Alt. Conservative Update 3-12-09
Every so often, I will be posting links to posts I tend to brand as “alternacon,” stuff that you don’t normally hear from conservatives. Conservatism has a wider reach than the stuff peddled by Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter and I would like to point them out and pass them along.
So here is the first update:
Specter represents exactly the sort of voter that the GOP has been losing in recent years: the kind that agrees with it on several issues and is willing to join it as long as it demonstrates competence and pragmatism. Specter’s presence in the Senate is the sort of assurance that moderates need to know that they’re actually being given a seat at the table and are not merely being used for their votes and then tossed aside.
Mr. Toomey (Specter’s apparent challenger), apparently under the delusion that the GOP is in some sort of position to purify the ranks, subscribes to the theory that Pennsylvania voters, including moderates and independents, will support a “true conservative” if only the voters will finally be presented with one. Is this true?
Luckily for us, we don’t have to make any wild guesses, because we’ve actually tried this out in real life before: in 2006, Pennsylvania Republicans ran a “true conservative” against a liberal with a moderate disposition — and it resulted in an 18-point landslide victory for the Democrats.
Have fun reading.
5 Responses to “Alt. Conservative Update 3-12-09”
Thanks for sharing this wider spectrum of GOP views.
If Meghan McCain is an authority of moderate Republicans, then the Repubicans should go out of business today.
The Democratic-lite, pork barreling, big spending, big entitlement moderates is laughable. Not a single moderate Republican can explain how they are going to maintain a high level of government entitlements while maintaining open borders and unlimited immigration.
The moderates and progressives are almost to the point of wanting to bring back slavery in the form of state controlled health care workers. It is always elites who would never work in healthcare who want nationalized healthcare.
Great pick-up on Geoff's article — I am biased as he is a very close friend of mine from school, but he is a very sharp guy and a very deep thinker.
And some 50% of the doctors, and about 60% of the public at large.
D.Q.
I doubt if the physicians believe that their pay will go down. It is the people who would never work in a field with so many asians and blacks or who could never pass science class that want to nationalize health care. Who cares is nurses pay goes low that the nursing shortage will go from chronic to acute. The same with many allied health care workers.