Bad News for the Fall

For Democrats, this is supposed to be our can’t-lose year – in North Carolina and nationally.

But the bad news keeps piling up in Raleigh. You can just see the Republican ads this fall.

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 Raleigh. Then it was Governor Bob Scott’s cronies. Now it’s Jim Black and Thomas Wright, plus the flood of bad news.

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 North Carolina and nationally.

But the bad news keeps piling up in Raleigh. You can just see the Republican ads this fall.

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 Raleigh. Then it was Governor Bob Scott’s cronies. Now it’s Jim Black and Thomas Wright, plus the flood of bad news.

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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