Likely to deal. We DO NOT WANT more like her.
Scott Brown joined the Senate yesterday as busy Republican plotters eagerly sorted out how to repeat his accidental miracle in other Blue states.
But the idea of 4 or 5 Republicans from Blue states joining the Senate scares me because it means 4 or 5 more chances to get an Olympia Snowe. And it means 4 or 5 more chances to end up with a John McCain.
In other words, we aren’t going to get Tom Coburn from Illinois. Instead we will get somebody willing to make deals either out of lack of passion for conservatism (Snowe) or extreme passion for himself (McCain).
Might we be safer with an uber liberal unwilling to compromise with a progressive Republican?
The Republicans may end up with more seats and the nation will likely regret it.
February 5th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
The kind of saints you’re dreaming of aren’t going to get elected in many places.
BTW: what is your idea of a “progressive Republican”? Teddy Roosevelt? Where in our polarized politics will we find any such creature surviving the Republican primaries?
Maybe conservatism should re-define itself to have realistic objectives.
February 5th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
Teddy Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Both Bushes.
I’m not looking for saints. I just don’t want progressives willing to compromise. I’d rather have what we had post stimulus this year – nothing happening.
Maybe progressives should change, since it is proven their ideas don’t work and have killed hundreds of millions?
February 7th, 2010 at 1:10 am
The Republican party doesn’t appear to have had real conservatives running it for a very long time. Its not that they compromise their principals, is that they don’t HAVE conservative principals.
I am hopeful that the Tea Party can pull off their big talk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8498688.stm
I would absolutely love to see Tea Party candidates in the midterms. I think the Tea Party has a decent chance of producing real conservative candidates. Even if they don’t pull it off, they may scare the Republicans into at least acting like they have the interests of a free, just nation in mind.
February 7th, 2010 at 8:19 am
here’s hoping. I think they hope they can suborn the Tea Party folks. I know the local Republicans do. Some of them are true tea party types, but some of the “pros” are just as conniving as the Democrats.
February 7th, 2010 at 11:21 am
Their strategist’s are being rather open about their desire to tap into the Tea Party “anger.” As if they weren’t just as much its target as everyone else.