Lemon law
Lifer
- Nov 6, 2005
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I think we are all making too much of the upstate New York Race, where one radical right candidate has forced out a more liberal Republican. And even if we acknowledge that voices like Limbaugh advocate a republican purge of moderates, we still have to realize that those people calling themselves Republicans voted overwhelmingly against the very candidates Limbaugh advocated in 2008.
Nor do I think that the Governor races in New Jersey and Virgina will form any kind of national trend. Six months is an eternity in politics, and right now the GOP can talk in vague terms about what their future vision is, the time for that is fast ending for the GOP.
With the start of the primary elections of 2010 just around the corner, the GOP is going to have to stand for something other than no, no, and no to any changes. And field a set of candidates that stand for something the GOP has not yet articulated.
And while I am confident a few radical right candidates like Hoffman will prevail in the GOP primaries, unless they can hold GOP moderates and even attract some conservative democrats, those GOP types running to the far right are almost certain to go down in the general elections in 11/2010.
I also predict the American public will tire at GOP obstruction of the very change they voted for in 11/2008, and any Obama successes meanwhile will just accelerate that trend. Meanwhile the bluedog democrats that have been partly to blame in also obstructing Obama initiatives will wake up and smell the coffee, and realize they have to have something to show their supporters come 11/2010. And do it what it takes to run to the slight left of their GOP counterparts.
Nor do I think that the Governor races in New Jersey and Virgina will form any kind of national trend. Six months is an eternity in politics, and right now the GOP can talk in vague terms about what their future vision is, the time for that is fast ending for the GOP.
With the start of the primary elections of 2010 just around the corner, the GOP is going to have to stand for something other than no, no, and no to any changes. And field a set of candidates that stand for something the GOP has not yet articulated.
And while I am confident a few radical right candidates like Hoffman will prevail in the GOP primaries, unless they can hold GOP moderates and even attract some conservative democrats, those GOP types running to the far right are almost certain to go down in the general elections in 11/2010.
I also predict the American public will tire at GOP obstruction of the very change they voted for in 11/2008, and any Obama successes meanwhile will just accelerate that trend. Meanwhile the bluedog democrats that have been partly to blame in also obstructing Obama initiatives will wake up and smell the coffee, and realize they have to have something to show their supporters come 11/2010. And do it what it takes to run to the slight left of their GOP counterparts.