I’ve met a number of people who view parties as tribal or something. They don’t have to adhere to any principles of the party. In fact they rarely know what those principles are but they were born Democrats or Republicans and they intend to stay that way forever... It’s like a party is their home team or something. I don’t fully understand it but it sounds like Dede’s one of these confused home-team tribalists who felt she deserves to be a Republican because she always was and worked really hard for the party (without ever really understanding it’s principles). Now she’s acting hurt and betrayed and I expect she still doesn’t even get it.
I suspect she has a decent grasp of party principles and that the only reason she joined the GOP is that she knew a RAT would have trouble getting elected in her district.
All the hoohah about Owens showing that conservatism cant cut it cracks me up. No one seems to notice that he did not get a majority of the vote, just a plurality (49%) due to a three-way race. When he has a purely two person race (as is likely in Nov 2010), he could easily lose.
It’s also convenience. If she lived in a died-in-the-wool dem district she would’ve run as a dem. Unlike Sarahcuda, Dede is part of that professional politician class.
Naw, she’s a politician-she gets it, she just doesn’t like it. And I’d say she endorses the liberal agenda entirely too vehemently to be a mere “Republican by birth”. She was being blatantly opportunistic in trying to gain power in whichever way she thought was the most direct line.
She’s acting like a spoiled child who was refused a piece of candy.
I don’t have much faith that Steele or anyone in the National GOP will kick her out of the party. We can hope the NY GOP does the job.
If nothing else she and her best friend should be kicked out of the party; if they are not kicked out they should not have the ability to have a say on who is placed on the ballot.