Half a century ago the left was scratching around for ways to rationalize their support of William Fulbright of Arkansas. On the one hand they loved his anti-Vietnam war stance and his evident gravitas but on the other hand they were appalled by his racism. So they came up with the idea that his racism was the price he reluctantly forced himself to pay in order to keep his seat in Arkansas.
If I were voting in Wyoming I probably would feel much the way you do but as I said in a previous post I am not judging the Senate race on local issues but on national issues which, sadly, under our new post constitutional system emanate from a legislature in Washington that sits for more than 90 days.
I fully agree with you about getting rid of the Lindsay Grahams, McCains and even Rubios. I would not necessarily have targeted Enzi, it was Liz Cheney who did that, but we deal with the slate we are presented with.
The irony of this is that we tend to be harsher with more conservative senators such as Enzi because they come from conservative states where there is little danger of losing the general to the Democrat. We take after Enzi and leave Susan Collins alone?
At any rate you can comfort yourself that I have no vote in Wyoming and so, even though I have a dog in the fight, I have no say.
I understand your position.
And, like you, I now believe my support for going into Iraq was a huge mistake. I now see the neo-con movement for what it is, and I see that one of the best ways for the GOP to become more popular again is to quit allowing those neo-con clowns in DC to call the GOP’s tune on foreign policy.
If red-diaper Jews want the US to maintain some security interest in the US, they can hawk that policy position to where Jewish voters call home: the DNC. The DNC was the party of war-makers for decades in the 20th century, and the GOP was pretty firmly non-interventionist. Bill Kristol and his ilk can go pound sand. Literally. They can send their young over to foreign lands.
The next biggest problem the GOP has is that the GOP-e keeps ignoring the HUGE polling of the American public that they don’t want amnesty on immigration. The party that ignores the business interests and cracks down on immigration will be rewarded with wage and job growth for Americans - which they can take to the electoral bank in a very short while. One of the reasons why we have such stagnant wage growth in the bottom half of the economic spectrum is because we keep importing huge numbers of low/no skill workers. Why raise wages when we have so much cheap labor flooding into the country? H1B visas should be severely limited as well. Again, the results would be much higher wages.
One of the reasons why petro engineering people make so much more than other engineers is that there are almost no petro engineering college programs outside the US. If you want a petro engineer, you’re most likely going to be hiring a US citizen. Today, that means starting salaries for petro engineers are in the 90’s. EE’s starting salaries have stagnated in the 60’s for about a decade now. That’s due to the flood of H1B’s coming into the country.
It’s high time that we took out the trash in Congress. I am in full agreement there. One of my first and highest issues is immigration. On this issue, Enzi is rock-solid, and MUCH more conservative and pro-US than anyone from the GOP-e will ever be.