You live in the one region where GOP support will remain strong. But is that true of the rest of the country? Northeastern Republicans are a vanishing species because, as in the Specter case, the national party is squeezing out moderates. That may work in your uh, neck of the woods, if you'll excuse the allusion, but in the bluer regions of the map that's become a suicidal tactic. In the Northeast, squeeze out the moderates like Collins and Snow of Maine, and who's left?
I have to say, too, that I doubt that Republicans can make something as technical as cap-n-trade into a political cause celebre; and sober criticism of policy hasn't been the Republican style for a good long while now. Their style is distinctly more visceral and purely emotional.
What would Joe Sixpack do?
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- Former member of the Warren Commission now a Democrat
- Democrats grousing about the bribes
- The GOP continues to contract into a narrow, regional party
- Excellent news!
- Excellent news!
- The extreme right-wing (read "base") has driven folks out.
- More like "still a Democrat."
- That he couldn't get re-elected as a Republican says a lot.
- He said that he was not about to let his 29 year career in the Senate be determined by his constituency.