Al_U_Card Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 Does this mean the magic bullet is now a Democratic hypothesis? I believe that it is now referred to as the "quantum bullet" because it has to be in 2 places at once and travelling in different directions, simultaneously.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y66 Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 At least one member of Senator Specter's former party gets it: IT is disheartening and disconcerting, at the very least, that here we are today — almost exactly eight years after Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party — witnessing the departure of my good friend and fellow moderate Republican, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, for the Democratic Party. And the announcement of his switch was all the more painful because I believe it didn’t have to be this way. ... Senator Specter indicated that his decision was based on the political situation in Pennsylvania, where he faced a tough primary battle. In my view, the political environment that has made it inhospitable for a moderate Republican in Pennsylvania is a microcosm of a deeper, more pervasive problem that places our party in jeopardy nationwide. There is no plausible scenario under which Republicans can grow into a majority while shrinking our ideological confines and continuing to retract into a regional party. Ideological purity is not the ticket back to the promised land of governing majorities — indeed, it was when we began to emphasize social issues to the detriment of some of our basic tenets as a party that we encountered an electoral backlash. It is for this reason that we should heed the words of President Ronald Reagan, who urged, “We should emphasize the things that unite us and make these the only ‘litmus test’ of what constitutes a Republican: our belief in restraining government spending, pro-growth policies, tax reduction, sound national defense, and maximum individual liberty.” He continued, “As to the other issues that draw on the deep springs of morality and emotion, let us decide that we can disagree among ourselves as Republicans and tolerate the disagreement.”-- Olympia Snowe, Republican senator from Maine. Tolerate disagreement? Sputter, sputter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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