GOP Looks for a Star

My old friend and adversary Jack Hawke sponsored a conservative gripe-a-thon in Durham last week.

“It is a travesty that North Carolina is controlled by the Democrats,” U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx told the N.C. Conservative Leadership Conference.

I disagree, of course. I believe it’s a credit to the good judgment of North Carolinians that Democrats hold the Governor’s Office and both houses of the General Assembly.

But Jack had one thing right. The state GOP lacks a strong spokesperson. No star power, if you will.

In my view, Democrats have that quality of candidate on the bench for 2008. Berverly Perdue, Richard Moore, Roy Cooper, Bill Faison.

The Republicans have nobody. They’re so desperate I hear talk about Senator Elizabeth Dole running for Governor.

But she’s crawled into a hole so deep in Washington I doubt she can find her way back here.


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GOP Looks for a Star

My old friend and adversary Jack Hawke sponsored a conservative gripe-a-thon in Durham last week.

“It is a travesty that North Carolina is controlled by the Democrats,” U.S. Representative Virginia Foxx told the N.C. Conservative Leadership Conference.

I disagree, of course. I believe it’s a credit to the good judgment of North Carolinians that Democrats hold the Governor’s Office and both houses of the General Assembly.

But Jack had one thing right. The state GOP lacks a strong spokesperson. No star power, if you will.

In my view, Democrats have that quality of candidate on the bench for 2008. Berverly Perdue, Richard Moore, Roy Cooper, Bill Faison.

The Republicans have nobody. They’re so desperate I hear talk about Senator Elizabeth Dole running for Governor.

But she’s crawled into a hole so deep in Washington I doubt she can find her way back here.


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