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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (82040)9/4/2008 11:35:47 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542043
 
I guess I should be clearer, Steve. As I understand it, the delegates at this Rep convention are more conservative than the 04 crew and the 00 crew. Which were the most conservative to date.

She is the face of that convention. And these are the troops. These are the folk who will do the work in the primaries in 2012. If she performs reasonably well between now and the election and the McCain ticket loses by not too much, she has a huge head start on the 2012 nomination.

And McCain will probably fade away and leave the party apparatus to someone else. That part will be a struggle. My guess is she will not be able to gain control of it until 2012.

But that all puts the Reps much further in the woods with the wacko right wing.

We used to bemoan the moment a member of this group gained control of a board of education in Kansas or the school textbook certification process in Texas or became mayor of a small town in Kansas. I remember in 2000 when we all could not believe the platform of the Rep Party in Texas.

Those folk will now control the party. Dale's beloved Rep moderates are, very likely, no more.

Will be interesting to see what Collins and Snowe in Maine do; Spector in Pennsylvania; and any number of members of the House of Representatives.
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