Voters: The party's over

NY Post ^ | , August 26, 2010 | Charles Hurt

[Scanian]

WASHINGTON -- Voters desperate for an alternative to both parties in Washington got another dose of good news in this week's primaries.

In Florida and, it appears, also in Alaska, Republican voters once again sent a chilling message to their own party leadership in Washington.

No, they cannot stomach the untethered liberalism of Democrats in Washington any longer. But nor can they stand the GOP recklessness we saw the last time the "conservative" party was in power.

That Republican Party of yore and the Donkeys of present are enough to send shudders through any sensible person who cares about the future of this country.

Both are enough to make sick anyone who in tough times has set austere priorities, dispatched with luxuries, and scrounged to save up enough to send their children to college.

The sacrifices and tough decisions that have dominated the lives of most Americans these last few years have been completely absent here in the city of free money -- regardless of who is in charge.

[Riodacat]

regardless of who is in charge.

True dat...

[Venturer]

Neither party is worth a pint of sour spit.

[Jim Noble]

It's almost a revolution.

If any insurgent GOP candidates can actually be elected to office - THAT will be something to see.

But the Crist and Murkowski examples are cause for concern.

The state of the GOP civil war is as follows: Trucons are now powerful enough in many states to prevent a RINO from winning, by witholding their votes (thereby allowing the communist to win). The RINO counteroffensive began in Pennsylvania with Arlen Specter (who lost), but NY-23 was a warning about the limits of trucon power. If Crist wins, or gets Meeks elected, or if Murkowski can sink Joe Miller, the RINOs rising power will have to be accomodated somehow, or the RATs will sweep the board with 40% of the votes.