Kevin Stevenson On Losing GOP Post After Criticizing Limbaugh (VIDEO)

Kevin Stevenson, a Republican spokesperson from Wisconsin who was booted from his job after criticizing Rush Limbaugh, went on MSNBC Friday to discuss his fall from GOP grace.

"I've been writing commentaries for the "Daily Herald" since October of 2008 for the election. And I wrote a commentary that included Rush Limbaugh, mentioning that we as Republicans need to start coming together," said Stevenson, former spokesman for the Marathon County Republicans. "And it's my opinion that Rush has a very large audience and can be influential, but he is not the leader of the party and he is an entertainer. And he needs to be considered as an entertainer."

Stevenson said the proposal to eliminate his position from a group of county party members "was a surprise to everybody."

"[T]hey didn't like what I said about Rush, and they had tied that into some other things and it basically came up that, well, you're a moderate. Yes, I am a Republican who has moderate views on social issues. And they said, we can't allow that. You can't write for us if you're not with us."

So how does Stevenson feel about the Republican party now? At first he called himself an "invalid Republican," then modified: "I'm an inactive member of the Republican party of Marathon County ... I'm inactive now." But as far as his beliefs, he said, "I am still a Republican.

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[salkoc]

boy that all inclusive tent is just getting bigger and bigger....­lol .
so far they have alienated every moderate and reagan democrat ...soon the intellectual republicans will be gone as well . powell was excuminicated and im sure more will follow.

has the GOP become a CULT ? put the party headquarters in texas ...have cheney sleep with coulter and you have the makings of a great reality tv series . think of the characters ...limbaug­h playing the role of the pill popping uncle .....hanni­ty the illegitimate son....ore­illy / buchanan the crazy neghbors and bush playing the part of the mentally challenged brother . newt can make camios as the confused drunk who cant decide what religion or what wife he wants .

[JRsNana]

It could sell. NBC's pretty desperate. Try pitching it to them.

[duchessofbs]

Karl, the in the closet brother

[JRsNana]

And his best friend Lindsay Graham. LOL. Can't you just hear them trying to talk all studly while everyone is around and then, when they're alone, just "FABULOUS-ING" all over the place and talking about Manolo's.

[tippydog11]

sounds like republicans do not follow the constitutional laws do they?

[Bongborg]

"The Constitution? Why, that's just a goddamned piece of paper!"

[MisterHands]

Does the lowest common denominator really need a Big Tent?

[weatherwaxx]

These folks don't understand the principle of political cannibalism. If you keep apologizing for the cannibals while they gobble up everyone they don't like, they eventually run out of easy victims and start turning on their own.

Happened in Germany half a century or so back, happened in Stalin's Russia ... the names and places change, but the abuse of power always follows the same ugly tracks.

[Ravyn]

The fall of the Roman Empire ultimately was attributed to its collapse from within more than from attacks from without by barbarians. The British Empire collapsed in a similar way: through increasing debts and weakness in government, etc., which ultimately led to the dismantling of their empire (putting it as simplistically as possible). The USSR went the same way: increasing debts, corruption, crumbling infrastructure, weak leadership, etc. History does have a way of repeating itself and it could happen with the US if we're not careful. What you're seeing in California today with their economy is an early warning sign of what could happen nationwide and there are other states in similar dire financial straits.

[MissKaren]

My own feeling is that he continues to be a Republican but the GOP doesn't. It has gone off in another direction and he's not part of that. They are going off the cliff into the foaming surf and they're going to be washed out to sea.

[usma84]

The Republican party decided to go the "grass roots" route and put the most extreme and therefore committed members in charge of doing so. Thus their primary system is dominated completely by the most extreme elements within their party. As such, for Republicans all politics are now truly local and there is zero concern on either the party of politicians or the local extremist party apparatchiks to even consider the possibility of inclusiveness or even considering being representative of America and Americans.

Reasonable, thinking people recognize such a anti-democratic anti-intellectual straight jacket for what it is - a mandatory dictatorship of the mind.

In any event, the politics of division and hatred to spur election victories has run its course. Hopefully, in a more civilized time, we will reflect back upon how the GOP became the last vestige of totalitarianism with warrantless wire tapping, torture, indifference while 1800 Americans died from Hurricane Katrina and much more and realize that we came *this* close to loosing our Democracy to those who would do anything to take and keep power and collectively breath a sigh of relief that they failed.

[factotem]

Lay down with dogs, Mr Stevenson.­..

[mesends]

I'm not disagreeing with the characterization of the current republican leadership - really RenoSage, i think you are being more than fair to them... but many alleged "democrats" aren't remotely liberal and in fact dilute and obstruct and function as a drag against Democratic party principles­... and if there was room for moderates in the republican party for them (and for chameleon politicians like Arlen Specter - who makes really no sense as a democrat but was actually fairly admirable until lately as a moderate republican) - it would allow for the opposing party to the republicans to actually move farther and more progressively to the left... instead of this spineless glop in the middle we have now

[Gatormouth]

Mr. Stevenson, you are probably now aware what a liability having opinions contrary to the orthodoxy demanded by the splinter group that has hijacked your party will cost you. Come on over. You would probably make a good right of center Democrat - and you get to voice your opinion and speak your mind here too!

[RenoSage]

A lot of Democrats and Independents were former Republicans. Everything changes. Parties change.
Individuals change. Only one whose views are set in concrete resists change.
This is a different world than the world of Lincoln.

We do need a two party system as part of our system of checks and balances. But what we need
above all is rational dialogue and helpful planning. When a party becomes "the party of no" and one
issue, when that party persists in irrevelence then it should be replaced by one of greater significance
in today's world.

[BabaLou7]

Sage, RenoSage.

[MIVOTE]

You're better off without them Stevenson -- good riddance to bad rubbish -- I say.

[suzie z]

It is so like the "Conservatives" if you don't think just like they do they will hang you out to dry. Gee, doesn't this smack of similar views of say, Hitler, the Taliban, etc, etc. If you aren't just like them then they want you eliminated. SSSCCCAAAR­RRYYY!!!!!­! Get wise people...R­ush L. is not someone you want at the top of any party.

[crayola 08b]

moderates republicans are the gays of the republican party. don't ask, don't tell.

[Bongborg]

I thought the NeoCons were the gays of the Republican party.

[crayola 08b]

um, no. neocons own the party. they are the party. and as long as moderates stay silent they can remain in the party. but if they dare speak up, then, well, you have stories like this one here. it's really analogous to gays in the military when you think about it.

[helonias]

The counter revolutionaries that criticize the dear leader must be dealt with in the harshest terms.

There is no other way.

So help me god.

[anitaj]

WHAT!?!? You mean that Republicans aren't in favor of freedom of speech?

[Bongborg]

They want you to be free to repeat what they say.

[springsm]

and only what they say without question or comment.