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Will Christie Whitman be Heard?
With her pleas for a more moderate, more mainstream GOP, Christine Todd Whitman has long been one of my favorite Republican voices — and she’s at it again, according to a report from Chris Cillizza late yesterday. Case in point:
Whitman criticizes her party for their recent debate over Obama’s “cap and trade” energy policy, noting that the Republican attacks centered on dismissing the proposal as “cap and tax” rather than offering solutions of their own. “The irony here is that the cap-and-trade concept was first used almost 20 years ago, under a Republican president, to successfully reduce acid rain,” she writes.
Of course, none of this has had much impact on an increasingly extreme, isolated, and simple-minded Republican Party. Then again, Cillizza suggests things might be different this time around:
… with moderates like Reps. Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Mike Castle (Del.) as well as Gov. Charlie Crist (Fla.) leading the Republican Senate recruiting class, Whitman’s message may well find more fertile ground within the party over the coming months and years.
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3 Responses to “Will Christie Whitman be Heard?”
Whitman, Snowe, Collins, and (formerly now) Specter are not mainstream conservatives, or Republicans.
They all should be Democrats; they should not be trying to hijack the GOP to become “safe” Dems Lite.
Whitman specifically disqualifies herself from consideration as either mainstream or responsible as a Republican (much less as a conservative as well as mainstream moderate). The wiser public has been vastly opposed to the “cap and trade” scheme rushed and rammed through by mainly liberal Democrats, as well as to related environmentalist extremism and nonsense, for which Whitman is associated, sadly.
The social conservatives in the GOP continue to be hyped; the GOP's fundamental problem is that it is dysfunctional and hasn't recovered from its losses in 2006 and 2008 (in large part for being Dems Lite).
Meanwhile, the true extremism has emerged and flourished among the Democrats in Washington.
A better example for the a more-moderate GOP's future is Colin Powell, who, despite his occasional stances which make him appear more like a Democrat, has been on record recently as being the kind of classic Republican and classic “economic conservative” primarily that I and so many other true moderates identify with: Fiscal and policy constraints, if not, better still, the “downsizing” of Washington.
Whitman will ultimately fail to reform the GOP in any meaningful way. The Hannitys/Rushs/Coulters of the right will not allow reasonableness. Anyone who wants to do so will be labeled a traitor and democrat in elephants clothing. Oh wait, DLS is already getting a good head start.
Its funny DLS, you seem to often bemoan the fact that america's demographic makeup will not allow for a GOP win anytime in the future because basically minorities won't vote GOP, when this is the least of your worries. Your true concern should be that the policies you espouse are so wrongheaded even gullible voters finally caught on to their shortcomings, shortcomings you make excuses for even after 8 years of them drove this country into the ground in just about every sense of the word. And here you are throwing another shovel full of dirt on the GOP burial mound.