Frohnmayer "Tears GOP New Eye Socket"

While most of the Democratic blogosphere has busied itself tearing into one another, Independent candidate John Frohnmayer has been out doing what he does best: Launching an oratical offensive against one of the most offensive political machines of the last 40 years.

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... Then he went on to tear the Republican Party (of which he was once a member) a new eye socket. He gave a speech that essentially says it's been all downhill for the GOP since Eisenhower.

"Eisenhower believed in investment," Frohnmayer said, "but today investment has been supplanted by greed. And it is greed, above all else, that has caused the Republican Party to lose its way."

And he was just getting warmed up. The entire speech wasn't posted yet on his Web site, but here are some choice excerpts:

"Republicans used to spend wisely. Now they just spend."

"Working together used to be a Republican value. Now it's partisan bickering, a tax system whereby the rich get richer, some corporations pay virtually no tax, and the middle class bears the burden."

"Since 9/11 we have bought a line of hokum that suggests that in order to be safe, we have to be compliant, our civil liberties curtailed, our initiative dependent upon leadership from Washington. That's not Oregon, that's not traditional Republican values, that's just baloney."