Once again, we see the Republicans just ducky for moderate candidates - Granite Grok

Once again, we see the Republicans just ducky for moderate candidates

WMURThis morning’s CloseUP program’s first segment had NHDP Chair “Buckles” and Republican “strategist” Tom Rath.  The latter had this to say about Scott Brown entering the NH Senatorial campaign:

Of course, the President of the United states has described him as a moderate so that’s something that’s pretty good for us

I dryly note that he worked on the campaigns of those famous moderate Republican Presidents Dole and Romney.  And as I have pointed out before, Brown IS a moderate; he agrees on the important Republican issues and Platform planks of pro-life, full support of the Second Amendment, and importance of limiting government.  Which is to say, he supports pro-choice (and therefore, abortion), the State should regulate “assault  weapons” and such, and voted for Dodd-Frank that certainly is no government limiting measure.  In other words, Rath is saying that Jeanne Shaheen is a moderate.

This is what happens when Republicans give up conservative principles.  And here is the quote from Obama that Rath was referring to:

“I’d be happy to – you know, if Scott Brown wants to move down to Texas, you know, then we could always use some moderate Republicans in other parts of the country…”

In other words, by putting Brown in Texas, it would help to shift Texas from the Red State that it is now in nudging it more to being a Purple State – the Democrats’ stated objective in the incrementalist processes they are famous for in making Texas a Blue State.  Lovely to see that Obama sees Brown as an implement to be used to push their agenda forward.

But, as Moe Lane of RedState noted, Obama’s continued stupidity in his willingness to step into areas where he actually knows very little (re: that stupidity of the black professor and the cops in Cambridge), while he slaps Brown around, he does take a rhetorical tool away from Buckles and Shaheen:

Admittedly, trying to paint Brown as a radical conservative was always going to be a stretch, but it will do the man no harm to have Obama himself on tape contradicting the Democrats’ agitprop.

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