So, It’s Okay to Attack Republicans, Then?

by Steve MacDonald

For all the prattle about Reagan’s 11th Commandment and despite months of seemingly endless exhortations not to attack Republicans in this election cycle, when it comes down to it, State Senate Republicans are more interested in entrenched power. Emily Phillips is challenging Senator Gannon in a primary, and the Republican State Senate PAC appears willing to do what it takes to protect him.

The image suggests a contradiction, and I’ll be clear: Emily had a few votes that made me shake my head, but it’s hard to beat a State Senator when it comes to allowing or supporting bad legislation to get to the Governor’s desk. It is also challenging to comport the case that the Senate PAC appears to have made on masking school kids when she was a prime sponsor of a bill to prohibit schools from having the power to do that. We’ll be here all day if we need to fisk the pandemic era for bad ideas people supported before they didn’t. Limiting that task to sitting State Senators who didn’t do the right thing would prove a burden.

By the way, I am not saying don’t attack Republicans. We do it on these pages as a matter of principle based on their failure to adhere to any, but we’re not here for the Party. We’re here for the people. The State Senate Republicans appear to be here for the Party (leadership controls the PAC; I’m not saying every Republican in the Senate supports this) as long as they can attack fellow Republicans, which is what we’re going to get in this State Senate race to buckle yourselves in. Things are about to get very interesting.

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