Tuesday, November 18, 2008
It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want to!
by Charles W. Fairbanks
Huck’s Army is right. Huck’s Army and the Men for Palin may end up jousting in 2011-2012, but unless we want the GOP to remain in its current position (see photo to the left), Huck’s Army and the Men for Palin need to sail our ships in the same direction for now. In the battle for the heart and soul of the GOP, there are those who want to perform an ethnic cleansing of the Republican Party by removing conservatives from the leadership. Former Bush Administration Cabinet Member Christie Whitman has come out of obscurity to dump on Sarah Palin and taunt conservatives.
At least Christine Todd Whitman was out in the open about it. Openness distinguishes her from the discredited McLeakers who began the Era of Obama by spreading gossip about Sarah Palin. The former Bush Administration EPA Administrator and author of “It’s My Party Too” slammed Sarah Palin and social conservatives on the home page of the Republican Leadership Council, and in an op-ed in the Washington Post.
Whitman opined: “Palin has many attractive qualities as a candidate. Being prepared to become president at a moment’s notice was not obviously among them this year. Her selection cost the ticket support among those moderate voters who saw it as a cynical sop to social fundamentalists, reinforcing the impression that they control the party, with the party’s consent.”
“Social fundamentalists?” Believe me, that is not a term of endearance; it is a derogatory term.
I agree with Michael at Conservatives with Attitude! when he asserts."n the data she cites, she fails to mention that McCain trailed Obama-Biden horribly before Palin’s selection and actually led after the pick, only to see that lead tumble and never be regained after he backed the Financial Bailout bill.”
Administrator Whitman is personally a wonderful family person. She has a lot of integrity, and is very genuine. However, she ran the ship of the New Jersey GOP aground. (See artist’s conception of the New Jersey Republican Party circa 2000 above.) Her problems began when the legislature passed the Partial Birth Abortion Act. When the liberals attacked the Act in the courts, Whitman directed the Attorney General not to defend. The state legislature hired the Legal Center for the Defense of Life to defend the suit.
The damage was done.
When Whitman ran for re-election in 1997, two independent pro-life candidates drained over 150,000 votes from Whitman. Whitman won narrowly. After her win, she went on jihad in the party against conservatives. She also went on a jihad against fiscal sanity, spending money on public works projects like there was no tomorrow. Her name became Mudd with the base. Indeed, her negatives were so high among Republicans that she passed on a U.S. Senate run. Her polling was clear: She would not have won the primary.
Yes, the right to life matters. Whitman is not a moderate. She is on the far left, in the neighborhood of NARAL. Her failure to take even a moderate stance on abortion split the New Jersey Republican Party in two. Let’s not do the same with what is left of the national GOP.
