Republicans both assail, applaud Nobel award
October 12th, 2009 . by TexasFredRepublicans both assail, applaud Nobel award
WASHINGTON — To Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is an opportunity to exploit conservative outrage and raise funds. To John McCain, the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee, it’s cause for national pride.
“Americans are always pleased when their president is recognized by something on this order,” the Arizona senator said Sunday on CNN. William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, is not among them. On Fox News Sunday, he said Obama should have turned down a prize from “an anti-American committee.”
The sharply different GOP responses to Friday’s surprise announcement reflects deeper divisions within a party that must decide whether to cooperate with Obama as he faces tough decisions about Afghanistan and health care — or press its political advantage. Recent public opinion polls by Gallup show a majority approve of Obama’s handling of foreign affairs but rate him lower on the economy and health care.
On one side, conservative hard-liners: Talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s website featured the headline “Our president is a laughingstock” and portrayed Obama as the darling of “European leftist elites.”
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Republicans both assail, applaud Nobel award
John McCain? The addled old RINO that the GOP wanted to run this nation? McCain says, “Americans are always pleased when their president is recognized by something on this order,”.
Do all of the McCain supporters now see WHY some of us just couldn’t hold our noses? When you elect the lesser of the evils, all you get is more evil. And in the case of John McCain, you get pure ignorance. I didn’t vote for Obama, I voted for Bob Barr, the Libertarian running the last time out, that’s how bad I felt concerning BOTH McCain and Obama.
And Michael Steele? That guy has done more to divide the GOP than he has to unite it. It is my personal opinion that Steele is NOT the head of the RNC because of any exceptional qualification or outstanding achievement, I am fully convinced that Steele is the GOP’s answer to Barack Hussein Obama. He’s there because of his COLOR and the GOP’s HUGE desire to appear more in the main stream, and to dispel those accusations of the GOP being the party of old, rich white men.
On one side, conservative hard-liners: Talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s website featured the headline “Our president is a laughingstock” and portrayed Obama as the darling of “European leftist elites.”
Steele echoed that notion in a letter sent within hours of the Nobel announcement that mockingly announced Obama won for “awesomeness.”
I am NOT a big Limbaugh fan. He’s good at what he does, make no mistake about that fact, but I am just not into his style of delivery. And I have to admit, he’s not afraid to jump all over Obama and Company, and he’s not afraid to be the 1st one to the fight. I admire that quality in Rush Limbaugh!
Steele is speaking the words, he’s doing the dance,, but he’s late to the fight. Maybe he had to do the Fred Thompson thing, test the waters to see how warm they are… 
Joining McCain at the other end of the GOP spectrum: former secretary of State Henry Kissinger. A 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner for his efforts to end the Vietnam War, Kissinger offered “warm congratulations” for the award, “which, beyond the tribute to your person, honors America and the cause of peace.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also refused to criticize Obama. “If he can successfully turn around Afghanistan, deter Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, I will build a bookcase for him to put it in,” Graham said of the president’s Nobel Prize on NBC’s Meet the Press.
