The Tea Party darling lost the governor’s race here in Virginia. People are wising up. It is not the message that is being rejected; it’s the application.
We can agree a patient needs surgery. A statesman will use a scalpel and will skillfully remove a planned amount of diseased tissue. A tea party candidate will run in with a machete and a blindfold.
Again, a disconnect between the message and the method. Not unlike almost every politician.
The Republican party can go two ways from here: the TP wing can recognize that it has to moderate in order to accomplish anything, and the party will once again hold together reasonably, but allowing for at least some ideological impurity. OR the TP will insist on tossing out anyone that is not just like them in every respect. The latter approach will either split the Republican party into two, or will winnow out moderate Republicans, and its ideological and adamantine need for purity of ideals will doom the party to insignificance. I hope for the former, but there are a lot of people who are more interested in acting like spoiled babies than finding common ground and building from that.
“What works in New Jersey and Massachusetts doesn’t work in Flyover Country where real Americans live.”So you’re saying that just because some people NJ or MA don’t agree with you, they’re not “real” Americans?
avarner over 10 years ago
Krispy Kreme vs. Killary. Whatta race.
Which Democrat will you vote for?
cdward over 10 years ago
Taking back the GOP to the party of my parents. Here’s hoping.
beculp over 10 years ago
Cool like a dead body?
I Play One On TV over 10 years ago
The Tea Party darling lost the governor’s race here in Virginia. People are wising up. It is not the message that is being rejected; it’s the application.
We can agree a patient needs surgery. A statesman will use a scalpel and will skillfully remove a planned amount of diseased tissue. A tea party candidate will run in with a machete and a blindfold.
Again, a disconnect between the message and the method. Not unlike almost every politician.
The Republican party can go two ways from here: the TP wing can recognize that it has to moderate in order to accomplish anything, and the party will once again hold together reasonably, but allowing for at least some ideological impurity. OR the TP will insist on tossing out anyone that is not just like them in every respect. The latter approach will either split the Republican party into two, or will winnow out moderate Republicans, and its ideological and adamantine need for purity of ideals will doom the party to insignificance. I hope for the former, but there are a lot of people who are more interested in acting like spoiled babies than finding common ground and building from that.
Jason Allen over 10 years ago
“What works in New Jersey and Massachusetts doesn’t work in Flyover Country where real Americans live.”So you’re saying that just because some people NJ or MA don’t agree with you, they’re not “real” Americans?
Gypsy8 over 10 years ago
Chris Christie, the new er…face of the Republican party.
Jason Allen over 10 years ago
Correct. It’s also correct that said Dixiecrats joined the Republican Party after the Democrats passed the civil rights legislation back in the 1960s.