Topic: Republican Party Censure!

Lifelong. Your local party leadership is rotten. It is the next priority after getting Raymond Mackay elected to Council. The local Republican leadership will ultimately kill the local Republican party if sensible people don't regain some leadership positions. I mean when Charles Crowe, Dan Harvell and all the other nutdrivers can stack a vote to put a flip flopping chameleon like Bob Waldrep in the National Convention over a much more devoted and prominent SC Republican like Mary McAbee, something is out of whack. As their mantra that they shamelessly stole from James Carvell says, it's our party and we're going to "take it back". There's a reason why Bob has such high negatives that he can't even win a plurality in a three way race in which he is the incumbent. And it the same reason that he is the darling of the anti-everything morning radio crowd. He's a negative guy in a positive district. Sorry guys but we're not in District #7 anymore. Waldrep supporters want to keep progressive independent-minded thinkers like Raymond out of office because his presence will lessen their stranglehold on local Republican leadership. Bob had his chance to make a difference and he blew it. "It's time for a change."

Yor are right. The grand old party needs more people like Mr. Mackay supporting Democrats not Republicans with his checkbook and votes but wait.....then it would be called the New Democratic Party or RINO Party. What am I thinking.

I am sure they were doing what they should have been doing. CAMPAIGNING. McAbee would have been better served to campaign that weekend. Ending up with two losses is not a good thing.

News flash for you, both major parties leadership is rotten, from the top to the bottom and all the way down to the core..... K Thx Bye.

If your gonna censure someone censure that sack of crap Graham

My question is why are the Republicans trying to tear apart their own party. The guy may have voted in a democrat primary, that doesn't mean he will not support the Reublican candidate. Maybe he like many republicans was not happy with any of the candidates of the republican party. Maybe he was trying to insure that one particular democrate candidate did not win. This while line is just NUTS

I don't think the Republican Party is tearing up their own party. If MacKay had shown one ounce of Republican creditials, I doubt this would have been done.

I applaud the party and it's leadership. It shows they have the integrity to stand up for their beliefs. I can't remember the last time this happened. It should have been done to Chuck Allen 4 years ago, but it wasn't.

You cannot give money and vote in democratic primaries and expect to be welcomed with open arms.

Yea really, why are the Republpukes trying to tear apart their own party, all they have to do is shut up and watch the Democraps tear apart their own party....Just more proof that for some reason we don't learn and we keep putting the stupid in charge.

GOOD MORNING ANDERSON REPUBLICANS! If you went to sleep last night thinking you were residing in the land of the free and home of the brave then think again. I woke up this morning to find out that the Anderson County Republican Party has turned into the Republican Party of Fascism. What were you people thinking? When was the last time any of you committee members read the Republican Creed? You have in one night totally denigrated everything the Republican Party stands for. I have been a lifelong Republican and today is probably one of the saddest days of my life. I, along with a multitude of others feel that the local Republican Party no longer truly represents the party members in this area. If you are going to censure Mr. Mackay for his one vote in the Democratic Primary then I guess you'll be coming after all of the rest of those of us who at one time or another may have crossed party lines. You can't censure one without censuring all. You have started a very scary process but to be fair you will now have to hunt us all down. This borders on voter intimidation, you do realize that, don't you? You can't dictate who or what party a person votes for. I think that is called a dictatorship and the last time I checked we weren't living under that type of government rule. If this is the kind of mentality that Bob Waldrep, Kevin Bryant and the Anderson County Republican Party Committee bring to the table then we need to do some house-cleaning and fast. This fiasco will cause many other like me to desert the Republican Party. Not only will we leave the party but we will do everything in our power to see that the above mentioned are not re-elected. You do not speak for nor do you have the support of the majority any longer. Kevin, you have cut your own throat by aligning yourself with Bob Waldrep and his group. I voted for you last time but will not again and I will work towards making sure you are not re-elected. Raymond MacKay has taken every punch you guys have thrown and is still standing tall. He's had every opportunity to turn negative and join in the mudslinging but has remained steadfastly honest and open throughout his whole campaign. Sad to say we can't say that for the other candidate. Republicans and Democrats alike have the opportunity next Tuesday, June 24th to take back our county. Please get out and vote!

Thank you womanwithabrain! That is a most eloquent and accurate assessment of current state of Anderson County politics. The radical fundamentalism and intimidation of candidates and voters must stop. This is America for God's sake, not the Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini's 1979 Iran or Adolph Hitler's 1939 Nazi Germany. As a rule, Anderson County people are sensible and independent-minded conservative people. However, the radical conservatives that have hijacked the leadership of the local Republican Party are pushing more and more of us into the ranks of the Independents. Womanwithabrain is right. Today they are after Raymond. Tomorrow they might be after you. Stop the madness and bring our party back to us the people. We can send the party leadership and Bob Waldrep a much needed message next Tuesday by supporting a true Republican Raymond MacKay.

