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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"There Are No Mainstream Republicans Left in North Carolina"
There Are No Mainstream Republicans Left in North CarolinaBy DAVID FIRESTONE at the New York Times
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/07/there-are-no-mainstream-republicans-left-in-north-carolina/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_php=true&_type=blogs&hp&rref=opinion&_r=1&
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The national Republican Party is exulting that the establishment won in North Carolinas Senate primary yesterday. Thats only because they have redefined the term Republican establishment to include adamant adherents of a far-right ideology.
In yesterdays voting, state House Speaker Thom Tillis won the right to face Senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat, in November. He beat a series of fringe candidates like Greg Brannon, who believes food stamps are a form of slavery and wants to save the poor by abolishing the Department of Agriculture. But in fact Mr. Tillis is a far more dangerous candidate than Mr. Brannon and the other Tea Partiers. While he generally refrains from nutty soundbites (though not always), he has been quite effective as the point man in the state partys anti-government project.
As speaker, Mr. Tillis has helped preside over what our editorial last year called the decline of North Carolina. State government, we wrote, has become a demolition derby, tearing down years of progress in public education, tax policy, racial equality in the courtroom and access to the ballot.
Mr. Tillis cut federal employment benefits, and refused to pay back what the state owed Washington, leading North Carolina to become the only state at the time to lose long-term benefits. He cut back on education spending, prompting many talented teachers to leave the state, and repealed the Racial Justice Act, which gave death-row inmates a shot at proving they were victims of discrimination. He allowed new restrictions on abortion, blocked the expansion of Medicaid and rewrote the tax code for the benefit of the rich. He and his colleagues imposed also one of the most restrictive voter ID requirements in the nation, intended to keep Democratic voters, including minorities and the poor, away from the polls.
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"There Are No Mainstream Republicans Left in North Carolina" (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2014
OP
That is how the GOP establishment will win the civil war. They will simply re-define
applegrove
May 2014
#1
The DEMS have done it. What was Republican in the 90's, is today championed as "liberal/progressive"
blkmusclmachine
May 2014
#3
What once was "mainstream Republican" is now far left of Democratic "centrists".
Faryn Balyncd
May 2014
#4
applegrove
(118,456 posts)1. That is how the GOP establishment will win the civil war. They will simply re-define
what it means to be republican.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)3. The DEMS have done it. What was Republican in the 90's, is today championed as "liberal/progressive"
Cha
(296,731 posts)2. So sad.. hopefully that will bring about the political demise..
of the current regime that much faster.
Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)4. What once was "mainstream Republican" is now far left of Democratic "centrists".
okaawhatever
(9,457 posts)5. K & R nt
Egnever
(21,506 posts)6. Good!
Hopefully this will ensure they lose the general.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)7. "Mainstream Republican" = Teabagger. It's bullshit to talk about "Establishment Republicans"
They (a very small number of them) went away in 2008 when Teabaggers took over the GOP.