What if I met a tea-party guy? I would have told him he was paying less taxes under O'Malley than he did under Ehrlich, and the same for Obama and Bush, but then he would have told me Obama wasn't American, and Ehrlich was God.
The GOP is confused. They voted for McCain in the primaries because he was the change they thought the GOP needed. But then he got Palin and pushed the people who voted for him away.
Ehrlich supported McCain at the beginning, which went along with his relatively centrist time as governor. But then McCain made his move away from the center and Ehrlich followed. In the end, Ehrlich was so far to the right, he even embarrassed himself by calling Obama a Socialist.
The Republican Party has always been weak in Baltimore. No tea-parties here (only tea-bagging). And every time the Republican Party moves further to the loud kooky sidelines of political thought, they move further away from Maryland.
Can you even remember we used to have a Republican governor? How did that happen?
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I don't think McLame would have got as many votes had he not picked Palin.
Just out of curiosity, where would you like the GOP to be? More towards the Reagan conservative side, or... say more towards the John McCain/Arlen Specter "moderate" side?
The problem with the more conservative side of the Republican Party is that they use the name Reagan but the ideology is confused. They have attacked Obama for every little thing he did, including the Bush stimulus, the attack on the pirates, his birth certificate, the bow to the Saudi king, and raising taxes, even though he has signed the biggest tax cut in history.
These criticisms got mixed in with what could have been very legitimate criticism over Geithner and others not paying their taxes (the idea that they are somehow above the law), over their close connections to Wall Street, over the AIG bonuses, and other issues.
I believe that without a strong Republican Party, no one will be able to hold Democrats accountable for real problems. The more Republicans deal with the silly stuff, the more people will look for true serious accountability within parts of the Democratic Party rather than in an opposition Party.
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