the issue: Gomez isn’t really a republican. That’s the challenge for the Mass GOP. Finding real republicans (and not stooges) to run for office. Seems most big name GOP’ers have lib streaks. If not, then get investigative hit pieces from the Boston Globe.
just my $.02
You’re exactly right, and this can sometimes be a problem for any political party, namely: an opportunist turd with no principles (think of Charlie Crist) SAYS he is a member of the party, but takes position after position that is contrary to the party’s deep-seated principles. Typically this happens when the turd believes that his “in name only” membership in the party will be more likely to benefit him than, oh, being HONEST would benefit him.
If such turds get nominated, or worse, elected, there is little the party can do other than to denounce him and try to deny him the win next time.
“That’s the challenge for the Mass GOP. Finding real republicans (and not stooges) to run for office.”
The challenge is the MASS GOP itself. We have actual conservative republican candidates, but the prog majority wing of the MA GOP-E does everything that it can to block them.
The good news is that the real conservatives on the state committee have achieved near parity in numbers with the prog wing. Things may look very different in the near future.
A lot of the new state committee members belong to or are backed by MARA (Massachusetts Republican Assembly.
We’re the “KKK” that Gomez refers to.