Barking Yellow Dogs
April 20, 2010 - by
When a Washington Post reporter asked me about Democratic congressmen from North Carolina
When Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel and the DCCC recruited Health Shuler and Larry Kissell to run in 2008, they knew what they were getting. They preferred having Democrats who sometimes voted with Republicans than Republicans.
Now some North Carolina Democrats – like SEANC – want to run third-party candidates against Shuler, Kissell and Mike McIntyre.
Let’s get real.
North Carolina Democrats have a formula that works pretty well. It’s how we’re the only state that has voted Democratic in five straight governor’s races and had Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature for more than a decade.
Yes, we’re sometimes more conservative than Washington Democrats. And closer to business.
Better an occasional Democratic apostasy than permanent Republican obstinacy.
Barking Yellow Dogs
April 20, 2010/
When a Washington Post reporter asked me about Democratic congressmen from North Carolina
When Nancy Pelosi, Rahm Emanuel and the DCCC recruited Health Shuler and Larry Kissell to run in 2008, they knew what they were getting. They preferred having Democrats who sometimes voted with Republicans than Republicans.
Now some North Carolina Democrats – like SEANC – want to run third-party candidates against Shuler, Kissell and Mike McIntyre.
Let’s get real.
North Carolina Democrats have a formula that works pretty well. It’s how we’re the only state that has voted Democratic in five straight governor’s races and had Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature for more than a decade.
Yes, we’re sometimes more conservative than Washington Democrats. And closer to business.
Better an occasional Democratic apostasy than permanent Republican obstinacy.