The people can win! Look at this ...
RINO Tim Pawlenty endorsed Constitution Party candidate Doug Hoffman!
This is good news for conservatives, but there's still Pawlenty of doubt ...
Pawlenty has been showing a willingness to align with the Tea Party movement and has been sharply critical of the Obama administration. However, I still find the man a complete bore and I think his willingness to align with the Tea Party movement has more to do with covering up his not so conservative record.
Pawlenty did a fine job hammering Obama though.
“His solutions are federalization of policy, spending way beyond anything we’ve seen in terms of deficit or debt levels, spending the country into bankruptcy,” Pawlenty says. “And what’s behind it is a philosophy that government knows best, a nanny-state mentality on domestic issues that will ultimately be corrosive to the other pillars of our country — to markets, private enterprise, individual responsibility, freedom and liberty.”
Even neocon Bill Kristol's jumping on the bandwagon.
Bien-pensant conservative elites and establishment-friendly Republican big shots yearn for a more moderate, temperate and sophisticated Republican Party. It's not likely to happen. And probably just as well.
The Gallup poll released Monday shows the public's conservatism at a high-water mark. Some 40 percent of Americans call themselves conservative, compared with 36 percent who self-describe as moderates and 20 percent as liberals.
The conservative number is as high as it's been in the two decades that Gallup has been asking the question.
And next week, in real balloting, conservative Republicans are likely to win in Virginia, a state Obama carried. Meanwhile, a liberal Republican anointed by the GOP establishment for the special congressional election in Upstate New York will probably run third, behind the conservative Republican running on the Conservative Party line, who may in fact win.
The lesson activists around the country will take from this is that a vigorous, even if somewhat irritated, conservative/populist message seems to be more effective in revitalizing the Republican Party than an attempt to accommodate the wishes of liberal media elites.
More "sophisticated"? My a**. Personally, I'll take the Pawlenty and Kristol endorsements of moving right, but I don't trust either one of them. Hey, hey, what can I say ...
In other news ... Nobody likes Joe Biden. "And that’s despite the recent effort by the Obama-approved Newsweek to prop up his veep’s popularity."
NY23: Hoffman's NY Post endorsement Also: The GOP's Mondello Syndrome
Everybody can recognize Mondello as that Peter Principle type of guy, the flawed mediocrity with a glory-hog tendency to take credit for other people's success, so that he keeps getting promoted until, at last, he's in charge of the whole shebang and then -- disaster!
You need to talk to New York conservatives about the Tedisco debacle in the 20th District, if you want to understand how tone-deaf GOP Establishment types like Mondello -- a tool of the old D'Amato Long Island machine -- have bungled away their opportunities and alienated the Republican grassroots.
It's all a backroom old-boys-network.