"A true Republican Raymond MacKay"??? Please.
While I do not agree with the censure of the Republican party issued at the meeting last night, I cannot follow your train of thought that Mr MacKay is a true Republican. He donates money to Democrats!!! I cannot overlook that fact and neither should you.
Regardless of how the information got to the public, it cannot be refuted. Mr MacKay has not denied it. He can't. Use some common sense here, folks. If he votes for them and supports them financially.... you can connect the dots (I hope).

Good point. He declared himself a democrat when he voted in the Democratic PPP. On the other hand, he declared himself a Republican when he voted in the primary last week. Assuming he voted for himself in the primary. That is not a far fetched assumption.

He has given money to democrats, which goes to work against Republicans. There is no evidence (that has been released by MacKay) that he has ever given a dime to Republicans. The evidence shows he gave $2,600.00 to democrats since 2000. That's a major no-no.

Here is what MacKay can do to fix this major problem for himself. 1st he can provide a sign-in sheet(s) showing that he voted in at least 1 republican primary. 2nd thing he can do, is provide financial disclosures that he has given at least a dollar to Republican candidates, local, state or Federal parties. Just $1.00 would at least show he supports or has supported Republicans.

Just my thoughts. He should be embarrassed that he has done nothing to help republican candidates, and now wants support from Republicans.

Willieh

Here is Raymond MacKay's voting history for the past 8 years:

2008 Republican Primary
2008 Democratic Presidential Preference Primary
2006 General Election
2006 Republican Primary
2006 Municipal Election
2004 General Election
2004 Republican Primary Runoff
2004 Republican Primary
2002 General Election
2002 Republican Primary
2000 General Election

As mentioned, all of those Democrats he gave money to also became Republicans. I believe all of those guys were buddies with Bob Waldrep, actually.

As for giving money to Jim Hodges... if you think no Republican would give money to an incumbent govenor, you really are cluless. I can point you to a dozen hard core Republicans in Anderson who have contribution lists featuring Demint, Graham, Barrett, Sanford, AND Hodges. They aren't Democrats because of that, they were covering their bases.

prove it. Those are just words. I need proof. We have proof of his democratic leanings.

Which part little buddy?

The information about voting history you're free to purchase from the election commission. You Republicans have a nifty little tool called Voter Vault that has that info in there. That's how the Waldrep folks know how MacKay voted this year.

If you doubt the veracity of my voting history information, email me the real name of somebody close to you and I'll be glad to tell you how they voted as proof that I'm not making this stuff up.

As for Republicans who gave money to Hodges, I don't have time to nurse you onto the truth. Go do your own research on that one.

How about this for proof? Do you think that Waldrep would not have publicized MacKay's former voting record, if it showed that he had voted in a Democratic Primary prior to the 08 PPP? Trust me, he has all of that information at his fingertips.

The best proof that MacKay voted in only this one Democratic primary is that Waldrep did not publish information about his participation in other primaries. To claim that Waldrep does not have this information is to either be naive or to show just how sorry an organization the Councilman is running. It is called opposition research: invented by a man you may have heard of, Lee Atwater.

If you require any more proof than that, you are clearly beyond the reach of reason and of political strategy, good or bad as it may be. After all, are you not a member of the Republican Executive Committee? You know good and damn well how these things work.

Though I could suggest a new name for your sacred committee: The Supreme Soviet. The sorry attempt at a coup tried last night smacks of nothing more than a Stalinist purge.

Incidentally, do you think that what you did last night lived up to or allows for the possibility of MacKay living up to the GOP Creed?

http://www.andersongop.org/creed.htm.

The Republican Creed

I do not choose to be a common man.

It is my right to be uncommon.

If I can seek opportunity, not security,

I want to take the calculated risk to dream and

build, to fail and to succeed.

I refused to barter incentive for dole.

I prefer the challenges of life to

guaranteed security, the thrill of fulfillment

to the state of calm utopia.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence,

nor my dignity for a handout.

I will never cower before any master,

save my God.

It is my heritage to stand erect, proud and

unafraid. To think and act for myself, enjoy the

benefit of my creations; to face the whole world

boldly and say, "I am a free American."

Now I am no expert, but it would seem to me that the person who most clearly exemplifies this so-called creed has the initials RM. Is this too deep for you?