‘From a presidential perspective, we have real [expletive] problems’
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ANALYSIS
By Domenico Montanaro
Political Reporter
NBC News
WASHINGTON – Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to announce Thursday whether he will pursue an independent Senate bid, continue on in the Republican primary, or drop his candidacy altogether.
Crist’s political fall has been monumental. Once considered a shoo-in for the seat, the prized recruit of the National Republican Senatorial Committee now trails by more than 20 points to an upstart former House speaker. Crist, strategists say, failed to take Republican challenger Marco Rubio seriously.
His decline is also one of a handful of examples of GOP races across the country in which the Republican Party’s internal ideological battle — a tug of war between the pragmatists and the purists — has been on full display.
Despite GOP’s expected short-term gains this fall – largely owed to the nation’s high unemployment rate — problems still lurk for the party’s long-term stability. Republicans’ ideological civil war, the recent passage of a controversial Arizona immigration law, and an uncertain shortlist of Obama challengers all raise questions about its ability to compete on a presidential level.
“From a presidential perspective, we have real [expletive] problems,” said one GOP operative based in Washington, D.C., who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the state of the party frankly. “From a national candidate perspective, we have real problems.”
Moderates need not apply?
The GOP’s ideological fight has raged since President Barack Obama was elected in November of 2008. Bolstered by the Tea Party movement, GOP purists have argued for the purge of members who fail to adhere to strict conservative views. But some other Republicans worry that the quest for purity will eliminate candidates best equipped to prevail against Democratic opponents in a general election. …http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36847707/ns/politics-decision_2010/
Political reporters don’t often share the same content quality or writing style as political bloggers or political columnists. After the flood of “content” from political columnist who are supportive of the train-wreck performance of the neocons, it is refreshing to read content from a reporter. Why is the reporter’s content so different from neocon cheer-leading columnist and/or bloggers?
Long ago I searched the Internet for attributes of journalists.
I came away from that very long-ago search with four categories that impacted the output of journalists:
- truth
- opinion
- personality
- columns
Reporters, by and large, focus on item number 1.
From the above article we read:
The GOP’s ideological fight has raged since President Barack Obama was elected in November of 2008. Bolstered by the Tea Party movement, GOP purists have argued for the purge of members who fail to adhere to strict conservative views. But some other Republicans worry that the quest for purity will eliminate candidates best equipped to prevail against Democratic opponents in a general election
If you are not a neocon, you likely wonder who are GOP purists? Perhaps the acronym GOP is fitting if there are living examples of far-right-wing Republicans who exemplify purity. The neocons have a knack for re-defining words on the fly. But in this case, purity might have the traditional meaning. And that begs the question of “WHY WOULD COCAINE SELLING, PENIS SLICING, WATER-BOARDING, ILLEGAL SPYING, WAR-MONGERING, RESOURCE “ACQUIRING” NEOCONS EVEN MENTION the word purity?
And the purifiers mentioned Ronald Reagan. Would he be the human-being example who all others should mimic? Who would want to become a “dope” pusher? Who would want to “manage”labor by firing labor and telling those who were fired to never come back. Who would want to cut taxes and raise spending at the same time. Who would want to deregulate a $400 trillion dollar derivatives market?
The author of the above post covered topics that the neocon supporters don’t want to even talk about. Perhaps he could get interested in why the neocons brought America into the Iraq war. That was back in April of 2003. America still does not know why it started that war. The neocons did not tell(the truth) and the TELL AMERICA press did not ask.
Tags: arizona immigration law, moderates need not apply, neocons, pragmatists, purists, republican problems, short-term gains this fall
