Webloggin » Throw the Bums Out of the Republican Party

Every time I read one of these sick stories of “Republican” politicians that support Democrats to the detriment of their own party I literally want to puke. I’m not talking about bi-partisanship here, that’s fine on a case by case basis. I’m talking about straight out back stabbing; especially when it is done at the behest of politically connected liberal activists. (h/t Michelle Malkin)

I ought to know something about Republican Party front men without a rudder; I live in Illinois.

But this story isn’t about Illinois. It is about Hawaii, its RINO governor Linda Lingle, the lying chairman of the GOP Willes Lee and his string puller, liberal activist and Democrat contributor Bruss Keppler.

Get this, Keppler holds an influential seat on the Hawaii GOP’s platform committee despite the fact that he has been outed as a Democratic operative who has been openly contributing money to and endorsing Democrat Senator Daniel K. Akaka while he was being rivaled by GOP competitors.

Akaka is one of those nativists that wants to give people of Hawaiian descent racial preference over other American’s living in the state.

This is a position that GOP turncoat Keppler openly promotes in supporting a movement to give Hawaii independence from the United States and is probably the reason Akaka was being touted and supported in the last election cycle by Keppler over Akaka’s GOP rivals. (i.e. - the people he was supposed to be representing)

Despite these revelations, GOP party chairman Willes Lee defended keeping Keppler by stating that giving money to democrats is essentially no big deal; much less than say, an endorsement.

Not long after making such a profoundly dense defense Dereck DePledge, a reporter and blogger in Hawaii, dug up a Keppler endorsement of Akaka.

“We have the utmost confidence in his ability to support not only Native Hawaiian businesses but Hawaii businesses as well”, stated NHCC Governmental Affairs Chair, H.K. Bruss Keppeler.

In response GOP char Lee has attempted to circle the wagons around Keppler further. As reported by zeroshibai, “Nobody asked the question if it was alright to give money to the Democrats.”

That’s rich. Of course people did ask as that is exactly what has started all the commotion in the first place. Beyond that however is the obvious stupidity in making such a defense in the first place. Nobody should have to ask, Mr. Chariman!! If you are so outrageously stupid and in bed with the supporters of Democrats your ass should be kicked out of the party; along with Keppler and anyone else who hides behind the Republican title while promoting modern day liberalism.

For Lee to say that Keppeler remains an influential party insider today because nobody asked about Republican donations to Democrats is asinine. More asinine is Lee’s expectation that he’d get away with something so absurd and false. Any remaining credibility Willes Lee thought he had with the media is now probably shot for good. Adding to Lee’s credibility problems are that Lee’s ‘investigation’ of the complaint against Keppeler was so shoddy that he was unable to unearth with a single Google search Keppeler’s public endorsement-in-question of Akaka. Clearly the fix was in — the party rules were to be ignored and Lingle’s pro-Akaka chum Mr. Keppeler was to be preserved.

Worse however is the fact that most of this nonsense can be traced back to the republican governor, Linda Lingle.

Willes Lee is expected to keep the wagons circled around Bruss Keppeler because he is reportedly under orders to do so from the party’s patron-in-chief, the nominal Republican Governor Linda Lingle. When you consider the steady losing record of Republicans at the polls, the total control of Hawaii’s Republican Party by Lingle appointees, and the absence of self-promotion by the party during successive legislative sessions and successive election campaigns, you don’t need to wonder why they keep losing at the polls.

I’ve personally had it with these GOP turncoats. I’ve decided that I am on a mission to enlighten as many people that are willing to listen. It’s time to throw the bums out of the GOP.