Ooh, I think that somebody may be a little upset.
The civil war in the Republican Party is so civil. At least on the Senate battlefield, the much-anticipated and contentious intraparty fights are not happening. After the GOP primaries in North Carolina and Nebraska, the grassroots conservatives of the Tea Party and elites of the GOP establishment can both claim victories, but the real winners for the moment are the forces of order.
Possibly not John Dickerson himself, but certainly many of the Democrats that read him. It’s a bad sign for a party when Democrats have to depend on the other side making mistakes – and at this point, the Republican party would have to start severely increasing the number of mistakes being made daily* – if the Democrats hope to keep the Senate. Well, it’s not happening, is it? While neither the GOP grassroots nor the establishment want to admit that they had… suboptimal candidate procurement strategies… in 2012, well, both factions didn’t do as well then as they could have done. Fortunately, both sides recognize that.
Remember: We are one, big happy Fleet. We can do the internecine warfare later.
Via Hot Air Headlines.
Moe Lane
*This would be the place for the obligatory The GOP will screw everything up! Forgive me for saying this, but that sort of comment reminds me of the guy who did the roads in Sim City 2000. Remember what happened when you cut funding for the roads by 5%?
I’m not saying Don’t do that. I’m just saying, that’s how it sounds sometimes.
Heh. It’s .. refreshing.. that our partisans and our gutless D.C. wing are so .. civil.
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Mew
So we don’t start up with the car-bombs and motorcyclists-with-Molotovs until AFTER November, when the freshly-elected GOP scum takes over the Senate from the hoary Dem scum and begins pushing (that’s spelled ‘c-a-p-i-t-u-l-a-t-i-n-g’) on comprehensive (that’s spelled ‘o-p-e-n b-o-r-d-e-r-s’) immigration reform…
I’ll have none of that talk on this site.
Hmmm. Are you serious, or being ironic? It actually is hard to tell.
I think he is referring to the incitement to violence stuff, not the open borders comment. Moe’s a squish sometimes but he’s our squish, God love him. Besides, he’s right. No car bomb talk.
Exactly. No car bomb talk. I run things a little more loosely over here than we did/will soon do again over at RedState, but I don’t like to see such rhetoric here. So don’t use it.
…So pretty please, with sugar on top. 🙂
So what do you think the odds are of the GOP screwing significant stuff up, Moe? I’d put it at somewhere around, oh, 5 chances in 6, based on previous history. Now, that’s certainly better than the 6/6 that the Democrats will screw significant stuff up, but not just especially so.
I always wanted to reach through the computer screen and choke that guy from Sim City 2000, mainly because he looks like a liberal yuppie.
Norm Abram is a liberal yuppie?
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News to me .. although that his programs are on PBS should probably have tipped me off…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_Abram
Just noting that Mike Simpson has been running the dirtiest campaign I’ve ever seen.
And it’s in a primary.
I’ve even been push-polled. Twice.
That .. gives you an idea of what his internal polling looks like.
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Mew
Or, since it’s his first serious primary challenge in 16 years of holding the office, he wishes to discourage anyone from ever attempting it again.
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We’ll find out next week.
I’m going to point out that Sim City 2000, operated with the faulty notion that the transportation department operated at 100% efficiency, might work in simulations but not in real life.
Lets remember that the moment you did cut funding to roads in SC2k, they started crumbling…
I should note, that so far the grassroots have nominated better candidates then the establishment
Sasse > Tillis.
Considering the history I’ve seen of establishment vs. Tea Party fights, I’d be very surprised if things weren’t going on behind the scenes. And I doubt anyone will wait until after the elections to play their dirty tricks: it wouldn’t make any difference at that point.
If you’re going to stick it to your opponent, you do that before the election.
If both sides are presenting a civil public face to this, it seems to break the mold. Anyone remember the acrimony when Lugar got primaried out?
I’ll also add that acrimony is a result of a permanent political class. These people aren’t citizen representatives anymore who, if they lose, can just return to their previous lives.
By defeating them, you are depriving them of their livelihood (assuming they don’t count the “revolving door” as equally acceptable).
And though I’m tempted to say that we shouldn’t have a permanent political class, isn’t that what the voters demand? How many candidates do we disqualify in our own minds because they lack experience?
Let them go earn minimum wage asking “Would you like fries with that?” or saying “Hello, welcome to WalMart” for a while.
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Seems like either would be a natural thing for a politician.
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Mew