Senator Voinovich Attacks Southerners In The GOP

July 28, 2009 · Filed Under Politics, Video

Republican Senator George Voinovich will be retiring soon and as a result he’s letting fly what he really thinks about his colleagues — from the South:

Too many conservative senators like Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) are to blame for the GOP’s downfall, one of their retiring Republican colleagues complained Monday.

"We got too many Jim DeMints and Tom Coburns," Sen. George Voinovich (R-Ohio) told the Columbus Dispatch. "It’s the southerners."

Voinovich, a native Clevelander who retires after the 2010 election, continued after the southern elements of the GOP.

"They get on TV and go ‘errrr, errrrr,’" he said. "People hear them and say, ‘These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners. What they hell they got to do with Ohio?’"

It’s interesting that Voinovich singles out the two best republicans in the Senate as examples of how not to behave. Coburn and DeMint are the only two guys that actually stand for something.

The problem with the GOP is that we have too many fools like Voinovich running around trying to be popular with democrats instead looking out for the American people.

Instead of being a principled leader like Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn you should be blubbering, weeping, disgrace who tries to sabotage a great man like Ambassador John Bolton: