It's Another "Can't We All Just Get Along Coalition" - Granite Grok

It’s Another “Can’t We All Just Get Along Coalition”

John DiStaso’s Granite Status alerts us to the formation of yet another group designed to help American’s ‘find a copacetic political medium.’  This one is called NoLabels. Like similar ‘groups’ (I’ll call them out in a moment) this one wants to bring the self-proclaimed rational people from both sides into the center.

From DiStato

A new advocacy group that disdains "hyper-partisanship" and promotes "the vital center" is trying to make in-roads in New Hampshire.

"Ultimately, unless we get rid of some of our ideological intensity, we are not going to be served by government."

The group is being fronted locally by former Portsmouth mayor and so-called centrist democrat Steve Marchand.  I’m not going to waste time on whether Marchand is centrist or not, in fact I think I’ll skip the preview reel altogether and get to the point.

NoLabels is NoDifferent than the Live Free or Die Alliance, The Coffee Party, (how about F*ck Tea?) or any number of other would-be, sing a song and grab a Coke, dream a little dream utopian chat fests that pretends there is a middle, so they can exploit the ideologically weak.  These groups are all formed or founded by liberals, with liberal money, in an effort to drag Republican’s or conservatives to the left, to form a bloc of confused voters, who are operating from a platform with no core principles, to dilute right wing efforts to shrink government and remove its excessive overreach on our lives. (More or less)

Republican’s (libertarians, independents, undeclared) who fall for the scam are either unaware of the groups pedigree, are unwitting dupes, or have previously enjoyed some left leaning political advocacy themselves.  What they need to understand is that at the end of the day the liberals who are leading this effort are not coming to the center.

So what is this group after?  According to the article, NoLabels is (at the very least) advocating open primaries to all voters without restriction to party affiliation. So they want democrats and squishes to vote in Republican primaries.

To give you some contrast, I would advocate restricting primaries to registered member’s of each respective party and here’s my thinking. If you don’t have the stones to get involved in moving a party one direction or another–particularly if you don’t like where it is today–by signing up for that party, standing up, speaking out, taking the risk, and being counted, you do not deserve to decide who in that party gets to represent them and the platform others worked so hard to promote.

To do otherwise is to advocate political welfare which is what NoLabels wants.  Their goal is to water down the Republican field in the primary process because democrats do better against squishy moderates than conservative libertarians.

And what better time for a bunch of democrats to form yet another Potemkin-centrist group with "no label" than right after America has begun spitting out the broken glass from the hope and change sandwhich they were fed in 2008? When people go sour on your brand, it’s time to start a new one or you could just pretend we don’t need one at all.

 

 

 





>