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Tom Ridge Takes Up an Anti-Grassroots Position

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(CNN) — [2]Pennsylvania Republican Tom Ridge is taking direct aim at Rush Limbaugh, telling CNN’s John King the conservative talk radio host can be “shrill” and uses language in a way “that offend very many.”

“Rush Limbaugh has an audience of 20 million people. A lot of people listen daily to him and live by every word. But words mean things and how you use words is very important,” Ridge, the former Homeland Security Secretary under President Bush, said during an interview airing Sunday on CNN’s State of The Union.

“It does get the base all fired up and he’s got a strong following,” Ridge continued. “But personally, if he would listen to me and I doubt if he would, the notion is express yourself but let’s respect others opinions and let’s not be divisive.”

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“For the Republican Party to restore itself as not its original party, but as a national party, we have to be far less judgmental about disagreements within the party and far more judgmental about our disagreement with our friends on the other side of the aisle,” he said.

The context of this statement by Ridge can be found in lesser and better smelling amounts on any stable floor.

First,   He campaigned with McCain in the primary, and then he starts in on Dick Cheney, essentially calling the man a liar, then attacks Rush Limbaugh, will not back Toomey in his home state… despite having his backside kicked among the grassrootsts by Toomey…  he has come out in support of Arlen Specter [3], after Specter turned away from the GOP… and of course the GOP is supposed to take him seriously?

After all that I’m forced to ask of Ridge something none of the press dare ask:  Where are your disagreements with the Democrat party? What are the GOP principles that you will not compromise on? Do you even have any? Any at all? At what point might we expect you to take a stand against the Democrat Party, and it’s values, as opposed to those speaking forcefully of the values of the party you claim membership in?