Bad News for the Fall
For Democrats, this is supposed to be our can’t-lose year – in
But the bad news keeps piling up in
First there was the mental-health debacle. Now it’s the probation system’s inability to keep up with dangerous criminals.
We have the charges of corruption and pay-for-play being traded by Richard Moore and Bev Perdue.
And a lottery oversight commission that – oops, an oversight! – never met.
Sometimes, 2008 resembles 1972, the first time this century Democrats lost the Governor’s race.
As in 1972, we have a bitter primary. Then it was Skipper Bowles and Pat Taylor. The split never healed, and Jim Holshouser won.
As in 1972, there is the stench of corruption around Democrats in
If the Republicans nominate Pat McCrory, I’ll be even more concerned. He is the kind of moderate, non-right wing Republican (like Holshouser and Jim Martin) who could get elected Governor. Fred Smith, not so much.
Go, Fred, go.
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Bad News for the Fall
For Democrats, this is supposed to be our can’t-lose year – in
But the bad news keeps piling up in
First there was the mental-health debacle. Now it’s the probation system’s inability to keep up with dangerous criminals.
We have the charges of corruption and pay-for-play being traded by Richard Moore and Bev Perdue.
And a lottery oversight commission that – oops, an oversight! – never met.
Sometimes, 2008 resembles 1972, the first time this century Democrats lost the Governor’s race.
As in 1972, we have a bitter primary. Then it was Skipper Bowles and Pat Taylor. The split never healed, and Jim Holshouser won.
As in 1972, there is the stench of corruption around Democrats in
If the Republicans nominate Pat McCrory, I’ll be even more concerned. He is the kind of moderate, non-right wing Republican (like Holshouser and Jim Martin) who could get elected Governor. Fred Smith, not so much.
Go, Fred, go.
Click Here to discuss and comment on this and other articles.