Republicans Need More Crist and Less Limbaugh, Cheney and Palin
By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The GOP needs more Charlie Crists, fewer Rush Limbaughs, Dick Cheneys and Sarah Palins as it seeks, phoenix-like, to rise from the funeral pyre.
Crist has agreed to do the party a major favor and run for the Senate, instead of for reelection as Florida governor. As CNN reports:
The Senator from Texas and chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee on Tuesday reeled in a big catch as popular Republican Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced he'll forgo a re-election bid and instead run for the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Mel Martinez.
Crist is a moderate, a tree-hugger (by Republican standards, anyway) and supports civil rights, unlike high-profile members of the Bush administration (Cheney et. al.) who seem to revel in trashing them. From Time:
Crist is a peppy populist who has bucked his party on the environment, civil rights and the stimulus bill.
Go, Charlie! You're just what the party needs to start reopening the doors of the big tent.
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charlie christ="environmentalist?"
from FLORIDA to: America...Let it be known that Florida now has the potential of TAR.Generated by oil rigs that will be able to set up within THREE miles from the shoreline for their oil drilling. How "special" Gov.Charlie. WE, the people will ALWAYS remember you!
Sleeping With The Enemy
Just what the loyal opposition needs: advice and counsel from the very people they are trying to defeat. What unmitigated arrogance this Erbe person displays. Arrogance, combined with ignorance and some fear. Obviously this vapid excuse for a writer is a delusional paranoid, living in fear that Palin/Cheney/Limbaugh/Rove might actually form a winning coalition in 2010 and 2012. Why else dispense grade school advice to HER opposition? Pathetic. It is truly amazing that drivel such as hers gets published. Then again publications such as this are a dying breed. By 2012 they should be in a state of rigor mortis. Currently they are displaying a state of severe dementia.
Economic Moderates lose elections
When you can no longer determine Moderate Republicans from Democrats why bother? The American people will still lose.
McCain lost because he didn't inspire REAL Republicans and Obama won by inspiring the young and inexperienced voters.
I hope they become educated as to the ways of politics and realize the only "change" they got was the same old Democratic Spend-and-tax instead of the usual Tax-and-spend.
At the rate the Democrats are destroying the economy and this country, I can only hope we get the same real conservative shift we experienced after Carter.
Hopefully we'll have a USA left and haven't had China "foreclose" on it's TOXIC (um, legacy) asset.
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