zip to do with the environment.
This ding bat is what passes for a republican in California. Look at Arnold for what it results in.
When I hear people talking about a third party, while many claim ‘it will dilute the vote’, I am left looking at this kind of Republican that makes no sense to voting for.
The Republican party in Cal is based on the few that have turned it into ‘the socialist lite’ party of the rich elite that have the same marxist values that are in Washington today.
Progressives to Democrats Jump.
From a lazy typist:
Hey Thomas! Here’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, another GOP toe-sucking, reach across the aisle, rumpschwab! You want that I should vote for her? You know, win at any cost political strategery to prevent A Democrat from winning? (hoch patooie)
Would-be GOP candidate:
“I got to know him very well.”
Meg – have you heard of the interweb???
I heard Al Gore is a big fan.
Or something.
She’s accountable to the voters on her policies, we don’t disagree. I guess we just don’t agree on the level to which she should be vilified for making this comment. Maybe that night, she was a huge fan of his. Maybe she’s since learned her lesson. If not, she won’t get my vote.
I am troubled by the sound-bite society and the over-the-top reaction to what appears to be even the most innocent of slips of the tongue. Maybe this was one of those and maybe not. But can’t we calm down until we have more to go on? She wasn’t sitting in Van Jones’ church for 20 years.
No wonder so few good people are willing to enter the limelight.
It’s just sad.
Mandingo Syndrome?
I find that most Republicans from either one of the left coasts are nothing more then warmed over Democrats. The Republican Party needs start veting their own too. No more RINO’s!
Errah looks like another RINO head for my man cave
Lets hope the GOP has a primary there. She’s an idiot.
Duct tape had a thousand and one uses-GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman made that a thousand and two the ditz. Is John McCain giving Foot in Mouth lessons to these jerks or are they self stupid?
For the entire primary/general election cycle Bambi told us exactly what he was going to do-redistribute wealth, return property to it’s rightful owners, “the world won’t allow us to live too large, drive big cars, eat too much, cool our houses too much” and now people are surprised and confused he surrounds himself with communist. Box of Chocolates, rocks-something fits here. Perhaps GOP gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman should just step over the isle and stay there.
I agree. We need to find out more about her and her policies. With this small exception, I like what I’ve been hearing so far. There will never be a candidate that is 100% acceptable to all Conservatives. Reagan said that someone that votes with you 80% of the time is not your 20% enemy.
RINO’s like Whitman constantly reaffirm my disgust for the Republican party. People like Whitman are not only not independent thinkers, they are useful idiots.
They’ll use anybody to win office. If that means supporting loons like Jones, all the better. This does not bode well for true leadership in California.
california will once again put forth a left wing republican because to them that is a conservative. the spectrum of communist to moderate rino is the total spectrum of political personalities in california.
Thank God she’s a primary candidate and we still have a chance to put a real conservative candidate on the ballot.
As I said in a previous post, not one word of print in any of the major state run press of New York about Obama’s racist buddy, Van Jones. Now we have another RINO trying to sneak in, throw her under the bus…..RIGHT NOW!
cheapseat, I need to disagree. With the exception of Ahnuld, California has had some good conservatives like Pete Wilson, George Deukmajian and of course, Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Don’t forget Congressman Robert “washed out by illegal alien tidal wave” Dornan.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
Meg Whitman is a RINO. She doesn’t belong in the GOP.
Meg Whitman was useless and clueless as a CEO, and is still useless and clueless today.
She took eBay and expanded the number of employees by 900%. She threw out the founder’s vision of a free market and turned the site into a stifling, mundane, unproductive beaucratic slug.
She happily sold out the interests of the small sellers to favor the precious few that made her the most money.
Then, as the site started to buckle under all the rules and regulations designed to favor sellers who import boatloads of crap from China, she walked away and decided to run for Governor.
I’m telling ya, cut your losses now. She’s not change – she’s more of the same.
You mean the conservative that gave California some of the strictest gun control laws in the land is the best they can do? Best to toss them aside.
Reagan expanded the size of government and raised taxes too. The best thing about him was his foreign policy.
MP: While Reagan didn’t enjoy the same success as Governor as he did as President, you can’t just toss him aside. If Reagan doesn’t fit your bill as a conservative, then please tell me who in the last fifty years does?
Newsflash; describing a Yale Law School graduate as articulate is stupid. If he was a high school drop-out, then it might be remarkable that he is articulate.
Meg: Green is the new Red. Don’t ever forget it.
