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Cornyn Explains Crist Endorsement For Florida Race: 100% Conservative GOP Is A "Pipedream"
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), in his role as chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, is now reaching out to right-wing activists upset with the national party's endorsement of moderate Republican Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, who supported the stimulus bill, against a more conservative candidate in the primary for the open GOP-held Senate seat.
In a new post at RedState.com, Cornyn sets out to explain that Crist represents the strongest chance for Republicans to hold this seat -- and to give a basic political science lesson in how the American two-party system works:
Some believe that we should be a monolithic Party; I disagree. While we all might wish for a Party comprised only of people who agree with us 100 percent of the time, this is a pipedream. Each Party is fundamentally a coalition of individuals rallying around core principles with some variations along the way. My job as Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee is to recruit candidates who have the best chance of winning and holding seats - and to do so in as many states as possible.
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Political reality won't sit well with the freepers and dittoheads.
May 29, 2009 10:08 AM | Reply | Permalink
Somebody better put a stop to this guy, fast, a GOP'er talking sense!
May 29, 2009 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
May 29, 2009 10:26 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cornyn believes the party should be a monolith of right wing nut cases. But, of course, now that he's responsible for winning elections, political reality has set in.
May 29, 2009 11:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cornyn has already been declared a RINO over at FreeRepublic.
May 29, 2009 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Big John is in for a couple of bad days.
That interview on NPR was pretty devastating for the Republican fight against Sotomayor. There's the rejection of the "racist" comments, but more importantly, Melissa Block basically had him dead to rights on the whole "she's letting her ethnicity influence her judgment!!!@#$!!!" theme. She pointed out to him that Saint Samuel Alito specifically mentioned the discrimination his family members had experienced as Italians, that Alito thought of those experiences, and that he would take those into account.
Cornyn's answer was something to the effect of "I didn't remember those comments. I can't remember everything a nominee has said".
Translation: that argument is DOA.
I think the White House is handling this quite well. They're letting the Republicans offer up criticisms, and are rebutting those criticisms with the words of previously confirmed nominees.
And this nomination is flushing the crazies out in the open.
May 29, 2009 11:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let's hope that the crazies who are flushed out during the Sotomayor nomination battle will discredit themselves and be less effective when they attempt to kill health care reform.
It will be the same bunch of crazies in the health care battle as it is now in the Supreme Court battle since the real goal is power. Right now though, health care reform is what everything in Washington revolves around. Nothing besides health care reform matters for America this year. But to the villagers, it is only who has power matters. And the power will go to the winner in the health care battle.
I think it likely that the Sotomayor battle is going to flush out the sides in the oncoming battle.
May 29, 2009 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink