Comments on: Repub Claims To Be “On Target,” Denies Loyalty Oath

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:30:36 +0000

Sisyphus, I love you kiddo. Too smart for me, but I love ya.

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:27:19 +0000

It’s really worked. Alas, our republican friends garner most of their info from the likes of Sarah Palin, ya know, talking about teeney weeney hollywood stars, and Rush Limbaugh, who, incidentally just married for the fourth time and actually stated that he really doesn’t give a damn about all this stuff since he’s laughing all the way to the bank, and, for all the mormon folk, Glenn Beck, who is bona fide mentally ill, why, it’s just putrid to think we aren’t smart enough to decide on an issue without declaring alliance to a party. Wasn’t that way 40 years ago folks. You are now members of the lobbying nation.

By: Diane

Diane — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:21:51 +0000

Now I’m pissed that someone states it is routinely done that the Idaho Education Association routinely sends out questionaires about their views. My husband has taught in Boise for 21 years, and never, not once, seen said questionaire. As to the republican oath, methinks they think alot of themselves. Perhaps fear mongering is really helping them along, and, by the way, where is our dear overly made up Ms. Swindell when we need a good laugh? Doubtfull I’ll see this in print–I’m not a normal favorite.

By: cyclops

cyclops — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:18:27 +0000

Let it go Rod!!! Sisyphus is a whole lot smarter than you (or me)!
I hope you know better than to bring a knife to a gunfight!!!

By: Sisyphus

Sisyphus — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:05:55 +0000

LOL. I agree, Rod BECK, that my comment when taken in the context you provided does seem rather hyperbolic, almost laughable. Actually quite laughable. But perhaps I thought too much of your education for you to be familiar of the purity purges associated with single party take over of the Russian state, kinda like the state of Idaho. Better red than dead, eh?

I reckon your myopic view of “honor and integrity” is through the lens of your last three electoral losses during a time when your fellow Republican Vern Bisterfeld received re-election and high acclaim as a pragmatist trumping the ideological albatross you seek to throw around his neck. I’m not sure how making the Republican tent smaller is going to vindicate the sting of your repeated lack of success.

And speaking of lunacy, I note that the Republican platform does nothing to address solutions to the serious problems vexing this state. Nothing in it gets students current textbooks, adequate educational facilities, an enthusiastic teacher to guide them to a bright future. Nothing in it guarantees a quality university from which the students would be proud to graduate. Nothing in it provides for a ready, willing and able workforce which might be attractive to a business seeking to relocate here. Nothing in it provides for the 25% uninsured in the state and the burden they place on the taxpayers through the CAT Fund. It fails to provide any solution to Idaho’s failure to administer Medicaid funding in order to prevent a cataclysmic burden on that same fund. Nothing in the Republican platform wrestles with our skyrocketing corrections budget or humanely deals with the mentally ill who overburden that system.

Instead the platform discloses an intellectually bankrupt party obligated to import ideology from a fringe organization which has never enjoyed political success for very good reasons. Moreover they employ tea bagger anachronisms appealing to a perverse mythological perspective of our founding and a overly simplistic view of our Constitutional principles. In short the Idaho Republican Party Platform is a backward looking prospectus in an untenable alliance with a failed ideology which does nothing to provide guidance for practical governance. Indeed it comes across as more schizophrenic than anything.

And for this you demand fealty? Good luck with that.

By: cyclops

cyclops — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:13:58 +0000

Rod, I appreciate your response. Let me start by saying I am sure I am more of a conservative than you because I have been described as “being significantly to the right of Atilla the Hun!!”
I realize that any candidate that would line up with me politically, would prove to be totally unelectable.
Therefore I lean toward candidates that do what they tell me they will do. As a voter, I take issue with some of your statements. “Bisterfeldt is a fraud” “fraudulently sought and obtained the republican nomination”
Those are pretty strong words! To whom is Vern a “fraud”? Just to people like you who expect a candidate to line up with the party and never think what is in the city’s/county’s best interest? Do you really expect the citizens of Ada County to believe that the republican party is the all knowing vehicle which we should all blindly follow? Do you really believe that Roger would have made a better commishioner? I have watched Roger get in front of the TV cameras and blatantly LIE about the courthouse!
I believe that the real problem here is that the republican party has failed miserably to field good candidates.
In the interest of fairness, I will tell you that I fully intend on supporting Walt Minnick’s re-election bid for one simple reason. Although I disagree with him on some issues, he told us before the election what he would do if elected, and then he went and did it. Any one on Pelosi’s crap list deserves support. I am also intending to vote for Vern, who I believe has served this city/county proudly for what? 45 years?? Again, thank you for your response.

By: Rod Beck

Rod Beck — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:58:01 +0000

OK..I’ll respond to cyclops on the Vern issue. Sisyphus really deserves no response as it doesn’t matter the response. Anyone who actually compares asking a candidate to articulate positions on issues to the murderous and dictatorial Soviet Union circa 1920 has really lost any semblance of reason.

OK Cyclops..Vern Bisterfeldt is really just a stand in for Team Dave. They recruited him and Roger to expand the influence they hold over the Ada County Commission. It almost worked except that Roger was fatally flawed and couldn’t convince enough Republicans AND Democrats to vote for him in a Republican primary.

Many Republicans knew Bisterfeldt is a fraud and not a Republican even though he has always run as a Republican. He admitted that he didn’t really believe in Republican values. Were it not for the fact TJ Thompson (Obama’s Ada guy) and Dave Bieter actively campaigned to get Democrats to vote in the Republican Primary for Vern & Roger, Vern would have lost as well. Many of the Republicans that voted for Vern didn’t know how he has betrayed the Republican Party in the past and continues to betray the Party today.

I could care less who Vern Bisterfeldt supports for public office as a Boise City Councilman or even a retired Republican County Commissioner. However, when he fraudulently sought and obtained the Republican nomination for Ada County Commission that’s another matter.

We Republicans are working hard right now to raise money and support for Raul Labrador, Mitch Toryanski and all other Republicans while Vern is putting his efforts on electing their Democrat opponents. Why did Vern wait until two days AFTER the Republican Primary to announce that he is on Walt Minnick’s campaign committee?

Now we have the prospect of Vern putting his mug on TV announcing that he is the Republican County Commission Candidate and is proudly supporting Walt Minnick and other Democrats. This is blatant hypocrisy designed to manipulate other Republicans and it is a wrong to use the Party label in such a way. There are those who would like to see both political parties disappear, they just might get their way with this type of behavior.

We have asked Vern, as a matter of honor and integrity to resign the nomination as a Republican County Commission Candidate. For obvious reasons we really don’t expect him to respond.

By: cyclops

cyclops — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:04:09 +0000

Did I miss your response Rod?? I am back now and still waiting. Rod? Rod???

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 02:52:47 +0000

Dear World,

Please note that Rod in SE Boise is NOT Rod Beck.

Rod in SE Boise thinks Sisyphus is right on on this one.

By: erico49

erico49 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:34:28 +0000

Sys… you are being a bit harsh. I think Rod is just worried that those who instinctively pull “R’ in the voting booth won’t have the smarts or the amibition to do their own homework, so he just wants to summarize the party line in easy to digest format. Sort of like the Statesman voter guide for reactionaries.