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Yep-- this current bunch of lemmings following the every word of their rightwingernut party spokesmen like Rush and Beck that profiteer off enciting fear and hate is not the Republican Party I grew up with.....
Trio resigns from Republican Party
by JOHN CRAMER - Ravalli Republic
Three chairpersons of the Ravalli County Republican Central Committee have resigned, saying “fake” Republicans have taken over the party at the local, state and federal levels.
Dan Cox, who was Central Committee chairman, stepped down Sunday. Mona Docteur and Jim Thayer, who were state committee chairs, resigned last week.
The trio said they remain committed Republicans and don’t plan to join or start another political party or to seek elected office.
They also said they didn’t think their resignations signaled a disintegration of the local Republican Party.
“The Republican Party is having trouble because people don’t trust them,” Cox said. “The whole point is to get real Republicans into the party. I’m still a Republican and I still think the party’s great, but it’s been infiltrated by fake Republicans. I don’t want to work within the structure of the current Central Committee.”
Cox and Docteur said they will focus their efforts on educating people about the Constitution, reforming the Republican Party and urging Americans to monitor incumbents’ voting records.
Cox and Docteur said they will use Celebrating Conservatism, the local grassroots group, to take back the party from “rhinos,” or moderates and liberals who are “Republicans In Name Only.”
They said true Republicans support the Republican platform, fiscal responsibility, private property rights and the Constitution.
Cox and Docteur said state and federal Republicans aren’t reading bills before voting, aren’t defending property rights and aren’t limiting spending.
The two were staffing Celebrating Conservatism’s booth at the Ravalli County Fair, where they’re talking politics with passers by and selling bumper stickers, booklets and copies of the Constitution.
“We’re getting good response,” Docteur said. “I think we’re more of a therapy booth, a place where people come to voice their concerns with people of like minds.”
Cox and Docteur said a factor in their resignation was the Central Committee’s response to the controversial “No Mo Bro” sign displayed at last month’s Stevensville Creamery Picnic parade.
Cox, Docteur and Thayer asked Cathy Kulonis, a precinct committeewoman who displayed the sign, to resign because they considered it racist, offensive and embarrassing to the Republican Party.
Kulonis refused to resign, saying the sign wasn’t racist.
The Central Committee also said “No Mo Bro” wasn’t racist, but that it wasn’t a good choice of words given the current political climate.
The committee chastised Cox, Docteur and Thayer for contacting the Ravalli Republic and airing the party’s “dirty laundry” in public.
Bob Kubiak, a precinct committeeman who criticized Cox, Docteur and Thayer in a Valley Viewpoint in the Republic, said he regretted their resignations, which represent “much loss not only for Ravalli County but the Republican party, the great state of Montana and even America.”
Kubiak praised the trio’s commitment to a conservative party platform and government policy, which he said they could help achieve by their work with Celebrating Conservatism.
“Dan, Mona and Jim fully embody those principles that undergird true Constitutional reform and are fighting to save America from what is now discerned by most awake Americans to be imminent destruction,” Kubiak said.
“In this day of political confusion and heightened unrest, realizing there is little time left before our great nation is no more, each of them has since made an even deeper commitment to American patriotism through active sponsorship of events dedicated to educating the public,” he said.