They Just Don’t Get It: Bob Inglis

Note: This is a new, occasional feature where I will put the spotlight on those on our side who do not seem to understand what this struggle is all about, what the stakes are, and exactly what it is we are fighting to restore — ie: those who JUST DON’T GET IT.

From The Washington Post, Ben Evans reporting [tip of the fedora to Jimmie Bise and Daniel Foster]:

Too many Republican leaders are acquiescing to a poisonous “demagoguery” that threatens the party’s long-term credibility, says a veteran GOP House member who was defeated in South Carolina’s primary last month.

While not naming names, 12-year incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis suggested in interviews with The Associated Press that tea party favorites such as former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and right-wing talk show hosts like Glenn Beck are the culprits.

He cited a claim made famous by Palin that the Democratic health care bill would create “death panels” to decide whether elderly or sick people should get care.

“There were no death panels in the bill … and to encourage that kind of fear is just the lowest form of political leadership. It’s not leadership. It’s demagoguery,” said Inglis, one of three Republican incumbents who have lost their seats in Congress to primary and state party convention challengers this year.

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Inglis said the rhetoric also distracts from the real problems that politicians should be trying to resolve, such as budget deficits and energy security.

“It’s a real concern, because I think what we’re doing is dividing the country into partisan camps that really look a lot like Shia and Sunni,” he said, referring to the two predominant Islamic denominations that have feuded for centuries. “It’s very difficult to come together to find solutions.”

Inglis’ refusal to join in on the Obama-bashing of the far right played a big role in his landslide defeat on June 22. Leading up to the election, he frequently challenged voters who questioned the president’s citizenship or patriotism. At one town hall meeting, he was jeered for saying that Beck, a Fox News Channel host, is a divisive fearmonger.

In his primary runoff against prosecutor Trey Gowdy, Inglis failed to break 30 percent, an improbably low result for a sitting incumbent not embroiled in scandal.

Inglis said he was shocked during the health care votes as he watched protesters jeering Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat who was beaten as a leading civil rights activist in the 1960s.

Inglis said he was too far away during the jeering incident to hear whether the protesters shouted racial epithets, as Lewis and other black lawmakers have claimed. But Inglis said the behavior was threatening and abusive.

“I caught him at the door and said, ‘John, I guess you’ve been here before,'” Inglis said.

Inglis, 50, who calls himself a Jack Kemp disciple because he has emphasized outreach to minorities as the late Republican congressman did, thinks racism is a part of the vitriol directed at President Barack Obama.

“I love the South. I’m a Southerner. But I can feel it,” he said.

Why is this fool even a Republican?  Why would he want to be if the GOP peasants and some of their leaders are so stupid to fall for the demagoguery of Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, et. al.?

Inglis has drunk the Kool-Aid, the only difference between what he’s drinking and what the Bolshe’s drink, is the flavor.

Over at The Sundries Shack, Jimmie Bise has, rightly, had enough of this kind of attitude:

I am about sick to death of these whiny Republicans who, when ejected from office like a tomato from a catapult by voters who have had enough of their spend-happy ways, turn around and cry like a bunch of babies with soggy diapers. Like those soggy-diapered babies (and doesn’t “Soggy-Diaper Republican” have a nice ring to it?), Inglis wants everyone to cater to his whims. In his world, he gets to tell us how it’s going to be and we meekly sit back and take it. That worldview has no place at all in the Republican Party. Heck, it doesn’t have a place in America.

Man, I like that term Soggy-Diaper Republican — bravo Jimmie — it can apply to so many of the currently elected GOP officials like Lindsey Graham and John McCain [in the latter’s case, I suspect it applies literally, as well].

Please do take the time to click here and read all of Jimmie’s righteous rant.

You know the old saying: Out of sight, out of mind.  I’m revising it for this cretinous clown: Out of touch, out of his mind.  Talk about Treason From Within.