Posted on 11/04/2009 9:58:38 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Can they pick them, or not? Boy, those 11 county chairmen who picked Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava to run for Congress on the Republican ticket in New York’s 23rd Congressional District in the special election to succeed Rep. John McHugh have an eye for a winner.
Seeking a candidate for a center-right district near the Canadian border, they picked someone well to the left of some centrist Democrats, with none of the flair or pizazz that makes parties willing to tolerate mavericks.
She excited no one and repelled the conservatives, whom the chairmen accused of splitting the party. She was, they insisted, a fit for the district. Anyone who complained was being “divisive” and pulling down Reagan’s Big Tent.
Reagan said that his one-in-five enemy was his four-in-five friend, allowing for some points of difference in exchange for agreement on big-ticket items: for a Rudy Giuliani, who goes left on a fairly discrete set of issues, or a John McCain, who may stray on occasion, but who is solid on spending and war.
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The Examiner is NOT the local Marxist rag, FYI.
There does need to be a balance, that is sure.
A candidate who disagrees with me 25% of the time would be preferable than a candidate who disagrees with me 80% of the time.
But a candidate who disagrees with me 50% of the time over a candidate who disagrees with me 55% of the time? No.
And that is what the “big tent” Republicans have missed. At some point a candidate loses support, even if they agree with me a little more than their opponent.
At that point the candidate is “unacceptable”, not merely the lesser of two evils.
When the leadership of the Republican party expands the big tent enough to include unacceptable candidates, the conservatives (who serve as the main tent pole) leave and the whole thing comes crashing down.
The old canard is true: If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.
I am getting tired of Reagan revisionism:
He did not say that the Republican party was a “big tent”
He said:
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.”
I caught a little bit of Dennis Miller this morning and he didn't know her name and kept calling her Dede Buttafuco. He said she sure went through a lot to be picked as the prom queen but her rein was short when she realized that nobody liked her. A very earth shattering moment in politics. That's what she gets for saying she was a Republican when she wasn't at all. Future Republican candidates be forewarned.
Like Joey Buttafuoco, whose wife was shot by his teen lover. That's pretty funny.
Like Joey Buttafuoco, whose wife was shot by his teen lover. That's pretty funny.
And in the case of Scuzzy, a candidate who disagreed with Conservative positions 85% of the time. There’s a name for someone like that. We call it “liberal Democrat.”
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