ANY member of the GOP from today forward who is caught giving praise to ANYONE on the left must be hounded.
Why?
Because it’s that kind of complacency that has allowed this regime to get away with murder.
As a Californian, this is so depressing. It looks like we’re going to have six more years of “Please call me Senator” Barbara Boxer.
I just saw on the Wikipedia entry that Babs is going to be 70 years old at the time of the election. Judging by much of what she’s said, I’d have to say that senility is already setting in.
Sheeeeessss….
Never pegged Meg Whitman as a useful idiot……
Could they use Joe Biden’s
“the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy”?
Made me smile it did. But then Biden says a lot of thinks.
Hint to GOP candidates: don’t play along with the green nonsense.
At best these people are airheads.
At worst they’re bad enough that just being mentioned in the same blurb with them will take your credibility down a few pegs.
Now, I’d happily vote for Whitman over Boxer, but then I’d happily vote for half an ounce of surgically removed hemorrhoid over Barbara Boxer.
I don’t find it particularly difficult for anyone to be seduced by the message of hope and change, and I certainly don’t blame anyone for voting for obama in light of what the Republicans put up for a presidential candidate.
However, it is now clear that obama and his czars are operating a government outside of the constitutional limits of government, and this is most distressing to any freedom loving American. It is also clear that this extra-constitutional government operation is socialist/marxist in its philosophy and actions. We have beaten foreign enemies for 75 year now, and it will be necessary to beat the domestic enemies represented by the obama administration and a Congress that is all too compliant.
Once sanity is re-established, the American people will have to demand a reduction in the size and scope of the federal government starting with the NEA, FCC, DoEd, and DoE. We are clearly seeing the dangers that runaway government entails and we cannot merely accept a reduction in programs as an bureaucratic organization left intact will rise again.
Nobody. Settling for Democrat defectors is why we’re in the position we’re in today. Every compromise we make moves us left. I voted for Reagan twice, and I would do it again, because his economics poicies made us all richer and firing the air traffic controllers made us all better off, but no, he wasn’t conservative enough for me. He increased government spending, and he raised taxes. Are you really willing to settle for so little?
Well, with all due respect, MarcoPolo, I buy plenty of things on eBay from small sellers. I admit to knowing nothing about the inner workings of eBay, but know a good deal when I see one, and find nothing wrong with a person getting out while the gettin’s good. If she grew the company from less than 30 employees to 9000 employees on capitalist principles, I think she’s still one to watch.
Here’s her bio.
Ha! That is the way Z debates in a nutshell! Too funny.
Nice work, Meg.
Scratching her off my list of candidates.
A fool in smart clothing.
Here’s a hint: If an Obama official is unknown to you personally (and we should hope that’s true in the majority of cases), at least do a Google search, huh? Given the people closest to Obama, who are recommending czars and whatever else, you gotta know they’re picking the far left side of the tree.
Hey Cheese Maverick, you’re an idiot
Wow, look at that, one of those evil GOP members that isn’t acting on our behalf, reaching across the isle to praise Obama ….. Wait…
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RINO’s suck bigtime. Vote her out of office and send her to check out the “recovering economy” at the unemployment office!
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John Bibb
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Closed primaries. We must rid ourselves of these idiots in closed primaries. NOW is the time to get viable conservative challengers to these idiots ready for the primaries. We must have candidates whose objective is the absolute defeat of anything the Democrat party stands for.
What is this fascination RINOs have with “useful idiots” like Van Jones and others? And why do they contribute to the illusion of their legitimacy?
What do they gain? It’s not as if any of these people or their followers are going to VOTE for them, or support them in any way!
Is it just the “inside the Beltway coolness factor” or some such?
I am a small seller on eBay. I’ve been on eBay before she was, and I’m still there.
I have lived with the results of the unresponsive nightmare that she created.
I know a considerable amount about the inner-workings of eBay. She sold out the long term viability of the site in order to glean short term profits. ike I said, she turned a lean, lean selling machine into a sluggish, top heavy, unproductive machine.
She left when the system she designed started to buckle under the weight of the plans and policies she implemented.
She essentially did the same thing in her division at Mattel.
The sell through rate on her watch fell from about 90% to about 45%.
She’s done nothing or said nothing to indicate to me that she’s a small government conservative. She’s a RINO, no real change at all. We don’t need Republicans like her.
One should avoid using the term “articulate” when offering complements to African Americans. It is, rightly in my view, seen as condescending and demeaning.