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Young Ezra’s column is more about parties than Crist but the title is a little off.
Crist is no enigma. He is very easy to understand. Just another pol who can’t imagine life as an ex-elected official.
the point of the article is actually not bad, based on party you can guess how someone will vote pretty closely, but on Crist it is even easier.
If elected he will support whoever and whatever keeps him in office and in gravy.
Bank on it.
Memorandum thread here.
In this post concerning the tea parties and the GOP:
Here is the point, and I think this generalizes beyond NY-23 to the rest of the country: the GOP won’t take the Tea Party seriously until the Tea Party is the GOP.
One questions why the GOP establishment would be so willing to throw away a group of involved voters who match their beliefs. The answer may in fact be that their belief in fiscal conservatism and restraint is phony, that their belief is in their own power and a promise not to blow as much as the other side.
Actual spending cuts and spending restraint and tax reform decreases the power of the federal government. The goal of the establishment is apparently not to restrict such power, but to enjoy it.
The GOP doesn’t seem to understand that they are playing with fire. The tea party is going to give them two years to prove their bonafides. If they don’t you will see an actual tea party 3rd party.
I think Rush understands this which is why he constantly implores the GOP to take the conservative path.
What can we do about it? Smitty has the solution:
Get off the beanbag and support your local version of Doug Hoffman, or your sins of omission will result in a pocket-picking, and you’ll be at fault.emphasis mine
I think Bill Gunn put it very well in this interview last week jump to 3:34:
Money Quote: “If a republican is a big government republican I’m not going to campaign for him.”
That is the tea party all over. The question is will republicans figure it out and act accordingly or will they destroy themselves and throw away the chance to create a lasting majority?
We will see.
BTW apparently great minds think alike, Sissy Willis put up a post making the very same argument.
Unfortunately for the Johnny Roccos of the GOP, the old way of doing business isn’t working anymore. It happened in the Massachusetts special election that sent Mr. Brown to Washington, and it’s happening again. The national GOP is being disintermediated via the Internet. No wonder they’re upset. The people’s choice, Joe Miller — endorsed by Sarah Palin and with major funding from the Tea Party Express — is battle ready
The question becomes, is the GOP establishment willing to destroy the party to keep it? So far the answer hasn’t been encoraging
The attempts to dodge the Mosque for what is it, reflects poorly on them, but I must confess I’m getting really sick of the story, so lets cut to the chase.
1. The Mosque’s supporters hold every legal card at the moment.
2. Moral suasion is unlikely to have any effect unless the developers have something to lose.
3. Whatever the solution it will be spun for propaganda purposes by Islamists.
4. This didn’t become a national issue until the president choose to make it one.
5. The issue highlights the media’s separation from the American mainstream. It’s inability to understand the people it wishes to inform is its doom.
6. This issue is a loser for democrats and no amount of spin will change that, but it’s not the primary issue in the election.
Ok that should do me for a while on this issue
It seems to have gone from: “The courageous stand of Barack Obama” to “What is the face saving compromise that will solve this problem?”
Apparently the old template is not doing the job anymore.
You know if we had just rebuilt the towers with AA guns on top 5 years ago I bet nobody in the country would care where the Mosque was.
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