Republican leader resigns, blasts Tennessee GOP..... :~)

[spanone]

A member of the Tennessee Republican State Executive Committee says he's resigning his position, blasting state party leaders and questioning the direction of the Tennessee Republican Party on his way out.

In his resignation letter, Mark Winslow said the party's "soul rotted away some time ago."

"As it's currently constituted, the TNGOP is really nothing more than a small corrupt core group who view our party as their private club and personal piggy bank. Money is passed around, doled out to friends, handed to favored consultants and staffers who ignore bylaws or common sense," Winslow wrote in his announcement, posted to Twitter.

"Rules are arrogantly and routinely broken by officers and staff with no consequences or accountability."

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2016/07/01/republican-committeeman-leaves-tennessee-sec/86595302/

[malaise]

1. Ask Rubio down in Florida

He should have been expelled ages ago - there are no rules for ReTHUGs Remember Ensign.

They are imploding and that's good.

[RKP5637]

28. Rubio, a brain drain. The guy is a dork. n/t

[malaise]

33. He's also a thief

sanctioned by RethuGs - remember now - IOKIYAR

[forest444]

31. To say nothing of Rick Scott (or whatever the hell his real name is).

Where all that stolen Medicare money, Rickie?

[malaise]

32. Bought him the top post in the state

ReTHUGs are thugs.

[forest444]

36. Of course! That's where a lot of it surely went.

How silly of me to ask.

And what was left over, is sitting in some Caribbean offshore account (probably Paul "vulture" Singer's Caymans-based NML).

[riversedge]

2. That took courage.

[spanone]

3. and honesty....the gop in tennessee is disgusting.

[Libby2]

12. Agree

IMNSHO they are the worst of the worst.

[irisblue]

4. describes the national & Ohio GOP as well.

[maindawg]

5. Rules

Are for suckers.

[LakeArenal]

6. "soul rotted away some time ago."

So now he is speaking out? Seems me might have saved his soul some time back... Seems more an opportunist than brave.

[gratuitous]

7. Run the party any way you like

The problem comes when the party apparatus puts their candidates into office, and they govern the state the same way they govern their party. But why should anyone expect anything different?

[paleotn]

8. well, they're Republicans, arent they. n/t

[UCmeNdc]

9. Corruption!

[TonyPDX]

10. It's worse than we ever could have imagined.

For someone on the State Executive Committee to come clean on this, their party has to be a real shitbath.

[coco77]

11. The entire GOP.

[AllyCat]

13. Not because they have horrible policies, but

because he wasn't on the receiving end of the bribes.

[Skittles]

25. yes

it is always very suspect, what offends conservatives

[SusanLarson]

14. The sad thing is

Our party is not one hair better at least on these counts...

"As it's currently constituted, the TNGOP is really nothing more than a small corrupt core group who view our party as their private club and personal piggy bank. Money is passed around, doled out to friends, handed to favored consultants and staffers who ignore bylaws or common sense," Winslow wrote in his announcement, posted to Twitter.

"Rules are arrogantly and routinely broken by officers and staff with no consequences or accountability."

Anyone who believes otherwise is being delusional.

[Crash2Parties]

22. They differ on civil rights, that's about all...sometime it's enough, though.

Of course, it makes one wonder what they are doing while we're all so distracted...

[Zorro]

23. Got any real evidence to back up your assertion that the Dems are as corrupt as the Republicans?

Would like to read it.

[paleotn]

35. don't hold your breath...

she appears to be a "you're just as bad as us" troll.

[Skittles]

26. "our party"

ALRIGHTY THEN

[63splitwindow]

27. Who do you support? nt

[GaYellowDawg]

29. False equivalence is some of the worst-smelling B.S.

I believe I recall Ralph Nader saying the same type of thing about W and Gore.

[JNelson6563]

34. Oh bullshit.

I have been involved in "our party" at state and local level and you don't know what you are talking about.

Do tell us of your years involved in real world politics where you have seen and therefore actually *know* what you are talking about...

Julie

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Send in the Forensic Auditors and Accountants

sounds ripe for embezzlement investigation

[ailsagirl]

16. ...

[randr]

17. He is describing many impoverished Republican states/counties/districts across America.

[CanonRay]

18. The entire GOP is now one gigantic scam

right up to it's nominee.

[63splitwindow]

21. And a bunch of bloated rednecks...

parked in front of their TV getting drunk and bloviating relentless bullshit via the internet while complaining that "nothin' never gets done."

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Something is rotten in the state of GOP. The Party is nowhere as Grand as it once might have been.nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. They've gotten so bad that they're making the illegal legal by unanimous vote.

[CobaltBlue]

24. Encouragement

The Republicans are in the position they were in during the Democratic presidential realigning period of 1932 to 1964, when they saw only Dwight Eisenhower win the presidency during the two cycles of the 1950s.

They will highly likely lose a third consecutive presidential election here in 2016.

A party in a realigning period, which is working against them, will lose enough consecutive cycles before they finally start to ask themselves, Do we care to still be alive?

Once the Republicans reach that point, they will be on their way to being able to get back. (And, with that, their platform will not be so revolting as to make them unviable let alone unelectable. If Rs fail even with that…good-bye to them for good.)

But, in the meantime, the Democrats are really setting the agenda for leadership at the presidential level. They have the advantages. They have the electorate. And they have the map (with top-level-populous states which historically are great at carrying for presidential winners—Illinois, California, New York, etc. have voted for winners beyond 80 percent of their existence while the 57 presidential elections of 1789 to 2012 averaged slightly under 70 percent of carried states).

Let's see a Democratic Party, going forward, be bolder and better!

[lastlib]

30. It's how they roll.

Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, Repugs gotta cheat.........