Got this from Erick Erickson from Red State via Not one penny to the National Republican Senatorial Committee group on Facebook
Yesterday, I ambled over to John Cornyn’s page on Facebook and wrote on his wall. I told him, very politely, that I was disappointed in the NRSC endorsement of Crist. At a time when Senator Cornyn says we can capitalize on the anxiety people have about spending and deficits, it undermines his goal by endorsing a man who supports the spending and deficits and also says he’d vote for Obama’s stimulus. Senator Cornyn responded that given a recent third party poll showing Crist at 54% and Rubio at 18%, Crist is the candidate who can hold the seat and the NRSC wanted to go on and support him. I responded that there were more than 365 days before the election, Crist was elected statewide with high name identification, and Rubio has 365 + days to show people that Crist would support the policies that are increasingly unpopular in Florida. I tell you this all here because you cannot now go to John Cornyn’s page at Facebook to see the exchange. Whoever runs the page for him has deleted it. That's a shame. Erick
Yesterday, I ambled over to John Cornyn’s page on Facebook and wrote on his wall.
I told him, very politely, that I was disappointed in the NRSC endorsement of Crist. At a time when Senator Cornyn says we can capitalize on the anxiety people have about spending and deficits, it undermines his goal by endorsing a man who supports the spending and deficits and also says he’d vote for Obama’s stimulus.
Senator Cornyn responded that given a recent third party poll showing Crist at 54% and Rubio at 18%, Crist is the candidate who can hold the seat and the NRSC wanted to go on and support him.
I responded that there were more than 365 days before the election, Crist was elected statewide with high name identification, and Rubio has 365 + days to show people that Crist would support the policies that are increasingly unpopular in Florida.
I tell you this all here because you cannot now go to John Cornyn’s page at Facebook to see the exchange.
Whoever runs the page for him has deleted it.
That's a shame.
Erick
This is why the GOP can kiss any support I have of them goodbye. Crist is a Republican in the same way a brick is a water balloon. Just because he puts an R beside his name doesn't mean anything. However, the GOP is more interested in their team winning even if it means simply becoming lite versions of their opponents.
I'm not naive, I realize that no politician is going to be perfect and that politics in and of itself is a game of compromise, but I'm not voting for someone simply because of their party affiliation. To get my vote, you have to push for lower taxes (which means lower *&@)!* spending to match), less regulation of my life, and a desire to restore and protect liberty. Crist does none of those things. I gain nothing by supporting him over a Democrat rival, and hence the GOP's complete and utter failure as a party.
The most depressing part is that if the GOP would run conservatives, they would gain all the power their little black hearts could desire with barely any effort. Instead, we get McCains, Huckabees, Romneys, and Crists. The people who have track records of governing closer to conservative principles, get pushed out of the tent in an effort to simply win rather than further the conservative agenda.
As a disclaimer, I'm speaking of the conservative governing agenda, not the social conservative agenda. I, personally, am socially conservative but have no desire to force you to be too.
Until the GOP gets its Democrat-like heads out of their collective asses, they shan't receive a bit of support from me in voice or in coin. 2010 should be a cakewalk for anyone willing to stand up to the ever expanding behemoth of a government we have now, but if you're just going to promise to not expand it quite as fast, I'll donate the sand you can go pound.