Mad Hatters
June 8, 2010 - by
Rob Christensen’s column about the GOP’s 13th Congressional District primary was insightful about the inside-Beltline versus outside-Beltline dynamic at play – the same divide that plays out in the Wake County
There are two other interesting aspects to the battle: race and radicalism.
There’d be no end to the irony of Bernie Reeves, Old Raleigh conservative and Carolina County Club to the core, losing to an African-American. In a Republican primary, no less.
Ironic, too, that the predominantly white Tea Party crowd is behind a black candidate. Maybe they see Bill Randall as an antidote to their sometimes-racist image.
A Randall victory, like Rand Paul’s primary victory in Kentucky
A Republican too extreme for Bernie Reeves and Carter Wrenn? Takes your breath away.
In a year that should be theirs, the GOP could go too far out on a limb with the Tea Party.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans
Mad Hatters
June 8, 2010/
Rob Christensen’s column about the GOP’s 13th Congressional District primary was insightful about the inside-Beltline versus outside-Beltline dynamic at play – the same divide that plays out in the Wake County
There are two other interesting aspects to the battle: race and radicalism.
There’d be no end to the irony of Bernie Reeves, Old Raleigh conservative and Carolina County Club to the core, losing to an African-American. In a Republican primary, no less.
Ironic, too, that the predominantly white Tea Party crowd is behind a black candidate. Maybe they see Bill Randall as an antidote to their sometimes-racist image.
A Randall victory, like Rand Paul’s primary victory in Kentucky
A Republican too extreme for Bernie Reeves and Carter Wrenn? Takes your breath away.
In a year that should be theirs, the GOP could go too far out on a limb with the Tea Party.
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans