I came home convinced (not by anything I specifically heard, but by the general mood of the place that we have to help moderate Republicans reclaim their party. They’re out there, and since the number of extremists who vote in their primaries is relatively small, it’s doable. The question is, how to best make it happen?
Afterthoughts
Moderate Republicans? There used to be those Moderate Northeastern Republicans — now? Not so much.
Even if they run as more moderate Repubs, they govern as the Koch Bros and, oh, Roger Ailes think they should.
And the Neolib Corporatist Dems are going after the “moderate’ Republican voters, and have been since, oh, Bill Clinton’s run for president at least. More openly since BushBoy.
What about taking back the Democratic Party? Was there any talk of that? Anything more than talk?
I hope you’re recovering from whatever sent you to the ER and hope you’ll take time to get rested. Brief, intense trips can be exhausting.
Take care and welcome back.
Susie, did you get to learn more about the interviewer/questioner for Pfeiffer? She did try to pin him down in some questions (I really need to watch the whole thing, right?).
Any Republican moderates were marginalized back in 1964. Nixon and Gerald Ford were the last ones. Anybody who would have been a moderate Republican is now an establishment Democrat. Clinton, Biden, Reid, the whole house leadership are now what Rockefeller and Scranton were then.
I don’t mean to make light of your suggestion, Susie, but that ship has sailed a long time ago.
I would see more hope in splitting off a progressive party from the democrats and then letting the main-line democrats become Republicans.
You’re wrong. There are a lot of people left who are cultural Republicans because their families are, but don’t like the crazies. They just don’t want to be involved. I know; I talked to one of them in the airport yesterday for an hour. She hates what the crazies are doing about abortion, she’s a teacher who’s had a wage freeze for four years, and yet can’t bring herself to switch registration. She voted for McCain, but said as soon as Obama was elected, she and her husband said, “Okay, we didn’t vote for him, but Mr. Obama is our president now and we have to give him a chance.”
She said she knows lots of people like her — in Arizona, which is as right as you can get.
This is a big opening and we need to take it. We can’t win every seat and we need Republicans who want to govern instead of obstruct.
By the time we got done talking, she said she saw now that she has to get active.
I’m not even going to read the previous comments because, frankly, I don’t give a shit.
But WHAT did you just say, susie?
I came home convinced (not by anything I specifically heard, but by the general mood of the place that we have to help moderate Republicans reclaim their party.
I guess I deleted you from my bookmarks for a reason. Hmmm.
As Lucy said, “Who am I? Where am I?”
I guess I have to consider the source: Netroots.
I mean, seriously?