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April 26, 2004
Toomey-Spector
Tomorrow will be an exciting day for political junkies. It's the Pennsylvania Republican primary, where wingnut wonderboy Pat Toomey faces off against incumbent GOP Senator Arlen Spector, the last of a dying breed of moderate Senate Republicans (John McCain, it should be pointed out, really isn't part of this group, he's more of a "sane" conservative than a moderate, but since tone is all that counts liberals like McCain as much if not more than Spector, Snowe, Collins or Chafee).
It looks like it will be a close race and it could be an important turning point. If the Club for Growth wins with Toomey, the RINO hunters will be out in full force in 2006. Don't be surprised if our own Sonny Perdue, my new friend is next on their list.
If I was a mainstream Republican concerned with winning I'd be scared to death if Toomey wins. Only so many conservative voters can come "out of the woodwork" to support hardline conservatives, and they can more than be made up for by squishy moderates coming over to moderate Democrats when they hear the hate for their ideology and way of life spewing from the hardcore conservative interest groups that will be dominating Republican primaries.
Look at it this way -- who has a better chance of winning governor in 2006 in Georgia? Is it Sonny Perdue, who once proposed a tax increase, or some wingnut like Sen. Casey Cagle who wants to pretty much clear the way for developers to pave over any stream in the state? Now who would the Club for Growth choose? The answer to those two questions is not the same.
UPDATE: Two usages of the word wingnut. You'll have to excuse me after hearing so many South Georgia Republicans call me a DEMCRAT, baby-killer and queer-lover :) I stopped updating the Rasmussen numbers (for now) because it's been pretty hard to nail them down because (I suspect) Rasmussen fudges the numbers and does a lot of post-sample adjustment. Sorry!
Posted by Chris at April 26, 2004 05:56 PM
Comments
Chris uses the slur "wingnut" every few seconds. In real life, though, Chris is the wingnut.
(And where are those new Rasmussen updates? Chris doesn't like it that Bush is pulling away.)
Posted by: philly dog at April 26, 2004 06:29 PM
i thought wingnut was a slur only for conservatives. Chris couldn't be called that.
Yo that thing with tracking Perdue sounds like fun. No wonder you knew that thing about "Sonny Tried".
Posted by: stress at April 27, 2004 12:40 AM
It's too bad Toomey lost. And, as for your comment that Republicans should've been scared he might win: how do you explain PA's other senator, Rick Santorum, who is a staunch conservative?
Posted by: Karol at April 28, 2004 01:07 PM
Well, Chris has decided that since he has absorbed so much abuse that he is justified in taking off the rhetorical gloves himself. Good on yer. This is not much different from my own experiences and decision though from a polar opposite orientation. Thing is, this is NOT going to be a net benefit for the Dems or the Left or whatever you want to call it for a very simple reason; the status quo has long been that the left can defame and disparage at will with no repurcussions in the media or culture at large and expect no counter-attack in kind. No more, for if all wings are going to be dismissed as out of the mainstream, the Dems have more to lose. See y'all in November.
Posted by: megapotamus at April 28, 2004 03:28 PM
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