Time for a Party purge, big time.
How do we like being co-opted? Hey Newt! Which democrat should we vote for?
Does Campbell have a history of contributing to Democrats or not? He was a Democrat when he was 20. So was Ronald Reagan. What was his record in Congress? (IIRC, he was fairly liberal, so I’m not meaning to argue with the larger point of how well he’d represent the GOP.)
Meg Whitman’s donations have been 71% for Republicans, and 3% for Democrats, and 26% to PACs, which have been overwhelmingly Republican. Many of her Republican contributions have been to moderates (Sue Collins, Mitt Romney), so I think it is fair to suspect her of liberalism. But it’s plain from her giving history that her campaign contributions have been paying for access. That’s another legitimate character issue.
As for Steve Poizner, his gifts seem to have shifted from left (Kerry, Gore, DNC) to right (Bush, McCain, anti-immigration House candidate Kris Kobach) around 2002 or 2003, when he also seems to have gotten far more politically active. In this time, he served as a Bush White House fellow (2001), taught in public schools (2002-2003) and co-founded a charter school Association (2003). It’s plausible these experiences pushed his personal philosophy to the right, but it’s also possible this is a result of beginning to get politically ambitious.
Just looked at all 3 of their websites. We’re screwed. None of them list their positions on issues. Just a bunch of wishy-washy platitudes. None of them identify themselves as conservative. Bottom line: conservatives do not have a canditate.
Some freeper quoted once, “America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the bastards.”
Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner and Tom Campbell = Useful Idiots
But wait. Newt will be out there telling us what a big tent is needed.