Thursday, October 15, 2009

Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy - Crony Resistance!

Naftali Bendavid at The Wall Street Journal:
"The rise of conservative "tea party" activists around the country has created a dilemma for Republicans. They are breathing life into the party's quest to regain power. But they're also waging war on some candidates hand-picked by GOP leaders as the most likely to win".
 Then, later in the article, she finds support for Tea Party nonpartisanship:
"But the tea-party movement appears aggressively nonpartisan, much like Ross Perot's supporters in 1992. "The tea-party movement, in my judgment, has proven to be very real, but it's precisely the fact that it's real that makes it difficult to take advantage of," says Vin Weber, a former Minnesota congressman and now a top Republican strategist. "They don't want to be co-opted by the Republican Party."
 Exactly! We don't want overwhelming partisan cronyism - Democrat or Republican - to continue to choose our candidates for us long before we even vote for them.

There is a lot more of value in the article here....

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